Local Citation Finder
Find the Best Citation Opportunities For Your Business

What is a Citation?
A Citation is any mention of your business on the web, with or without a link. It is any combination of your company name, phone number, address, zip or postal code. Citations can be structured or unstructured.
Why Are Citations Important?
Citations are important for local search rankings as they verify that a business exists, establish trust, and create prominence. Business listing directories, blogs, magazine/newspaper sites, wikis, and more are all considered citation sources.
What is The Local Citation Finder?
Whitespark’s Local Citation Finder is a tool that helps you discover where to list your business online, examine your competitors, and monitor growth for better local search rankings.
Increase Your Local Search Rankings

Search Targeted Keyphrases
Search your desired keyphrase(s) based on your industry, product or service (example. “dentist”). We help you identify other potential variants based on your location (“dentist in Portland”) to ensure you don’t miss any potential citation sources.

Identify Top Ranking Competitors
Find out what businesses are ranking in the top local results and explore their citation profiles.

Analyze Your Competitors Citations
Use the compare tool to see what citations your competitors have that you don’t and compare the citations of the Top 10 ranking businesses. You can add businesses or other competitors to your searches as well.

Discover Citation Opportunities
We scour the internet to find all of the citation site listings for top ranking sites. You review the opportunities to find the best citations for your business and build new listings; which help improve your local ranking factors.
Powerful Citation Analysis Features

Create
Projects
Set your business locations as a project to help organize all of your searches, and manage your search results.

Competitive
Analysis
Find who your top competitors are for a specific keyphrase and compare your citation profile to theirs.

Compare
Searches
Compare searches to see which citations sources your business may be missing against top ranking businesses.

Citation
Monitoring
Monitor your monthly citation growth and visually see your progress over time.

Citation
Verification
Verify the existence of your citations. Our system will check each source result from a business search or project, and confirm if your business is actually listed on the site.

Make Notes
Use the notes feature to document any important observations or reminders for later.
By building citations, you increase your chances of improved rankings.
Our tool is available in 45 countries:

US

Canada

UK

Australia

New Zealand

Argentina

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Chile

Columbia

Croatia

Czech Republic

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Ireland

Italy

Lithuania

Mexico

Netherlands

Norway

Malaysia

Poland

Philippines

Portugal

Russia

Romania

Serbia

Singapore

Slovenia

South Africa

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Thailand

Turkey

United Arab Emirates
Starter
FREE
3 Searches/Day
1 Project
Limited
Search Results
Compare ToolCompetitive AnalysisCitation MonitoringTrack your progressExport to CSV
SMALL BUSINESS
$17
20 Searches/Day
5 Projects
Unlimited
Search Results
- Compare Tool
- Competitive Analysis
- Citation Monitoring
- Track your progress
- Export to CSV
SPECIALIST
$24
30 Searches/Day
10 Projects
Unlimited
Search Results
- Compare Tool
- Competitive Analysis
- Citation Monitoring
- Track your progress
- Export to CSV
AGENCY
$32
40 Searches/Day
20 Projects
Unlimited
Search Results
- Compare Tool
- Competitive Analysis
- Citation Monitoring
- Track your progress
- Export to CSV
ENTERPRISE
$80
100 Searches/Day
100 Projects
Unlimited
Search Results
- Compare Tool
- Competitive Analysis
- Citation Monitoring
- Track your progress
- Export to CSV
Starter
FREE
3 Searches/Day
1 Project
Limited
Search Results
Compare ToolCompetitive AnalysisCitation MonitoringTrack your progressExport to CSV
SMALL BUSINESS
$20
20 Searches/Day
5 Projects
Unlimited
Search Results
- Compare Tool
- Competitive Analysis
- Citation Monitoring
- Track your progress
- Export to CSV
SPECIALIST
$30
30 Searches/Day
10 Projects
Unlimited
Search Results
- Compare Tool
- Competitive Analysis
- Citation Monitoring
- Track your progress
- Export to CSV
AGENCY
$40
40 Searches/Day
20 Projects
Unlimited
Search Results
- Compare Tool
- Competitive Analysis
- Citation Monitoring
- Track your progress
- Export to CSV
ENTERPRISE
$100
100 Searches/Day
100 Projects
Unlimited
Search Results
- Compare Tool
- Competitive Analysis
- Citation Monitoring
- Track your progress
- Export to CSV
Features included in all plans*:
*Excluding Free plan
Definitions
For more information on these definitions, please see our post, “What is a Citation for Local SEO?”
Citation
A Citation is any mention of your business on the web, with or without a link. It is any combination of your company name, phone number, address, zip or postal code. Citations can also be structured or unstructured.
Structured Citation
Structured Citations are the most common form and can be found on business listing sites.
Unstructured Citation
Unstructured Citation sources are mentions of your business on blogs, newspaper websites, event listings, job databases, government websites and so on.

Frequently Asked Questions
Download a copy of our Local Citation Finder Overview and Features PDF
Looking for more information? Check out our FAQs