Mr. Data
It’s Mr. Data!

Making sure your business’ location and services data is up to date across the Web is perhaps the most important thing you can do to help potential customers find you. And the Local SEO Guide is here to help.

The sites listed below are some of the most important in the local search world. On most you can update the data they display about your business for free and who doesn’t like a free yellow pages listing?
NEW!

Since I wrote this ten years ago (!) a lot has changed.  One service in particular can help you speed up the whole yellow pages updating process:

Yext PowerListings

Yext Powerlistings can automatically update your business’ information across 50+ of the top local search sites out there including Yelp, Yahoo Local, SuperPages and more.  They also now do review monitoring. It’s not free, but the amount of time it can save you is huge.  Check it out here.

Here’s their fancy graphic showing where they send their data:

Full Disclosure: I get paid every time someone buys a Powerlisting via that link.  It’s not much, but it helps keep the lights on at the blog – and I do think it’s a great service. Ok, end of shill…
Major Local Search Engines/Yellow Pages Submission Sites

 Citysearch – Add a business to CitySearch (now known as CityGrid). UPDATED 6/24/13: This link no longer works. Apparently you can add a business for free by emailing them directly. Their email address is: myaccount@citygridmedia.com

All you have to give them is [your business name, address, and phone number] , web address, and category and they’ll add it manually for you. It takes them 3-5 days to create the listing and then 2 weeks before it’s searchable on their website.  Hat tip to Phil Rozek.

dexKnows – Not sure if you can get a free listing here

Google – Google Places for Business

Local.com Free Business Listing

Mapquest Local Business Center – Mapquest no longer provides a business claiming/updating function. They have outsourced it to Yext. To add or update a business on Mapquest you need a Yext Powerlisting.

MerchantCircle – How to add a business listing to or update/edit a listing on MerchantCircle.

Patch – Claim your business on AOL’s Patch.com local business directory.

Superpages.com Free Listing This is where you can add, edit or delete a listing on SuperPages.com

Yahoo Local Free Business Listing

Yellowbook 360 It doesn’t look like you can add a business to Yellowbook.com without becoming an advertiser.

Yellowpages.com Create A Listing

Yelp You need to become a member and then add a listing

Major Data Suppliers to Local Search Engines

InfoUSA Add Business Listing

Localeze®Neustar® Manage Your Business Listing

Yext Powerlistings Update NAP info across 50 top local sites from one dashboard, suppress duplicate listings in minutes (affiliate link)

Popular and/or Well-SEO’d Local Search Engines With Customer Reviews

AllPages.com

Insider Pages – How to claim your business on InsiderPages.com

Kudzu.com Basic Profile

Local Pages

MagicYellow.com Add Your Business

Topix.com Free Listing

UK Yellow Pages – Local Search Sites in England

Qype UK

Yell.com Free Listing

If you know of other free yellow pages listing sites that have a lot of traffic let me know.  And one more pitch for you to try a free business listing scan on Yext.

It’s Mr. Data!


 

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  • Tim  October 19, 2007 at 9:38 am

    *Axciom.com I have no idea what page to use. These guys need some usability help*

    I believe that axciom will not allow an individual to update or add a listing to their database. They get their local data straight from Telephone companies. I think the strategy behind this is to have telephone company operators hand-edit their information.

    Incidentally, Google can than can get this hand- edited information from a site like Allpages.com, which I bet includes the age of the listing and use it part of the Maps Algo.

  • Andrew Shotland  October 19, 2007 at 9:58 am

    Axciom has been “axced”. Thanks Tim.

  • Michael Dorausch  October 19, 2007 at 10:23 am

    Thanks for the list Andrew. When you build your list of free listings inside niche markets let me know, I’ve got your back.

  • Andrew Shotland  October 19, 2007 at 10:50 am

    Frank’s page is awesome. If you are looking for a more exhaustive list of places to update your data it’s a good start. If you are just looking for the biggest bang for the buck I think mine should do just fine.

    FYI some of Frank’s links are out of date.

