Local SEO and Sites by Order of Opinion?

[ClickMonsterIM]

Okay, so we were just having a discussion about which sites/directories are the most important to be listed in for Local SEO.

Ultimately we were looking to 'sort' these by order of importance for the typical local business.

• Google My Business
• Yelp
• Yahoo! Local
• Bing Local
• Foursquare
• YellowPages.com
• SuperPages.com
• CitySearch
• HotFrog

How would you order them?  Would you add anything to the list?

Thanks!

[Cocoonfxmedia]

• Google My Business
• Yelp
• Bing
• Yahoo! Local
• Foursquare
• YellowPages.com
• SuperPages.com
• CitySearch
• HotFrog

[WilliamKammer]

Yelp and Google My Business are musts for just about any industry, but after that, the priority changes depending on the industry. Industry-specific directories can play a significant part.

Here is a great guide where priority is broken down by industry: http://moz.com/learn/local/citations-by-category

[Travis_Bailey]

As William said, it's definitely niche dependent. You have to be mindful of other citation sources. However, your generic citation list is pretty close to what you need at the beginning of a campaign.

[Bryan_Loconto]

Agreed!

[ClickMonsterIM]

Thanks William and everyone else too!