Local Citations for your business
09-Mar-2020
Citations are important to your local rankings in Google. Being listed on third-party sites (AKA citation sources) can help you attract customers from a wide variety of sources and imporove your website visibilty.
What is a citation?
A citation is an online mention of a business on another website that features the Name, Address, and Phone number (NAP) of the business. For example an online mention of a business’ details on a third-party website or local directory such as Yelp, Angi, or Facebook. It includes the business’ name, address, and telephone number, and sometimes other details such as opening hours, products and services, images, videos and social media links.
Get a free website report including your citations
How can this report help my business or website?
By running a citation report you can see on all sites that display your business data, monitor citations, identify local citations to list your business on. You'll also be able to view your local competitors to see where they’re listed but you’re not.
- Audit listings on key citation sites
- Identify errors in critical NAP (Name, Address, Phone number)
- Eliminate citations issues that harm local search rankings
Need help with your Citations?
If your business has ever changed phone numbers or address locations, chances are your citations have not been updated. We can help you build and clean the NAP for your business. If your business is new online, our citation building campaign can help you get your busniess listed in key locations.
Want to create your citations yourself?
If you're looking to list your website in locations online that can help your business get more visibility, check out our list --
This list is from Phil at Local Visibility System. We're fans of Phil and his website - he offers top advice, for free, even for Australia!
All the sites are freeto add your business to, with a few exceptions (which I note in the list). Red = the most important citations to gather for Google local rankings, regardless of your industry or location.
- agfg.com.au (dining & tourist businesses)
- Apple Maps
- AroundYou.com.au
- AustralianGuide.net
- Brownbook.net
- Bing Places
- Cylex.com.au
- Eatability.com.au
- Factual.com
- Fyple.biz
- FourSquare.com
- HotFrog.com.au
- iBegin.com
- Local.com.au
- LocalBD.com.au
- LocalBusinessGuide.com.au
- LocalStore.com.au
- Manta.com
- NationalDirectory.com.au
- Superpages.com.au
- ThinkLocal.com.au
- TrueLocal.com.au
- WhitePages.com.au
- Yalwa.com.au
- YellowPages.com.au (verification required only for claiming listing)
- Yelp.com.au (verification required only for claiming listing)
- YourCity.com.au
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