Dothan Alabama Portal

There is a new local directory in Dothan, AL. This portal will guide local on line shoppers and turn them into buyers for local businesses. DothanPortal.com has all the features to keep visitors returning over and over.

DothanPortal.com offers daily local news that is also archived for future reference. There is a free classified section that includes local job searches, cars, and just about anything else that can be put into a classified ad. There are links to shopping, news, horoscopes and a local blog that is open to all. This allows local people to write about local subjects without having to jump through hoops to get people to read it or learn how to use difficult programs. There is also space for videos that are rotated several times throughout the day.

DothanPortal.com is partnering with local city directories and portals from around the world to build a really unique network. So far there are more than 200 portals and directories worldwide bringing almost 400,000 unique hits per month. The return rate on visitors right now is about 40% with the average daily user viewing more than 30 pages within the portal. And with the one click "set as home page option" many users are opening their computers to DothanPortal.com everyday.

This kind of site stickiness provides a tremendous opportunity for local advertisers to share there wares with local buyers. This is the true meaning of think globally, sell locally. Local businesses have the option of putting up premium listings, sponsoring local news, weather or other sections giving them ever growing exposure to more and more local residents. Even if a local business does not have a web presence a premium listing or a power page can give them that exposure with significant expense and the ability to change specials, offers and any other information they want to convey to customers.

In essence using the local portal as a gateway for an on line presence, a local brick and mortar business can move their web image to the side of a very busy Internet superhighway. Local search engines that are at the top of every page allows visitors to find what they are looking for close to them instead of around the world. Not only that but because of the traffic that is generated by the portal their pages are indexed almost immediately making them available much more quickly for increased rankings. For local sites that are really content rich their web rankings could skyrocket in days in weeks instead of months and years. One of the sister portals comes up as the 3rd result on the MSN search engine after only a couple of months and that is using just the city name as the search term. So that is the power of coming together as a community to drive business back to local companies.

Linked maps, quick search engine results, lots of local sticky traffic that comes back over and over again is a business owner's dream. Put that with the opportunity to write about their own business and have it indexed in a local search engine makes DothaPortal.com the hub of choice for visitors who want to take advantage of local information while still be able to access the world wide web very quickly. Welcome to your new home page, DothanPortal.com.