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Top Citation Sites in Belgium

Top Citation Sites in Belgium

Published: March 1st, 2024

Last Updated: October 4th, 2024

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 SiteDomain AuthorityType
Apple Business Connect99General Directory
LinkedIn99General Directory
Facebook94General Directory
TripAdvisor93Niche Directory
Instagram93General Directory
Bing Maps93General Directory
Trustpilot92General Directory
Waze92General Directory
Foursquare91General Directory
Google Business Profile90General Directory
OpenStreetMap89General Directory
Here86General Directory
Hostelworld83Niche Directory
Listly83General Directory
AAO82General Directory
TomTom81General Directory
RateBeer76Niche Directory
Apsense75General Directory
Just Landed74General Directory
HappyCow70Niche Directory
BatchGeo70General Directory
Kompass69General Directory
Ailoq68General Directory
HG.org66Niche Directory
ProvenExpert66General Directory
Storeboard64General 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
Zumvu52General Directory
Dentagama51Niche Directory
Yellow.place51General Directory
Goudengids51General Directory
My Moving Reviews51Niche Directory
GlobalCatalog51General 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.