General Citation Sites - BrightLocal https://www.brightlocal.com/resources/top-citation-sites/general/ Local Marketing Made Simple Fri, 17 May 2024 12:46:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Top 50 General Business Directories 2024 https://www.brightlocal.com/resources/top-citation-sites/general/top-50/ Fri, 01 Jul 2022 14:17:17 +0000 https://www.brightlocal.com/?p=81243 This is the freshest citation-building resource for anyone looking for local business listings or local directories.

These local citation sites were included based on a range of criteria:

  • Domain Authority (their ranking power)
  • Generic inclusion (businesses in all categories can get listed on them)
  • Activity (they’re still in business)
  • Accepting new listings (not closed business lists)

How do I get my business listed?

Building local citations is a time-consuming process that usually takes 15-20mins to do per site—but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Rather than spending hours doing it yourself our team of citation specialists can do all the hard work for you. They deliver over 100,000 citations for 1,500+ businesses every month, so you’re in trusted hands. From just $2 per site, they’ll make sure your business appears in all the right local listing sites and directories.

Sounds good, right? Take a look at local Citation Builder to find out more.

Looking for the top citation sites by country?

Take a look below for our comprehensive lists of top business listing sites for various countries across the world:

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Top 50 General Business Listing Sites

Citation SiteDomain AuthorityFree / Paid
Google Business Profile100Free
Apple Business Connect99Free
Facebook96Free
Bing Places94Free
Yelp93Free
Foursquare92Free / Paid
Snapchat92Free
Waze92Paid
Here Maps86Free
NextDoor (Country Variants)84Free
TomTom83Free
APSense80Free
JustLanded76Free / Paid
AiLoQ69Free / Paid
Kompass (Country Variants)69Free
ProvenExpert64Free
BrownBook62Free
StoreBoard62Free / Paid
The Dots62Free
Infobel59Free / Paid
ReleaseWire58Free
HotFrog (Country Variants)57Free
TrepUp57Free
Tupalo57Free
Cybo56Free
CallUpContact55Free
BOTW (Best of the Web)55Free / Paid
TwidLoo54Free / Paid
Tech Directory54Free / Paid
Yellow.Place54Free
YPLocal.us53Free / Paid
ShowMeLocal53Free / Paid
Start Us53Free
Navmii52Paid
EnrollBusiness (Country Variants)51Free
Global Catalog51Free
Find It50Free
LinkCentre49Free / Paid
2FindLocal47Free / Reciprocal
Place12347Free
Yocale46Free
AGreaterTown45Free
Travelful45Free
WhoDoYou44Free
iGlobal.co43Free / Paid
SIC Code41Free
Teleadreson40Free
Fyple (Country Variants)39Free
Cylex (Country Variants)33Free
Opendi (Country Variants)30Free
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]]> Top Free International Business Directories 2024 https://www.brightlocal.com/resources/top-citation-sites/general/free-international/ https://www.brightlocal.com/resources/top-citation-sites/general/free-international/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2022 08:00:34 +0000 https://www.brightlocal.com/?p=20455 BrightLocal’s Citation Builder service has been nurtured over the years to provide you with the best, most efficient service. However, while we’d love to achieve world domination, expanding our product to include all available citation sites takes time.

In the meantime, we’re able to offer the next best thing—a comprehensive list of free international citation sites covering nearly 200 countries.

What Are International Citations?

International citations are from sites and mapping services that cater to business listings across multiple countries.

There are multiple national or local citation sites that cover one to two countries (e.g. the USA and Canada), but there aren’t as many sites available with global coverage.

Finding the best business listings sites for worldwide citations is important as part of a well-rounded SEO strategy. Being featured on these free citation sites can help to enhance how trusted a business is across the web and to boost brand visibility.

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Backlinks remain one of most important factors that influence both organic search ranking and local-search/maps ranking. If you’d like to see what the experts say about local link building, check out our Expert Local Link Building Survey.

The Local Citations Trust Report also explores why correct local citations are vital to keeping customers happy  – finding that 80% of consumers lose trust in a business if they see incorrect or inconsistent NAP information online.

Local Citation Sites That Provide Backlinks

Knowing that many SEOs like to build links through their citation-building actions, we wanted to put together a useful resource to show which local citation sites provide either DoFollow links or NoFollow links.

Our Citations team have delved into our extensive local citation database to create a comprehensive list of local citation sites with DoFollow or NoFollow links.

