General Citation Sites - BrightLocal https://www.brightlocal.com/resources/top-citation-sites/general/ Local Marketing Made Simple Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:53:45 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Top 50 General Business Directories 2024 https://www.brightlocal.com/resources/top-citation-sites/general/top-50/ Sat, 16 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
LinkedIn99Free
Facebook96Free
Instagram94Free
YELP (Country Variants)93Free
Trustpilot93Free / Paid
Waze92Paid
Foursquare92Free / Paid
OpenStreetMap90Free
Listly86Free / Paid
Here86Free / Paid
Nextdoor (Country Variants)83Free
TomTom81Free / Paid
Local Yahoo77Free
Apsense75Free
Just Landed75Free / Paid
BatchGeo72Free / Paid
Kompass (Country Variants)69Free / Paid
Ailoq68Free / Paid
ProvenExpert67Free / Paid
Zeemaps67Free / Paid
Storeboard64Free / Paid
Brownbook64Free
The Dots62Free / Paid
Tupalo59Free / Paid
Hotfrog (Country Variants)58Free / Paid
Cybo58Free
Infobel58Free / Paid
BizPages58Free / Paid
TrepUp57Free
Callupcontact55Free
BOTW (Best of the Web)55Paid
Twidloo55Free / Paid
YPLocal55Free
Adpost55Free / Paid
StartUs54Free
EnrollBusiness (Country Variants)54Free
ShowMeLocal53Free / Paid
Yellow.place53Free
Zumvu52Free / Paid
Bing Maps51Free
GlobalCatalog51Free
LinkCentre51Free / Paid
Startups SnapMunk50Free
FindIt48Free / Paid
Place12348Free
2FindLocal46Free / Paid
AGreaterTown46Free / Paid
WhoDoYou46Paid
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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 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.

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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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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
Facebook96
Foursquare92
Patch91
Zillow89
Houzz89
Listly86
Nextdoor83
Manta81
Care79
Porch77
MerchantCircle76
RateBeer76
Archinect76
Apsense76
Avvo74
Insurance Journal73
Best Plumbers70
Company69
Ailoq68
ProvenExpert66
HG66
Storeboard64
Brownbook63
RateMDs63
EC2162
The Dots62
BuildZoom60
AmericanTowns60
Tupalo58
ACHS Directory58
Hotfrog58
Alternative Health Directory58
OneWed57
Cybo57
Trepup57
Catskill57
EbusinessPages56
EZlocal56
Cannabis.net56
Find Attorneys56
BubbleLife56
CallUpContact55
Twidloo55
Tech Directory55
YPLocal55
EnrollBusiness54
StartUs54
Best US Lawyers54
Homify54
Digital Business Directory53

Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in the UK

Citation SiteDomain Authority
Facebook96
Foursquare92
Listly86
RateBeer76
Apsense76
Best Plumbers70
Netmums69
Ailoq68
ProvenExpert66
HG66
Storeboard64
Brownbook63
RateMDs63
EC2162
The Dots62
Houzz59
Tupalo58
Alternative Health Directory58
Cylex58
OneWed57
Cybo57
Trepup57
Catskill57
FreeIndex56
Cannabis.net56
Find Attorneys56
CallUpContact55
Twidloo55
Tech Directory55
YPLocal55
Homify54
StartUs54
EnrollBusiness54
ShowMeLocal53
Digital Business Directory53
Zumvu52
Dentagama51
LinkCentre51
GlobalCatalog51
Nextdoor51
N4949
Place12348
Hotfrog47
Sortlist47
GPS Data Team46
2findlocal46
AGreaterTown46
Foreign Trade46
Find-Us-Here45
iGlobal44

Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in Canada

Citation SiteDomain Authority
Facebook96
Foursquare92
Houzz89
Listly86
Nextdoor83
Manta81
RateBeer76
Apsense76
Best Plumbers70
Ailoq68
ProvenExpert66
HG66
Storeboard64
Brownbook63
RateMDs63
EC2162
The Dots62
Tupalo58
FoodPages.ca58
Alternative Health Directory58
OneWed57
Cybo57
Trepup57
Catskill57
Cannabis.net56
Find Attorneys56
CallUpContact55
Twidloo55
Tech Directory55
YPLocal55
HomeStars54
StartUs54
EnrollBusiness54
ShowMeLocal53
Digital Business Directory53
Zumvu52
Eventective51
Dentagama51
LinkCentre51
GlobalCatalog51
Parkbench50
GuildQuality50
N4949
Place12348
Sortlist47
GPS Data Team46
2findlocal46
AGreaterTown46
Foreign Trade46
Find-Us-Here45

Instant Citation Sites to Submit to in Australia

Citation SiteDomain Authority
Facebook96
Foursquare92
Listly86
Nextdoor83
TrueLocal80
RateBeer76
Apsense76
Best Plumbers70
Ailoq68
ProvenExpert66
HG66
QFinder266
Storeboard64
Brownbook63
RateMDs63
EC2162
The Dots62
Tupalo58
Alternative Health Directory58
OneWed57
Cybo57
Trepup57
Catskill57
Word of Mouth57
Cannabis.net56
Find Attorneys56
CallUpContact55
Twidloo55
Tech Directory55
YPLocal55
StartUs54
EnrollBusiness54
SMEA54
Digital Business Directory53
ShowMeLocal53
Houzz53
Zumvu52
Dentagama51
LinkCentre51
GlobalCatalog51
Parkbench50
BusinessListings50
Place12348
Hotfrog48
Sortlist47
GPS Data Team46
2findlocal46
ParkBench46
ParkBench46
Find-Us-Here45

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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