How BiDir Works
We are a Global Business Directory
BiDir is a global business directory connecting people with brands, businesses, and professionals offering what they’re looking for. We act as a discovery and search platform showing users who’s offering what and where, whether it’s within their neighborhood or thousands of miles away.
Simply go to our explore page, type in what you’re looking for, optionally narrow down to a location and radius, and we’ll show you who potentially has what you need.
Our Public Directory
BiDir uses a mix of public business data and user-created business profiles to show relevant results based on a user’s search.
We generate data for our public directory from online and offline sources and continuously update these records to ensure our users get accurate search results.
Our public business data only contains basic information about a business, enough to create a sense of who they are, their general location, and how they can be contacted.
User-Created Business Profiles
Businesses and professionals can create and manage their own business profiles on BiDir, allowing them to provide more accurate and detailed information about themselves and be more relatable, trusted, and relevant to users searching for them on our platform. Creating your own business profile on BiDir is completely free.
Businesses and professionals who we’re yet to list can simply create their profiles and start managing their own business account and data directly. For businesses and professionals we’ve already listed, you can still create your own accounts and update the information we have about your business in our public directory.
Creating and managing your own BiDir business profile has MASSIVE advantages. Here’s what being in charge of your own business data gets you:
You Get a Well Set-up and Optimized Business Profile
We give you a professional online profile where you can tell people what your business/brand is, what you offer, exactly where you’re located, and how to get in touch with you. You’re in total control of this information and can update it any time you want.
Your BiDir business profile will include, to list a few, your business/brand name, description, contacts, locations, and a list of the products or services you offer. Something like this:
BiDir business profiles are fully optimized and built to the best web and online standards. They also look good regardless of what device your customer will be visiting your business on.
Fun Tip: If you’re on desktop, view the example above on mobile. And vice versa. You’ll see what we mean 😉.
These profiles are also indexed for SEO, meaning your BiDir business profile can be found through a web search engine such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing. Therefore, we ensure we get you traffic from everywhere, not just direct BiDir users.
Even better, you get a dedicated link to your BiDir business profile, something that looks like this:
(Assuming your business is called XYZ Biz, your dedicated BiDir business profile link will look as follows)
www.bidir.biz/xyz-biz
Therefore, you can share your BiDir business profile as a professional link on your business portfolio, social media, marketing, or promotional material.
You Get Lots of Room To List and Showcase What You Offer
User-created business profiles come with generous space for businesses to list and showcase what they offer. Each listing also gets a dedicated page and link, just like your BiDir business profile. Therefore, you can include these links in your marketing or promotional material such as brochures and newsletters, to promote specific products, services, or offerings in your business.
Assuming you’re running a business called XYZ Biz, a link to a listing in your BiDir business profile will look something like this:
www.bidir.biz/xyz-biz/products/my-product-1 - For products
www.bidir.biz/xyz-biz/services/my-service-1 - For services
and more... (Yes, we allow you to choose contextual links to make things look a lot more professional)
Visually, you get a professionally-looking listing page that looks something like this
Your listing pages are also fully responsive and built to look professional.
They’re also indexed for SEO and accessible ANYWHERE on the web. Therefore, you get to attract traffic inside and outside BiDir, which includes people searching for the product or service you’re offering through web search engines such as Google.
Operate in Your Own Terms
BiDir is a global business directory, not an e-commerce overlord 😜. Creating your own BiDir Business Profile gives you full autonomy over your online business presence. Therefore:
We Charge ZERO sales commissions.
Sell as many products/services as BiDir has brought your business. We don’t ask for a percentage or cent extra. Our purpose is to make it easier for you to get the online and web visibility your business/brand deserves.
Sell Online/In-Store
BiDir understands that not every business needs to sell online, or online-only. There are products/services customers just want to see or can only get in person. So, despite putting you online and on the web and opening you up to a new audience, your business is free to communicate what it sells online, and what customers can get in-person. The choice is fully yours and your customer’s.
