Canadian Local SEO gurus: What are the best citation sources?
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I have been trying to gain some position in our local O-pack results and have used whitespark to hunt for citations and aquire as many as possible, but even after 4-5 months google has still not detected many of the citations we have added. What are you favourite citation sources? which ones really help? i.e. what are some quality canadian citation sources?
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Great I'm glad I assist. If this helped answer your question, please mark it.
Thanks!
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Thanks, but that's an American only site.
Edit: i was wrong, there is a canadian version! thanks!
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I'm happy to report that I just learned about citations. To get local listings I like: http://getlisted.org/
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Either you've never had to deal with local search optimization, or you are just answering questions with fake answers for the moz points.
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Citation is not a popular word in the US seo community. Is there another word that can describe what you are talking about?
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