  • Brett Borders  October 19, 2007 at 11:20 am

    Great resource, thanks for the local tips, Andrew!

  • Gib Olander  October 19, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    Hey, I wanted the title of Mr. data!

    Great list.

  • Paul  October 19, 2007 at 5:01 pm

    I’m hurt Andrew! We’ve been through so much and you still neglect us here at Zvents 😉

  • Andrew Shotland  October 19, 2007 at 5:44 pm

    And of course everyone should make sure their business is listed on Zvents.com.

    Paul, please point my readers to the page on your site where you can add your listing and I’ll be happy to post it.

  • Teresha  October 19, 2007 at 9:10 pm

    Great list but are you only listing US sites? There’s a fair few UK sites as well and local search is huge over here. Just to get you started there’s http://www.bizwiki.co.uk – wiki style business directory where any registered user can contribute and it’s free to submit/change, http://www.welovelocal.com – businesses must be verified and then it’s free for them to submit/change, http://www.touchlocal.com – basic listing is free.

  • Andrew Shotland  October 20, 2007 at 7:43 am

    Teresha,

    Unfortunately I am a typical American and only thinking about what happens in these borders. Thanks for expanding my limited world-view.

  • Joe Neiman  October 21, 2007 at 11:48 pm

    MagicYellow is a waste of time, free listings will not show, they are strictly a pay to play directory/and a ripp off- no value – I’ve found great value in Localized SEM on google/Yahoo and have used bid management software for my national campaigns,

  • Ed Murray  November 13, 2007 at 8:59 am

    Just FYI: in all of our ‘expansion’ markets (ie, any market outside of Atlanta, Las Vegas, San Diego and Arizona), Kudzu is giving away FREE Premium Profiles through 2008 (a $900 value), if you add your business before the end of the year. In addition to display features (logo, photos, video, etc.), Premium Profiles show up higher in search results…

    http://free.kudzu.com

  • Andrew Shotland  November 13, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    Duly noted Ed. Get em while they are hot.

  • Denver SEO  February 20, 2008 at 10:12 am

    Great article! I enjoyed this one, Andrew.

  • Web Designer Glasgow  March 7, 2008 at 1:48 am

    I’ve just found myself userped from the local results for my primary keyword, so thanks for the info. I’m based in Glasgow UK, so many of your links aren’t of use, but perhaps those on Franks page will be.

    Thanks again.

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  • emad  April 23, 2008 at 5:52 am

    Lets not forget to submit to YellowBot 😉

  • Vladimir  May 26, 2008 at 1:25 am

    I would also recommend akama.com as a free yellow pages portal.

  • Atlanta Fence Company  May 28, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    Merchant circle has been good to me. If you fill it out fully with unique content, expand the title, connect with merchants, it will perform well. I have done a few pages that now have pretty good page ranks and are good links for a local company.

  • Going2Oahu Travel Blog  June 17, 2008 at 8:20 am

    Nice list Mr. Data! Oh and thanks for Zvents too Paul. Yous guys ROCK!

  • Kevin L.  June 25, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    MerchantCircle recently crossed 500,000 members. We’re proud to help local businesses acquire customers by offering an alternative to over-priced, ineffective offline marketing channels. We’ve been interviewing our merchants in all 50 states – you can read about their MerchantCircle experience here: http://www.visualcv.com/merchantcircle.

    We’re committed to providing every local business a web presence, easy-to-use marekting tools and a platform for connecting with other merchants, all for free. As always, please email any questions or concerns to support@merchantcircle.com and we will respond as soon as possible.

  • Utah SEO Firm  July 14, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    Does anyone know how long it takes for each of these guys to update a listing?

  • David  August 5, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    Andrew,

    Just bumped into marchex.com’s http://www.openlist.com. They seem to get a decent amount of traffic.

  • Andrew Shotland  August 5, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    Openlist is a nice site. I don’t think they have an “update your listing” feature. You need to submit your data to Localeze and eventually it will find its way to Open List. They do have an “Add Your Business” feature though.

