hi to all, can anybody suggest me what is citation and how we can use it to promote for google local listing?.
I want to promote my Google local listing (Google Places). Some body have told me that use Citation for it.
Use what you want to promote - Google. The information you seek is easily accessible. http://getlisted.org/resources/why-citations-are-important.aspx
First time i listen about it. If it is possible promote Google local listing through the citation is great thing. you have to explain this.
I am trying to lot's about the citation but i am enable to find any thing that is related to the local listing.
A citation is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source. It also gives your readers the information about the source.
Citations are like links for Google Places listing. The more the better. If you want to get more citations, start with looking at other listing and where they get their citations.
A citation is your business's contact information with or without a url that is then posted on other websites. This information is then scraped by Google and attached to your Google Places listing.
The answers above are correct but the missing factor is that a Citation is a LOCAL mention of your business . Such as Chamber of commerce, Local directories, Local classifieds, Yelp (with location info) . Local based directories and city specific advertising area will be super important to local SEO
Citation is one of the major requirements of all of the research papers written and all of the intellectual work, no matter whatever the field you are in. Basically, citation is the way of telling the readers about the sources you have utilized in that specific work. Is that OK for you?