The answer to this question has changed over the last decade. It used to be any business citation was good, and the more you had, the higher your business ranked in Google Maps. Today, the three most important types of…
A local business citation is a mention of a business’s name, address and phone number (NAP) somewhere on the web. Citations are important because they give search engines a way to verify that the NAP info the business put on…
Ten-plus years ago, all you had to do for your local business to outrank your competitors was to have more business citations online than they had. Today, business citations do impact local rankings. You absolutely have to have business citations…
Ten-plus years ago, if you just had more structured business citations than your local competitors, regardless of the quality of the sites, you out-ranked them in Google Maps. But this is no longer the case since Google’s algorithm has gotten…
A local business citation is simply any time a local business’s name, address, and phone number (NAP) information is listed anywhere online. If it is in a social media or directory listing profile, it is called a “structured listing.” If…
First, I want to say that while business citations done properly are still a very important part of local SEO, they are not as important as they once were. It used to be that all you had to do was…
