Citation building service
Citation building: one accurate version of your business, everywhere.
A citation is any online mention of your business name, address and phone number. When they disagree, an old address here, a wrong number there, customers get lost and Google trusts you less. We find them, fix them and build the ones you are missing. By hand.
- Citation audit: every listing found and checked
- Manual submissions, no bulk-blast software
- Duplicates removed and a full report of every listing
Free · human-reviewed
Get a free citation check.
Send the business name and postcode. We will check your main listings for mismatches and duplicates.
Thank you, that is with us.
A person will read it and reply within 24 hours.
Need us sooner? Call +44 7435 755127.
Small inconsistencies, quietly expensive.
Businesses move premises, change phone numbers and rebrand. Directories do not notice. Years later there are three versions of you online, and a customer following the wrong one finds a closed door or a dead line.
Search engines cross-check those listings too. Consistent name, address and phone details, your NAP, are part of how Google decides that a local business is real, established and where it says it is. Citation building is the unglamorous groundwork that local SEO stands on.
- One agreed format for your name, address and phone
- Existing listings corrected, not just new ones added
- Duplicate and out-of-date listings removed
- Live links you can check yourself
What is included
What our citation service includes.
Every submission is made by a person and checked afterwards.
Citation audit
We find your existing listings, including the ones you did not know about, and record what each one says.
A single NAP standard
We agree the one correct version of your name, address, phone, website and opening hours before anything is submitted.
Clean-up
Wrong details are corrected, and duplicate or abandoned listings are claimed, merged or removed.
Core UK listings
The foundations: Bing Places, Apple Business Connect, Yell, Thomson Local, Scoot, Yelp, FreeIndex and Facebook, alongside your Google Business Profile.
Industry and local listings
Directories specific to your trade and your area, the ones your customers and competitors actually use.
Complete profiles
Categories, descriptions, photos and opening hours filled in properly, not just the minimum fields.
Report
A full list of every citation built or fixed, with live links, so you can see exactly what was done.
Multi-location packages
For businesses with several branches, each location handled to the same standard. Tell us how many and we will quote.
Not sure where you stand? Ask a person to look.
How it works
How a citation campaign runs.
Audit
We search out every existing listing and note every mismatch.
Agree
You confirm the correct business details once, in one format.
Build and fix
New citations are submitted by hand; old ones are corrected or removed.
Report
You receive the full list with live links, and we recheck after the directories have updated.
Questions
Citation building: straight answers.
Something we have not covered? Ask us directly, a person will answer.
What is a citation?
Any online mention of your business name, address and phone number, on a directory, a map service, a social profile or a local website.
Do citations still matter for local SEO?
They are a foundation rather than a lever. Building hundreds of them will not rocket you up the rankings, but wrong or conflicting details can hold you back and send customers to the wrong place. Getting them right is basic hygiene.
How many citations do I need?
Fewer than most packages suggest. The core listings, plus the directories relevant to your trade and area, done accurately. Quality and consistency beat volume.
How long before citations appear?
Directories publish at different speeds: some within days, others take several weeks. Google then needs time to recrawl them. We recheck and report once they are live.
We have moved premises or changed our number. Can you fix the old listings?
Yes, that is when citation work is most valuable. We track down the old details wherever they appear and correct them.
Do you build citations for businesses outside York?
Yes. We build and clean up citations for businesses across the UK.
Start with the search moment
Get a free citation check.
Send the business name and postcode. A person will check your main listings for mismatches and duplicates and tell you what needs fixing.
- 01You send the website and what you want search to do.
- 02Request a reviewed website audit, then discuss the findings with a person.
- 03You get the clearest opportunities, and an honest view on whether we are the right team.
Thank you, that is with us.
A person will read it and reply within 24 hours.
Need us sooner? Call +44 7435 755127.
Where we work
Citation building across York and Yorkshire.
We are based in York and work with businesses across the city, North Yorkshire and the rest of the county, from Harrogate, Selby and Malton to Leeds, Hull and the coast. One team and one office, wherever you are.