  • Eva White  August 28, 2008 at 9:24 am

    Thanks for the list, but are these sites helpful only for business oriented sites or good for blogs also?

  • Tanner (does Utah marketing)  September 2, 2008 at 10:06 am

    Great list! I have found that CitySearch brings in a lot of potential customers, but not many convert. Anybody having any luck with them?

  • theworldfamous  September 12, 2008 at 9:24 am

    Heres the million dollar question:

    Which one takes a bulk upload?

    Besides Google, the only other I found was Oodle.com, and that’s not even been brought up yet!

  • Andrew Shotland  September 12, 2008 at 9:46 am

    Good question. I’ll look into it.

  • theworldfamous  September 12, 2008 at 10:13 am

    The reason I ask this question is I have been speaking with Localeze; they want me to pay them to submit my our information to all Local search engines. I just can’t seem to grasp why I would do that yet.

  • Andrew Shotland  September 12, 2008 at 10:29 am

    How many locations/listings does this cover?

  • theworldfamous  September 12, 2008 at 10:36 am

    Covers 3900 locations

  • AhmedF  September 12, 2008 at 11:10 am

    Umm – who does Localeze even submit to? Their own customers? :-S

  • theworldfamous  September 12, 2008 at 11:23 am

    I dunno, I see there point, they are supplying MSN,Yahoos,some Yellowpages with legit addresses, but I could hire someone to do it all manually I guess.

  • Andrew Shotland  September 12, 2008 at 11:33 am

    I am guessing that most big sites would rather not deal with thousands of businesses bulk uploading when they can get it from a single trusted source.

  • thom jones  September 12, 2008 at 11:36 am

    I submitted 123 of my client’s pizza locations to localeze and we and our client was pleased with the results.

    There were a few sites we had already submitted, but we saw the value in the other 100+ sites. Many of the sites didn’t have a meachnism for adding our locations. In addition to our listing info we added our stores hours and menu items.

    It worked for us

  • AhmedF  September 12, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    @ theworldfamous – isn’t every single one you mentioned just a customer of theirs?

  • theworldfamous  September 13, 2008 at 8:00 am

    Thom, Well you also have to realize that not everyone makes good partners and customers too. I’m happy to hear it works for your 123 Pizza locations.

    AhmedF, lol, in my opinion, which I’m obligated to have (cough); the ones of importance anymore days.

  • Jon  September 14, 2008 at 8:16 am

    Great list Andrew, thanks

    May I ask your thinking behind creating a local lsiting for your blog (the insiderpages listing you mentioned)? Is that because you get local customers?

    I’ve been wondering whether it is worthwhile for a company selling nationally (or even internationally) to create local search profiles. Will it add to overall credibility with the search engines (and incoming links to the website)? Or will it confuse the search engines as to what areas you are geo-targetting (so that you show up more in local searches and less in national searches)?

    Cheers, Jon

  • Andrew Shotland  September 14, 2008 at 9:44 am

    Jon,

    I created the IP profile pretty much just to see what would happen. I may get a little business out of it but it’s not significant – I don’t think a lot of people are looking for SEOs in yellow pages-type environments.

    I think national companies miss out on a lot of local search traffic by not figuring out how to use local profiles.

  • Beugene  May 17, 2009 at 9:42 pm

    I noticed that there hasn’t been a post here in awhile, but I was curious. I have been telling a lot of my clients to go to merchantcircle.com to get their free profiles. Is one site better than another.

    Thanks in advance for your assistance and good luck in all of your future endeavors,

    Beugene

  • Andrew Shotland  May 17, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    Beugene, it’s hard to say one is better than the other. They all get a lot of traffic and have strengths in different categories and geographies. My recommendation is to cover as many of them as you can.

  • helse  June 8, 2009 at 12:00 am

    Thanks, I will update my info right away, espcially if its free :).

    Peter Helse

  • Ivan  July 7, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    Vladimir, Akama won’t help on the SEO side. Excerpt from Akama’s FAQ page: “we hide contact information from bots and spammers the way it cannot be grabbed by any software. Only humans will be able to see your email or phone number.”

