Managing your listing at the Local Listing Center
When, your listing has been added at the Local Listing Center, you can, at any time return to it and manage it. You can either edit it, review it, select or change categories, and remove your listing.
For managing your listing, you have to first access it. It can be done as follows.
a) First of all open the Local Listing Center website.
b) Then just sign in using your Windows Live ID.
This will give you the access to your listing. After this, you can do any one of the bellow described things.
Editing your listing
a) For this, just click on the option to edit your listing.
b) Then you can make the changes that you want to make. You can correct, add, or delete the information, which you had submitted previously.
Reviewing your listing
a) For this, click on the option to review your listing.
b) If you find that, the location of your listing on the map is not correct you can correct it. To do so, as before, click and hold the pushpin for your business location and then you can drag it to the location, which you want.
c) After placing it at the right position, you can click Continue.
Selecting categories
For selecting categories, click on the respective option.
a) Then go to tag for all categories and from there you can choose the categories that you want.
An alternative method of doing this is using the search box. Enter a proper keyword and click search option. When you get the results, you can choose the categories from them.
b) Like before, if you choose more than one category you can arrange the categories in a preference order. For doing so just click and hold any one category and then drag it to the position which you want.
c) If you have chosen the categories like restaurant, hotel, etc, you can describe them further, to make it clear for the clients.
d) When you have done with the categories, you can click submit.
Removing your listing
You can, at any time remove your listing from the Local Listing Center. This is important as businesses can close and therefore if your business closes you would not like your listing to appear on the Local Listing Center and the clients to contact you. Alternatively, instead of removing your listing from the Local Listing Center you can also remove yourself as the administrator of the listing keeping the listing at the Local Listing Center.
The procedure for removing your listing is as follows.
a) There is an option to remove your listing, just next to your listing. You can click on that option.
b) Alternatively, there is another potion to remove you as the administrator. You can click on that instead. To dissociate yourself form that listing. Note that if you dissociate your self from the listing, you would not be able to manage it in the future. For doing so, you would need to go through the pin verification processes once again.
c) When you click on any of the options, click Remove once again to confirm the deletion.
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