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Submitting a business to three hundred sites does not help you rank higher on Google Maps. Appearing consistently on the right ones does. Below is that list of the right ones for six countries: which are free, how verification works, how long each takes.
Last checked: 2026-09-29. You don't need to buy anything to work through these.
Pick your country
Sixty directories matter in the US; in New Zealand it's nine. Click a country and you get the ones that work in that market, in submission order, with what to watch on each.
How to use this
All of citation work fits into these three steps. If you're looking for a fourth, what you want isn't a citation — it's a measurement.
Whatever you typed in Google Business Profile is the CANONICAL name, address and phone. Write it into a note file and paste from there on every submission.
Every country's list is different. Click a flag and you get the directories that actually matter in that market, in order.
Citations are a threshold: missing ones hold you back, complete ones don't push you up alone. Once cleared, the work becomes measurement.
Definition
A citation is your business name, address and phone appearing somewhere else on the web. What Google weighs in local ranking is not the mention but the CONSISTENCY of mentions: when independent sites report the same details for the same business, confidence that it genuinely exists there goes up.
What it does not do is equally clear: citations alone will not lift you above a competitor. Review volume, category selection, distance from the searcher and site authority outweigh them on most queries.
Nearly every directory list in this industry is stale: dead links, closed sites, undated tables. An agency closes the tab after the third dead link and never opens it again.
So this page carries a date. The date is not a claim of honesty, it is a commitment: if it isn't maintained, the page gives itself away.
Last checked: 2026-09-29
There is no single Google Maps ranking; it changes with where the searcher stands. Memin splits the area into a grid, measures at every point, and extracts the measurable gap between you and whoever ranks above you.