Citation Audit & Cleanup
A deep citation audit finds every wrong, duplicate, and missing listing hurting your rankings — then our cleanup fixes them. Wrong NAP, duplicate profiles, and outdated information silently drag down local SEO. We find it all and clean it up.
Why You Need a Citation Audit
Over time, business listings drift. You move offices, change phone numbers, rebrand — and old listings stay behind with outdated information. Data aggregators spread the wrong data further. Well-meaning staff create extra profiles. The result: dozens of inconsistent citations telling Google conflicting stories about your business.
A citation audit is a systematic scan of everywhere your business appears online, checking each listing for accuracy. Without one, you're building new citations on a shaky foundation. Our audit finds the problems; our cleanup fixes them.
What Our Audit Checks
- Incorrect NAP — wrong or outdated name, address, or phone number on any listing
- Duplicate listings — multiple profiles for the same business splitting your authority
- Missing listings — major directories where your business should appear but doesn't
- Wrong categories — listings filed under irrelevant or misleading categories
- Broken details — dead website links, wrong hours, missing descriptions
- Unclaimed profiles — listings you don't control that someone else could edit
How the Cleanup Works
- Full scan — we audit your citation footprint across major directories and aggregators.
- Issue report — you get a clear list of every problem found: duplicates, errors, gaps.
- Fix & suppress — incorrect listings are corrected where possible; duplicates are merged or suppressed.
- Fill the gaps — missing high-value listings are built fresh with correct NAP.
- Final verification — a clean live-link report confirms your profile is accurate everywhere.
💡 Included, not extra: a citation audit & cleanup is built into our Standard ($40) and Premium ($65) packages. For a standalone audit of an established business with years of listing history, message us on WhatsApp for a custom quote.
Signs You Need a Cleanup
Your rankings dropped after a move, rebrand, or phone change. You find your business listed with an old address. There are two or more profiles for your business on the same directory. Your NAP looks different on different sites. An SEO tool flags citation inconsistencies. If any of these sound familiar, an audit will pay for itself in recovered rankings.
After cleanup, lock in the gains with ongoing local citation building and a NAP consistency check to keep everything aligned going forward.
Choose Your Citation Package
One-time payment. No subscriptions. Live-link report included.
BASIC
- 25 manual directory submissions
- Live-link report
- NAP consistency check
- Duplicate removal
STANDARD
- 200 manual directory submissions
- Yext & Moz lists included
- Citation audit & cleanup
- NAP consistency guaranteed
PREMIUM
- 300 manual directory submissions
- 20 premium DA 50–90 listings
- Google Maps ranking focus
- Priority delivery
Need 400+ citations or multiple locations? Get a custom quote on WhatsApp · Compare all packages →
Citation Audit FAQs
Common questions about audits and cleanup.
Most can — either by editing, claiming and correcting, or requesting removal/suppression of duplicates. A few directories are stubborn, but we resolve the vast majority of issues found.
It depends on how many issues exist. Typical cleanups complete within one to two weeks; some directory corrections take longer to reflect as directories process updates on their own schedules.
Often yes — removing conflicting data helps Google trust your correct NAP. For the biggest impact, pair cleanup with fresh citation building afterward.
Usually not — new businesses have no legacy listings to clean. Start with citation building; audits matter once you've been listed around the web for a while or after business changes.
Your correct business name, address, phone, website — and any old addresses or phone numbers you may have used. That lets us spot every outdated trace.
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