  • carter  August 10, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    One site that hasn’t been mentioned is mojopages, it also has customer reviews as well as a host of other features for those who choose to sign up. However, joining mojopages isn’t required to read reviews or see rankings!

  • Adam Yax  September 6, 2009 at 11:32 am

    IYP listings help local results for bing and google maps.

  • Paul  November 14, 2009 at 7:28 am

    These are great directories – if your business is in the USA.

    No good for elsewhere, except Google

    What is worse is that for some of the sites I tried, you can’t see that only the USA is served until you get some way through the sign up. Even sites like Yahoo, which has a UK & Ireland domain (for my case), don’t bother to let you know that their business listings are the for the USA. You have to guess because there are only USA states listed in the drop-down.

    Directories should state what countries they list – saves us all loads of time and effort

  • Chris  December 16, 2009 at 9:23 am

    Hey-

    Which review sites are the least labor intensive while effective to getting Google to index them?

    My clients, dentists, want their patients to post reviews so they can be indexed by Google. Of course there are sites like Yelp, but we are looking for something that doesn’t require joining.

    Chris

  • Andrew Shotland  December 16, 2009 at 9:35 am

    Sorry Chris, but most review sites require membership before publishing the review as to discourage spamming.

  • Kevin  December 20, 2009 at 6:20 am

    Many of the sites you listed already had my information so I am not sure how useful this really is. It is like having your name listed alphabetically in the phone book. I’d prefer to get noticed a lot more than just a basic minimal listing.

  • Amber W.  December 22, 2009 at 10:47 am

    Thank you for this list. It was VERY helpful. Now that I’ve claimed and updated my data on these sites how long does that information take to get added to my local business center listing. I noticed that all my competitors have a place on their local business center listing that says “information provided by Superpages”. I’m listed with Superpages too. How do I get that?

  • John Jones  December 28, 2009 at 4:49 pm

    What is the best way to market my website for free

  • Poodle Breeders  January 7, 2010 at 8:18 pm

    I would recommend you try BeginLocal.com or LocalDoo.com.

  • Isolinx  January 16, 2010 at 3:20 am

    Very Very and very interesting and unique info on free updation listing of yellow pages.
    Thanks Admin

  • Bill Felk  January 22, 2010 at 3:36 pm

    Andrew, great post! You were well ahead of your time. Everyone is into local search now and optimizing for Google maps, etc. Its nice reading a post from over 2 years ago from someone who obviously knew the direction we’re headed in. All the SEO people I’ve talked to here in Cool Springs talk a good game, but I have always learned well more just going online myself and reading it from blogs such as yours. Keep up the good work!

    Bill Felk

  • Jørgen Christensen  January 24, 2010 at 12:49 pm

    Interesting to see that some of the comments get af dofollow link and some (the mainpart) get af nofollow link.

    Why not be consequent?

  • matt  February 4, 2010 at 12:46 pm

    Great site!

    btw, haven’t you gotten at least a DMCA takedown notice for the star trek material?

    and why do you have that stuff up anyway?

  • Andrew Shotland  February 4, 2010 at 12:57 pm

    Always looking at the legal angle eh Matt? I’ll leave it to my curious readers to figure out why I chose that pic.

  • matt  February 4, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    Yeah, it comes with the territory.

    Don’t get me wrong – i agree the “data” reference in probably fair use (although i prefer the picard “bot”!) – just wondered if they’d given you any flack anyway….

  • Andrew Shotland  February 4, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    The jackbooted thugs haven’t knocked down my door yet Matt.

  • Todd Bryson  February 17, 2010 at 10:03 am

    Great start to a list. Just wanted to mention a Local Directory Submitter Service that will do all of this work for you.

    They will submit your business to about 40 local directories, plus 60 other sites like Facebook, Twitter, Entreprenuer.com, GetFaves.com and more. They have identified all the sites that David Mihm has used in his Local Search Ecosystem and then hand submit content heavy listing to each site. These listings tend to rank higher within the directories themselves.

