Free backlinks for local businesses.

Any listing of your business name, address and phone number on another site: a map listing, a review site or a business directory. Citations help search engines trust that your business is real and where you say it is, and many of them carry a link to your website.

Your Google Business Profile, by a distance: it is what shows on Google Maps and in local results. Then Bing Places, Apple Business Connect, Yelp and Facebook. Restaurants, hotels and attractions should add Tripadvisor.

The map listings (Google, Bing and Apple) and the big networks work in most countries. Several directories on this list are US-focused. Outside the US, add your own country’s main business directories and your local chamber of commerce, though a chamber usually charges membership dues.

No, most listings work without one, but each listing can only link to a site you have. Use your homepage, or a page for each location if you have several.

They are approximate, from our own link data. We read each site’s authority rank from our backlink index, which runs from 0 to 1,000, and map it onto the 0 to 100 domain rating scale most SEO tools use. Treat it as a sort order, not a precise score: two tools can be 10 points apart on the same site.

Before a source goes on the list, we read its signup page and leave it out if it is paid-only or we could not confirm a free option. On the 1st of each month every signup page is fetched again: a page that is gone, errors out or now sends you to a payment page comes off. The date at the top is the last check we published.