These local directory sites, according to Compete.com, have the largest amount of traffic and are listed by size – largest first. In cases where the site is more than a directory, such as Mapquest, we have tried to estimate what % of their traffic goes to the directory. Improving your presence on these directories means your business information will be exposed to a wide audience of local searchers.
- Google My Business
- Yellowpages.com
- Yelp
- Local.com
- WhitePages.com
- Manta
- SuperPages
- CitySearch (Must be added via InfoUSA’s ExpressUpdate.com)
- Patch
- City-Data (operated by Advameg.com)
- MerchantCircle
- Yellowbook.com
- Yahoo Local
- Mapquest
- Topix
- DexKnows
- BBB.org
- ServiceMagic
- Angieslist
- AreaConnect
- Foursquare
- AmericanTowns
- BizJournals
- LocalGuides
- 411.com
- Yellowpages.aol.com
- Insider Pages
- MagicYellow
- Hotfrog.com
- LocalStack
- Switchboard
- Demandforce
- MojoPages
- Metromix
- Yellowbot
- ShowMeLocal
- LocalPages
- Best of the Web Local
- Yellowise
- GetFave
- Tupalo
- ZipLocal
- EZLocal
- CitySquares
- USCIty.net
- LocalDatabase
Top U.S. Local Directory Citation Sources
GetListed.org and Whitespark.ca recently released some amazing data on the top local citation sources by city and by category. We thought it would be interesting to take that data and determine which directories on average had the most citation influence in the entire country. While it’s good to focus on your service area and category for citation building, in most cases, regardless of your location or industry, these are the sites you should almost always include while citation-building.
- Yellowpages.com
- Yelp
- SuperPages
- CitySearch
- Yahoo Local
- DexKnows
- Manta
- BBB.org
- YouTube
- City-Data
- Yellowbook.com
- Angieslist
- MerchantCircle
- ServiceMagic
While a number of expected brands made the list, Facebook and YouTube are perhaps the two biggest surprises here. Then again, they are two of the biggest sites in the world and each has local business content, so perhaps it’s no surprise that they would emerge as important citation sources.