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Bing Places for Business - Worth It?
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Hey Fellow Mozzers,
I am trying to determine if Bing Places for Business is worth the time and effort it takes to create listings. My business has 900 locations, and would take some time to create the bulk upload file to load into the Bing Places for Business dashboard.
My question is, since Bing already does a good job of creating business listings using data from 3rd party sources such as Yelp and Citysearch, where I already have a strong presence for each of my locations, is there any value in overriding the automatically created business page for each of my location with information that I upload?
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Up to 10,000 bulk easy upload is available as well!
https://www.bingplaces.com/Home/MoreFAQ
Hope this helps
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Brad, ultimately you have to weigh the time involved in creating the spreadsheet(s) required, gathering the data, and then uploading, with the benefits. If the current data is correct, then it wouldn't hurt if you didn't take the time to upload the data.
However, keep in mind that if you're going to upload the data, then that will help with verification. So, since you've taken ownership of those listings, there's a better chance that you may rank better and show up more often in the search results because those are verified listings. This goes for Bing as well as Google.
So, yes, I do believe it is "worth it" to take the time to verify the listings and upload the data (and take ownership of those listings).
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