SEO Terms Defined
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I am having a really hard time clearly defining this for folks, I am hoping for some help here.
Directory Websites: sites such as www.abcdirectory.com, these are typically lower quality manual submission websites with little user interaction
Citation Sites: These are websites with business location listing such as Manta.com or yellowpages.com and involve locations with no links but the citations are valuable to ranking
Local Search Sites: These are sites like Google Places, Yahoo Local, Yelp, etc and they sometimes offer reviews and user interaction, and are a hybrid local/social SEO component, you can create listings on these sites but if you want them to appear in search you need interaction with the page/listing.
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I'd supply clients with a glossary so that they have a point of reference. I'd also stick with your own terminology and explanation, I think it's important otherwise you will end up having one word that is used differently across multiple clients.
What you have written explains the three just fine. If you wanted to, in the directory explanation you could expand it and say that there are primary, secondary and niche directories with different levels of benefits.
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Clients will always confuse tactics what you have is fine
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Sorry I thought I marked it as discussion - is there a better way to define? Sometimes these concepts are hard to explain...I get questions from clients...how many directories did you submit to to later find out they meant did you claim our listing on such and such site...
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