Three things decide local rankings
Relevance, distance and prominence. Listings feed the third one, alongside reviews and links. Source: Google
A citation is a business listing: your name, address, phone number and category on the directories that feed Google, Bing and AI assistants. Webiyo finds every listing that's wrong, fixes it, builds the ones you're missing, and rechecks them every quarter. It's included in every plan.
Included in every planDuplicates fixed tooRechecked every quarter
The most common problem is a business with several conflicting versions of itself.
Google states directly that local rankings come down to relevance, distance and prominence, and that prominence is built in part from reviews, links and listings. That is no longer the biggest reason to care.
Relevance, distance and prominence. Listings feed the third one, alongside reviews and links. Source: Google
top AI visibility factors come from your listings.
Of the top five factors that decide whether an AI engine names your business, three are listing-related. Source: BrightLocal and Whitespark, 2026
Most directories buy their data from a few aggregators. Fix an address there and it can correct itself across dozens of smaller sites.
A second profile, an old phone number, or a footer that says "123 Main Street" while the page code says "123 Main St". Each one splits the signal.
more likely to land in the local pack when a business is listed consistently
BrightLocal ranking factorsof customers say they'd stop using a business after finding incorrect contact details online
BrightLocal Local Citations Trust Report, 2018of the direct weight in the local pack comes from listing signals, a modest share next to their role in AI answers
BrightLocal and Whitespark, 2026Getting your listings right is no longer mainly about map-pack rank. It decides whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews trust that your business is real.
Five kinds of work, with the cost built into your plan.
Every directory, aggregator and platform your business appears on, correct or not.
Competing or abandoned listings found and merged or removed, so your signal stops splitting across versions of the same business.
Google Business Profile, Bing Places, Apple Business Connect and the major data aggregators, brought to one consistent version.
The directories specific to your trade and your city, as well as the national ones.
New inconsistencies get caught before they've had months to spread across the smaller sites that copy from the big ones.
Listing work comes with every Webiyo plan, alongside SEO and AI visibility tracking, at no separate charge.
Send us your website and we'll show you every inconsistency we find. You'll have it within 24 hours.
Standalone listing services usually charge per listing, from around $2 to $5 each, or sell a package running $55 to $600 depending on volume, or bill a monthly management fee of around $20 a location.
For a business with inconsistencies across a dozen or more sources, that adds up fast, and most of those services stop at building new listings. They don't audit for duplicates or recheck later. It's part of every Webiyo plan, from $397 a month, with no separate charge. See plans and pricing
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It's a second (or third) profile for the same business, usually created by accident when someone couldn't find or didn't know about the original. Search engines and AI systems don't always know to treat them as one business, so reviews, signal, and trust get split between versions instead of building on one.
Yes, to claim and correct it if it isn't already accurate, the same access described in our terms for any account we manage on your behalf.
Not from scratch. Once your core listings are correct, the ongoing work is catching new inconsistencies, such as a phone system change, a move, or an employee accidentally creating a new profile, before they spread. That's why we recheck every quarter.
That's when listings break down fastest, and when it matters most to redo them properly. We audit the full scope of what needs updating so nothing gets fixed piecemeal.
Both. Consistent information is one of the strongest signals AI engines use to trust that a business is real before naming it in an answer.
Send us your website and we'll show you every listing that's wrong, missing or duplicated. If yours are already clean, we'll say so.
Audit back in 24 hoursMonth to month, no contractPlans from $397 a month