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Best tools for checking competitors citations.
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I am using whitespark and brightlocal to run citation checks for my clients. I was curious if there was a good tool to compare competitor citations + other local metrics easily without paying per report.
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Hello
Whitespark's paid citation tool continues to be the most widely-cited in the Local SEO industry. However, have you tried SEOverflow's Local Search Toolkit?
http://www.localsearchtoolkit.com/
I know it was free when it was released. Not sure if it remains so. Might be worth checking out!
Miriam
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Thats right, totally forgot about that whiteboard! Thakns much.
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I'm not sure if there is a good, free tool out there, but Rand covered this in a Whiteboard Friday a few months ago. Check out the attached video. At item #4, he discusses using some search operators to get a basic idea of your competitors' citations. This can be done by searching for the competitor's name, address and excluding the results for their own site. Like this:
competitor "1234 competitor ave" -site:competitor.com
The results are sometimes a little messy but its a great place to start. Hope this helps!
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