Control Your Checkouts
BiDir tries to interfere as little as possible with your established business processes. So, if you have an established online checkout system your business uses, say a cart on your website, a booking link, or anything else, we allow you to link back to it for every listing you post so your customers are funneled to the systems your business is most comfortable and competitive with.
Tell Customers Where to Find You
Since we don’t control how you sell, whether online or in-person, you get the freedom to provide your location(s) on BiDir, and we’ll direct your online traffic there. Location details in user-created business profiles are more accurate. You can provide operating hours for each location, building name, floor/suite number, and personnel info, and we’ll help your customers know exactly what time they should visit, text, or call.
No website, No Problem
Your brand/business doesn’t have a website yet? No problem.
A BiDir business profile easily gets you online and on the web, without the heavy initial investment of building your own website. Our business profiles cover all the basics of business/brand’s websites, making them more than sufficient for giving you the online visibility you need. Every page is tuned to the correct web/SEO standards, without you having to touch a thing.
Have a Business Website? More Traffic, More Leads
Even if you have a website, we’re not here to make your website obsolete. BiDir is that extra source of online traffic and visibility that will bring more leads and customers to your doorstep. We don’t just put businesses/brands online or in the greater worldwide web, we also host a platform where a highly targeted audience, coming to find specific brands, businesses, products, and services, converge in search of their next purchase or provider.
BiDir is a global business directory, not an e-commerce overlord 😜. Creating your own BiDir Business Profile gives you full autonomy over your online business presence. Therefore:
We Charge ZERO sales commissions.
Sell as many products/services as BiDir has brought your business. We don’t ask for a percentage or cent extra. Our purpose is to make it easier for you to get the online and web visibility your business/brand deserves.
Sell Online/In-Store
BiDir understands that not every business needs to sell online, or online-only. There are products/services customers just want to see or can only get in person. So, despite putting you online and on the web and opening you up to a new audience, your business is free to communicate what it sells online, and what customers can get in-person. The choice is fully yours and your customer’s.
Control Your Checkouts
BiDir tries to interfere as little as possible with your established business processes. So, if you have an established online checkout system your business uses, say a cart on your website, a booking link, or anything else, we allow you to link back to it for every listing you post so your customers are funneled to the systems your business is most comfortable and competitive with.
Tell Customers Where to Find You
Since we don’t control how you sell, whether online or in-person, you get the freedom to provide your location(s) on BiDir, and we’ll direct your online traffic there. Location details in user-created business profiles are more accurate. You can provide operating hours for each location, building name, floor/suite number, and personnel info, and we’ll help your customers know exactly what time they should visit, text, or call.
No website, No Problem
Your brand/business doesn’t have a website yet? No problem.
A BiDir business profile easily gets you online and on the web, without the heavy initial investment of building your own website. Our business profiles cover all the basics of business/brand’s websites, making them more than sufficient for giving you the online visibility you need. Every page is tuned to the correct web/SEO standards, without you having to touch a thing.
Have a Business Website? More Traffic, More Leads
Even if you have a website, we’re not here to make your website obsolete. BiDir is that extra source of online traffic and visibility that will bring more leads and customers to your doorstep. We don’t just put businesses/brands online or in the greater worldwide web, we also host a platform where a highly targeted audience, coming to find specific brands, businesses, products, and services, converge in search of their next purchase or provider.
Take Advantage of BiDir’s Curious and Targeted Traffic
We’re actively bringing users on our platform to discover businesses, brands, professionals, products, and services around them.
Therefore, your BiDir business profile and listings don’t exist in an empty space. You’re always on display to our traffic of users who can find you, engage you, and potentially do business with you from any corner of your zone, country, or the world.
What gives us the best edge, is that our audience is fully-focused and targeted. We bring them to BiDir to do one thing only - ask, explore, discover, and do business. This is the kind of audience that converts. And by just having your BiDir business profile set up, you have full access to this audience.
Our algorithm works based on relevance, ensuring we give the user what they’re searching for, with your business always getting the best chance to be seen.
Setting your BiDir business profile will only cost you five minutes, whether you’re already in the public directory or not. So, what are you waiting for?