Its All About Local

Nearby Consumers Finding YOU!

Use our Directory To Add YOUR Free Listing

We feel so strongly about helping local Canadian businesse that we created our own Canadian travel directory, TransCanadaHighway.com in 1999. To rank well in Google (as well as on Bing, Siri, and Alexa) our directory citations & back-links help major search engines find businesses, and improve website rankings.

Reach Local Consumers & Businesses! Our directory helps your other online SEO/SEM work be more effective. And, keep your information up-to-date — not just whenever a print directory gets reprinted.

We ARE a local (and free) Canadian travel & hospitality business directory, and to help out small businesses and community groups, we add a lot of functionality at no extra cost. Unleash the POWER OF FREE!

TransCanadaHighway.com’s FREE LISTINGS let you add your local business or community group to your community directory. TransCanadaHighway.com is able to do this for FREE with the support of our display, banner, and keyword advertisers. (please do not use ad blockers, or we lose this critical source of income)

Can you afford to turn down FREE?

Increase traffic from FoundLocally's local audience

People already using TransCanadaHighway for their preferred source for travel and local information.

Increase ranking and traffic on Google, Bing, Alexa, and Siri

Use your listing, and the various built-in features, to increase the number of links (and deep links) to your website. BE where the search engines look for LOCAL!

Improve your SEO ranking using more features of your FoundLocally listing

Your keywords in your listing description, and your jobs, news, events, coupons and customer reviews posts increase the keyword-richness of your listing

We Only Ask Three Things

These three requirements keep our local business directory from being spammed and scammed by out-of-town (or out of country) websites with no local presence, and not fitting the content needs of our website’s visitors. By requiring and actual street/mailing address we can keep those who are “not legit” out of our directory.

1. You are a Canadian Hospitality Industry company

Businesses permitted in our directory are Transportation, Accommodation, Attractions, Traveller Shopping, Restaurants & Cafes, and Tourist Services.

All others will be denied a listing in our directory (please don’t waste your time and our time!) We have already had listing attempts by doctors, dentists, realtors, locksmiths, web marketers, lawyers, gold buyers, home improvement companies, condo developers, SEO firms. Our directory does not reach your customers!!

2. a LOCAL (Canadian) street/mailing address
Some near-border American communities around Sault Ste Marie, and Buffalo/Niagara Falls are also okay for those respective directories
Our PRIVACY POLICY has protected home-based business since 1999: you can choose to HIDE YOUR ADDRESS from public view (but, we still need a COMPLETE address to confirm your local-ness)

3. a LOCAL phone number
We don’t care if its a business line (unlike those “Yellow” buys), a home phone, a land-line, or a cellphone

We do require a non 1-800 number as the LOCAL number (with one of the pre-configured local area codes), though businesses with a toll-free number may post their in the toll-free phone number field. (also, a Skype number won’t do!)

This not only protects local businesses from predation by out-of-town, nation-wide, or toll-free only businesses, but has also managed to protect consumers from a variety of “Nigerian scam artists.”

Are you TIRED of being nickled & dimed by the “Yellow Guys”?

Directory feeds, category feeds, logo fees, online marketing fees, and the list goes on…. and you are contractually forced to pay for 12 months of print directory when you are a seasonal business. Who uses the print directory anyways?
We’ve NEVER MET any business person who said they enjoyed paying for teh phone directory, and that they got good value… everybody felt they were being milked like a cow, and paid way too much!@

The contract says you are automatically renewed (at their prices, for their term) unless you cancel in writing. (hey, their lawyers wrote the contact, not yours!)

Their sales people will try to get you to “trade up” with new features, like online ads, like social media, like Google AdWords, like a website, and have you overlook the outdated print directory (and ad-ons) that you are WAY OVERPAYING FOR! Don’t let heir salespeople distract from what is costing YOU and arm and a leg (nickel & dime understates the actual cost to you).

Unchain yourself!

Cancel your print directory listing (you should send a fax or a registered letter), and CANCEL EVERYTHING. Print, Online, Directory, Services, Everything! Then the Yellow Guy’s salespeople are forced to convince you of every thing they want to charge you.

Unleash the POWER OF FREE!