About Yellow Pages Online

The Yellow Pages is similar to the telephone directory. It categorizes businesses according to the services they provide to the people. The Yellow Pages are for commercial listings. Yellow Pages online is available at http://www.yellowpages.com/.

Yellow Pages online allows you to access the yellow pages from your home; it is nothing but an online version of the Yellow Pages. The online Yellow Pages allow you to search businesses by business categories like car rental, video rental and so on. The online search can also be customized and you can search for businesses in a particular area.

How to Use Online Yellow Pages

The online Yellow Pages are so organized that you may first choose the category you want to search in. The categories are:

* To find a business
* To find a person
* To look for maps and directions

The most frequently searched categories include that of florists, departmental stores, furniture stores, real estate businesses, and restaurants among others. In order to narrow down your search you may start with providing the business category you want to search for and also the location (state, city, and ZIP code). You may also begin your search by the name of the city.

The procedure for searching the online Yellow Pages through the list for a business or business category is as follows:

* The first step requires you to specify the location of the business or the category you are searching for. You may do this by either typing the ZIP code or by providing the names of the state and the city.
* In the second step of your search, provide specific information about what exactly you want to know. It can be the name of the business such as the name of a departmental store or simply a category like restaurants. It can also be name of a service or a product or just a phone number of the service provider.

An alternative to the search procedure described above is to just browse the categories by first selecting a state and then a city followed by the business category.

The Yellow Pages online gives you an option of advanced search. This helps you to broaden your search.  After you have located the business you were searching for, you may access further information about it by clicking on additional information option on the page.

Advantages of Yellow Pages Online

One of the advantages that the online Yellow Pages have over the paper version is that it offers a map showing directions to all the businesses listed there. It also provides the websites of the various companies. These additional facilities that accompany the online Yellow Pages are not available if you use a printed version.

Yellow Pages online also has reviews on the businesses that are listed in it. These ratings and reviews help you judge the businesses. The paper version of the Yellow Pages does not contain these.

You can access the Yellow Pages online for free. Apart from all the advantages that the online version has over the printed version, it also reduces the use of paper and thus helps preventing environmental degradation.