Every directory on your list is hand-picked, checked for real authority and real traffic, then submitted by people rather than bots. You give us your details once and the same name, address and phone goes on every listing. Seven of the biggest verify your business by post or phone, so we prepare those and walk you through them.
Your first listing is free. We build it while you are on the page, from the details you have just typed, before you decide about the rest.
Name, address, phone, website and categories. Filled in once, formatted into one consistent NAP we use everywhere.
Your business is submitted to every directory on your hand-picked list, with the details identical on each one, and verification handled wherever a directory allows it.
Watch each listing go live and get a completion report with the direct link to every citation we built.
We check for existing listings before submitting.A duplicate listing is worse than no listing.
When a listing already exists, we claim and update it rather than create a duplicate. Google penalises inconsistent duplicate listings - we prevent that from day one.
Start your campaign ->Every form reviewed before it goes out.Wrong data gets flagged, not quietly submitted.
We review every filled form before submission. Your business name, address, phone and website are checked against what you provided. Wrong data is flagged, not silently submitted.
Start your campaign ->Confirmation emails handled automatically.Most directories will not publish until someone clicks.
Most directories require email confirmation before a listing goes live. We intercept those emails and complete the verification automatically.
Start your campaign ->Directories curated for your business type.A plumber has no business in a restaurant guide.
A law firm shouldn't be in Checkatrade. A plumber doesn't need Checkatrade. We filter to include core UK directories that apply to everyone, plus industry-specific listings that actually matter.
Start your campaign ->Every submission logged with proof.You get the live URL for every listing we build.
Every directory attempted is logged with its outcome. Live URLs captured as soon as listings go live. A complete record of your citation profile.
Start your campaign ->Identical business details across every directory.One wrong phone number undoes the rest.
Google cross-references your Name, Address and Phone number across directories to verify your business is legitimate. Even small variations can undermine that trust signal. We normalise everything from a single source of truth.
Start your campaign ->A directory listing is a piece of evidence about your business, sitting where machines go looking for evidence about businesses. Two of them read it, for two different reasons.
Google does not take your word for where your business is. It cross-references your name, address and phone against everywhere else they appear. Twenty sources agreeing is a strong signal. Twenty sources disagreeing is a weak one, and it is worse than having nothing, because now there is doubt.
That is why we care more about the details being identical than about the number of listings. A directory with your old phone number on it is actively working against you.
When someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini or Google's AI Overview for a plumber in Bristol, the answer is assembled from indexed pages that state facts plainly. A directory listing is exactly that: a named business, an address, a phone number, a category, on a page a crawler has already read.
It is the same underlying data. A business that is consistently described across the indexed web is easier for a retrieval system to describe correctly than one that barely appears.
Nobody can currently prove that citations cause AI visibility, and you should be suspicious of anyone selling you that they do. The tools cannot see it either: Ahrefs reports zero AI citations for this very site across every platform it tracks, while Google's own AI Overview quotes us by name for uk directory submission. One of those two things is wrong, and it is not Google.
So here is the honest version. The mechanism is sound and the data is the same data. Whether it moves an AI answer for your business is not something anyone can measure yet. What we can tell you is what it demonstrably does for local search, which is the thing citations have been doing for fifteen years and still do. The longer version is here.
Each industry gets a curated directory set - core UK directories that apply to everyone, plus sector-specific listings that actually matter for your business.
What citation building actually is, why consistency beats volume, and what it costs to have it done for you.
Starter (£59) or Complete (£149), paid once. Add weekly monitoring for £24 a year if you want it kept alive.
Every directory we submit to, with its Domain Rating and the date we last checked it was live and still itself.
Practical guides on citations, NAP, Domain Rating, and what actually moves UK local rankings.
Common questions on citations, campaigns, pricing, and what to expect after launch.
Paste your business details, get an instant report of formatting issues that hurt UK local SEO.
What citation building looks like in your city, for your line of work. 12 UK cities, 10 industries.
SEOBurf went through CitationHQ with a recorded baseline. The full audit trail, published as it happens.
Company description, founder bio, headline stats and brand assets for journalists and partners.
Side by side on price, what each one submits, and the jobs BrightLocal does better than we do.
The story behind CitationHQ - and why a UK SEO consultant with 25 years in the game built it.
CitationHQ started at SEOBurf to solve a real problem. Citations matter for local ranking, but building them by hand across dozens of directories eats a day you do not have. So we do it for you.
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