Comments on: Citysearch Kills Free Business Listings

By: Chris T

Chris T — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:43:59 +0000

I just spent about 20 minutes on Citysearch trying to find a link to add a business. Never found it and then I came across your post, what a waste of 20 minutes that was. Thank you for the info!

By: Michael Kern

Michael Kern — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:10:32 +0000

I believe there are a ton of small businesses looking to post in their directory, as there are a ton of websites that say a listing there is valuable.

I am considering signing up for a paid listing and then cancelling to see if I remain in after I cancel subscription, has anyone tried that?

BTW: one of your posts is by “Nick Stamoulis” who is listed in their directory, He is the owner and I believe chief SEO guy at Brick Marketing. Just sayin

By: John Classick

John Classick — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:33:18 +0000

I know – City Search is unbelievable in their unwillingness to help with this issue. If they would just be helpful when I get them on the phone, I might spend money with them.

By: luke

luke — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:07:26 +0000

try this link to add your business

http://national.citysearch.com/profile/add_business

By: kavin

kavin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:17:00 +0000

I have advertised with city search for 6 months first i thought it was free!!! 6 months later I received a bill from collecting company claims that 566 dollars I called city search to get an explanation for this they said its reflecting a clicks for your business and i always tend to teach my drivers to ask customers where they learned from us, not even one driver mention that a customer claimed that we found North Austin Taxi Service from city search they all say ; yellow book; search engines as Google , yahoo,ping att book, radio website and newspaper , magazines .. plus they changed my business phone number, first was 512-553-7777 they changed it to 512-410-8294 when i called they said in order for us to calculate the clicks we have to have a diff number !!!

By: kimberly

kimberly — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:50:30 +0000

Huge scammers. they are now called citygrid media, they get lots of bad reports on BBB and then change the parent company name. they are a huge company scamming small biz. Im pretty sure this link wont show up but google citysearch scam and its the first link, not my blog but same thing happened to me. they were advertising my local biz all across the US and i was paying for clicks. I only discovered this because they spelled my biz name wrong and after 3 months and several email still couldn’t figure it out. i did a search and bam, there is my biz alll over the us. they have no fraud dept and yet they base their biz on clicks. BS.
http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/my-adventure-with-city-search-pay-per-click-advertising-and-click-fraud/