Hi Judy,

Okay, I probably shouldn't answer this one, since these other sites are "competition" for us, but here goes:

There's lendingtoolsonline.com, it's got a business directory for abstractors, appraisers, etc., they are essentially a pay directory, but they do allow you to list yourself in one county for free.

Also, there's abstractornetwork.com, but it's a pay site also.

Here's the thing (and this is going to sound self-serving, but I'm going to say it anyway)... it's a far stretch to even call these other sites directories... they both have maybe 100 title businesses listed if that, where we have almost 1700... A lot of title companies and other companies actually use our business directory to find abstractors; I know, because I can see in our web statistics how many times a day our business directory is searched. Those other sites just don't have enough companies listed to make themselves effective search tools for title agencies to use to find abstractors. I would make a guess that our business directory gets 50-100 TIMES as much use as those other two sites combined. I don't doubt that if you pay to list yourself in one of those directories, somebody might stumble upon your listing one day, and you might even make back the money that you paid for the listing. But I'm sure most companies would get much more value, dollar for dollar, out of an enhanced listing on our site.

And this doesn't even take into account that this site is owned and run by a fellow abstractor! That ought to count for something :-) Seriously, I get the feeling that those other sites are just cookie-cutter sites, they set up an abstractor directory here, a lawn-care directory there, maybe a TV repair shop directory, who knows... Plus everything we do, they copy, I swear that one of these sites practically plagiarized something that we had written on our site and used it on their front page... If we weren't so far ahead of them, it might make us a little mad sometimes...

Anyway, thanks for using SOT and please support us by spending your marketing dollars here and not there!

--Slade

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