Local Business Listings Questions and Answers… Read our FAQs and better understand how local listings improve SEO and how LocalClaim makes the process simple.
A local business listing (also called citation) is an online profile that includes your business’s essential information, such as name, address, phone number (NAP), website, operating hours, and sometimes photos or reviews. These listings typically appear in online directories like Google My Business, Yelp, Bing Places, and local or niche-specific platforms.
A citation is any online mention of your business’s NAP, even if it doesn’t link to your website. Local business listings are a form of structured citation, found in directories. Both help improve your visibility and local SEO.
Local Claim is a comprehensive platform that provides distribution of your business information to over 200 publishers globally. You submit one form and we do all the heavy lifting… Read more about how it works.
LocalClaim has a vast network with more than 200+ publishers globally, including Google, Facebook, Bing, Apple Maps, Yelp and more.
Yes. By ensuring that your business information is accurate, consistent, and up-to-date across various online directories, search engines are more likely to trust and favor your brand in search results. This can lead to better visibility, higher search engine rankings, and increased engagement with online and in-store foot traffic.
NAP consistency means ensuring your business’s Name, Address, and Phone number are identical across all online listings. This consistency helps search engines trust your business information, improving your local SEO rankings.
No, local listings and local SEO are not the same, but they are closely related.
Local listings refer to your business’s presence on online directories and platforms like Google Business Profile, Yelp, and Bing Places. These listings include essential details like your business name, address, phone number (NAP), hours, and customer reviews.
Local SEO, on the other hand, is a broader strategy that involves optimizing your online presence—including local listings—to improve your visibility in local search results. This includes techniques like ensuring NAP consistency, using location-specific keywords, creating local content, and earning backlinks from local websites.
In short, local listings greatly benefit your local visibility while local SEO encompasses all the tactics to help your business rank higher in local searches and attract nearby customers. If you need a complete local SEO strategy and pricing, contact us.
- Regularly audit your listings to ensure accuracy.
- Use tools like Local Claim to manage listings across multiple platforms.
In several of our plans, we automatically detect and optionally suppress duplicate listings at the source.
It first starts with claiming your Google Business Profile (GBP) listing. We suggest optimizations when you use our plan. Next, managing the timeliness and completeness of your customer review response is also important, as well as having robust local pages with embedded keywords, schema markups, and backlinks are all part of a comprehensive local SEO strategy
Yes. That’s our specialty and we’re happy to give you a quote that encompasses our leading local listing plans.
