What is a Business Directory?
A business directory is an online list of businesses within a particluar niche, location or category. One way local businesses can get found by online searchers is through inclusion in business directories.
Today, Google is inserting itself between consumer and local business websites more and more often.
You need look no further than Google My Business conversion points, AMP, and featured snippets for proof.
So it makes sense to get your local business information into the places people are already going to find businesses like yours, rather than simply hoping they'll find you in search results.
Getting your local business' NAP (Name, Address, Phone number) information listed on directories, business listing sites, and citation sites helps to improve visibility, but links back from these sites can also have a benefit to SEO.
There are plenty of location-specific directories and industry-specific business listing sites to submit your data to, but local businesses should start with the big guns and work their way towards the more niche directories.
With that in mind, I've put together a list of the biggest and most important business listings sites today (based on Domain Authority gathered from Moz Link Explorer in May 2018).
50 Online Local Business Directories/Listings for Local Marketing
- Facebook (Domain Authority = 100)
- Apple Maps (Domain Authority = 100)
- Google My Business (Domain Authority = 100)
- Bing (Domain Authority = 94)
- Yelp (Domain Authority = 94)
- Four Square (Domain Authority = 92)
- MapQuest (Domain Authority = 92)
- Yellow Pages (Domain Authority = 91)
- Angies List (Domain Authority = 91)
- Manta (Domain Authority = 87)
- Merchant Circle (Domain Authority = 86)
- Super Pages (Domain Authority = 84)
- Yellow Book (Domain Authority = 83)
- Local.com (Domain Authority = 77)
- Kudzu.com (Domain Authority = 76)
- Hot Frog (Domain Authority = 76)
- Communitywalk.com (Domain Authority = 75)
- Brownbook.net (Domain Authority = 73)
- Tupalo.com (Domain Authority = 72)
- La Cartes (Domain Authority = 68)
- 2findlocal.com (Domain Authority = 67)
- ezlocal.com (Domain Authority = 67)
- ebusinesspages.com (Domain Authority = 67)
- Spoke (Domain Authority = 66)
- Chamberofcommerce.com (Domain Authority = 66)
- City Squares (Domain Authority = 66)
- Cylex USA (Domain Authority = 66)
- yelloyello.com (Domain Authority = 66)
- BOTW (Domain Authority = 65)
- worldweb.com (Domain Authority = 65)
- ibegin.com (Domain Authority = 63)
- Get Fave (Domain Authority = 63)
- Fyple.com (Domain Authority = 63)
- Company.com (Domain Authority = 60)
- Call Up Contact (Domain Authority = 60)
- Finduslocal.com (Domain Authority = 60)
- My Huckleberry (Domain Authority = 59)
- Hub.biz (Domain Authority = 59)
- where2go.com (Domain Authority = 58)
- City Insider (Domain Authority = 58)
- n49.com (Domain Authority = 58)
- My Sheriff (Domain Authority = 57)
- opendi.us (Domain Authority = 56)
- Bizhwy.com (Domain Authority = 55)
- Smartguy.com (Domain Authority = 55)
- Wherezit.com (Domain Authority = 55)
- Nexport.com (Domain Authority = 52)
- Wowcity.com (Domain Authority = 49)
- Bizadee (Domain Authority = 48)
- Wand.com (Domain Authority = 47)
Making sure that you have a presence everywhere your potential customers might find you is critical to any local marketing plan. Don't wait -- add your local business to these directories today.
