Many nationwide search engines offer you limited and inaccurate results for a lot of the local areas. We decided that Asheville was worth investing in and we created this custom search engine for Asheville North Carolina. Why find California results for categories like "restaurants", "engineers", and "crafts"; when they are right around the corner here in Asheville?

This search engine also supports local businesses with their efforts. Why order your "printing" from out of town or your "emblems" from somewhere around the world, when you have a local Asheville business in your neighborhood that provides the same or better price, better communication, and better delivery of your product? Our office base is in Asheville, so we are intricately concerned about the quality Asheville results you find on the AskAsheville search engine.

On the bottom part of our home page, we have displayed "Local AskAsheville Quick Links"? These are recommendations from the AskAsheville site editor. If you are low on time or want a very quick answer, these are great links that go directly to the editors’ website of choice. These choices are made by evaluating many local websites for this category, and listing what we consider to be the best one. If a local business would like to advertise through these links, their company/website must meet certain criteria.

Make sure it is not already listed. You can do this by typing the URL in the AskAsheville Search box. If it is there, good. If not, simply click on our "Add Site" link and complete the online form. We will review it within 7 days and contact you with the approval or denial. This service is completely free. You cannot pay for this service and sending money will not get you listed higher on our results. Advertising is only available on the "Local AskAsheville Quick Links".

No – We have complete control of inserting your website into the AskAsheville search engine. Google is not needed. For better placement in the results, you may need to contact a professional to make some adjustments to your website including fixing codes, link relevancy, and other items that could help you possibly climb the top of search engine ladder. Please refer to #5.

Since our website is powered by Google, their qualifications for criteria are used on our website as well. For indexing in Google, contact a local expert about search engine placement to assist you with this, and then submit your website to Google. When Google accepts and places your site, it will automatically be indexed into our search results. For assistance and information on this, please search for "Search Engine Optimization" on the AskAsheville Search Engine.

If a company is interested in advertising on our "LAAQL" list, they may submit it by clicking the "Add Site" link and then by clicking the "Directory" link. Your site must be extremely applicable to Asheville and the business link requested to be accepted as a site on the "LAAQL" directory. The quality of your website may also be a stipulation to advertise on the "Local AskAsheville Quick Links".

*Please see the Why Should I Use "AskAsheville Quick Links" page

If a link on the directory page is taken, you may make a $100 deposit to have your website next in line for this link when the other contract expires. For example: You may want the "architect" quick link, but another architect already has it. You would contact us and we would see when this contract ends. We would then contact you with the month that the other company expires, and offer you that quick link for the months or years thereafter. If you wish to reserve this spot, we would then require the deposit and contract. Current advertisers would have first choice of keeping their spot.

*Any Local Asheville Website can add the AskAsheville.com Search Engine to their websites upon approval from AskAsheville.com. This would assist all of us with link relevancy.

*Note: The AskAsheville Search Engine Box would go best on your "Other Links" page or on your "Information" page.

We readily welcome anyone who wants to help improve our search engine results. Sometimes we may not know about a local site that should be on our search engine. Sometimes sites that do not apply get into our search engine. We could use your help to regularly review the AskAsheville search engine and make suggestions for insertion or deletion.

We do not allow any promotion of illegal or pornographic material. If you see sites like this coming up, please contact us with the URL and we will promptly deal with it. Some sites have a regular URL and applicable description, but the content on the site is not acceptable. We apologize if you come across any sites like this. Please let us know!