If you’re serious about growing your business in Belgium, you’ll need to incorporate local citation building into your local search plan. A good spread of business listings, across a wide range of both general and industry-specific citation sites can boost your local search presence. It also makes your business much easier to find, both online and in person, for local consumers.
Multiple listings, with consistent information, create an air of credibility. They also signal to search engines and search users that you’re an active, legitimate local business with a real local presence. Feeding this kind of data to search engines boosts their understanding of which areas you serve, and the products or services you offer. In turn, this will help your business to be returned for more relevant local searches.
What is a local listing?
A local citation is an online mention of your business information. It can take various forms and appear in a wide range of places.
As a minimum, the mention must include your NAP: business name, address, and phone number.
Why are local Belgian citations important?
Belgian shopping habits changed enormously during the Covid-19 pandemic. It had a relatively small e-commerce market before 2019, but post-2020 local online purchases of non-food items increased by 66%.
Building local citations allows you to gain visibility with those local shoppers.
Building Belgian Listings
With three official languages (French, German, and Dutch), you’ll need to be something of a linguist if you plan to build Belgian business listings manually. Swapping between multiple languages makes manual citation building more complex and more time-consuming than ever.
You’ll need to be able to navigate account creation and registration, deal with input forms, and check for completeness. These are all time-intensive and repetitive tasks in their own right. They take up an even greater chunk of resources if you need to switch between three or four different languages and grapple with translation, too.
Belgium Citation List
Citation Site Domain Authority Type
Apple Business Connect 99 General Directory
LinkedIn 99 General Directory
Facebook 94 General Directory
TripAdvisor 93 Niche Directory
Instagram 93 General Directory
Bing Maps 93 General Directory
Trustpilot 92 General Directory
Waze 92 General Directory
Foursquare 91 General Directory
Google Business Profile 90 General Directory
OpenStreetMap 89 General Directory
Here 86 General Directory
Hostelworld 83 Niche Directory
TomTom 81 General Directory
All-Biz 77 General Directory
RateBeer 76 Niche Directory
Apsense 75 General Directory
Just Landed 74 General Directory
HappyCow 70 Niche Directory
BatchGeo 70 General Directory
Kompass 69 General Directory
Ailoq 68 General Directory
HG.org 66 Niche Directory
ProvenExpert 66 General Directory
Storeboard 64 General Directory
Brownbook 63 General Directory
Zeemaps 63 General Directory
Infobel 58 General Directory
Alternative Health Directory 58 Niche Directory
Cybo 58 General Directory
Tupalo 58 General Directory
OneWed 57 Niche Directory
BizPages 57 General Directory
Find Attorneys 56 Niche Directory
TrepUp 56 General Directory
Cannabis.Net 55 Niche Directory
BOTW (Best of the Web) 55 General Directory
Callupcontact 55 General Directory
Twidloo 55 General Directory
Free Campsites 55 Niche Directory
EnrollBusiness 54 General Directory
YPLocal 54 General Directory
StartUs 53 General Directory
Zumvu 52 General Directory
Dentagama 51 Niche Directory
Yellow.place 51 General Directory
Goudengids 51 General Directory
My Moving Reviews 51 Niche Directory
GlobalCatalog 51 General Directory
WhoDoYou 46 General Directory