in no particular order
- My website is hosted by another company... can I still be a member?
Answer: Yes - Your site can be hosted anywhere and you can still be a member. - Can I list my site under different categories?
Answer: Yes - We automatically allow you up to 3 categories. - I have 2 sites, is it still just one membership?
Answer: No - Each site is advertised separately, but we do give your 2nd site membership for 1/2 price! - Should non-tourism sites join?
Answer: Yes - We get almost 1/5 of our traffic from local area folks. They may be looking for you also! - What about other search engines like Google.com?
Answer: You should make every attempt to get listed with the large search engines. It's an on-going chore and you're mixed in with many, many different and competing businesses, but almost all visibility is good for your website & business. The problem with the big search engines is that they try to give the viewer links to EVERY site related to their search... hence they have thousands and sometimes even millions of links to wade through. It's a whole lot easier to find a fish in a small pond than it is to locate that same fish in a giant ocean full of similar fish. - What about other banner ads with BlackHills.com?
Answer: We do offer other banner ads that show up on the majority of our websites... get ahold of us and we'll be happy to answer any questions and help you figure out what may work best for your site. - I though my website was an advertisement?
Answer: Not really... by defination, an advertisement should show up in front of your potential customers eyes... without them having to search for and find your website address. Folks don't normally search for a specific website address, instead the search for a topic or keywords and look at whatever they can find that might be related. Placing your website information with BlackHills.com means that folks that are looking for your type of business, SPECIFICALLY WITHIN THE BLACKHILLS REGIONS, can now find you.
After years of maintaining well established and highly visible websites, we have come up with the ultimate solution to promote your business on BlackHills.com. We have created various business directories that can be searched by our viewers...
We know that well over 75% of our customers are coming to our site by typing www.BlackHills.com (or some of our other web domain names) in their browser. This means they are specifically interested in the Black Hills region. Think about it, your business can capitalize directly from our viewing audience!
Once these potential customers come to BlackHills.com, we provide them with various ways to find your business. When a person comes to BlackHills.com and they are looking for your type of business, you are represented well! They will find your website!
BlackHills.com and it's related sites get a lot of Internet traffic. Partly because we have some very important domain names, but also because people are able to find the information and businesses they are looking for and keep coming back. When they use BlackHills.com's Search Engine, our Yellow Pages, or the Black Hills Virtual Mall, they are presented with lists of our members sites that have something to do with whatever they are searching for. That's highly targeted Internet traffic that is funneled right to our members websites! Traffic from web viewers that are looking for a specific type of business here in the Black Hills. By becoming a member with BlackHills.com today, those viewers can also find your website!
We provide other ways for your website to get recognized too. Read on to find out more.
Your Business must be located within the "Greater Region" of the Black Hills. By "Greater Region" we mean anything within 100 miles, or so, of the Black Hills.
Your Website Must Not be Pornographic in Nature
Your Website Deals in Nothing Illegal
Your Website Must Not Promote Spam Email
Your Website Must Not Promote Violence or Hate
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