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Do people still use online local business directories in 2025??

I started a small local online business directory in Jan 2000 for myself out of necessity since nothing really existed at the time. I used it to help myself keep track of all the things to do in my area with children since I was a first time at-home mom with a newborn. It really took off and for well over a decade, I think…got loads of traffic (in my opinion…it still wasn’t huge compared to commercial sites with money to advertise) and tended to come up on the first page of local related searches.

I had some paid listings and ran into people all the time that were familiar with it and used it regularly. I was proud of my project.

Then life got busy and my family grew and I didn’t work on it so much…now it’s likely been close to a decade since I had any regular traffic and I just haven’t had time to work much on it.

But my kids are grown now and I am interested in working on the project again and now I can enlist family to help. I started another complete overhaul of the Wordpress site and I think I am nearly ready to import all the business info I have been collecting in a spreadsheet for awhile and I pay my son to check the info to make sure it’s still accurate.

I like my site to be different. Not full of the clunky and annoying ads it seems every site has…but I need to make money. So I plan to again offer paid listing options. I don’t expect to make any major money but I am hoping eventually, once I get traffic up again to be able to get paid listings again.

Today I am wondering…do people still visit online directories in 2025??

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