Weblocal.ca

About weblocal.ca

weblocal.ca is a leading edge local search site, the destination of choice for users looking for businesses in their local communities and elsewhere. Users visit weblocal.ca to find a local business, product or service, to rate them, and share with others their experiences. weblocal.ca : Find. Rate. Share.

weblocal.ca caters to the needs of both users and advertisers. While putting the user experience at the center of its strategy, it provides an efficient advertising opportunity for businesses.

From the user perspective :

• Find :
• weblocal.ca provides the most effective search engine, allowing users to find exactly what they are looking for. weblocal.ca relies on an enriched and complete database of all business in Canada. Search results are displayed in the most relevant order possible depending on search parameters. Once the specific business identified, users have access to the most comprehensive and complete content available, and all this at the same place. In addition to the business coordinates and location map, users have access to pictures, videos, menus, price lists, business description, opening hours, and other useful information.
• Rate :
• Once the users find what they are looking for, they have access to editorial content aggregated from the entire Web, as well as professional reviews specific to the local business. Then, users can also participate by sharing their experiences by rating their local business. They can rate (using the 5 star system), review (share their experience in a text), or simply recommend.
• Share :
• weblocal.ca does not only allow users to find, but also to share with others. Users can build and manage their profile. They can take pictures and videos and post them on the business profile page. They can tag businesses and share with others. They can recommend, rate and review, sharing their experiences and allowing others to make more informed decisions. Most importantly, they can build their network of friends and neighbours, maintain lists of their favourite places, share pictures and videos, and much more. In fact, it’s building its social community in its local community.

From the advertiser perspective :

weblocal.ca is the destination of choice for many users searching for all kind of businesses to answer all kind of needs, both in their local communities or elsewhere. Those users are all potential clients looking to complete a transaction. weblocal.ca becomes then a powerful lead generation tool.

By advertising with weblocal.ca, businesses can greatly increase their visibility and maximize their chances of being found by potential clients. In addition, by enriching content available to users, as pictures, videos, business descriptions, menus, opening hours, price lists and much more, businesses provide all the necessary information for their potential clients.

To learn more about advertising opportunities with weblocal.ca, and see how it can help increase visibility for your business, please go to the Advertise With Us section.

Partnership between Transcontinental and YellowBot

weblocal.ca is a wholly-owned property of Transcontinental Media, part of Transcontinental Inc. weblocal.ca is a joint venture in partnership with YellowBot, a US-based leading local search company. For more information or to search for businesses in the United States, please visit the website at: www.yellowbot.com.

About Transcontinental Media

The fourth largest print media group in Canada, with more than 3,000 employees and annual revenues of $607 million in 2009, Transcontinental Media is the country’s leadaing publisher of consumer magazines and of French-language educational resources, and the largest publisher of local and regional newspapers in Eastern Canada. Transcontinental Media publishes the weekday daily Métro in Montreal. It is also the leading distributor of door-to-door advertising material in Quebec, thanks to its famous Publisac. Transcontinental Media is distinguished by its custom publishing, mailing and email customized database, which allows users to maintain close relations with more than 6 million consumers. It also has more than 120 web sites, attracting more than 4.2 million unique visitors per month.

Transcontinental Media is a subsidiary of Transcontinental (TSX: TCL.A, TCL.B, TCL.PR.D), with operations in Canada, the United States and Mexico, with revenues of $2.4 billion in 2009.