To make this resource even more useful we’ve added further information about each local citation site so you can make quick, informed decisions:

  • Domain Authority – both tables are ordered by Moz’s Domain Authority score, which is a score of the ranking power of each site
  • Industry – while most local citation sites are open to all local businesses, we’ve also included some popular niche sites that cater to certain industries such as legal and hospitality
  • Active Sites – every site in the table is ‘active’; this means that they currently accept new business listings
  • Global and Local – we looked into local citation sites that operate internationally, as well as sites specific to the US, UK, Canada, and Australia

What is a DoFollow link?

Follow links, known to some as “DoFollow” are links that Google and other search engines are able to follow to reach a linked website. This passes on authority, or ‘link juice’, from the source through to the destination website. The more reputable links that you have pointing to your website, the more likely a search engine will believe it to be a high-value (‘authoritative’) site.

How do you make a DoFollow link?

Links are DoFollow by default, so do not require additional HTML attributes in order to follow. Including DoFollow links on your site allows you to pass on authority to the websites that you link to.

However, including DoFollow links in forums and comment sections of websites can attract spammers attempting to improve the visibility of their own sites.

Local citation sites that include DoFollow links are considered to have extra value because they contain a DoFollow backlink. These combine SEO benefits from well-respected sites with potential clickthroughs from consumers looking for a local business.

What is a NoFollow link?

NoFollow links contain HTML tags that stop search engines following links to pass on link juice. Links that contain NoFollow attributes stop Google from seeing a link as an endorsement of the linked page. These have become increasingly important due to penalties that can apply to paid links.

Although they won’t carry the link juice back to your site, in Local SEO NoFollow links are still important. Back in March 2020, Google announced that they no longer looked at ‘NoFollow’ as a directive, and instead a ‘hint’ (a suggestion that Google shouldn’t follow the link, rather than a command that Google has to obey). Any link from a local citation site provides much more exposure (and ease of access) to audiences searching for products and services like yours.

How do you make a NoFollow link?

To create a NoFollow tag, the code rel=”nofollow” should be included in hyperlinks.

Do NoFollow links help SEO?

There is a constant debate about the SEO value of NoFollow links. In the past, SEOs believed that NoFollow links were ignored by Google and therefore had no value. However, now studies suggest that Google can acknowledge NoFollow links, and attribute some value to the website they link to.

If we look beyond pure SEO value, NoFollow links have other benefits to their destination pages. Links placed on large sites with lots of users or on very relevant sites can generate valuable website visits.

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]]> https://www.brightlocal.com/resources/top-citation-sites/general/dofollow-nofollow/feed/ 136 Top Business Directories for Service-area Businesses 2024 https://www.brightlocal.com/resources/top-citation-sites/general/service-area-business-citation-sites/ https://www.brightlocal.com/resources/top-citation-sites/general/service-area-business-citation-sites/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2022 08:00:12 +0000 https://www.brightlocal.com/?p=45059 Working with local businesses already requires a great deal of very specific local SEO skills, but when it comes to service-area businesses (i.e. businesses that work in a service area and visit you at your home rather than working from a physical location) things get even more specific.

Service-area businesses, such as locksmiths, exterminators, plumbers, and the like, have very different local marketing requirements from other local businesses. In many cases, they’ll want to refrain from displaying their addresses, and instead, they’ll need to specify the service areas they can cover.

Unfortunately, not all citation sites have that flexibility, which can make it harder to build citations for Service Area Businesses, which is often where a local citation service proves its worth.

We’ve taken the hard work out of this for you and put together the ultimate lists of citation sites that you can hide your address and/or specify a service area on. If you’re working with service-area Businesses in the USA, the UK, Canada, or Australia, we’ve got you covered.

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]]> https://www.brightlocal.com/resources/top-citation-sites/general/service-area-business-citation-sites/feed/ 11 Top Business Directories That Publish Your Listing Instantly 2024 https://www.brightlocal.com/resources/top-citation-sites/general/instant-publish/ https://www.brightlocal.com/resources/top-citation-sites/general/instant-publish/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2022 08:00:26 +0000 https://www.brightlocal.com/?p=50186 Looking to get business listings on a host of relevant local citation sites instantly? You’ve come to the right place!

We’ve collated all the citation sites that require no verification for listing publication for quick local citation building opportunities, and separated these by country (UK, USA, Canada, Australia).

These are the sites that, upon submission, the business listing will go live right away = instant citations! With these quick citations, you should see your listing live as soon as you hit ‘Submit’.

