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Top Citation Sites for Pubs and Bars

Top Citation Sites for Pubs and Bars

Running a pub or a bar will mean operating a business in an extremely competitive industry, so you’ll naturally want to have an edge. To gain an advantage over your competitors, it’s important to focus on building your reputation and spreading the word about your business.

There are many different components to building a positive reputation and your online presence is integral to this. As you work to develop your reputation online, building citations on business listing sites should be one of the first steps.

Local citation building is not a complicated task, but you do need to know where to focus your efforts. This is why we’ve put together the following table highlighting the best citation sites!

As you’ll see, the table contains key information, such as which country each site is for and which sites you can use for free.

Below the niche list, we’ve also gathered the top general citation sites that most businesses should try to get listed on.

Please note: Local citation sites listed here aren’t necessarily ones we can submit to using Citation Builder. Click here for more information.

Top Business Listing Sites for Pubs and Bars

Citation SiteDomain AuthorityCountryFree / Paid
ratebeer.com73ALLFree
agfg.com.au50AUSFree
pubsgalore.co.uk43UKFree
doggiepubs.org.uk41UKFree
nightguide.com34USA , UKFree
southampton-pubs.co.uk33UKFree
sportstavern.com28USAFree
gaybarmaps.com24USAFree / Paid
pubsulike.co.uk23UKFree
cheersm8.com20ALLFree
our-pub.co.uk18UKFree
baradvisor.com15ALLFree / Paid

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Top General Citation Sites

Citation SiteDomain AuthorityFree / Paid
Google Business Profile100Free
Apple Business Connect99Free
LinkedIn99Free
Facebook96Free
Instagram94Free
YELP (Country Variants)93Free
Trustpilot93Free / Paid
Waze92Paid
Foursquare92Free / Paid
OpenStreetMap90Free
Listly86Free / Paid
Here86Free / Paid
Nextdoor (Country Variants)83Free
AAO82Free
TomTom81Free / Paid
Local Yahoo77Free
Apsense75Free
Just Landed75Free / Paid
BatchGeo72Free / Paid
Kompass (Country Variants)69Free / Paid
Ailoq68Free / Paid
ProvenExpert67Free / Paid
Zeemaps67Free / Paid
Storeboard64Free / Paid
Brownbook64Free
The Dots62Free / Paid
Tupalo59Free / Paid
Hotfrog (Country Variants)58Free / Paid
Cybo58Free
Infobel58Free / Paid
BizPages58Free / Paid
TrepUp57Free
Callupcontact55Free
BOTW (Best of the Web)55Paid
Twidloo55Free / Paid
YPLocal55Free
Adpost55Free / Paid
StartUs54Free
EnrollBusiness (Country Variants)54Free
ShowMeLocal53Free / Paid
Yellow.place53Free
Zumvu52Free / Paid
Bing Maps51Free
GlobalCatalog51Free
LinkCentre51Free / Paid
Startups SnapMunk50Free
FindIt48Free / Paid
Place12348Free
2FindLocal46Free / Paid
AGreaterTown46Free / Paid

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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.