The Ultimate List Of Local SEO 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