How Local Citation Helps to improve your Ranking?

If your business is to be visible in the web the local citation will play a vital role. It is a combination of the company name, Phone number, Company address, Zip or postal code, and website address. If you consider the SEO for your website citation is a key factor to improve the local search results.

Local citations depend on these below factors

• Company name, Contact person

• Company name & phone number.

• Company name, phone number, & address.

• Company name, phone number, address, & website.

• Company name, & website.

• Company phone number.

The local citation that includes the company name, address, and phone number which is also called a NAP. When it misses any one of the factors is called a partial citation. In a Local SEO Citation is very important to concentrate.

And You also heard a term NAPW or a UNAP citation as well. Here the W represents Website and U represent URL. If we add the website link for a local citation that offers an additional value because that gives strength to our Website URL in the Search Engine Results. The citation will connect your business to the Search engine.

Thinks to consider for Links:

A citation will not provide the link juice by through a follow link, the maximum citation link is No follow but you cannot consider that not a worthy one. Google or any search engine will check the NAP with all the local websites to identify that the given information is true or not. That will increase the trust value of the Website and help to improve the ranking in search engine. The more your presence of your business is out of the web the more advantage of your business that helps to appear on google. The most of the directories are no follow the link but that also a valuable link for the local search efforts

Citations Types

It has two types structured or unstructured. Through this, we can identify the citation strength and impact in the Search engine.

Structured Citations

It is Your business data NAP that provided in the business listing directory. When you search for a list of citation websites these are pretty common in business listing directories where you can submit your business and get citation benefits. Here are example websites for local citation India

www.indiamart.com

www.sulekha.com

www.facebook.com

www.justdial.com

www.yellowpages.com

Here’s an example of a structured citation for a web design company

example of a structured citation for a web design company

Unstructured Citations

where your business data is presented in non-directories website such as blogs newspaper websites’ that is also a NAP search engine consider that data also like a citation and boost the local SEO ranking.

Here’s an unstructured citation example in a Blog

Importance of Citation for local search engine

Trust and Verification

Citation helps your business and also for the search engines like Google and Bing. When multiple data sources hold the same accurate data about the business that gives the signal for the search engine to rate our trust value.

When your list your business in the standard national and local websites that help your business a proper authority, trust and will improve your business to increase your rank in local search engine results.

Reputation

When you consider the local ranking the search engine algorithm which is used in google and bing will provide a rated factor in the citation. In the latest survey of local search ranking factors that depend on the citation is 13.31% on the major 50 factors.

The presence of our website is listed On more website that will the ranking report to the top on google. If your business is listed in more directories that will help the algorithm to think that business has more trust so it can be ranked #1.

S_NO	Business Listing Sites of India	DA	AR INDIA
1	https://foursquare.com	92	2249
2	www.merchantcircle.com	87	7959
3	www.tradeindia.com	85	677
4	https://www.indiamart.com	83	57
5	www.sulekha.com	78	311
6	www.brownbook.net	73	16345
7	www.justdial.com	72	51
8	http://yellowpages.webindia123.com	70	1144
9	www.expressbusinessdirectory.com	65	10063
10	www.trepup.com	57	4430
11	www.asklaila.com	56	4512
12	www.hotfrog.in	56	10959
13	www.whereincity.com	53	15787
14	https://yellow.place	52	13172
15	https://rajb2b.com	48	26978
16	www.grotal.com	48	2811
17	www.indianyellowpages.com	47	12038
18	http://delhi.yalwa.in	47	14120
19	www.indiacatalog.com	47	18693
20	www.jantareview.com	46	12847
21	www.bizsheet.com	42	–
22	www.startlocal.in	42	18063
23	www.aihitdata.com	41	42224
24	https://aaspaas.com	40	17162
25	www.hudku.com	39	–
26	https://www.indiaaclick.com	39	10895
27	www.mysheriff.co.in	38	15681
28	www.bharathlisting.com	38	14854
29	www.getconnected360.com	37	307052
30	www.clickblue.in	37	20679
31	www.zoompo.com	36	14524
32	www.smelisting.com	36	–
33	www.dialkaro.com	36	165294
34	http://khojinindia.com	35	34985
35	www.dealerbaba.com	34	14289
36	https://www.poweredindia.com	30	25015
37	https://callme.co.in	29	22001
38	www.searchingurgaon.com	29	24732
39	www.gurgaonsaath.com	29	190792
40	www.searchingurgaon.com	29	24732
41	www.indyapages.com	29	20251
42	https://www.vandanayellowpages.com	26	45722
43	http://indiaontrade.com	24	37321
44	www.frontbazzar.com	22	50334
45	www.b2bhouse.com	21	47239
46	www.tradesights.com	21	33174
47	http://sevanow.com	21	49186
48	http://prekkha.com	21	–
49	www.findbazaar.in	20	28494
50	http://findshops.in	20	49416
51	http://www.submitmybusiness.com	20	20206
52	www.searchmyindia.com	19	56914
53	http://oncallbiz.com	18	71217
54	http://www.fionadates.com	18	43194
55	http://indiabizdir.com	17	43575
56	http://cityhunt.co.in	17	–
57	www.khojo.co.in	16	149241
58	www.edigitalyouth.com	16	276677
59	www.khargharcity.com	15	75194
60	http://ingurugram.com	14	–
61	www.yellowpagesdir.in	12	127114
62	http://haatplace.com	10	173045