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What is a Local Citation?
Do you remember the good old Yellow Pages? They used to be known as a massive book listing of all the local businesses in your area.
Since we live in the digital era, these listings have become local citations. They’re online mentions of your business, including its name, address, and phone number, also known as NAP information.
These citations act like breadcrumbs across the web, helping local customers find you and potentially driving relevant traffic to your website.
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What is NAP?
NAP stands for Name, Address, and Phone number. It’s a common term in local SEO referring to the core contact details that should be consistent across all your online business listings, including local directories, social media profiles, and your website.
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Can a Local Citation Service Really Help Improve My Business’s Search Engine Rankings?
Local citation services are a great way to boost your local search visibility and here’s everything you need to know about it,
- Increased Visibility: These services help ensure your business gets listed in important online directories and platforms so that when potential customers are looking for a business similar to yours, they can easily find it.
- Search Engine Trust Signals: Search engines like Bing and Google look for breadcrumbs that will provide them authenticity of your business. These citations act as those breadcrumbs and a solid citation profile improves your overall ranking.
- Efficiency and Accuracy: it can be pretty time-consuming to manage digital citations yourself plus it also makes you more prone to making mistakes. Local citation services like ours streamline the process, ensuring consistent and accurate NAP information across various platforms.
So, while local citations are a necessary foundation for strong local SEO, services can make the process much more efficient and effective, ultimately leading to better search engine rankings.
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Do You Offer Comprehensive Reports After Listing My Citations?
We understand the importance of transparency. That’s why we provide comprehensive reports after listing your citations across local directories. These reports detail exactly where your business information appears online, giving you a clear picture of your online presence.
This empowers you to track progress and ensures you’re getting the most value from our service.
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Is My Business’s Local Citation Permanent?
Local citations are temporary, but they can be long-lasting. Here’s the breakdown:
- Maintaining Accuracy: Citations can become outdated if your business information changes (address, phone number). Regularly reviewing and updating your listings ensures accuracy and keeps the benefits flowing.
- Directory Management: Some directories might remove inactive listings or those with unverified information.
- Platform Changes: Platforms occasionally update or remove features, which could affect your citation’s visibility.
By being proactive with updates and monitoring your listings, you can maximize the lifespan and effectiveness of your local citations.
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Will You Be Able to Update Existing Citations?
Our ability to update existing citations depends on the platform where the citation resides. Here’s a breakdown:
- For Some Platforms: We can directly update your existing citations with your current information. This typically applies to platforms where we have established partnerships or can manage access through your account.
- For Other Platforms: We might need to claim or verify your existing listing before updating the information. This may involve a verification process set by the platform itself.
- Limited Platforms: Some directories may not allow direct updates. In these cases, we might suggest alternative strategies like flagging the outdated citation or creating a new, accurate listing.
We’ll always be upfront about the update process for each citation and keep you informed throughout the process.
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What If My Business Has Already Been Listed On Directories, What Will You Do Then?
No worries! Our approach prioritizes avoiding duplicate listings. Here’s how we handle existing citations:
- Thorough Audit: Before adding new citations, our experts conduct a comprehensive search of local directories to identify any existing listings for your business.
- Existing Updated Citation: If we find a current and accurate citation with your correct NAP (Name, Address, Phone number) information, that’s great news! We won’t touch it and instead focus on building your presence on different directories.
- Outdated Citation: If an existing citation has outdated information, we’ll take steps to update it whenever possible, depending on the platform’s specific process. This might involve claiming the listing or following the platform’s verification steps.
- Un-updatable Citation: A small number of directories might restrict updates. In these cases, we’ll discuss alternative strategies like flagging the outdated listing or creating a new, accurate one on another platform.
Our goal is to maximize your online visibility with accurate and consistent information across local directories. We’ll keep you informed throughout the process!
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Do You Offer Consultation Before I Could Sign Up?
Absolutely! Your satisfaction is our topmost priority. We encourage you to schedule a comprehensive meeting with us where you can understand how our services can benefit your business.
You can make a list of all the questions you’d like answered. Once you have all the answers you need and you’re satisfied with our approach, only then you can go ahead and sign up with us.
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Do I Need Local Citations If My Business Already Has a Website?
If you have a business website already, then you’re on the right track. However, you must know that having a business website doesn’t guarantee local search results. This is where local citations play a crucial role.
They act as beacons, signaling search engines about your business’s legitimacy and authenticity. The more citations your business has, the more search engines will be convinced of its genuineness.
To be precise, local citations and your business website work together to improve your SEO presence and drive more quality customers to your brand.
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How Do I Place An Order With Your Citation Services?
Placing an order with us is straightforward. Here’s what you have to do,
- Determine how many submissions you would like to order.
- Click the Buy Now button you see on the main menu.
- You will be displayed with a form. Enter all the essential information about your business.
- Make the payment through our payment gateway, primarily PayPal.
You will soon receive an email from us confirming your order along with a detailed report of your listings.
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What Payment Methods Do You Offer?
Currently, we are only offering PayPal as our primary payment gateway. However, we do hope to add more payment gateways soon. You can conveniently sign up for free at PayPal if you don’t have an account already.
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Do You Offer Discounts?
Unfortunately, we do not offer any discounts as of now because our charges are quite nominal already. If you have done your research on finding local service providers for citations, you will know that our charges are market competitive and you will be paying very less for the highest quality services.
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How Does Your Citation Submission Model Work?
At Local Citations Up, we believe in offering the highest quality services to our customers which is why all our submissions are done manually. We have a massive team of over 100 local directory experts who know exactly where to put your listing to attract maximum customers.
Here’s a breakdown of our process,
- After going through the business data that you provided to us at the time of signing up, one of our lead experts will determine which local directory is appropriate for your business.
- Once we have figured out the appropriate local directory, we will create a unique email account to facilitate the submission.
- Our experts will go through the respective local directories to ensure that your business isn’t already listed there.
- If they find your business in those directories, they will verify the NAP information and then look for alternative local directories.
- Once we have found local directories that don’t have your business listed, we will provide them with NAP information manually.
- The next step is to verify emails and ensure authentic information across all platforms.
- If the listing is automatically approved, our expert will grab the URL and enlist it in a report.
- If the listing takes time for approval, our expert will add the URL in the report while mentioning to check the citation at a later date.
You will receive a comprehensive and detailed report, including all the information you need.
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What Information Do You Give to These Local Directories?
We provide comprehensive information to the local directories about your business. Please note that you must give us all these details to ensure better search engine rankings,
- Tags or keywords
- URL
- Business name
- Description
- Full address
- Owner Name
- Business email address
- Phone and Fax number
- Year founded
- Number of employees
- Link to videos
- Operating hours
- Logo
- Photos
- Social media profiles
- List of directories that your business has already been listed on
While you’re signing up with us, ensure you provide us with all this information for better results.
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What are the Chances of My Submissions Becoming Live Listings?
We guarantee that about 80% of our submissions will become live listings, attracting far more local customers to your business than never before.