A citation is a structured mention of your entity: name, address, phone, and usually a category, on a site whose job is to list businesses. Worldwide Backlinks quotes that work per entity and geo. There is no $99 citation pack and no public DR grid for listings. This page is not directory submissions. Directories are the application-and-listing product. Citations are the entity-consistency product — the same NAP, the same category, fewer but cleaner sources. Enquire Now.
Citations vs backlinks — NAP listings are not guest posts →
What a named citation is on this desk
Citation building, done honestly, is entity hygiene. Google’s local systems and a lot of map products still reconcile who you are from repeating, consistent NAP. A relevant industry register or a city listing that residents use can support that. A folder of 10,000 outbound links titled “submit your site” cannot. We look at the listing page, not just the domain’s Domain Rating.
That is why this URL is not a second copy of directory submissions. The directory page is “which registers should we apply to.” This page is “make the named entity consistent and present where it already should be.” Cleanup of duplicates and dead listings is a third URL: citation cleanup. Do not buy all three as one mystery SKU.
Editorial links still do the heavy ranking work for most commercial pages. Guest posts start at $125. Local SEO backlinks is the listings-and-mix product when you need both contextual city articles and NAP. This page stays on the citation object.
Founded 2022, Richmond VIC. 15+ languages, 40+ countries. A US citation vendor does not automatically cover Melbourne. Name the city. International citations follow the same language rule as international guest posts: local entity, local register.
Who should quote citations
Local businesses with a real address
Maps, brand search, and category queries care about consistent NAP. A national thought-leadership DR50 does not fix a wrong suburb.
Multi-location teams that keep mixing rooftops
One city per brief. We will not paste the HQ NAP onto every franchise listing to look complete.
Agencies that refuse blast vendors
You can keep the client story honest: a shortlist with a reason, quoted, replaceable — not 400 URLs to hide from the analyst.
How a citation quote runs
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Lock the entity
Legal name, trading name, address, phone, category, geo, any licence numbers. Wrong NAP in the brief becomes wrong NAP on the web.
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Shortlist registers that still have a reader
City, industry, or map-adjacent sources. We propose a reason for each, not a count of submissions.
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Submit or claim accurately
Manual. Categories that match the business. No keyword stuffing in the description.
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Report live listings, replace if pulled
You get the live URL. If an agreed listing is removed, we replace it on a comparable register. Forever-live is not a claim we make.
What a citation quote typically includes
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Entity sheet: NAP, category, geo, licences
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A shortlist with a reason for each register
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Manual submit or claim — no automated submitter
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Live listing URLs on the report
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Replacement if an agreed listing is pulled
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Quoted fee — Enquire Now, not a DR band
Citations vs directory submissions vs local articles
Directory submissions are applications to specific directories we name on the quote. Citations are the entity-consistency layer — often overlapping sources, different success metric (NAP match, not “we submitted 200”). Local link building explains contextual city links versus NAP. Use the article when the money page needs a referring page a searcher would read.
Wikipedia, adult, CBD, and crypto stay on their own Enquire Now doors. We will not hide a hemp shop inside a “local wellness citations” pack.