NEW FREE VIDEO COURSE: How to Create a Winning Local SEO Strategy for Any Business

Get practical insights on crafting local SEO strategies that deliver real results for any business, big or small.

Join 55,000+ savvy marketers

Get the latest local SEO news, research, and tactical advice sent straight to your inbox.

We never share your private data.
Privacy Policy.
Top UK Citation Sites

Top UK Citation Sites

Published: July 1st, 2022

Last Updated: September 23rd, 2024

Getting your business listed on the most popular UK citation sites should be a key component of your search engine optimization (SEO) strategy.

Without a presence on a wide variety of UK business listings sites, you’ll likely find it harder to get noticed by potential customers and search engines!

The top citation sites for UK businesses receive millions of views every month and this means that countless local consumers could discover your business. This high level of traffic is one of the reasons that these sites are seen as authoritative and trustworthy in the eyes of Google. By creating citations for your business on several of these sites, you’ll see some of this authority and trust passed along to you.

The following list includes the best citation sites that you’ll want to create listings on. In putting together this list, we only chose sites that have a high domain authority to help maximize the results you enjoy from your efforts.

How do I list my business?

Building local citations is a time-consuming process that usually takes 15-20mins to do per site—but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Rather than spending hours creating an account on each site and uploading your business details, one by one, our team of citation specialists can do all the hard work for you. They deliver over 100,000 citations for 1,500+ businesses every month, so you’re in trusted hands. From just $2 per site, they’ll make sure your business appears in all the right local listing sites and directories.

Sounds good, right? Take a look at local Citation Builder to find out more.

Manage Multiple Listings Cta Cropped

31% of top 10 organic results for the average local search are business directories

Top UK Business Listing Sites

Citation SiteDomain AuthorityType
Apple Business Connect99General Directory
LinkedIn99General Directory
Google Business Profile94General Directory
Facebook94General Directory
TripAdvisor93Niche Directory
Instagram93General Directory
Evening Standard93General Directory
Bing Maps93General Directory
Trustpilot92General Directory
Waze92General Directory
Foursquare91General Directory
Manchester Evening News Directory90General + Local Directory
OpenStreetMap89General Directory
Liverpool Echo Directory89General + Local Directory
Chronicle Live Directory87General + Local Directory
Here86General Directory
Hostelworld83Niche Directory
Listly83General Directory
AAO82General Directory
Hull Daily Mail Directory82General + Local Directory
Nottingham Post Directory81General + Local Directory
TomTom81General Directory
Bristol Post Directory81General + Local Directory
Gazette Live Directory79General + Local Directory
Stoke Sentinel Directory77General + Local Directory
RateBeer76Niche Directory
Derby Telegraph Directory76General + Local Directory
Leicester Mercury Directory76General + Local Directory
Apsense75General Directory
Plymouth Herald Directory75General + Local Directory
Just Landed74General Directory
Grimsby Telegraph Directory74General + Local Directory
Bark73General Directory
Yell72General Directory
Yelp71General Directory
Best Plumbers70Niche Directory
HappyCow70Niche Directory
BatchGeo70General Directory
Kompass69General Directory
Netmums69Niche Directory
BOTW68General Directory
Ailoq68General Directory
Lodging World68Niche Directory
HG.org66Niche Directory
ProvenExpert66General Directory
Dexigner65Niche Directory
Storeboard64General Directory
RateMDs63Niche Directory
Brownbook63General Directory
Zeemaps63General Directory
Globey

Need help building citations?

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.