LOCAL CITATIONS AND LISTINGS
Local Citation Building for Home Service Businesses
Wrong phone numbers and old addresses on listing sites confuse Google and customers. We fix them and keep your business details the same everywhere.
Accurate listings on the sites that matter, not hundreds of directories nobody uses.
HOME SERVICE BUSINESSES WE HAVE WORKED WITH
Is your business listed with the wrong phone number somewhere?
You changed your phone number two years ago. You moved your office. You renamed the company. Somewhere online, the old details are still listed. What that costs you:
Homeowners call a dead number
And go to the next company.
Google sees conflicting details
And trusts your business less.
Duplicate listings
Split your reviews and your attention.
The good news: this is a one-time clean-up, then a little upkeep.
So what is a local citation, in plain English?
A citation is any place online that lists your business name, address and phone number: Yelp, Apple Maps, Bing, the Better Business Bureau, and trade directories. When those details match everywhere, Google can trust that your business is real and is where you say it is.
Google says prominence, one of the three things it uses to rank local results, is based partly on what it knows about a business from across the web, including links, articles and directories.
Next, is this right for a company like yours?
Is citation building right for your business?
It is right for you if you changed your phone, address or name, you have never cleaned up your listings, or you are a new business.
It is not for you if you want your business submitted to hundreds of directories. We focus on accurate listings on the sites that matter.
Citation clean-up helps most for landscaping, plumbing, electrical and general contractor companies that have moved or rebranded over the years.
If that sounds like you, here is exactly what we do.
What you get with local citation building
A listings audit
We find where your business is listed and what each listing says.
Corrections
We fix wrong names, numbers, addresses and links.
Duplicate clean-up
We ask for duplicate listings to be merged or removed.
New listings
On the main platforms and on trade directories that fit your work.
A consistent format
For your business details, set up for a service-area business.
A report
That shows which listings are live and correct.
Here is how little work this takes from you.
How citation building works: four simple steps
- You confirm your real details: name, phone, address or service area, website.
- We audit your listings and list what is wrong.
- We fix and add listings.
- We send you the report, and update listings when your details change.
Now, the proof that it works.
What citation clean-up did for businesses like yours
Here are three real results from local businesses, taken from their own Google accounts. Client names stay private.
Self-storageTampa, FloridaFrom Zero Website to 114 Keywords in 8 Weeks: A Tampa Storage BusinessA new storage company in Tampa launched on a site built for search from day one and reached 114 ranking keywords in eight weeks, with no national brand to lean on.114Ranking keywords3,710Monthly impressions22Referring domainsRead the case study 
Property managementPaso Robles, CaliforniaThree Years of Local SEO for a Property Management Company in Paso RoblesSustained local SEO took a Central Coast property manager to 19.8K clicks, a 15% click-through rate and number one rankings across its service area.19.8KClicks from Google132KSearch impressions15%Average click-through rateRead the case study 
Furniture restorationMelbourne, AustraliaFrom Zero to 107,000 Google Impressions in Six Months: A Melbourne Restoration BusinessA restoration business with no online presence grew from nothing to 107K impressions, 121 ranking keywords and 182 Google Business Profile interactions in six months.107KSearch impressions121Ranking keywords182Profile interactionsRead the case study
Why home service owners choose us for listings
Accuracy over volume
A correct listing on a site homeowners use beats a hundred on sites they never visit.
We understand service-area businesses
So your home address is not published.
You get a report
Not a promise.
It connects to your Google Business Profile
And your map ranking.
And you will always know what your money is doing.
How we measure your listings work
- Listings audited, corrected and added
- Whether your details match across every listing
- Calls and direction requests from your profile
See reporting and call tracking.
Which brings us to the price.
Citation building cost, with no surprises
Citation clean-up and building starts at $149, one time, for an audit, corrections and about 40 manual listings. Citation clean-up is included in the Full Service plan. Updates after you change a detail can be added to a monthly plan. Month-to-month, 15 days' notice, no hidden fees. See full pricing.
Still wondering about something? Here are the questions we hear most.
Citation building questions owners ask
Short answers to what owners ask before they start. More questions are on our full FAQ page.
Get your free auditHow many citations do I need?
Do citations help me rank?
I hide my home address. Will you publish it?
Is a citation the same as a backlink?
Ready to see which of your listings are wrong? It is free.
See which listings are wrong, free, in 24 hours
We check your main listings as part of your free audit and tell you what to fix first.
Not ready yet? Look at what else we do.
Services that work with citation building
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