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.
Get your business listed in all the right places
Top South African Business Listing Sites
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
OpenStreetMap 89 General Directory
Google Business Profile 87 General Directory
Here 86 General Directory
Hostelworld 83 Niche Directory
Listly 83 General Directory
AAO 82 General Directory
TomTom 81 General Directory
Bizcommunity 79 General Directory
RateBeer 76 Niche Directory
Apsense 75 General Directory
Just Landed 74 General Directory
Bark 73 General Directory
Best Plumbers 70 Niche Directory
HappyCow 70 Niche Directory
BatchGeo 70 General Directory
Kompass 69 General Directory
Ailoq 68 General Directory
HG.org 66 Niche Directory
Lodging World 68 Niche Directory
ProvenExpert 66 General Directory
Dexigner 65 Niche Directory
Storeboard 64 General Directory
RateMDs 63 Niche 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
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