How many citation sites can BrightLocal submit a business to when using Citation Builder?

In Citation Builder (CB), we have a database of over 1,500 citation sites, including local, general, and niche directories, as well as event sites.

Not all of these sites are relevant for every business. This might be because:

• They are specific to a country
• They are specific to a town, city, or state
• They are specific to an industry

The number of relevant sites varies by business and location.

When you create a Citation Builder campaign, you'll see all the relevant sites for a business on Step 2 of the campaign setup process, and it's there that you can select the sites you want to submit to.

As a rule of thumb, these are the volumes of sites we can submit a typical business to:

• USA business: 120-150 sites
• Canada business: 70-80 sites
• UK business: 80-100 sites
• Australia business: 50-75 sites
• Other countries: 20-30 sites

All the sites we submit to offer free listing submissions, which allows us to keep campaign costs low. We gather additional data about these directories/sites, such as their Domain Authority, and apply our own Citation Value rating based on our research.

We've identified sites that are now part of our database through extensive research into which sites appear in Google’s citation index. This list is edited and updated with intelligence gathered from our Citation Tracker tool.

Directories are prioritized based on their citation value (the highest value first), and also if they offer an instant or quick listing.