Top Free Online Business Listings for SEO
the ultimate guide of most popular local directories

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the best free local listings sites to advertise on February 2021

Google
Google My Business is a free service form search giant, with options to show photos, reviews, product, services and add you company location to Google Maps. It is must to have place for any small and medium business that is looking to reach more customers.

Facebook
Facebook is a social network a big one, the biggest one and after Google My Business it is a second must to have a profile on. It is visited by over 1.49 billion people daily and adds 500,000 new users every day.

Apple Maps
Apple Map is a web mapping service developed by Apple Inc. It is the default map system of iOS, macOS, and watchOS. It provides directions and estimated times of arrival for automobile, pedestrian, and public transportation navigation.

Bing Places
Bing Places for Business is Microsoft’s own free directory. It let companies to create an improved local search experience and provide potential customers with accurate information about their businesses.

Yelp
Yelp headquartered in San Francisco, California was founded in 2004. Today company reported to have around 62 million unique visitors via desktop computer and 76.7 million unique visitors via its mobile website monthly.

Uber
Uber is a ride-hailing mobile application, it let consumers to order a private or shared drive. Company for founded in 2009 San Francisco, California since then it become available in over 900 cities globally, in 93 countries with average 18.7 million trips per day as in Q1 2020.

Foursquare
Foursquare started back in 2009 as a check-in application and accumulated over 13 billion check-ins. Today Foursquare service over 150.000 developers who use their “Pilgrim technology” including Uber, Tencent, Apple, Samsung, and Twitter.

Waze
Waze is a GPS navigation software application developed and run by Google. It works on any smartphones, tablet or computers that have GPS support. According to Google's data Waze has 140 million monthly active users.

Yandex
Yandex is a Russian market oriented search and information services, eCommerce, navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising with over 53 million monthly users and 20 million unique daily viewers.

Snapchat
Snapchat is an American multimedia company that produced popular multimedia application with over 330 millions users worldwide and 180 millions active users and 4 billions snaps created daily.

Baidu
Baidu is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services. It has the second largest search engine in the world, and held a 76.05% market share in China's search engine market.

MapQuest
Mapquest listing is the first commercial web mapping service launched in 1996 and owned by Verizon Media. Now it is a free web cartography competing with Google and Apple Maps.

Yahoo
Yahoo is one of the internet services pioneers starting back in 1990. Today it is most known as mail service provider, news portal and search engine (with partnership with Bing). In 2017 Yahoo partnered with AOL to be a part of Verizon digital and mobile media company.

Yellow Pages
Yellow Pages was founded back in 1996 in the time of dot.com boom era. Today it claims to have 60 million visitors monthly and ranks in the top most successful digital media company by application downloaded and revenue generated.

Zomato
Zomato is a restaurant aggregator and food delivery application founded in 2008 in India. Today it let its users to discover over a million restaurants across United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, India, Turkey, UAE, Qatar, Portugal, South Africa, New Zealand.

HERE
HERE Technologies is a global company with over 9.000 employers in 56 countries. It helps to move people, goods and organizations safely and efficiently. HERE produce accurate maps including 3D maps, live traffic, public transit and deliver them using cloud technology.

TomTom
TomTom produce highly accurate maps, navigation software and hardware with real-time traffic information. According to company data over 800 million people who use its physical hardware and applications combined.

Nextdoor
Nextdoor was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California in 2011 it started it service in US and currently available in 11 countries. Only registered users could make posts and these posts only available to other Nextdoor members living in the same neighborhood.

Citysearch
Citysearch was founded in 1995 this online directory provides users with information about businesses organized by categories like: dining, entertainment, retail, travel, and professional services in cities in USA.

Merchant Circle
Merchant Circle was founded in 2005 and launched in 2006 now services over 100 million visitors per year. Today Merchant Circle become one of the largest online network of local business owners in US and a must be present directory with 2 million merchants and 100 million consumes.

Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes is one of the leaders in e-commerce and sending technology solutions with over a 1 million of active customers. They help to ship parcels and packages all over the world and powers billions of online transactions.

Factual
Factual is a location data company today become a part of Foursquare. Its focus is to help marketers and their organizations to better, target and measure to build and execute digital advertising strategies, understand audiences.

