The Ultimate List Of Local Search Citations You Will Need

Why Citations Are Important to Rank in Local Maps Citations are important and crucial in order to help you with your local SEO and local rankings online. These listings (aka citations) play an important role in your online marketing. Being listed on many major citations help your business in several ways:

1. Gain authoritative backlinks
2. Get traffic from these citation sources
3. Help you rank in the major search engine Maps (Google Places, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps)
4. Help you get more customers, directly from the listing and indirectly from Maps Rankings

You may know how to find these citations and you may have built some of them on your own, but you need to make sure they are optimized well and include all available elements they allow. It is also important to keep adding new citations and know how many citations you need to stay ahead of your competitors. You also want to find niche related listings (which are more powerful as they are niche related) and hyper local citations. Hyper local citations are location specific to your area. For example in Arizona we have a local directory called Local First Arizona, which is considered a hyper local directory and these can be a very powerful listing source. We mainly provide services in the US so most of our listings/citations are going to be focused on US businesses. Since online marketing changes and evolves, we will try to keep this list updated and ongoing. Some really good finds of online citations/social profiles do not always continue and end their services, so it is important to us to keep this updated. You also want to look into getting included in Data Aggregators, as these can help you get listed and found automatically on other citation sources. So they are important to include, but are not necessarily listings or citations. The first section is going to be general citations and we will be providing industry specific citations. Some of the industry specific listings can be overlapping to our general list. We will also be adding more to our industry specific citations as we are only including a handful of industries on the original post. You can also make a copy of the list or download the list from our drive file. On the file there are multiple tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet. There are so many sources available, we probably have missed some, if you think we have missed some please let us know so we can add them to the list. If you are busy running your company and want an expert team to handle this process for you, get in touch with us today. This is a part of our local SEO strategy and we build links to these citations to increase their power, authority and trust. Besides our citation building campaign, we use other additional strategies to help your business get found on Google Maps. There are many citations on our list we use as examples of how you should build and fill out your listings.

Color Codes

• Black  = Free
• Red = Paid 
• Green  = Most Important
• Blue = Social Profiles

 

Important Data Aggregators

Acxiom Express Update Factual Neustar Localeze  

General Citation List

247OnlineNetwork.com 10 SEOs 2FindLocal.com 4 Shared 6QubeDirectory.com Abi Find Abi Logic ABLocal.com About Us Advice Local AGreaterTown.com Akama.com Alignable AllPages.com AlltheLocal.com Angel List Angie's List Apple Maps Art Might B2BYellowPages.com Bark BBB Best Brands Worldwide Best Web Firms BigwigBiz.com BingPlaces.com Birectory.com BizDays BizHwy.com BizJournals.com BizVotes.com Bizyhood.com Brand Yourself Branded.me Brownbook CBSYellowPages.com ChamberofCommerce.com Check My Review Cherrp.com City Insider City-Data.com CityFos.com CitySearch CitySlick CitySquares CityVoter Click Blue CMAC.ws Connect.Data.com CornerstonesWorld.com Corporationwiki.com Cortera.com Craigslist.org Credibility Crowd Reviews Cylex-Usa.com Dex Media DigaBusiness.com DirectoryCentral.com DirectoryM.net (AKA nSphere) Discover Our Town Disqus dnb.com Dwell eBusinessPages.com eLocal.com eLocalFinder.com ExpressBusinessDirectory.com EZ Local Facebook Find the Best Find The Company Flip Board Fold3 Forlocations Foursquare Fyple.com Get Fave Google Places Google Plus Gravatar here.com Home Advisor Hotfrog Hours Info Houzz I Global iBegin.com Identy Me iDirectory.com Infignos Informative InfoUSA InsiderPages Instagrahm Intently Inter800.com Jayde.com Judy's Book JustDial.com Kanoodle KiwiBox Klout Kudzu La Cartes LinkedIn List-Company Local 6qube Local Roll Call Local.BOTW.org Local.com LocalCensus.com LocalDatabase.com LocalGuides.com LocalPages.com LocalStack.com Look Up Page Lookooh.com Magic Yellow Majon.com MakeitLocal.com Manta Manttus Map Creator MapQuest/Yext Master Moz Medium Meet Up Merchant Circle Mister What MojoPages Moz My Huckleberry My Sheriff MyCityBusiness.net MyHuckleberry.com MyLocally MyLocalServices.com MyWebYellow.com n49.com NetHulk.com Nexport.com Opendi Opentable.com Patch.com Pearl Trees PegasusDirectory.com PennySaver Picasa Web Pinboard Pinbud Polyvore Powerprofiles.com PremiumPages.net Primeplace.Nokia.com Profile Index Punch Bowl RadarFrog.GateHouseMedia.com RateItAll.com Recommended Company SalesSpider.com SeekItLocal.com ShopCity.com ShowMeLocal Slide Share SmartGuy.com Social Media Today SocialRaves.com SocialStreets.com SoMuch.com Start Up Nation Store Board Strikingly Superpages.com switchboard.com Tackk TeleAtlas Thing Link Thumbtack Top SEOs Topix.com (powered by Yext) TripAdvisor TrueYellow.com Trulia Trust Link Tumblr.com Tupalo.com Tuugo.us Tyloon.com UID.me USBDN.com UsCity USDirectory.com VieSearch ViewPoints.com Wampit Wand.com WherezIt.com Whitepages WhoFish.org Wordpress.com Yahoo! Yalwa.com yasabe.com Yellowbook Yellowbot Yellowee Yellowise.com YellowOne.com yellowpagecity.com YellowPagesGoesGreen.org YelloYello.com Yelp Yippie.biz YP.com ZipHip.com ZipLocal.com Zomato.com ZoomInfo.com  

Citation Lists by Profession (More Will Be Added)

Attorneys Specific Citations

AllLaw American Institute Of Legal Counsel American Lawyer Referral Attorney Directory Attorney Help Attorney Pages Attorneys Web List Attorneys.LawInfo Attorneys.org Avvo Bankruptcy Attorney Directory Bankruptcy-Attorney.com BestLawyers.com Center for Legal Solution Find a Personal Injury Attorney Find Law HG.org JUSTIA Justice Finder Law Link Law Research Law.net LAWGURU LawLink LAWQA Lawyer Central Lawyer.com Lawyers.com Lead Counsel LegalAdvice.com LEGALDOCS Lexis Nexis Martindale More Law Nolo State Lawyers Super Lawyers Us Legal Wallet Hub Your Local State Bar  

Web Design Specific Citations

10 SEOs 500Px Behance Best Web Firms Clutch Crayon Design Agency Design Directory Design Firms DesignDir.net DesignerListings.org Designers-City DesignFirms.org Dexigner Ello Ez Find Web Design Freelance Designers Git Hub Graphis My Folio Online Designer Directory Professional Web Design Directory Slide Share Stage 32 The Best Design The Web Design Market The Web Design Network Top Design Directory Top Design Firms United States Web Design Directory UpCity Web Design Finders Web Designers By State Web Professional Which Web Design Company  

Hyper Local Citations by State (More Will Be Added)

Arizona

BBB Ethical AZ jeffersonpark.net/members.asp Local First AZ phoenixarizonabusinesses.net phoenixbusinesslist.com phoenixchamber.com phoenix-city-directory.com shopinphoenix.com socialnetworkarizona.com thinksmallbizaz.com
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