Although you can not search infoUSA directly, it is one of the most important listings a business can obtain. Established businesses that buy yellow page advertising or are listed in business directories will probably already be listed. It does not hurt to submit your listing to be sure they have current, accurate data. Their system will display a link to your current data, if any, and you can expand or correct it using this process.

The infoUSA database powers 85% of online directories including:

• Google Local Search
• Yahoo! Yellow Pages
• Microsoft’s MSN Local Search and Windows Live Local Search
• AOL brands including Compuserve, Netscape and Mapquest
• infoSpace
• 90% of in-car navigation

They also sell the infoUSA database products directly to businesses and for incorporation into computer programs and online services. Simply go to Add or Change Your infoUSA Business Listing and follow the process.  Here are the screen captures of the entire process as of the day this post was written. [These are current even though the  copyright date on these pages is 2006.]

infoUSA SUBMISSION TIPS:

• Enter phone numbers with no spaces or punctuation like this: AAAPPPNNNN (Area code, prefix, number)
• Do not use your toll free number as your main phone number – there is a field for it on a subsequent page

infoUSA Submission process:

BACKGROUND on infoUSA:

• infoUSA’s Vice President of Sales Panjak Mathur Interviewed by Eric Inge – Includes historical data, examples of how infoUSA data is used, their verification process, companies licensing their data,