best way to obtain business listings for directory?
I currently run business directory/review site similar to yelp, but its exclusively for my local market.

The problem is there isn't any businesses in the directory to review, since its a new site. I would like to avoid the option of having to manually add businesses to my database.

I was wondering if there is such a way where I can add businesses to my directory automatically. Perhaps some kind of spider crawler that grabs information from sites that already have this information like yelp, or google. I would simply need just the business name, address, and phone number, and nothing more, or is there a better method?

This is obviously out of my league, so was looking for some sort of direction that way I can find someone for the job.


best way to obtain business listings for directory?
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I currently run business directory/review site similar to yelp, but its exclusively for my local market.

The problem is there isn't any businesses in the directory to review, since its a new site. I would like to avoid the option of having to manually add businesses to my database.

I was wondering if there is such a way where I can add businesses to my directory automatically. Perhaps some kind of spider crawler that grabs information from sites that already have this information like yelp, or google. I would simply need just the business name, address, and phone number, and nothing more, or is there a better method?

This is obviously out of my league, so was looking for some sort of direction that way I can find someone for the job.

