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Local Listings Management

Your hours are wrong in forty places you've never looked.

You changed your closing time three years ago. Apple Maps still has the old one. So does Bing, two directories you've never heard of, and an aggregator feeding a dozen more. Somebody drove over, found a locked door, and left a one-star review about it.

Get a free listings scan (877) 522-7738

From $199/month per location · Listings, Google Business Profile and reviews in one package

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70+ directories Synced from one record, including the aggregators
One update Change your hours once, everywhere follows
Managed, not just synced Duplicates suppressed, reviews watched, profile maintained
Month-to-month No annual lock-in required
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Why it happens

You fixed Google. Nothing else got the memo.

Most business owners update Google and assume that's the job done. It isn't, dozens of directories pull from data aggregators that never saw your correction, and each one quietly disagrees with the others.

One business, five sources of truth Illustrative
Google Correct. You updated it yourself last year, which is why you assume everything else is fine. Accurate
Apple Maps Closing time three years stale. Every iPhone user gets this one, and iPhone users are a large share of the people trying to visit you. Wrong hours
Bing / Yelp Old suite number. Fine until a customer stands in the wrong part of the building and calls to ask where you are. Wrong address
Aggregators Feeding the old data onward. Data brokers supply dozens of smaller directories. Correct the directory and the aggregator overwrites it again next cycle. Re-breaking
Duplicates A second listing you never created. Usually from an office move or a franchise change. It splits your reviews and competes with your real listing. Splitting signals
None of this shows up in your analytics. Someone who couldn't find you doesn't appear as a lost lead, they appear as nothing at all. It surfaces months later as a confused review or a call asking whether you've moved, and by then nobody connects it back to a directory nobody knew existed.
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What it costs

Two plans. Per location.

Both include the listings engine, the directory network, and someone actually watching it. Software on its own doesn't fix a duplicate listing or answer a one-star review.

Essentials

Listings & profile

$199 / month per location

For a single location that mainly needs the data to be right and stay right.

  • Sync across 70+ directories and aggregators
  • Duplicate detection and suppression
  • Google Business Profile optimisation
  • Hours, holiday hours and attribute updates
  • Review monitoring and alerts
  • Monthly accuracy report
Start with Essentials
Most chosen

Local visibility

$399 / month per location

For businesses where the map pack is a real source of customers and reviews need answering.

  • Everything in Essentials
  • Review responses written and posted for you
  • Weekly Google Business Profile posts
  • Photo and service management
  • Q&A seeding and monitoring
  • Local rank tracking by map grid
  • Competitor listing comparison
Start with Local visibility
Five or more locations?

Per-location pricing drops with volume, and you get roll-up reporting across the network plus a single dashboard rather than one login per site. Tell us how many and we'll quote it.

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What happens if you cancel

Managed listing networks work by continuously pushing your data out to their partners. Stop paying and that push stops. Over the following months, directories drift back toward whatever they held before, and duplicate suppression lapses.

Some agencies don't mention this. It's worth knowing before you start, because it changes what you're buying: not a one-time cleanup, but an ongoing service. If you'd rather do a one-time manual cleanup instead, slower, more labour, but permanent on the directories that allow direct claiming, say so and we'll quote that instead. It suits some businesses better, and we'd rather tell you now than have you discover it at cancellation.

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What it affects

Consistency is a ranking factor and a trust factor.

Search engines cross-reference your name, address and phone number across the web to decide how confident they are that you exist where you say you do. Disagreement lowers that confidence.

Four consequences, in the order they cost you money.


  • You lose the customer who was already sold

    They'd decided to visit. They used the wrong hours or the wrong address and gave up. That's the most expensive kind of loss because every marketing dollar had already done its job.


  • Map pack position depends on it

    Local ranking weighs consistency and prominence across sources. Conflicting data on dozens of sites is a signal that something's uncertain about the business.


  • Duplicates split your reviews

    Two listings for the same business divide the review count between them. Neither looks as established as the single accurate listing would have.


  • It quietly degrades over time

    Even a perfect cleanup drifts. Aggregators refresh, directories import old data, someone creates a duplicate. This is why it's a subscription rather than a project.

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How it runs

Live inside two weeks.

The scan is free and takes a day. Most of what follows is verification, which is the part that can't be rushed because the platforms control the timing.

01 / Scan

Find the drift

We check your name, address, phone and hours across the directory network and show you exactly which sources disagree. Yours to keep either way.

Day 1 · free
02 / Claim

Verify ownership

Some directories need a postcard, a phone call, or an email to a domain address. This is the slow part and it's controlled by them, not us.

Days 2–10
03 / Sync

Push the correct record

One accurate record goes out to the network, duplicates get suppressed, and your Google Business Profile is filled out properly rather than partially.

Days 10–14
04 / Hold

Keep it accurate

Ongoing monitoring, new duplicates caught as they appear, hours updated for holidays, reviews watched. This is the bit that doesn't end.

Ongoing
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Questions

Before you call.

Can't I just fix these myself? +
For Google, Bing and Apple, yes, and you should. Those three are free, they're the ones that matter most, and it's an afternoon's work. The reason people pay for this is everything underneath: data aggregators that overwrite your corrections on their next cycle, directories that require phone or postcard verification, duplicates that need formal suppression requests, and the fact that all of it drifts again. It's not that any single fix is hard. It's that there are dozens and they don't stay fixed.
What happens to my listings if I cancel? +
They gradually revert. Managed listing networks work by continuously pushing your data to partner directories, so when that stops, those directories drift back toward whatever they held before, and duplicate suppression lapses. Directories you claimed directly during onboarding stay yours. If a permanent one-time cleanup suits you better than an ongoing subscription, we'll quote that instead, it's slower and more manual, but it doesn't depend on continuing payment.
Why is this more than the software costs? +
Because the software is the smaller part. Syncing a record is automated; suppressing a duplicate that a franchise predecessor created, getting a directory to accept a verification that keeps failing, writing a measured reply to an angry review, and noticing that a new duplicate appeared last month are not. If you only want the platform licence, several vendors sell it direct and we'd rather point you there than charge you for management you don't want.
How long until it shows in rankings? +
Accuracy improves within two to four weeks as the network propagates. Ranking movement is slower and less certain, consistency is one signal among many, so if your listings were badly fragmented you may see meaningful improvement in two to three months, and if they were mostly fine you may see little. We'll tell you after the scan which of those you're likely looking at, because a business with clean listings shouldn't buy this expecting a ranking jump.
Do you handle multiple locations? +
Yes, and it's where this earns its cost most clearly. Per-location pricing drops at five or more, and you get one dashboard across the network rather than a login per site plus roll-up reporting. For franchise networks specifically, there's more to consider than listings alone, see franchise marketing, which covers territory conflicts and shared brand standards too.
Which directories are included? +
Google, Apple Maps, Bing, Facebook, Yelp, the major data aggregators that feed everything downstream, plus industry-specific directories relevant to your sector, legal directories for firms, health directories for practices, trade directories for contractors. The scan shows the exact list for your business rather than a generic count, which is more useful than a headline number.
Do you respond to reviews, or just monitor them? +
Essentials monitors and alerts you. Local visibility includes responses, written and posted, with anything sensitive sent to you first. Response matters more than most owners expect: a measured reply to a bad review is read by every future customer who finds it, and an unanswered one-star sits there permanently as the last word.
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Next step

The scan is free and takes a day.

Send us your business name and address. We'll check what every major directory currently says about you and send back the list of what disagrees. If it comes back clean, we'll tell you that and you won't need us.

Get a free listings scan (877) 522-7738

Name and address is all we need · No obligation · Findings are yours to keep