Local Ads for Businesses

Once you have a shop, you can then start to stock it! Ads placed against a store can include up to 5 pictures and the description is full customisable using html ... if you so wish, alternatively use our powerful but simply to use Ad editor. Even better, Ads be scheduled to run up to to six months and should you sell out of an item,or service, then the Ad can easily be deleted or updated! Buyers whobrings up one of your ads, can with a single click, show all your Ads or go to your Home page. And should you have lots of products, we can take automate product feeds.

Businesses within LocalAds can either be classed as online retailers, where location is deemed not to be important, or set up as a local stores. The advantage of being local is that if you have a physical presence, e.g. a shop, or an areas you do business in, then you may show up when users restrict searches by distance. Whereas an online retailer would never show up. For example, a user may only want to find all plumbers within 5 miles, or pianos for sale within 20 miles or PC Help shop / engineer within 10 miles etc, with LocalAds this is easy.

Our search technology brings together all ads placed in LocalAds, irrespective of the source. This results in no differentiation between an ad placed by a large national retailer, such as Marks & Spencer, to an ad placed by a private individual or small business. It is up to the buyer to decide what they want and the selection criteria they are going to use. Maybe they only want to deal with established retailers, or perhaps price is a more important consideration, or that the item can sourced locally, or that they prefer to deal through a specialist retailer. Whatever the situation, LocalAds is there to help.

Facts about Stores in LocalAds

Can anyone start a business on LocalAds?
LocalAds is the perfect medium for you to advertise on if you have an online business. It does not matter whether you are unknown, or well know, small or large - we have stores with just one product through to others with over 30,000! All we ask is that any goods or service advertised are legal and that you conduct your business in a professional manner. We will be introducing feedback and 'buy now' functionality for all stores in the Autumn

Will I be able to create my own Shop?
LocalAds has powerful storefunctionality that allows businesses to created their own Virtual Store,complete with Logo, Advertising Banner, About Us and Home pages which arefully customisable. These can then be used to publicisethe background and type of business, particular specialities, terms oftrading, directions to the shop, link to company website etc. We also allow ads to be placed for 180 days which can greatly reduce the time you need to manage ads.

How can customers find my Store in LocalAds
You will also get you own unique URL that can be handed out to your customers and will direct visitors directly to you LocalAds store. The format of the URL is http://yourstore.localads.co.uk where yourstore is a name of your own choosing.

How do I create a Shop?
You will have to rwgister with LocalAds (don't worry, it's free and easy!) and then use our store creation form Creating a store is completely free of charges and you can re-edit a store for as many times as you wish, so don't worry about getting it all right at the first time. If you would like to read more on creating stores, please read our dedicated manual for store creation.

I have hundred of products I need to list!
If you have hundreds or thousands of products then LocalAds can automatically upload your product file. Please contact LocalAds for further information.

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