Local citation sites for US businesses
These are US sites where a local business can get listed, each marked free or paid from what the site's own pages say.
Last checked: November 2026
Showing 25 of 25 sites.
| Site | Type | Free listing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Business (Apple Maps) | Map or search engine | Yes | Claim your Apple Maps place card and add your logo, hours and photos. Old Business Connect links land here. |
| Google Business Profile | Map or search engine | Yes | Works without a storefront: you can set service areas instead of showing an address. |
| Waze | Map or search engine | Yes | No business account needed: add your place from the Waze app and map editors review it. |
| MapQuest | Map or search engine | No | Claiming and editing needs a paid plan. Reporting wrong details on your listing is still free. |
| Data Axle Local Listings | Data aggregator | Yes | Sends your details to search engines, in-car navigation and public libraries. Updates cost nothing. |
| Dun & Bradstreet (D-U-N-S Number) | Data aggregator | Yes | Free, but normal processing can take up to 30 business days. Paying only speeds it up. |
| TransUnion Digital Business Profile (Neustar Localeze) | Data aggregator | No | Paid only: $99 a year per location for 1 to 24 locations. Publishes to over 80 partner sites. |
| Alignable | General directory | Yes | A referral network for owners. Only businesses in the US or Canada can join. |
| Better Business Bureau (BBB) | General directory | Yes | Search first: BBB may already have a profile for your business that you can claim. |
| Brownbook | General directory | Yes | Add the listing first, then claim it to add logos, photos and video. |
| ChamberofCommerce.com | General directory | Yes | Listings copied from data providers rank lowest until the owner claims them. |
| EZlocal | General directory | Yes | Start with your business name and phone number to find your listing or create one. |
| Hotfrog | General directory | Yes | Claiming is free. A paid plan at USD 10 a month is optional. |
| Manta | General directory | Yes | The free listing covers logo, photos, click-to-call and page stats. Upgrades are optional. |
| MerchantCircle | General directory | Yes | The free Basic Listing lets you edit your details and reply to reviews. |
| Nextdoor | General directory | Yes | Side gigs like dog walking need official business documents before posting to the neighborhood feed. |
| Yelp | General directory | Yes | Log in at least every 90 days, or Yelp may show your page as unclaimed again. |
| Angi | Industry site | Yes | Home services. Angi hides businesses that have not claimed a free profile. Leads come from paid ads. |
| Avvo | Industry site | Yes | For licensed attorneys. Search with your name exactly as it appears on your state bar registration. |
| Healthgrades | Industry site | Yes | For doctors and other providers. Have your DEA or state license number ready to verify. |
| Houzz | Industry site | Yes | For design and remodeling pros. Sign-up pushes paid Houzz Pro plans, but a free account gets you listed. |
| Justia Lawyer Directory | Industry site | Yes | A claimed profile also shows in the Legal Information Institute (LII) Lawyer Directory. |
| Thumbtack | Industry site | Yes | Free to join and build a profile. You pay for leads and set your own lead budget. |
| Tripadvisor | Industry site | Yes | For restaurants, hotels and attractions. If your place is missing, you can add it. |
| Zocdoc | Industry site | Yes | No fee to join, but you pay a booking fee each time Zocdoc finds you a new patient. |
25 US citation sites, 23 with a free listing
| Type | Sites | With a free listing |
|---|---|---|
| Map or search engine | 4 | 3 |
| Data aggregator | 3 | 2 |
| General directory | 10 | 10 |
| Industry site | 8 | 8 |
| All | 25 | 23 |
Source: Each site's own listing or sign-up page. LocusPilot saved a copy of every page and read it for who can join and what a listing costs. Last checked: November 2026.
How to use it
- Pick a type, or tick Free listing only to hide the sites that charge for a listing.
- Read the Notes column before you sign up. It gives the catch where there is one, such as Yelp, which may show your page as unclaimed again if nobody logs in to your Yelp for Business account for 90 days.
- Copy the rows you filtered as CSV or download them, then mark each site off in your spreadsheet once its listing is live.
Common questions
Any page on a site you do not own that shows your business name with your address or phone number. A Yelp page is one, and so is a doctor's Healthgrades profile.
We loaded each site's listing or sign-up page, saved a copy, and kept the site only if that page showed a US local business can add or claim a listing and said whether it costs anything. Sites that showed only a sign-in screen, or would not load for us, stayed off. Waze is the one exception on price: its help page names no price, but you add your place as a map edit in the Waze app, with no business account and no payment step, and volunteer map editors review it. The date above the table is when we last did this.
Their pages did not let us confirm the basics. Bing Places showed us only a sign-in screen, and the Yellow Pages and OpenTable sign-up pages would not load for us on any attempt. Foursquare's claim page does not say whether claiming costs anything, and Porch's page talks about paid leads without saying what the profile costs. Leaving a site off is not a verdict on it: any of them can go on the list once its own page shows who can join and what a listing costs.
No. For every site but Waze, it means the site's own page says you can create or claim the listing without paying. Some of these sites charge for other things: Thumbtack charges for leads, and Zocdoc charges a booking fee each time it finds you a new patient.
At our last check: MapQuest needs a MapQuest for Business plan, $12.50 a month billed yearly, before you can claim or edit your listing, though reporting wrong details on it is still free. TransUnion Digital Business Profile (Neustar Localeze) is paid only, at $99 a year per location for 1 to 24 locations. Tick Free listing only to hide them.
Your business details written once, exactly as they should appear everywhere, so you paste the same text into every form. Request your D-U-N-S Number early: it is free, but Dun & Bradstreet says normal processing can take up to 30 business days. Lawyers and doctors need one more thing. Avvo finds you by your name as it appears on your state bar registration, and Healthgrades verifies providers with a DEA or state license number.
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