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Repair · quoted
Citation cleanup for duplicates, dead listings, and wrong NAP
Repair NAP, duplicates, and dead listings — quoted to the entity, not a cleanup SKU.
Citation cleanup is repair work: merge or suppress duplicates, fix NAP, kill or redirect dead listings, and report what still lives. It is quoted. It is not a package of 200 new submissions and not a second copy of citation building. We cannot force a register we do not operate.
Enquire Now — quoted to the brief. No public DR grid.
By the numbers
2022
year the Richmond, Australia desk was founded
24 hours
typical quote reply when we can place it
Citation cleanup means the entity already exists in too many places, or in the wrong shape. Worldwide Backlinks quotes a repair pass — not a “fresh 500 citations” upsell. This page is not citation building and not directory submissions. Those URLs add or apply. This URL subtracts noise. Enquire Now. There is no public cleanup SKU and no ranking promise for the map pack.
Citation cleanup and NAP consistency →
What we repair — and what we cannot pretend to control
Typical mess: two Google-adjacent listings, an old suburb after a move, a phone number from a previous owner, a franchise HQ pasted onto every rooftop, directories that still show a closed shop. Cleanup is contacting those sources, claiming where claim is possible, and documenting the ones that will not move.
We do not run Google Business Profile as a staffed GBP agency. We do not log into a client’s Maps account unless you put us on it in writing. We do not guarantee a register will merge duplicates on our timeline. What we can do is work the list, report live state, and replace work we were responsible for if an agreed correction is reverted.
DataForSEO and the usual SEO crawlers can show referring domains. They are weak at NAP diffs. The brief needs the current truth: legal name, trading name, address, phone, hours if relevant, and the wrong variants you already know about.
Founded 2022, Richmond VIC. Australian moves and ABN changes are home turf. US and UK cleanup needs the city named. We will not run a US data vendor’s “suppression file” as if it were fulfilment.
Who should quote cleanup instead of new citations
Businesses that moved or rebranded
The old NAP is still outranking the new one. Adding more listings without killing the old ones usually makes Maps worse.
Acquisitions and multi-location groups
Legacy names, closed stores, and shared phone numbers. One rooftop per workstream.
Agencies inheriting a blast campaign
Someone already bought 400 citations. You need a subtractive pass, not a second blast.
How a cleanup quote runs
01
Build the truth sheet
Current NAP and the wrong variants. Photos of the door if the address is contested. Licence numbers when a register cares.
02
Inventory the live mess
Known URLs you send, plus an obvious public crawl. We mark claimable, mail-only, and dead.
03
Claim, correct, or request removal
Manual. No automated suppression fairy. Some sources will ignore us. Those land on the report as unresolved.
04
Report remaining live state
What changed, what refused, what still needs the client’s login. If a correction we placed is reverted, we re-open that ticket.
What a cleanup quote typically includes
- 01
Truth sheet for the entity
- 02
Inventory of duplicate and dead listings we can see
- 03
Manual claim / correction / removal requests
- 04
A report of resolved vs refused sources
- 05
Re-open if an agreed correction is reverted
- 06
Quoted fee — Enquire Now
Cleanup is not a new-citation package
Vendors love to sell cleanup as “we will also add 200 new citations.” That is how you get a second layer of junk. If you need new named listings after the repair, that is citations. If you need a specific directory application, that is directory submissions.
Editorial links do not fix a wrong phone number. Do not order DR40+ at $250 and write “cleanup” in the notes.
Quoted repair — no cleanup SKU
Enquire Now. There is no public citation-cleanup price and no portal checkout. New listings and directory applications are separate quotes. Article rates live on pricing.
Wikipedia, adult, CBD, crypto, directories, custom
Quoted to the brief. Same white-hat QC. White-label uses the published rates plus branded reports — no extra SKU.
Cleanup vs new citations vs a blast
Subtractive work first when the graph is dirty. Adding more listings on top of wrong NAP is how map packs wobble.
Swipe to compare every column →
| Criteria | Citation cleanup | New citations | Blast pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job | Fix or kill bad listings | Add accurate new ones | Maximise URL count |
| Brief | Wrong variants + truth NAP | Entity + geo | A spreadsheet |
| Price | Enquire Now | Enquire Now | $ cheap per URL |
| Success | Fewer conflicts | Correct live listings | A long PDF |
| If it fails | Report the refusal | Replace comparable listing | Already billed |
Timelines we will not invent
Standard English guest posts have a 20-day maximum TAT. Citation registers do not. A chamber, a data aggregator, and a map product each have their own queue. We will say so on the quote rather than borrow the guest-post clock.
Talk to Richmond: Building 1, 658 Church Street, VIC 3121. 1 800 751 994. support@worldwidebacklinks.com.
Common questions
Do you sell a citation-cleanup SKU?
No public SKU. Quoted to the entity and the mess. No clients.worldwidebacklinks.com cleanup checkout.
Will you log into our Google Business Profile?
Only if you add us in writing. This page is not a GBP management retainer.
Can you guarantee duplicates will merge?
No. We request merges and corrections. Registers decide. We report what they did.
Should we buy new citations at the same time?
Usually after the worst conflicts are gone. We will say if the brief is still too dirty.
Do you clean international listings?
If you name the country and language. We will not fire English-US cleanup at a Japanese entity.
Is this the same as a backlink audit?
No. A backlink audit is the link graph. This page is NAP listings.
How fast is cleanup?
Depends on the registers. We will not borrow the 20-day guest-post TAT for a chamber queue.
Related landings
Send the truth NAP and the wrong variants you already know
We will quote a repair pass — or tell you the mess is a GBP login we should not fake. Richmond VIC 3121 · 1 800 751 994.