Local citation building services for your business

A local citation service helps businesses distribute their listings across multiple platforms quickly and allows them to make edits easily. Semrush’s Listing Management tool is one such service that comes with a ton of additional features to boost your business’ online visibility and track your SEO campaign’s impact on local rankings.

You can build local citations by submitting your business’ NAP (name, address, phone number) data to each online directory one by one. Alternatively, you can use a local citation building service like Semrush’s Listing Management tool to streamline the process and get it all done in just a few clicks.

Building local citations is one of the simplest ways you can boost your local SEO—and the process is made even simpler with a good local citation building service. Search engines use local citations to verify a business’ information and are thought to use this data to determine rankings.

It’s important to make sure all your local citations are up to date and correct, with no duplicate listings or malicious attempts at sabotaging your local SEO. Semrush’s Listing Management tool alerts users to any inconsistencies or errors, allowing for a quick cleanup in just a few clicks.

Don’t confuse local citation building services with link-building services, which have a bad reputation for charging good money for low-quality links that aren’t going to do much for your SEO. Local citation services like Semrush’s Listing Management tool have relationships with directories and third-party suppliers that allow simple distribution of citations and actually help avoid poor-quality listings by highlighting any errors that might negatively impact local SEO.

Local citations can appear in business directories, from the top general directories like Yelp to the more industry-specific directories such as Tripadvisor. Local newspapers also have directories for local citations, and social media websites like Facebook and Instagram are also important for distributing your NAP (name, address, phone number) data.

Send an email to lm-feedback@semrush.com explaining which location you wish to cancel. After your cancellation has been confirmed, your location will no longer appear under the Listing Management tool.

Any listings that have already been distributed by Semrush will remain posted, but they can no longer be edited via the Listing Management tool and you won’t be alerted to inconsistencies or if another user claims your business directly though one of the directories.