    I have seen Google Map rankings soar due to these types of submissions.

  • Rich  February 25, 2010 at 9:56 pm

    Thanks for the list, it sure helped. I will be passing it along to others.

  • missouridood  March 15, 2010 at 12:37 am

    Just a quick thanks to the author of the list, since fresh content helps with a blog/sites return ranking. Thanks for sharing this information …. is appreciated. Other than that nothing to add.

    d.

  • Internet Marketing Company in Greensboro NC  March 15, 2010 at 1:07 pm

    Thanks so much for the list, these are all great websites and very highly viewed by the public. A directory listing on any one of these sites will pass on a lot of credibility and relevance to the website being posted and help to improve rankings in their particular category.

    I will check back in a few weeks to see if this list has been updated, thanks again for the publish. I found you guys on Google, this page holds a top ten spot for the search term “submit a listing to dexknows”; I think you came up number 4. Not bad!

    Later guys.

  • James Neil  March 27, 2010 at 6:21 pm

    I keep reading that Citations are the new Link for local search and that consistency matters when adding a new Citation. I’d like to see someone compile a List of the Top 10 IYP where a new business listing should take the time to add their company profile and the caveats for not doing so.

  • hollywood-acting-workshop  April 8, 2010 at 8:21 pm

    axciom.com will finally have a website this month, mid april 2010, which will finally allow for business owners to add their listings online.

  • Aric  May 17, 2010 at 12:59 am

    Hi….

    I need Thailand Country Local Business Provide business directory….

    If anyone know so please send me list….

    Waiting for your positive response…

    Thanks
    Aric

  • Marianna В  May 27, 2010 at 7:07 am

    Hello Andrew. The post is great as usual (I start my day online with reading your RSS’) 😉 I wish I got this list a few months back when I was doing optimization campaign for one of my business partners. I am sure that having this list in hand we would save quite some money 😉 Keep up the great job!

  • Envisage Web Design  May 27, 2010 at 7:59 pm

    I really appreciate your help. I focus more on the design end of things but have been to push more into the development and seo for sites. Thanks again!!!

  • Utah Photographers  June 1, 2010 at 2:34 pm

    I found you’re article a month or two ago and ended up posting my site/biz on all the pages that you recommend and just wanted to let you know that I’m already seeing more traffic being sent my way because of it. Thank you for your help!

    Sean

  • Marketing Web  June 4, 2010 at 8:19 pm

    I know i’m a little late to the party here, but just wondering if anyone knows of a similar list of sites for Australian local search. Most of these are USA based of course, and would be good to have a definitive guide for Australia as the data providers to Google for local search (Places) are different. I know Yellow Pages and TrueLocal are two of them, haven’t be en able to find the rest.

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  • Andrew Shotland  June 5, 2010 at 2:28 pm

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  • Marketing Web  June 5, 2010 at 4:17 pm

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    Just glad they have colour TV, I always hate having to watch the black & white TVs available in most hotel’s around the world these days!

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    Lol.

  • Alpha Cleaning Company  June 19, 2010 at 12:46 am

    Great information, thanks for sharing it. I’ve already submitted my website to most of the pages you mention, now I will need to work on reviews and probably some future videos.

  • san francisco web design  July 8, 2010 at 5:28 am

    Google gives importance to local searches. Yellow pages play an important role in local searches.But search the local pages and submit the site is a difficult task.

  • Internet Business  August 4, 2010 at 3:13 am

    Great start of a list. Just wanted to mention a local directory service that Petitioner will all this work for you. Present their business to nearly 40 local guides, as well as 60 other sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Entreprenuer.com, GetFaves.com and more. They have identified all the sites that David Mihm has used in its Ecosystem Local search and then submit the heavy hand contents list for each site. These lists tend to rank higher within their own directories. I have seen Google rankings soar map due to this type of presentation.

  • SkyAim  September 5, 2010 at 9:48 am

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  • Leila  September 30, 2010 at 10:51 am

    My site lists local business, but I do not have a business address. Can you get listing without having one?

