FAQ

There are definitely different strategies that you would use when creating listings for different industries, but ultimately you want to find a balance amongst several types of site. Data-aggregators are a good place to start and apply across almost all types of businesses. Examples of data aggregator sites are sites like Acxiom, Infogroup, Superpages and Localeze are all a great place to start.

Horizontal or general directories like Yelp or Angie's List are great for restaurants or other types of services with many active reviewers. Industry specific directories are always critical listings where-in that site is highly used. Finally regional directories that target specific areas.

Inconsistent citations across the web can create issues with your ranking and how search engines view your information. If you have used different information when creating profiles on a variety of different sites, then the search engines have a hard time trusting the information as accurate. By making sure your information is consistent through out all your citations, you are adding value to all your business listings.

When we audit your site, we can find instances of your business and how it is showing up in listings. Once we've looked through the report, then we go through and double check the information to make sure that everything is consistent.

Our team takes into consideration several factors in determining the best website that would match your business. Among these factors, are: the number of your competitors listed on a particular business directory, the importance of a directory to your location or niche, the authorization of the directory and the regulation of the directory in allowing do- follow links to your website, among others.

Be assured that we do the best decision in terms of choosing the right local business directories that specifically cater to your business' needs.

Definitely, Yes! We locate all of your listings in any local business directory during the research process, thus when we see that your listings have not been claimed or they are incomplete or have incorrect or outdate information, we will automatically fix them as a part of our citation building service.

Since citation building is one of the techniques used in local SEO, the improvement of your rankings will highly depend on your other assets, which include the strength of your website. In case you want to focus on increasing your local search ranking and website traffic, please take a look at our Local SEO Services.

Listings most of the time require simple email verifications, while some require postcard or phone verifications. Since these the verifications will be sent to your business mail box or phone, we will then arrange a schedule for us to sit down and do all the necessary verifications. This process most of the time takes only less than 15 minutes.

The final report that backyard local will be sending you will contain the detailed information of the sites where your business information have been submitted, the log in details, live listing links and additional comments to specify the job the has been done. Here is an example of our report, feel free to download it.