Listed elsewhere
What Actually Counts as a Citation?
- Prefer removing a wrong listing to leaving it half-corrected.
- Fix the primary category before touching anything decorative.
- Keep the description factual; the categories carry the relevance work, particularly for a newer business.
- Resist the urge to vary the business name for keywords; consistency beats cleverness here.
Six Places Errors Generally Hide
- Reading brand mentions
- Think of business listings as the paperwork local directories check before they trust a listing.
- Verified directory profiles
- Structured listings sit quietly behind the scenes, yet data aggregators read them constantly, regardless of sector.
- Citation profiles
- In the simplest terms, review profiles tell discovery apps that a business is real and reachable, if only because nobody else bothers.
- Before you document
- Directory submissions form the connective tissue between a website and the wider local web.