  • SkyAim  September 30, 2010 at 11:14 am

    Good Afternoon Leila,

    I am not sure if your comment was directed for our particular business listing search engine or not, but I believe you can update/add your business listing without your address at this time.

    SkyAim Media

  • Mike Stewart  October 1, 2010 at 7:43 am

    With so many companies offering listings on so many directories, it is obvious that search engines must decide which ones are more authoritative in a particular cat/geo. So…. why not create a tool to manage submissions via API? Wouldnt the optimized content loaded up by local search marketers for clients also help these directories become more authoritative with search engines….

    Not like local search marketers aren’t the best at submitting this sort of information. Things such as unique value propositions and key differentiators!

    Would Drupal be the best framework for such a tool?

  • SEOinvasion  November 19, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    Thank you for sharing this Mr Data! I wasn’t aware of a few of these for local listings, so now I can help a few of my clients sites out a bit more. Thanks!

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  • Matt Chandler  January 25, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    A lot of the listings are US-centric. Is there an equivalent list for UK-based businesses?

  • Erin  January 31, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    Great resource Thank you for sharing this

  • Vincent Totino  February 8, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    I have a client with over 1300 locations across the country. Is there a way to perform a bulk upload to YPN and is there a way to automate the upload so that it is easy for the company to perform their own uploads.

    Any help is greatly appreciated.

  • Larry Dozier  May 6, 2011 at 11:19 am

    I’m glad you mentioned infoUSA – it’s amazing how many directories pull from these behind the scenes data collaters.

    Spammy or not – great post! I wish I had found your article before killing a full day figuring this out for myself.

  • Alan  May 20, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    For local SEO, do incoming links from search engines matter as much for local rankings?

    Is there a cheap one-stop place to submit to get on 100’s of search engines at once? Do we need it? (like UBL.org, which is costly)

  • Mike Stewart  May 20, 2011 at 5:23 pm

    UBL is the best, then consider Localeze etc… Do you want best feed distribution, best data center partner sites that are niche, or a manual submission… Depends on so much.

  • John Roberts  June 25, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    The yellow pages online here in Australia is beyond a joke. I recently searched for a florist in Springfield and the first 4 pages were completely unrelated, and obviously sponsored listings. I eventually found what I needed on the very last page, called the number and told the business owner who wasn’t very happy at all!

  • Aman Talwar  July 8, 2011 at 11:40 pm

    Nice one Andy, some great suppliers here you have mentioned, I haven’t come across ibegin or merchant circle, I will have to check them out.

    Agree with John’s comment, Yp in Aus is a joke.

  • Susan  August 9, 2011 at 12:57 pm

    Brownbook is pretty good in the UK and also hotfrog both here and in the states. Anyone now any more good sites?

  • Harv  August 11, 2011 at 12:10 am

    Wow! This is a great list. I had a list of about 10, but this one is much better. I am using these in my business of helping local businesses rank in Google.

    It is amazing how effective this is along with video marketing and a little social marketing.

    By the way, here is another one that really helps.

    Thumbtack.com

    Thanks again for the great info.

  • Harv  August 17, 2011 at 9:15 am

    Hey Andrew,

    Again, great information. However; I noticed you still have not added Thumbtack.com. They are easy to add your site to and free and will also make a difference with your local search abilities.

    Keep up the great work.

  • John Thomas  August 27, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    Great list add some that I didn’t have my business listed on but some of your links are broken now. Insiderpages link is broken just as an FYI.

  • Beuna  September 3, 2011 at 10:12 am

    Any encouragement to businesses to get themselves listed online is great! As a consumer I have at times been frustrated trying to find a business online. As a business owner I have been frustrated with the online business directory options. So, I created an online business directory. http://www.qurkl.com – add or edit your business using whatever terms you choose (not a dropdown list), address not required so if you visit the client at their home or your business is online you don’t have to worry about customers visiting you at home.

