Common Questions

The ASCCA Business Directory is a human-edited, organised collection of business listings. By adding your listing to the directory, you are creating a link from our directory to your site and advertising your business to our visitors. We’ve made it very easy for you to add your listing to the directory and our Quick Guide has been created to answer the most commonly asked questions.

When adding your listing, we offer two options to suit your requirements. You will receive email notifications upon submission of your listing and you also have the option to suggest a suitable category for your listing if required. All listings contain a details page which displays useful extra information about your site including your site’s PageRank and a Google Map.

After your listing has been accepted into the directory, it will be displayed in your selected category. The directory contains a basic search feature at the top of each page so that our visitors can easily locate your listing. An advanced search is also available.

If you are looking for maximum exposure for your business, we suggest that you apply to add your banner to the right of every page in the directory.

The most common method of advertising in the directory is by adding a listing. We offer two types of listings as well as a banner placement on the right side of every page in the directory.

Silver Listing: $59 per year

Your listing will be displayed in a single category in alphabetical order along with other Silver listings. It will also contain a separate detail page displaying the following details about your business: Title, Category, Clicks, Listing added, PageRank, Description, Address, Google Map, Thumbnail (if available from Thumbshots.org) along with a link to your website.

Gold Listing: $89 per year

Your listing will be displayed in a single category in alphabetical order along with other Gold listings above the Silver listings. It will also contain a separate detail page displaying the following details about your business: Title, Category, Clicks, Listing added, PageRank, Description, Address, Google Map, Thumbnail (if available from Thumbshots.org) along with a link to your website.

It will also be alphabetically listed on the home page of the directory in the “Featured” list.

Banner: $129 per 30 days

The most effective means of being noticed in our directory is by displaying your business banner on the right side of every page in the directory. Currently we only offer a single advertising banner on our site. Click here to find out more.

Silver Listing: $59 per year

Gold Listing: $89 per year

Banner: $129 per 30 days

There are a number of benefits to listing your business in a human-edited web directory including, but not limited to the following:

• Improve your search engine ranking since rank is determined by the number and quality of inbound links to your site;
• Create a one-way back link to your site;
• Create an additional advertising channel for your business;
• Less cost than most traditional print advertising;
• Ability to make very fast changes to your business details;
• Harness the scalability of the internet; and
• Improved search rankings draws more customers to your site.

Specifically, the ASCCA website holds a PageRank of 6 with Google which is a very respectable ranking - click here to verify this ranking. It a large amount of unique visitors with a large percentage of these visitors being interested in products relating to seniors.

Finally, all the URLs in our directory are search engine friendly. They do not have variables and are indexed well by all main search engines.