The USA Web
Directories began in 1997 when founder Tyger Gilbert
created his first online directory website, Arizona Life, as a
place where he could promote the local businesses in Phoenix
that were his advertising clients. "If you are going to have an
online store or business, do you want your front door to be out
in the middle of the desert somewhere, or would you prefer it to
be in the middle of a major shopping mall? Now we can put your
business on our online shopping mall, Arizona Life, for
immediate traffic!" he would say to his prospective web
advertising clients.
This concept
worked well, and soon he added Phoenix Living, Tucson Living,
Flagstaff Living, and several other sites for cities around the
state. Next, he started Colorado Life, California Life, Nevada
Life, and sites for all the rest of the western states, and
ultimately for all 50 states in the USA. In 2004, USA Web
Advertising was formed to promote the sales of advertising
across an entire network of more than 300 state and city
directory websites.
In 2009,
development was started to reposition the websites as
community-based publications, with news and feature stories,
event calendars, classified ads, and public discussion forums,
as well as the beautiful area photographs and local business
listings for which the sites had become known. The plans call
for each site to be managed by an editor and publisher who will
oversee the input and editing of content by local members of
their community, so important events, attractions, and issues
can be covered by the people who are most involved and
interested in them. Local advertising on the sites is sold by
the publishers, while national advertising across the entire
network is handled by USA Web Advertising sales
personnel. The process of finding publishers for each
publication is now underway.
See how you can
become the Editor or Publisher of your own Community-Based
Online Publication now!
