FREE LISTING SCAN
Free Business Listing Scan: See Your Listings and Start Being Visible
Find out in a couple of minutes how your business shows up across search engines, maps, GPS apps and directories. The scan flags missing and incorrect listings so you know exactly what is costing you calls.
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RUN YOUR SCAN
How does my business look across the web?
Enter your business name, address and phone number below. The scan checks your listings and shows where your information is missing or does not match.
WHAT THE SCAN SHOWS
What do the listing scan results mean?
Do not panic if the scan shows a lot of red. Almost every business that has been open more than a couple of years, moved offices or changed phone numbers has errors it never knew about. Many were created automatically by data companies without you ever filling out a form. The scan simply makes them visible. Our citation management page explains where these errors come from and how they get fixed.
WHY IT MATTERS
Why do business listings affect whether customers find you?
Customers do not all search the same way. Some use Google, some ask Siri and get Apple Maps, some follow Waze or the navigation in their car, and more every month ask an AI assistant for a recommendation. Each of those pulls your business information from its own sources. If your listing there is missing or wrong, that customer either never sees you or drives to the wrong address.
Search engines care too. Google compares your information across many sites to decide whether it can trust your business in the map pack. When your name, address and phone number match everywhere, that trust goes up. When they disagree, it goes down. That is why listings are a core part of local search.
Beth Guide’s rule from her maps classes is simple: every place your name, address and phone number appear, they need to be an exact match. Not close. Exact.
Small differences count. “Suite 102” on one site and “#102” on another, an old tracking number on a directory, or “and” spelled out on your sign but written as an ampersand on your profile can all look like separate businesses to a computer. AI assistants are especially sensitive to this. When the sources disagree, they hedge, describe you vaguely or leave you out of the answer entirely. A clean, consistent set of listings is one of the simplest ways to give them a confident answer about who you are, where you are and how to reach you.
THE CASE FOR VERTICAL WEB ON CITATION LOCK
Fix your listings once and keep them fixed
NEXT STEPS
What should I do after the listing scan?
Fix what costs calls first. Wrong phone numbers and wrong addresses come before anything else. Then remove duplicates, then fill in missing listings and details such as hours, categories and photos.
Check your Google Business Profile. It is the most important single listing. Make sure the name, primary category, hours and website match your scan entries exactly. Our Google Business Profile management covers this.
Lock it in. Fixing listings one at a time works until a data company pushes old information back out. Citation Lock corrects your listings across the network and keeps them there. You can see every site it covers on the complete directory list and pick a plan on compare our plans. If your scan showed a lot of wrong information, Citation Lock Pro is built to correct it through suppression.
Then check your website. Listings point customers to your site, so it needs to be ready for them. Our free SEO audit tool checks your homepage in a couple of minutes.
Where the scan looks
Which platforms does a free business listing scan check?
A free business listing scan checks the platforms where customers look you up and where search engines and AI assistants get their business information. The major directory and map platforms include Google, Bing, Apple Maps, Yelp and Facebook, plus the navigation apps, data aggregators and smaller online directories that copy from them.
For each platform, the report shows whether a listing exists and whether the details match what you entered: business name, address, phone number, website, hours and category. A listing in good condition matches exactly. A listing with a problem may be missing, out of date, incomplete or a duplicate.
Use the results as a to-do list. Fix the listings that cost calls first, such as a wrong phone number on Google or an old address on Apple Maps, then the rest. If you would rather hand it off, our Citation Lock listing management corrects the information across the network and keeps it locked, and our complete directory list shows every site it covers.
Keeping it accurate
How often should you check local listings, and can you track listing accuracy?
Check your local listings any time something changes: a new address, a new phone system, new hours, a new service or a new location. Between changes, run the free scan every few months. Listings drift because directories pull old data from aggregators, and anyone can suggest an edit to a public listing, including a competitor.
You can track listing accuracy over time by running the same scan and comparing the reports. The number of accurate listings should go up after a cleanup and stay up. If the same errors keep coming back, the bad data is coming from a source upstream, and fixing the listing by hand will not hold. That is the problem a locked listing service solves.
The information you enter in the scan is used to run the report and show you the results. Your business details are public information already; the scan simply shows you what each platform has on file. For a wider view of your local presence, including reviews and reputation, see our local search services.
QUESTIONS
Listing scan questions
It checks how your business name, address and phone number appear across major search engines, maps, directories and social sites, and flags listings that are missing, incomplete or wrong.
Yes. Enter your business details and the scan runs. There is no obligation, and you can use the results to fix listings yourself or ask us to do it.
Your Google Business Profile is one listing. Many other sites get your information from data companies that may still have an old address, phone number or business name. Those errors spread until they are corrected at the source.
Start with the listings that show the wrong phone number or address, because those cost you calls. Then fix duplicates and missing listings. Citation Lock can correct them across the network at once and keep them from changing back.
The listing scan looks at your business information on other sites. Our free website audit looks at your own website: speed, structure, title tags, rankings and how AI engines see you. Most businesses benefit from both.
A local listing is your business profile on a map, directory or review site, such as Google, Bing, Apple Maps, Yelp or Facebook. It shows your name, address, phone number, hours and website.
Run a free business listing scan to see every major platform at once, then fix the listings that cost calls first. Re-run the scan after changes to confirm the fixes held.
Yes. Run the same scan on a regular schedule and compare the reports. If errors return, the bad data is coming from an upstream source that needs to be corrected.
Want us to fix what the scan found?
Request a free website audit and we will review your scan results with you, along with your website and Google Business Profile, and recommend the right next step.
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