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Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in the USA

Citation SiteDomain Authority
facebook.com96
foursquare.com92
trustpilot.com92
zillow.com90
houzz.com90
manta.com81
porch.com80
care.com78
nextdoor.com77
merchantcircle.com76
bestplumbers.com75
avvo.com74
hg.org65
ratemds.com62
chamberofcommerce.com61
brownbook.net61
lacartes.com61
buildzoom.com60
onewed.com60
americantowns.com60
storeboard.com60
hotfrog.com59
ezlocal.com57
findattorneys.org56
tupalo.com56
cybo.com55
ebusinesspages.com55
trepup.com55
yellow.place53
showmelocal.com53
hub.biz53
tuugo.us51
salespider.com51
callupcontact.com51
parkbench.com50
citysquares.com50
expressbusinessdirectory.com49
agreatertown.com49
iglobal.co49
n49.com48
us.enrollbusiness.com48
2findlocal.com47
cityfos.com46
cylex.us.com45
sortlist.com45
whodoyou.com44
whofish.org42
fyple.com42
wherezit.com41
bizhwy.com40

Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in the UK

Citation SiteDomain Authority
facebook.com96
directory.mirror.co.uk94
foursquare.com92
uk.trustpilot.com92
hg.org65
brownbook.net61
lacartes.com61
storeboard.com60
houzz.co.uk60
tupalo.com58
freeindex.co.uk57
192.com57
cylex-uk.co.uk56
trepup.com55
cybo.com54
uk.showmelocal.com53
scoot.co.uk53
yellow.53
callupcontact.com51
nextdoor.co.uk50
parkbench.com50
iglobal.co49
gb.enrollbusiness.com49
n49.com49
2findlocal.com48
hotfrog.co.uk47
findtheneedle.co.uk45
whodoyou.com45
find-us-here.com44
smartguy.com39
opening-times.co.uk37
bizexposed.com35
fyple.co.uk35
tuugo.co.uk33
accountantsbook.co.uk29
computer-repairs-maintenance.co.uk29
computer-systems-uk.co.uk29
bizify.co.uk29
electriciansaround.co.uk22
inuklocal.co.uk22
yellowleaf.co.uk22
bedfordshire-focus.co.uk21
petsandanimals.co.uk20
cataloxy.co.uk19
infoisinfo.co.uk18
motorcardirectory.co.uk17
theweddingfinder.co.uk17
nearfinderuk.com15
sportswebsite.co.uk15
cardealerscentral.co.uk10

Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in Canada

Citation SiteDomain Authority
facebook.com96
foursquare.com92
ca.trustpilot.com92
houzz.com90
guildquality.com85
manta.com81
ca.nextdoor.com77
ailoq.com63
brownbook.net61
lacartes.com61
onewed.com60
storeboard.com60
foodpages.ca59
findattorneys.org56
trepup.com55
cybo.com54
hg.org53
ca.showmelocal.com53
yellow. Place53
callupcontact.com51
parkbench.com50
iglobal.co49
ca.enrollbusiness.com49
n49.com49
2findlocal.com48
unltd.directory48
askmap.net
47
whodoyou.com
44
foodio54.com
44
globalcatalog.com
44
find-us-here.com
44
hotfrog.ca
43
homestars.com
43
vetclick.com
42
businesslistingplus.com
41
cataloxy.com
41
tupalo.com
40
ourbis.ca
40
smartguy.com
39
teleadreson.com
39
travelful.net
38
trustedpros.ca
38
bizexposed.com
33
cylex-canada.ca
33
fyple.ca
31
tuugo.me
28
zipleaf.ca
28
ca.zenbu.org
25
infoisinfo-ca.com
19
nearfinderca.com17

Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in Australia

Citation SiteDomain Authority
facebook.com
96
foursquare.com
92
au.trustpilot.com
92
truelocal.com.au
82
au.nextdoor.com
77
ailoq.com
68
qfinder2.health.qld.gov.au
66
hg.org
65
lacartes.com
61
brownbook.net
61
storeboard.com
60
tupalo.com
56
findattorneys.org
56
trepup.com
55
cybo.com
54
au.showmelocal.com
53
houzz.com.au
53
yellow. Place
53
startus.cc
52
callupcontact.com
51
Mfg.com
50
parkbench.com
50
hotfrog.com.au
50
iglobal.co
49
expressbusinessdirectory.com
49
au.enrollbusiness.com
49
2findlocal.com
48
askmap.net
47
sortlist.com
45
place123.net
45
whodoyou.com
45
foodio54.com
44
globalcatalog.com
44
find-us-here.com
44
wordofmouth.com.au
40
smartguy.com
39
localbd.com.au
39
tuugo.biz
38
photographers.com.au
35
au.zipleaf.com
33
bizexposed.com
33
looklocally.com
31
ratebe.com.au
28
melbournebd.com.au27
fyple.biz
27
superpages.com.au
27
au.zenbu.org
25
cylex-australia.com
21
localitylist.com.au
19
infoisinfo-au.com17

That’s it for our list of instant citations to submit local businesses to! We hope this helps you improve your citation profile online.

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