BuildZoom
BuildZoom is the perfect place for contractors and freelancers with it's goal to connect homeowners to the most reliable general contractors in their area for commercial or residential buildings.

Central Index
Central Index is a global business directory with over 160 million index cards. Take control of your company profile and share your true information with the world.

AroundMe
AroundMe is one of the must have directories for local business owners, as it services over 25 million searches per month. People are looking for nearest banks, gas stations, lawyers, doctors, locksmiths and others.

Insider Pages
Insider Pages was founded in 2004 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Today it's grown into a business directory with more than 1.5 million user generated reviews and gets over 5 million unique visitors each month.

Yellowbook
Yellowbook is a local online directory where visitors could search for business by categories and address, plus there is an option to search for individuals by first name, last name and city and there is an option to look for records via phone number.

Local.com
Local.com is an online local-search engine with a database that has over 16 million business in every zip code in the United States. This directory goal is to provide relevant search results for local businesses, products and services.

Credibility Review
Credibility Review is a service from Dun & Bradstreet providing business with credit monitoring solutions that is used by over 125 local search platforms, directories, navigation devices and mobile applications.

Mafengwo
Mafengwo is a high trafficking directory for Chinese travelers plus it makes possible for users to share their travel experiences with each other. Open your door for over 100 million this listing site users and greet new customers.

American Towns
AmericanTowns platform has it presence in over 29K towns across United States. Now this directory has become a proven trusted resource for local business searches thanks to television, radio, newspaper and online advertising campaigns.

Yellowbot
Yellowbot ia a local online directory with a goal to make it easier for customers to find right business online. It is a place where owners could exchange tips and customers share their experiences.

Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1998 and by now has attracted over 2 million members and over 25 million users performing search for a local business with help of this online business directory.

Bizapedia
Bizapedia is an online directory where users could get weekly data lists in CSV file format of all new company filings by State, perform unlimited advanced searches and B2B checks.

Hotfrog
Hotfrog has over 66 million business profiles in 36 countries, the information is collected from publicly available records, websites and from commercial data services.

DexKnows
Dexknows helps to connect millions of consumers with best local businesses in their neighborhoods. This online directory with it's presence in over 60 countries make it easy and fast to connect businesses with their clients.

eLocal
eLocal helps to find a local company when internet users are looking for a bank branch, doctor, lawyer, locksmith, plumber, hotel, post office, pizza delivery or any other business or service they need at the moment.

Mapstr
Mapstr is a map application that helps users to track their trips, organize them, share with friends, add tags and sort them to find on your iPhone, Android or Apple Watch. Mapstr has build a community for over 60.000 users worldwide.

Brownbook
Brownbook is a global reference resource where business owners or their agents list their businesses to get better online presence. This directory listing helps any website's in search engine results page ranking.

Navmii
Navmii is a mapping company which develops both standard digital map data and HD map and is available in 197 countries. It is one of the worlds leaders in live traffic information, local search and driver scores.

EZlocal
EZlocal since 2007 is trying to be a leader in digital presence management for thousands of business locations. manage their local-social content across internet directories, online maps, social networks, and search engine.

Cylex
Cylex operates over 30 online business directories, that are visited by over than a 1 million unique users daily. In ten years of existence it has reached all five continents. Company's goal is to deliver a relevant search results to users with accurate business listings.

Superpages
Superpages is a poplar free local US based online directory with millions of monthly views. All profiles in it are organized by states, the headquarters is located in Texas.

ShowMeLocal
ShowMeLocal has over 19 millions of companies profiles with over 375 thousand user submitted reviews. An important place for any company that wants to supply prospect customers with a comprehensive information about their products or services.

Buzzfile
Buzzfile was founded by Aziz Akin in 2012. In 2020 users could find information about over 18 million U.S. businesses with extra tools for marketing teams to make highly targeted prospect lists.

8coupons
8coupons is poplar New York-based directory, iphone and android apps that aggregate and promote special deals and coupons to consumers all over the country

iBegin
iBegin provides listings for USA, Canada, the UK, and New Zealand. Use our service to be sure your business is properly listed.

LocalStack
LocalStack mission is to help to discover best local businesses by combining interactions across all of the major social media sites and measuring engagement they get. Another way to find a perfect place where you are.
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