Citation building packages

Step 1

Pick a Package Below

Just pick your package below and hit the "Buy Now" button. Next, you'll give us a few details about your business on a short, simple form.

Step 2

Fill Out & Submit Form

As soon as we receive your form, your campaign moves straight into production and our amazing team of Account Executives get to work on your citation distribution campaign.

Step 3

Full Citation Audit & Cleanup

First, we perform a 100% manual citation audit where we scan the web and find all the places where your business is mentioned and listed. We then identify the inaccuracies and inconsistencies within all of your current listings. Finally, we proceed with the tedious work of cleaning up (fixing, editing, and / or removing) all of these inconsistencies. The net result is a new, accurate, and consistent presence of your business data across the web.

Step 4

Citation Distribution

We like to refer to this as "Punching the gas..."! This is where we build and publish your citations across the web on highly authoritative, high trust worthy sites - including niche local and business specific sites - to dramatically increase your overall citation portfolio.

Step 5

Indexation

After your new citations are live, we then take the powerful step of manually submitting all of your new citations to Google to be crawled and indexed. This helps expedite the process of unlocking the power of your new citations to help you rank faster in Google Maps and Google local search.

Step 6

Deliver Report

Finally, you'll receive a full, 100% transparent report showing you the results of your audit and cleanup, along with a full listing of all the new, powerful citations that we built for you and your business!

What are citations?

A citation is a structured dataset of your business information, and is typically made up of 7 main variables:

1. Your business name
2. Your business street address
3. City
4. State
5. Zip code
6. Business phone #
7. Website URL

These 7 variables collectively make up your full business citation.

For example, here’s the full citation for our business here at Viral Web Media:

Viral Web Media
6958 Gregorich Drive
Unit B
San Jose, CA 95138
(415) 450-6180
https://Viralwebmedia.com

What is citation distribution?

Citation distribution is the process of publishing your citation (business data) across the web.

In other words, when we publish your citation far and wide across the web, we call this process “citation distribution”.

Citation distribution is a critical component to building location authority.  A citation is a published version of your business data such as your business name, street address, city, state, zip code, phone #, and website URL.  The “distribution” part refers to the publishing of your citation on external websites and directories.  The more sites and directories we can publish your citations on, the more location authority you’ll build for your business.

We use a combination of manual processes, citation distribution partners, and data aggregators to achieve what we refer to as “citation distribution”.

Why is citation distribution important?

Citation distribution is one of the most critical components to increasing your rankings and visibility in Google local search / Google Maps.

The more citations you have that are accurate and consistent to your GMB listing (Google Maps listing), the more you create a self reinforcing loop of authority and trust in Google Maps.

We refer to this “trust” factor as Location Authority.

And the more location authority we can build for your business in Google Maps (via citation distribution), the more rankings, visibility, and productivity (phone calls, foot traffic, website visits, new customers) you’ll receive.

What is a citation portfolio?

A citation portfolio is a the total number of citations that you / your business has published across the web.

For example, if your business information was published in 10 different directories total, then your total citation portfolio would be 10 citations.

Again, the more citations we can build for your business (the bigger your citation portfolio), the more location authority you’ll have in Google Maps / Google local search.

And the more location authority you have, the faster you’ll be found at the top of the Google Maps / Google local search results.

How long does it take to see ranking results?

This depends on your “starting point” – meaning, how well are you ranking prior to this citation distribution campaign, and how much authority to you have coming in (so to speak) can greatly influence how quickly this work can impact your rankings. Some of our new clients are already ranking in the top 10 local search results when they start, and some aren’t event in the first 100 search results… so the starting points we see can / and do vary greatly. But regardless of your start point, we typically see 80% or more of your gains within the first 60 – 90 days months. The remaining 20% of your gains (i.e. getting into the top 3 or even #1 in Google local) will depend on the population density and how competitive your market is.

Do you offer money back guarantees?

Our #1 goal is to help you grow your business from search. As such, we offer a 100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE which means if you are not 100% satisfied with our product and services, you cancontact our support team within 30 days of receiving your report and we’ll work with you to make it right – no questions asked.