LOCAL SEO GUIDE: 50 LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORIES
If you want to rank your local business in Google, Bing, Apple Maps, and other local search engines, you’re in the right place. In fact, 46% of all searches on Google are local. Which means that, if you’re a local business and you don’t have your local SEO in order, you’re missing an opportunity every time someone searches for your products or services online.
MAY 14, 2020
And there’s a lot of people searching. Winning the local search game for your brand or business requires more than just showing up on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yelp. To be visible to the customers you want to attract, website traffic and to increase your sales you’ll need to build a presence on local directories and citation sites, and that means the well-known popular sites, general and those specific to your business.
Here you’ll find a comprehensive list of the most valuable local citation sites. These sources were selected based on the following criteria: For ease of use, you’ll find it useful to quickly access the subset of sites that are most effective in the place where you do business.
- Domain authority (their ranking power)
- Generic sites (businesses in all categories can get a listing)
- Active sites (they’re currently in business)
- New listings accepted (business lists are not restristriced or closed)
Top 50 Citation Sites
- Facebook (Domain Authority = 100)
- Apple Maps (Domain Authority = 100)
- Google My Business (Domain Authority = 100)
- LinkedIn Company Directory (Domain Authority = 98)
- Bing (Domain Authority = 94)
- Yelp (Domain Authority = 94)
- Better Business Bureau (Domain Authority = 93)
- Foursquare (Domain Authority = 92)
- MapQuest (Domain Authority = 92)
- HubSpot (Domain Authority = 91)
- Yellow Pages (Domain Authority = 91)
- Angies List (Domain Authority = 91)
- Yahoo! Local (Domain Authority = 91)
- Manta (Domain Authority = 87)
- Merchant Circle (Domain Authority = 86)
- Super Pages (Domain Authority = 84)
- Yellow Book (Domain Authority = 83)
- Thumbtack (Domain Authority = 82)
- Local.com (Domain Authority = 77)
- Kudzu.com (Domain Authority = 76)
- Hot Frog (Domain Authority = 76)
- Communitywalk.com (Domain Authority = 75)
- Brownbook.net (Domain Authority = 73)
- Tupalo.com (Domain Authority = 72)
- La Cartes (Domain Authority = 68)
- 2findlocal.com (Domain Authority = 67)
- ezlocal.com (Domain Authority = 67)
- ebusinesspages.com (Domain Authority = 67)
- Spoke (Domain Authority = 66)
- Chamberofcommerce.com (Domain Authority = 66)
- City Squares (Domain Authority = 66)
- Cylex USA (Domain Authority = 66)
- yelloyello.com (Domain Authority = 66)
- BOTW (Domain Authority = 65)
- worldweb.com (Domain Authority = 65)
- ibegin.com (Domain Authority = 63)
- Get Fave (Domain Authority = 63)
- Fyple.com (Domain Authority = 63)
- Company.com (Domain Authority = 60)
- Call Up Contact (Domain Authority = 60)
- Finduslocal.com (Domain Authority = 60)
- My Huckleberry (Domain Authority = 59)
- Hub.biz (Domain Authority = 59)
- where2go.com (Domain Authority = 58)
- City Insider (Domain Authority = 58)
- n49.com (Domain Authority = 58)
- My Sheriff (Domain Authority = 57)
- opendi.us (Domain Authority = 56)
- Bizhwy.com (Domain Authority = 55)
- Smartguy.com (Domain Authority = 55)
The days of not understanding SEO are starting to fade away, as well as the black hat tricks that propelled businesses to the front page of Google search!
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Don’t wait to add your local business to some of these listings and directories. Making sure that you have a presence everywhere your potential customers might find you is critical to any local marketing plan. Take control of your brands online data and manage it on an ongoing basis to ensure both its consistency and its spread across the web.
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