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One wrong phone number on the web can cost you rankings. I find all of them.
Citations are how Google cross-checks that your business is real and your details are true. I clean up the conflicts, kill the duplicates, and build the listings that actually matter in your industry.
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Consistency beats volume — and cleanup beats building
Ten years ago citation building was a volume game. Today the value is in data consistency: when your name, address, and phone match everywhere Google looks, it trusts your business facts — and trusted facts rank. My citation work starts with an inventory, not a submission spree.
What the service includes
- Full citation inventory — every listing that mentions your business, with each conflict flagged and traced to its source.
- Data aggregator corrections — fixing your record with the upstream suppliers that feed hundreds of directories, so bad data stops regenerating.
- Duplicate suppression — merging or removing duplicate GBP listings and directory pages that split your review equity.
- Core + industry citations — the major platforms every business needs, plus the directories with real weight in your vertical.
- Locally relevant listings — chamber of commerce, business associations, and city directories that double as prominence signals.
- A maintained record — a living spreadsheet of every listing, login, and status, handed to you.
When citation work moves the needle most
Three situations make this the first fix: a move or rebrand, a history of tracking numbers used inconsistently, and duplicate GBP listings that force your own listings to compete with each other. If your data is already clean, I’ll tell you so — and we’ll spend the budget on reviews or links instead. Pricing: [PLACEHOLDER — add citation service pricing].
FAQ
Citation Building questions
Fewer than most vendors sell. After the major aggregators and top general directories, what matters is industry and locally relevant listings — usually a few dozen high-quality citations total.
Consistency matters more than volume now. Conflicting data erodes Google’s confidence in your business facts and can quietly suppress rankings. For most established businesses, cleanup outperforms building.
That’s when citation work is most urgent. Old data lingers on aggregators and re-infects directories for years if not corrected at the source. I trace every listing to its data supplier and fix it there.
Find out if your data agrees with itself.
The free audit includes a citation consistency check across the sources Google trusts most.