CategoryLocal Citation

 

Local citations are when your business is listed in local directories. You’ll likely only ever need to do this once and it’s very easy.

Just look up your location with the word ‘directories‘ after. There are some obvious ones like Yelp but you may find some niche directories for your locality as well as your service too.

Don’t ever pay for these as those paid directories will have already been flagged by Google when it reviews their site. Paying for links or citations will always harm your ranking efforts.

Local search engines employ NAP, i.e. Name, Address and Phone number- as a yardstick for accuracy and consistency to validate local businesses. It is very important to ensure that even the smallest piece of data offered here aligns in the perfect fashion. As an entrepreneur you need to ensure that you are avoiding even the most seemingly negligible mistake that might hurt your citation.

Important Things for Local Citation Country wise

Make sure you are acquainting yourself with the cardinal rules governing NAP:

• Google and other search engines should be able to crawl your citation- it should be duly readable by the search engine.
• As has already been mentioned above, the citation must be compatible with Google Places pages and other citations. Minor formatting differences like “Ave” for “Avenue” shouldn’t really bother you much
• The information can be placed anywhere on your pages or in your code.
• You can also place it in your sidebar widget or footer area. However, there are a few experts who are of the opinion that it should not go into the title or description as that would amount to nothing but sheer waste of space
  In case you are conducting business from multiple locations you can have all your NAPs on each page. Having the same landing page for several NAPs usually doesn’t create any problem
• You can either style it in CSS or have it in one line
• Make sure that the blob appears only 2 to 3 times (max) on the same page but definitely not 8 or 9 times

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• Local Business Listing USA
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• Local Business Listing Australia
• Local Business Listing UK