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Top South Africa Citation Sites

Top South Africa Citation Sites

Published: July 1st, 2022

Last Updated: October 7th, 2024

Creating citations on the top business directories in South Africa should be a foundational step in your search engine optimization (SEO) plan. 

When you establish a powerful presence across the best South African online business listing sites, you help to make your business more visible to consumers and search engines. 

The top South African business directories are great places to get your information listed—and this is the case regardless of the industry you work in. 

We’ve put together a table of the listing sites you’ll definitely want to consider when you’re building citations. Only directory sites with a high domain authority have been included in our table so you can have greater confidence in the SEO value of your efforts.

How do I get my business listed?

You can follow the links below to find the best sites for your industry. From here you’ll need to create an account on each site before you can go ahead and input your business details. This usually takes around 15-20 minutes to do per site.

Alternatively, you can quickly and easily build listings on niche sites in over 40 industries using our local Citation Builder service.

All you need to do is create a free account, pick the sites you want to get listed on, and our citation specialists will take care of the rest. A task that would usually take hours to do can be completed in minutes, from as little as $2 per site.

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Get your business listed in all the right places

Top South African Business Listing Sites

Citation SiteDomain AuthorityType
Apple Business Connect99General Directory
LinkedIn99General Directory
Facebook94General Directory
TripAdvisor93Niche Directory
Instagram93General Directory
Bing Maps93General Directory
Trustpilot92General Directory
Waze92General Directory
Foursquare91General Directory
OpenStreetMap89General Directory
Google Business Profile87General Directory
Here86General Directory
Hostelworld83Niche Directory
Listly83General Directory
AAO82General Directory
TomTom81General Directory
Bizcommunity79General Directory
RateBeer76Niche Directory
Apsense75General Directory
Just Landed74General Directory
Bark73General Directory
Best Plumbers70Niche Directory
HappyCow70Niche Directory
BatchGeo70General Directory
Kompass69General Directory
Ailoq68General Directory
HG.org66Niche Directory
Lodging World68Niche Directory
ProvenExpert66General Directory
Dexigner65Niche Directory
Storeboard64General Directory
RateMDs63Niche Directory
Brownbook63General Directory
Zeemaps63General Directory
Infobel58General Directory
Alternative Health Directory58Niche Directory
Cybo58General Directory
Tupalo58General Directory
OneWed57Niche Directory
BizPages57General Directory
Find Attorneys56Niche Directory
TrepUp56General Directory
Cannabis.Net55Niche Directory
BOTW (Best of the Web)55General Directory
Callupcontact55General Directory
Twidloo55General Directory
Free Campsites55Niche Directory
EnrollBusiness54General Directory
YPLocal54General Directory
StartUs53General Directory

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Rada Daktina
About the author
Rada works tirelessly to manage BrightLocal's Citation Builder product. She oversees the processes and queries related to the campaigns, works closely with the Research team on the continuous upkeep of our citations database, and with our Product team on the improvements and fixes to the Citation Builder tool itself.