Local Citation Audits

In citation cleanup, we will manually detect, edit, and update your existing citations and remove duplicates. In order to provide citation cleanup services,Search Combat Services takes the following steps.

• The discovery and editing of inaccurate and duplicate citations should be done manually.
• Identify discrepancies in names, addresses, and phone numbers (NAP) on the websites in your chosen package and then correct/unify them and eliminate duplicates.
• Getting rid of all inaccurate listings in business directories.
• All directories from the package you selected need to have business descriptions.
• Enhancing your citations with photos, categories, and keywords.
• Your listings will be linked in detailed reports.
• In a few weeks, we will deliver citations.
• After our job has been completed and you have become the owner of your listings, we will continue to provide support.
• A one-time fee is charged for refreshing your company’s data whenever necessary.

Our clients choose us over our competitors because of the following benefits: 

• Instead of recurring fees, one-time fees are charged
• Instead of renting your listings, own them
• Audit and Cleanup of all listings completely and properly
• Sites of importance were highlighted
• Sites specific to industries and cities are included in the package
• Savings over time and lower costs

Depending on your package choice, we focus on the sites that have the biggest impact on your local search rankings. Our basic coverage will also extend to a number of additional sites (depending on your package selection). Manual work is also done on these additional sites. During our review of your presence on these sites, we’ll focus on building out additional volume, but we’ll also try to correct any errors we find. Our first step is to check the top of our list of the most valuable sites for a listing. A new one is created if there is none. Our next step is to check for errors (and correct them if they exist).

Inconsistent and duplicate listings can occur for a variety of reasons. A very good chance is that you are in need of this service if you have recently changed the name, address, or phone number of your business and have not updated your business listings.

It is important to have the same NAP across all of your listings when it comes to local search rankings. Changing one of these elements and not adjusting your listings accordingly will result in new listings generated with the new business details. These new listings will coexist with the old ones, reducing your chances of attracting new clients.

Take a moment to run a search on your business if you don’t remember if your listings were updated after your last change of location, name, or phone number. Your business will appear in search results if there are inaccurate listings floating around. Customer feedback is also important. The chances of you needing a cleanup, if your customers keep telling your staff that they called several telephone numbers before contacting you, or if they were directed to your old address by online maps only to discover that you had moved, are high.

The number of citations and NAP consistency are still two of the Local Search Ranking Signals. Citations are essential for improving local search rankings. A website may list one phone number while another may list a different number. You will lose business if you do this. Potential clients will not only be confused as to which are the correct contact details, but Google may also be confused as to which are correct as well. This data is checked by Google on hundreds of different websites, so you should be listed on as many as possible.

Citation Audits check the business details you have provided to key citation websites, and data aggregators, to ensure that the information you have provided is accurate.

In addition to the NAP, the address, website, and other details are also checked to ensure that they are accurate. It is important that your NAP remains the same across all of your key sites and data aggregators. It is extremely important that NAPs are consistent.

We make sure that any sites that have incorrect data are corrected as soon as possible.

There will be a process by which any duplicate listings will either be consolidated where possible, or the duplicate listings will be removed.