FAQs

It is essential for your business to be on the 1st pages of search engines when potential customers are searching for local businesses. Listing on GoneLocal provides you with the following benefits:

• advertise your business
• let users browse and search for your products
• publish detailed product information
• keep your clients abreast of latest offers by creating coupon specials
• receive qualified visitors who did keyword searches in Google
• benefit from GoneLocal promotions in your area
• significantly increase your presence on the Google search engine where Gonelocal clients appear on the 1st page of Google for 1000's of keyword search requests
• participate in the premier online portal for your community with over 560,000 hits a month
• lower the maintenance of your online information
• dedicated support from our team in your city
• simple billing through a low monthly flat fee with no costly pay per click

You can get started with a GoneLocal Listing right away. You can open an account immediately or contact us and we will be glad to assist you.

The only things you need to get started are a Web access, and 5 minutes of your time. Listing your business does not require any specific skills or software, it's all done easily through on the Web. You choose which information you want to provide. You determine how often you want to update it. Your changes are published online immediately.

If you are not comfortable doing the initial set up yourself, we will show you how to login to your account

GoneLocal listings are $77 a month and billed thru Authorize.net. The 6 month rate is $73 per month ($438), and the year plan is $70 per month ($840). These last 2 plans are paid in advance.

The one-time activation fee and personalized setup is a $250.

Yellow page listing are limited in size and are updated once a year. Newspaper ads have a short life time, and are also limited in size. GoneLocal in contrast provides:

• room for business information, product details, news, special offers, merchant sale events and more
• no limits on the number of items you add new information
• easy to use templates
• support for rich content such as photographs in unlimited number
• automatic indexing of your information so it can be searched very quickly
• pages that are designed to be picked up by web search engines, especially Google, so your business gets maximum exposure (Google visits Gonelocal every 4-5 days and brings the clients to the 1st page of Google for over 88% of Gonelocal clients

All this is provided to you at rates that are very competitive with traditional local advertisement.

GoneLocal provides a link to your website, which because of our high ranking in Google will provide much more traffic to your custom website. Users visiting your community pages on GoneLocal will find your products fast. GoneLocal pages are also designed to rank high on search engines such as Google or Yahoo, which is usually not the case with custom sites.

GoneLocal strives to provide the best possible performance and content management tools at a very low cost. In some cases, you may find that GoneLocal provides a cost-effective replacement for your current custom site.

We do not support distribution of newsletters in this first version of our service. We are however considering a number of possible product extensions, including:

• mailing lists, so you can send newsletters to your customers or any user who registers
• easy to remember email aliases
• user reviews on your business or products
• automated Frequently Asked Questions lists such as this page
• job postings
• discussion forums

...and more. The intent of this site is to provide the best possible service to local communities, and we are constantly looking for input on how to improve. If you have an idea or request, please drop us an email.

We feel banner ads are annoying to the consumer and thereby detracts from the essence and effectiveness of the consumers experience. We believe that by keeping our operational costs minimal we can provide a valuable service to the community at a low price, therefore avoiding the need for advertisement revenue. We like to keep our site fast, informative, and effective.