Local listing sites - are they better than directories and is there a list?

[BobGW]

Do you guys know of any local listing sites that are better quality than general directories that still give you a link back.

I know a lot of them for local citations, but I'm wondering if there is a list somewhere of ones that include a link.

Thanks.

[WilliamBay]

I use UBL for creating citations. It submits your Local Listing information to over 200 Buisness Listing sites like Yelp, and others. I don't use it primarily for link building purposes, as I don't know much about how quality the sites are or if they're even followed/no-followed links, some may not even have links, etc. They're primarily for the Citations to improve Local. So I pretty much forget about links when I do that.

And based on what I'm hearing from the Google Penguin update, Directories may not be that great of a place to build links currently either. Or at least there is a little more of a vetting process that link builders need to go through right now before selecting a directory to submit to.