A typical business listing will include most of the following details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Company name A complete local citation or business listing should include your company name, address, and phone number, which is referred to as your \u201cNAP\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Accurate citations and business listings help search engines like Google and Bing verify that your website exists. When search engines receive this information or signals from credible sources it really helps to validate your business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s important to ensure you add exactly the same business information<\/strong> to each of these citation building websites and also ensure you have the same details on your own website. If you add details or information that doesn’t match on each of these business directories it can harm your local search rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not all citation and business directory websites are equal when it comes to deciding where to add your citations. Many such as Google My Business, Bing Places and others have a higher domain authority (DA) than others (this means they are more trusted by search engines).<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is an important factor when choosing where to spend time adding your details. You want to add your business details to around 20 or so listing websites to ensure good results. Before adding your details make sure your details are correct and exact across all of the listing websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s best to make a list of all your details and then create a list\/spreadsheet of all the citations you have added. This makes it easier to keep track of your listings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A quick Google would probably provide you with a handy list of UK Business Listing and Citation websites. I have listed some of the best ones below to get you started. Make sure you always choose the free listing option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Google My Business \u2013 www.google.com\/business<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bing Places \u2013 www.bingplaces.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Apple Maps \u2013 https:\/\/mapsconnect.apple.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yell \u2013 www.yell.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yelp \u2013 www.yelp.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thomson Local \u2013 www.thomsonlocal.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scoot \u2013 www.scoot.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Foursquare \u2013 www.foursquare.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n Free Index \u2013 www.freeindex.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hot Frog \u2013 www.hotfrog.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 192.com \u2013 www.192.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 118118 \u2013 www.118118.com<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cyclex \u2013 www.cylex-uk.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Locanto \u2013 www.locanto.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n UK Small Business Directory \u2013 www.uksmallbusinessdirectory.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Brown Book \u2013 www.brownbook.net<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Trade Pages \u2013 www.tradepages.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Netmums \u2013 www.netmums.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hopefully this list will help get you on the way to creating some great citations! Thanks for reading. Check out my other post on How to improve SEO with Blog content<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I provide a Citation Building Service for my customers. Please get in touch if you would like me to take care of this for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Web Design Bournemouth<\/strong><\/a>, Poole<\/strong><\/a> or Dorset<\/strong><\/a>. If need a new website or would like your current one updated please Contact<\/strong><\/a> me for a chat \u2013 or call 07714 795415<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How To Boost Your Local SEO with Business Directory Listings and improve your online presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[23,18,17,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robcherrywebdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robcherrywebdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robcherrywebdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robcherrywebdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robcherrywebdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robcherrywebdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robcherrywebdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robcherrywebdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robcherrywebdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robcherrywebdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Where To Find Business listing Sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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