Local Listings

Increase your business’s visibility in local searches.

Adding and enhancing your listings on local business directories allows you to attract more attention in your geographic area, provide valuable information and details about your business, along with promoting your online reviews. 

Local Listings OVERVIEW

Local listings are where you get found.

Popular listing directories like Google Maps are often the first place people go to find businesses in their area.

Ranking higher on these platforms can be massively beneficial for small businesses that rely on customers who live nearby. It’s important that all your business details and contact information is accurate and updated. Online reviews also play a big part in how new customers & clients initially perceive you. 

We can help you set up new listings, update current ones, fix errors like duplicate listings, rank higher overall, and improve your online reputation with more 5-star reviews.

Local Listings Services Indianapolis

What's included.

Citation building campaigns

We'll help you grow your portfolio and diversity of business listings or "citations". There are countless business directories and some are more relevant to your industry than others. We'll audit your current listings, research the most relevant directories, and create new listings for you.

Listings posts + updates

Some of the top directories, most notably Google, let you post updates, promotions, and other news directly to your listing. This not only is a prime advertising opportunity but shows the platform that you're active and engaged which will increase your relevancy and ultimately, your ranking.

Multi-location support

If you have multiple locations under the same name or different names, managing and updating all your listings can be chaos. Our familiarity and experience with top listing directories allows us to juggle many listings with ease.

Review/reputation management

Practically everyone uses online reviews as a comparison tool for local businesses. More reviews overall are a major factor in where you rank and having a high average rating builds trust & credibility to outshine your competitors.

Rank + performance analytics

We use a powerful, comprehensive monitoring & analytics platform to track your rankings, reviews, and month-to-month trends. We'll be able to keep a close eye on what's happening and see the impact of our ongoing efforts.

Local listing scan

Our automated scan looks at the top listing directories broadly as well as industry-specific and searches for listings with your name. From there we can assess the health of your local presence and create a strategy to move forward.

Let's start with a free local listing scan.

Our free local listings scan is a fully automated process that analyzes the top business listing directories and reveals the issues that are holding you back, as well as your best opportunities to improve search visibility.

1. Local listing scan

First, we take account of what listings you already have in place and which important listings are missing or incomplete/inaccurate. We'll also evaluate the number of online reviews you have as well as your average rating.

3. Reputation management

If your business is ready to prioritize your online reviews there are a number of ways we can improve your review scores and the amount of reviews you receive each month. Ultimately, you have to provide high-quality services to get good reviews.

5. Ongoing monitoring & reports

We utilize industry leading software that monitors your listings, local rankings, online reviews and overall growth & performance. These valuable marketing insights can give us the data we need to adjust our strategy and improve our campaign.

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Here's what our local listing process looks like.

1. Local listing scan

First, we take account of what listings you already have in place and which important listings are missing or incomplete/inaccurate. We'll also evaluate the number of online reviews you have as well as your average rating.

2. Citation building campaign

We'll determine which listings we will be fixing or adding new based on the services tier you select. Some listings are added through aggregates and some need to be manually added individually. Citation campaigns are usually completed within the first month excluding platforms that manually review our submissions.

3. Reputation management

If your business is ready to prioritize your online reviews there are a number of ways we can improve your review scores and the amount of reviews you receive each month. Ultimately, you have to provide high-quality services to get good reviews.

4. Listings posts + updates

Posts & updates are the most commonly neglected aspect of listings but can be a nice supplemental strategy in getting more exposure and building your online reputation both from locals as well as listing platforms. We can share news, promotions, or even helpful tips directly to select local listing profiles.

5. Ongoing monitoring & reports

We utilize industry leading software that monitors your listings, local rankings, online reviews and overall growth & performance. These valuable marketing insights can give us the data we need to adjust our strategy and improve our campaign.

Local Listings Common questions

Commonly asked questions, answered.

Have a question we didn’t answer? Don’t hesitate to reach out and ask us directly! We’d love to hear from you. 

Absolutely, yes!

Google is the backbone of any local listing effort due to their search dominance. Google will almost certainly be your highest performing listing profile and should demand more attention and care than other profiles. 

The impact your Google listing has goes beyond just Google Maps but has an impact on your overall domain authority. 

Here are some important local business directories you should not ignore: 

  • Bing
  • Citysearch
  • Yahoo
  • YellowPages
  • Foursquare
  • Yelp
  • DexKnows
  • EZLocal
  • Superpages
  • Manta

Definitely. 

Local listings show search engines you’re legit and the higher volume of accurate listings you have makes you look that much more trustworthy. 

These play a big role specifically with local SEO.

Most commonly, inaccurate data on your profiles is outdated data. 

However, sometimes listing directories that try to pull data from other directories may make mistakes, especially if your name or address is similar to other businesses. It’s important to stay on top of your listings ensuring all your important business information is accurate at all times. 

The best thing you can do with a negative review is bury it with positive ones! 

With the negative review specifically, you should reply in a calm, professional manner but you should also try to learn from their feedback and use it as customer insight to improve your processes. 

You cannot remove negative reviews otherwise the entire platform would no long be trustworthy to customers. If you provide quality services & customer care, you only need to focus on quantity because the quality will work out over time. 

Local Listings BENEFITS

What benefits can I get from local listings?

Local business listings give you relevant exposure, instant credibility, and SEO benefits. 

Traffic to your local listings are coming from people in your area that are search specifically for businesses like yours. Attention doesn’t get more relevant than that! 

How you represent yourself is the variable. Do your listing have complete & accurate information? Do you have recent pictures and lots of 5-star reviews? Having your listings updated & complete gives people the impression that you’re the business they want to work with. 

How we're different.

We provide local listing services that are more comprehensive than other agencies because we go beyond just the listing setup and analytics. Our review strategies and posting is unlike anyone else.

Custom-tailored solutions

We approach local listings for your business much differently than others since your location and industry isn’t the same as others. We’ll get your set up on the most relevant platforms for you. 

Comprehensive & Flexible

Our local listing services are truly comprehensive including the initial audit, citation campaigns, reputation management, posting updates, and monitoring performance. Don’t need everything or have a tight budget? We scale our services to fit your needs. 

No setup fees or contracts

We don’t lock you into long-term listing management contracts. You can even select a one-time listing blast to get everything set up & updated with no ongoing monthly services required. 

Evaluate your listings today with a free scan.

Unless you’re already working with a local listing management agency, you may have no idea which listings you have set up or which may have inaccurate information. We’ll run a completely free scan to provide that insight for you with no obligation or expectation. You can simply take the scan and make the necessary fixes yourself if you want!