For local SEO
Local link building without the citation grind.
Directory citations stopped moving anything years ago, and the links that still do are the ones a regional newsroom or a university put there. Those are the ones nobody sells. They are what these packages are headed by.
- Regional press and institutions
- Point it at a location page
- Live in about an hour
Head publisher
theverge.com
- No rate card
- Dofollow
- Placed 2012
- 1,756
- links in the package
- 82
- independent sites
The name is released to your account the moment the package is yours.
$1,299per year, one buyer
Read live before you pay
Publishers in the catalog tonight
Why the usual playbook stalls
Citations are the floor. Links are the lever.
Every competitor in your area has the same eighty directory listings. What separates the top of the map pack from the rest is links from places that do not hand them out.
Regional newsrooms and broadcasters
Public radio, city papers and state news sites head packages here, alongside the university pages a local business could never pitch.
One page, one package
Multi-location sites lose because every location page looks identical and none of them has a link. A package points at exactly one of them.
Nothing to claim or verify
No listing to keep updated, no NAP to police across a hundred aggregators, and nothing that quietly expires.
Cheaper than a month of citation building
Local link building runs among the most expensive keywords in SEO for a reason. A package starts at $79 a year.
Where to point it
The location page that never gets a link.
Service-area pages are built for search and read by nobody, which is exactly why they never earn a link on their own. That is the gap a package closes, and it is the page that turns a map-pack impression into a phone call.
- A single location or service-area page, not the homepage
- The page you are trying to rank for a near-me query
- A second location once the first one moves
- Move it to whichever location needs it as the year goes on
Four packages, and what came with them.
The publisher at the head, then the size of the profile that came with it. Every row was in the catalog.
| Price | Head publisher | Links | Sites linking |
|---|---|---|---|
| $149 | massart.edu | 76 | 47 |
| $799 | technologyreview.com | 142 | 79 |
| $1,299 | theverge.com | 1,756 | 82 |
| $1,999 | microsoft.com | 385 | 169 |
Questions
What local teams ask.
- Do the links have to be local to my city?
- Local relevance helps and topical relevance helps more. The catalog filters by subject, and regional publishers are a large part of it, so you match what you can and take authority where you cannot.
- Is this a replacement for citations?
- No. Citations are table stakes and cost almost nothing. This is the part above them, where the difference between the top three and everyone else actually lives.
- Can I use one per location?
- Yes, and that is the usual pattern. Each package points at one URL, so a multi-location site buys one at a time and aims each where it is needed.
- Will this help the map pack?
- Links to the location page are one of the inputs behind local rankings. Anyone who tells you a single link moves a map pack on its own is selling you something.
- How fast is it?
- About an hour from payment to working. There is no listing to be approved and nobody to verify anything.
- What does it cost?
- From $79 a year per package, one payment, one buyer. No monthly citation retainer attached.
Aim one at a location page.
Open the catalog, filter by subject, and see what stands behind a name before you spend anything.