As a local business, the best way to attracting new customers is local directories. But what directories should you be listed in? The answer is Quality Directories that are relevant to your business industry.

Directories serve 2 purposes for Local Businesses:

1. To get found by your customers. Searchers look for products and services many different ways, other than direct searches from Google. You want to be listed in these, so your customers can find you.
2. Each directory listing counts as a backlink. Backlinks are good, as long as they are quality backlinks.

One of the most important ranking factor is NAP (Name Address Place) consistency. Most Local SEO experts say it counts for over 50% of the ranking algorithm.
While in principal, it sounds easy to keep the data straight, it isn’t. There are 4 major aggregators of data on the internet. They scraper their data from many sources. This data is sold and used in a multitude of places (Google is a large buyer of data). And then rescraped. If you think the credit bureau are bad, times by 10 and you can imagine the problems. And it’s your problem to fix. Continuous checking and updating NAP can be a full time challenge, especially when you move or add a location. SEO Local Geeks have monitors in place to alert us when information doesn’t match. We relentlessly fix and change to keep the consistency.
If you are interested in which directories your business is listed in, fill out the form and we’ll run a report and send it back to you, Free of Charge.