Getting your business ranking well in the local Google Maps has several underlying factors. One of those factors is the number of citations for your business elsewhere on the internet. A citation is different from a link in that the citation doesn’t need to link to your website. A citation is generally a text reference to your business name, street address and phone number that validates the existence and popularity of your business.
When creating citations be sure that you use the EXACT SAME business name, address and phone everywhere. Be anal about abbreviations and punctuation. Make the citations EXACTLY the same. Here are several place to submit free citations. Some of these will be posted immediately and others have other requirements you must fulfill or go through a manual review process first.
- Yahoo
- Bing
- Angie’s list
- Business.Intuit.com
- DiscouverOurTown.com
- HotFrog.com
- Yext.com
- JumptoYourCity.com (example JumptoSeattle.com)
- Resourcelinks.net
- Yelp.com
- Yodle.com
- Localeze.com
- AskYP.com
- SmartGuy.com
- Bridgat.com
- Flicker.com
- Panaramio.com
- Yellowbot.com
- InsiderPages
- SuperPages