The Business Directory (BD) is a service that allows the central management of business listings.
企业目录（BD）是一项服务，允许对企业列表进行集中管理。
It provides a mechanism to collect and store businesses data and then make them available to Publishers (websites).
它提供了一种机制来收集和存储业务数据，然后将其提供给发布者（网站）。
A Publisher can open an account with Business Directory and opt to receive catalog data from BD database.
发布者可以在Business Directory中开设一个帐户，并选择从BD数据库接收目录数据。
The Publisher has the option to define specific query parameters that make the data that he receives to be more relevant to what he needs.
发布者可以选择定义特定的查询参数，以使他接收到的数据与他的需求更加相关。
Publishers can make requests currently based on Business Listing (BL) categories and Registered Cities.
发布者当前可以根据企业列表（BL）类别和注册城市提出请求。
A Business Listing is actually a record of a company or professional.
企业列表实际上是公司或专业人士的记录。
A company or a professional can register with BD and add his company\’s details (address, contact, photos, etc).
公司或专业人士可以在BD注册并添加其公司的详细信息（地址，联系方式，照片等）。
A BL does this because they want to expose these information to various Publishers.
BL之所以这样做，是因为他们希望将这些信息公开给各个发布者。
The advantage that BD provides is that BLs can add their data in one central Database (the BD) and then opt to which Publishers his data can become available.
BD提供的优势在于，BL可以将其数据添加到一个中央数据库（BD）中，然后选择将其数据提供给哪些发布者。
This helps from avoiding to add the same data multiple times with many different catalogs and keeping them updated.
这有助于避免在许多不同的目录中多次添加相同的数据，并使它们保持更新。
Business Directory Service provides an API where Publishers can connect and request data.
企业目录服务提供了一个API，发布者可以在其中连接和请求数据。
Such a service is provided through the BD for WordPress Plugin.
此类服务是通过BD for WordPress插件提供的。
