Find every directory you are missing — and keep your listings consistent
AI assistants and Google both cross-check your name, address, and phone across the web. Inconsistent or missing listings quietly cost you recommendations. Citations finds the gaps and gets them filled.
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Set up in 3 simple steps
The consistency audit runs first
Your name, address, and phone get checked across the web — every variant and stale record found before anything new is built.
The right directories, prepared
Submissions are prepared for the high-authority general directories plus the ones specific to your industry and region — quality over raw count.
Each listing tracked to live
Starter builds 2 directories a month, Growth builds 5 — each one built directly, verified live, and logged in your portal.
A scattered identity
- Three phone numbers and two old addresses circulating
- Directories describing a business that moved years ago
- Sync services renting you consistency month to month
- Trust signals eroding invisibly on both Google and AI
With Citations
- One consistent identity, corrected at the source directories
- Listings built directly — yours regardless of subscription
- A steady monthly cadence with per-listing tracking to live
- The record assistants and Google check, kept clean
What you get
- A consistency audit of your business details across the web
- The directories that matter for your industry, identified automatically
- Each submission prepared and tracked to live
- Assisted and verified — not a fire-and-forget blast
How it works
We audit your existing listings, build the priority list for your industry and city, prepare each submission with your verified details, and track every one until it is live. Progress is visible in your portal, listing by listing.
Directory submissions involve real third parties and real review queues — we track status honestly (pending is pending) rather than claiming instant placement.
Owned listings versus rented consistency
There are two ways to keep directory data consistent: rent a sync network that maintains it while you subscribe, or build correct listings directly so they simply exist. We build directly — what gets created is an ordinary listing you own, and it persists like any listing you had made yourself.
Direct building is slower per listing and immune to the rental trap: cancel a sync service and publishers can revert to whatever data they had; cancel us and your listings stay yours. For a small business, owning your own name and address feels like a low bar — the industry made it a feature.
Why steady beats a blast
A hundred listings in a week reads as manipulation to the systems watching, and half of them will be junk directories that muddy your data. The monthly cadence — 2 on Starter, 5 on Growth — targets directories that actually carry authority for your industry, in an accrual pattern that reads as a real business existing.
Meanwhile the audit keeps watch on drift: directories occasionally change records on their own, and while you are subscribed, corrections are part of the job.
The audit that comes before any building
Building new listings on top of inconsistent old ones multiplies the mess, so the first pass is forensic: every variant of your name, every stale address, every reshuffled phone number found across the web and ranked by the damage it does. High-authority directories with wrong data get corrected before low-priority gaps get filled.
You see the whole picture in your portal — found records, their states, and the fix order — because a citations service that hides the audit is asking you to trust the very thing it should be proving.
One identity, everywhere that counts
Your name, address, phone, and hours checked across the directories that feed Google, Apple, Bing, and the AI assistants. Mismatches are found and corrected — because a wrong phone number in one directory quietly costs real calls.
- Consistency checked directory by directory
- Corrections handled as part of the plan
- Status logged so you can audit it
Illustrative layout — decorative shapes, not data. Your real numbers come from your scans, stored verbatim in your portal.
Built for how AI reads the web
Assistants cross-reference directories when they decide which business to name. Clean, consistent citations are one of the few local signals you fully control — and one of the cheapest to get right.
- The sources assistants actually cross-check
- Re-verified on a schedule
- Feeds the visibility map and the tracker
Illustrative layout — decorative shapes, not data. Your real numbers come from your scans, stored verbatim in your portal.
Citations FAQ
What does a citation building service actually do?
It gets your business listed accurately in the directories that matter for your industry and city, and keeps the details consistent everywhere. Consistency is a trust signal both Google and AI assistants cross-check.
How do I check my NAP consistency?
Run a citation audit: compare your name, address, and phone as they appear across the web. ClawSignal does this automatically, flags every mismatch, and tracks each correction to done.
How many citations are built per month?
Starter builds 2 high-authority directories a month and Growth builds 5 — deliberately steady, prioritized by authority and industry fit, each tracked to live in your portal.
Do my listings survive if I cancel?
Yes — they are built directly in each directory, not synced through a network, so they persist like listings you created yourself. Directories can still edit records on their own schedule; while subscribed, we monitor and correct that drift.
Do citations still matter for AI-assistant visibility?
They are among the public signals assistants check when deciding a business is real, located where it claims, and still operating. Inconsistent records cost trust in two channels at once — classic local rankings and AI answers — which is why the consistency audit runs before anything else.
What counts as a high-authority directory?
The short list every industry shares — the major general directories — plus the vertical and regional ones that actually carry weight for your specific business. Volume is not the metric; a hundred junk listings help nobody and can actively muddy your identity. Your portal shows exactly which directories were chosen and why.
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See where you stand first
The free scan checks your site and asks the four major AI assistants about your business — real answers, in about a minute.