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  • james ascot  October 23, 2011 at 9:25 am

    Thanks andrew,
    I personally use Brownbook in the UK.
    Yellow pages does not seam to have the same clout as it used to in the UK, does anyone know of any other good FREE sites?

  • Daniel  October 29, 2011 at 2:19 pm

    manta is a good one to

  • Kathy Long  November 30, 2011 at 11:52 pm

    Localeze has their enhanced listings for pay. What’s your expert opinion? Do you think it’s worth the extra money? Or is their free listing good enough? Do you ever upsell their paid package to your clients?

    Is that too many questions??? Huh? Huh?

  • Shefiu  January 3, 2012 at 1:26 pm

    Hi Andrew, interesting directory lists for local businesses. But as I’m from the UK, please allow me to include another key directory on behalf of UK based local businesses….www.Yell.com

  • Chicago house painter  January 20, 2012 at 9:07 am

    I would add also kudzu.com, Local.com, Judysbook.com, Manta.com , mojopages.com, brownbook.com Just make sure that all information matches on all directories. Caps lock makes difference. For Google Places Windy Painters is not the same as WINDY PAINTERS. Thank you for post. I found two new directories.:)

  • Kevin  May 15, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    Andrew, great write up and list, I added a couple from your list to mine that I was missing.

    Curious to know, I know you mainly focus on the US, but do you have any data suppliers like yext or localeze that are in canada?

    • Andrew Shotland  May 15, 2012 at 3:09 pm

      YPG is pretty much the only game in town in Canada as far as I know. IBegin used to license data but not sure if they are doing it anymore.

  • Tyler  May 16, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    I just started skimming the text, hit up Yext, and boom! A nice little scan of the ever-so important NAP for most all primary sources of citations. That alone was enough to please me, but thanks for going the extra mile in providing some other goodies.
    Cheers mate

  • David Isaac  July 7, 2012 at 3:15 am

    Great list Andrew..

    I would also list local businesses to as many sites as possible. The reason being that I want to get found on all directories which are anyway FREE 🙂

    I have been using services like addlocalbusinesslisting.com and others a lot. These guys have a list of over 350 yp sites and business profile sites. Now that’s a very cost effective advertisement for local business.

  • Painter Perth services  November 6, 2012 at 7:51 pm

    I wonder if there is a n international Yellow Pages listing website where you can add your business in different countries like Australia or Singapore.

    I notice the sites above are exclusively for America.

    • Andrew Shotland  November 6, 2012 at 9:18 pm

      In Australia, I believe you can try Sensis & Brownbook

  • Suzanne Delzio  March 15, 2013 at 8:53 am

    Wow. You really respond to your comments. Nice! I am on Yext, but I recommend ubl.org for my small business clients who don’t want to pay $50 per month. Can you give me one or two reasons Yext is worth twice the price of Ubl.org?

    • Andrew Shotland  March 15, 2013 at 12:53 pm

      I like both services, but my impression is that Yext has a lot more features. It’s not an apples to apples thing though. UBL is great for getting your listings to the national aggregators. Yext is great for instantaneous updating and additional features.

  • Michael Netherham  July 14, 2013 at 11:11 am

    kungphoo.com is also free to promote and list your business…

  • Troy  July 16, 2013 at 12:24 pm

    Thank you very much for this information Andrew. No spam link here, just legitimate appreciation. =)

  • chris walker  August 27, 2013 at 5:14 am

    Include our website too in the list!

  • Mazhar  September 30, 2013 at 5:04 am

    include our website in your database

  • ROBERT  June 5, 2014 at 6:58 am

    If I sign up for YEXT and then cancel down the road do my citations that YEXT created for me go away or change?

    • Andrew Shotland  June 5, 2014 at 3:59 pm

      Your citations stay until the publisher overwrites them with their data.

  • Anna  July 2, 2016 at 11:59 pm

    How do I add my Business on google in South Africa? I need to publish it.

  • filmizletiyor  April 17, 2018 at 11:25 am

    Hey, I wanted the title of Mr. data!