What are the most Important Local Business Directories for SEO

[quailadv]

Thanks for any help on this,

I wanted to know what are the most Important Local Business Directories for SEO? I have come a crossed a few sites that list tons of directories, but I wanted to know if anyone here is a top list.

Also can it hurt to be on to many?

[quailadv]

Hey Amber,

Great info on this, yeah I would like to focus on the quality of their listing. Thanks for the help on this.

[AmberRobinson]

Hi Robert,

I am going to give you a few resources I turned to when I first began citation building.

http://getlisted.org/resources/local_search_ecosystem.pdf

http://getlisted.org/resources/local-citations-by-category.aspx

http://getlisted.org/resources/local-citations-by-city.aspx

http://www.seomoz.org/directories/local

From these I create a "Top List" based on my client and their situation.

Also, I think once you dive in to this process you will find your focus shifts from "how many of these can I get my client on?!!!" to making sure the quality of your existing listings and directories is high.

All the Best,

Amber

[quailadv]

Thanks Mike and Bryan, that was a big help, I'll read over the sites you listed. Thanks for the info.

[Bryan_Loconto]

I would look at a few sources.

Yext.com has free power listings where you can find inconsistancies and new directories to submit your site to.

Getlisted.org has some listings

whitespark has a free and paid tool to help you find some. (They also offer an plan for local citations $5 each)

SEOmoz also has a chart of directories: http://www.seomoz.org/directories

Keep in mind to only submit to relevant categories.

[Mike.Goracke]

Hi Robert,

GetListed.org is probably the best. It not only tells you which directories to get listed in, it also verifies when your business has been listed.

The directories on GetListed.org are great, then any other industry specific or local business directories you can get into will make complete sense to Google when crawling. It starts to become a sketchy area when you start adding your website to random or generic directories... some are OK, you just don't want to over do it in the generic ones.

Hope this helps.

Mike