From Search Engine Land report on Top 50 Citation Sources For UK & US Local Businesses

Myles Anderson of Bright Local carefully curated list of the top 50 Citation Sources for businesses in the US & UK.*

Between March-May 2011, the research team at BrightLocal conducted a huge Citation Analysis project.

Over 480,000 Google Places listings were analyzed across 40 business sectors and 100 locations. The Citation information was extracted into a database of over 1.1 million individual citation sources.

This extensive list was filtered down, removing all brand and business ‘brochure-ware’ sites, leaving a list of 15,000 genuine citation sources.

Some of these sites appeared hundreds of thousands of times within Google’s citation index and are extremely powerful citations opportunities.

In June 2011, Google removed citation content from Google Places profiles and this information is now hidden forever (publicly anyway).

Citations Are Crucial To Effective Google Places Ranking 

While these citation domains may no longer be visible their impact on Google Places ranking remains as important as ever. The following Chart shows the top 5 ranking factors from the 2011 Local Search Ranking Factors survey.

Chart 1 – 2011 Local Search Ranking Factors – ‘Significance of Citations’

Quantity of Citations is considered the 4th most important SEO factor for Local Search ranking.

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