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Top 50 General Business Directories 2024

Sat, 16 Jul 2022 14:17:17 +0000

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:

31% of top 10 organic results for the average local search are business directories

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Top 50 General Business Listing Sites

Citation Site	Domain Authority	Free / Paid
Google Business Profile	100	Free
Apple Business Connect	99	Free
LinkedIn	99	Free
Facebook	96	Free
Instagram	94	Free
YELP (Country Variants)	93	Free
Trustpilot	93	Free / Paid
Waze	92	Paid
Foursquare	92	Free / Paid
OpenStreetMap	90	Free
Listly	86	Free / Paid
Here	86	Free / Paid
Nextdoor (Country Variants)	83	Free
TomTom	81	Free / Paid
Local Yahoo	77	Free
Apsense	75	Free
Just Landed	75	Free / Paid
BatchGeo	72	Free / Paid
Kompass (Country Variants)	69	Free / Paid
Ailoq	68	Free / Paid
ProvenExpert	67	Free / Paid
Zeemaps	67	Free / Paid
Storeboard	64	Free / Paid
Brownbook	64	Free
The Dots	62	Free / Paid
Tupalo	59	Free / Paid
Hotfrog (Country Variants)	58	Free / Paid
Cybo	58	Free
Infobel	58	Free / Paid
BizPages	58	Free / Paid
TrepUp	57	Free
Callupcontact	55	Free
BOTW (Best of the Web)	55	Paid
Twidloo	55	Free / Paid
YPLocal	55	Free
Adpost	55	Free / Paid
StartUs	54	Free
EnrollBusiness (Country Variants)	54	Free
ShowMeLocal	53	Free / Paid
Yellow.place	53	Free
Zumvu	52	Free / Paid
Bing Maps	51	Free
GlobalCatalog	51	Free
LinkCentre	51	Free / Paid
Startups SnapMunk	50	Free
FindIt	48	Free / Paid
Place123	48	Free
2FindLocal	46	Free / Paid
AGreaterTown	46	Free / Paid
WhoDoYou	46	Paid

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Top Free International Business Directories 2024

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 08:00:34 +0000

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.

31% of top 10 organic results for the average local search are business directories

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Top Business Directories With DoFollow and NoFollow Links 2024

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Whether they have NoFollow links or DoFollow links, local citation sites with links through to local business websites are invaluable to local SEO.

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 Business Discovery and Trust Report also explores why correct local citations are vital to keeping customers happy—finding that 62% 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.

31% of top 10 organic results for the average local search are business directories

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Top Business Directories for Service-area Businesses 2024

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 08:00:12 +0000

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.

Top Citation Sites for Service-area Businesses in the USA
Top Citation Sites for Service-area Businesses in the UK
Top Citation Sites for Service-area Businesses in Canada
Top Citation Sites for Service-area Businesses in Australia

31% of top 10 organic results for the average local search are business directories

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Top Business Directories That Publish Your Listing Instantly 2024

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 08:00:26 +0000

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’.

Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in the USA
Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in the UK
Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in Canada
Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in Australia

31% of top 10 organic results for the average local search are business directories

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Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in the USA

Citation Site	Domain Authority
Facebook	96
Foursquare	92
Patch	91
Zillow	89
Houzz	89
Listly	86
Nextdoor	83
Manta	81
Care	79
Porch	77
MerchantCircle	76
RateBeer	76
Archinect	76
Apsense	76
Avvo	74
Insurance Journal	73
Best Plumbers	70
Company	69
Ailoq	68
ProvenExpert	66
HG	66
Storeboard	64
Brownbook	63
RateMDs	63
EC21	62
The Dots	62
BuildZoom	60
AmericanTowns	60
Tupalo	58
ACHS Directory	58
Hotfrog	58
Alternative Health Directory	58
OneWed	57
Cybo	57
Trepup	57
Catskill	57
EbusinessPages	56
EZlocal	56
Cannabis.net	56
Find Attorneys	56
BubbleLife	56
CallUpContact	55
Twidloo	55
Tech Directory	55
YPLocal	55
EnrollBusiness	54
StartUs	54
Best US Lawyers	54
Homify	54
Digital Business Directory	53

Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in the UK

Citation Site	Domain Authority
Facebook	96
Foursquare	92
Listly	86
RateBeer	76
Apsense	76
Best Plumbers	70
Netmums	69
Ailoq	68
ProvenExpert	66
HG	66
Storeboard	64
Brownbook	63
RateMDs	63
EC21	62
The Dots	62
Houzz	59
Tupalo	58
Alternative Health Directory	58
Cylex	58
OneWed	57
Cybo	57
Trepup	57
Catskill	57
FreeIndex	56
Cannabis.net	56
Find Attorneys	56
CallUpContact	55
Twidloo	55
Tech Directory	55
YPLocal	55
Homify	54
StartUs	54
EnrollBusiness	54
ShowMeLocal	53
Digital Business Directory	53
Zumvu	52
Dentagama	51
LinkCentre	51
GlobalCatalog	51
Nextdoor	51
N49	49
Place123	48
Hotfrog	47
Sortlist	47
GPS Data Team	46
2findlocal	46
AGreaterTown	46
Foreign Trade	46
Find-Us-Here	45
iGlobal	44

Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in Canada

Citation Site	Domain Authority
Facebook	96
Foursquare	92
Houzz	89
Listly	86
Nextdoor	83
Manta	81
RateBeer	76
Apsense	76
Best Plumbers	70
Ailoq	68
ProvenExpert	66
HG	66
Storeboard	64
Brownbook	63
RateMDs	63
EC21	62
The Dots	62
Tupalo	58
FoodPages.ca	58
Alternative Health Directory	58
OneWed	57
Cybo	57
Trepup	57
Catskill	57
Cannabis.net	56
Find Attorneys	56
CallUpContact	55
Twidloo	55
Tech Directory	55
YPLocal	55
HomeStars	54
StartUs	54
EnrollBusiness	54
ShowMeLocal	53
Digital Business Directory	53
Zumvu	52
Eventective	51
Dentagama	51
LinkCentre	51
GlobalCatalog	51
Parkbench	50
GuildQuality	50
N49	49
Place123	48
Sortlist	47
GPS Data Team	46
2findlocal	46
AGreaterTown	46
Foreign Trade	46
Find-Us-Here	45

Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in Australia

Citation Site	Domain Authority
Facebook	96
Foursquare	92
Listly	86
Nextdoor	83
TrueLocal	80
RateBeer	76
Apsense	76
Best Plumbers	70
Ailoq	68
ProvenExpert	66
HG	66
QFinder2	66
Storeboard	64
Brownbook	63
RateMDs	63
EC21	62
The Dots	62
Tupalo	58
Alternative Health Directory	58
OneWed	57
Cybo	57
Trepup	57
Catskill	57
Word of Mouth	57
Cannabis.net	56
Find Attorneys	56
CallUpContact	55
Twidloo	55
Tech Directory	55
YPLocal	55
StartUs	54
EnrollBusiness	54
SMEA	54
Digital Business Directory	53
ShowMeLocal	53
Houzz	53
Zumvu	52
Dentagama	51
LinkCentre	51
GlobalCatalog	51
Parkbench	50
BusinessListings	50
Place123	48
Hotfrog	48
Sortlist	47
GPS Data Team	46
2findlocal	46
ParkBench	46
ParkBench	46
Find-Us-Here	45

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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