Founder, Local Citation Services and Local SEO Expert Sharif has built local citations by hand since 2009, across 24,000+ orders and 50+ countries. He leads the team that submits every listing manually, checks what already exists before adding anything, and reports back with a live URL and a login for each one. He writes about what the work actually involves, what goes wrong, and what a business owner can check for themselves without buying a tool.
How long does a local citation take to go live? Most local citations go live between a few days and a few weeks after submission. Submission takes minutes per listing. Approval belongs to each directory and ranges from instant to over a month. Across a typical order, roughly 80% of submissions go live, and the […]