Elmwood Local

A Practical Guide to Aggregator Feeds

First pass · Reading citation profiles

The pattern repeats: the businesses that audit on a fixed schedule are the ones that stop worrying about it.

The Quiet Work of Rebuilding Listings

What to keep. Beyond that an outdated business name costs more in a dense market over a wide service radius than it does in a quiet one.

First pass. The work sits awkwardly between marketing and administration, which is why it gets skipped.

What to keep. Simply as important, nobody sends a warning when mismatched opening hours appears, which is why audits find it years late, and the same holds at scale.

Out of date. Left alone, a broken website field spreads to sources the business never submitted to.

Listing Hygiene: A Working Routine

Left undone
Aggregator feeds are the online records that carry the name, address and phone number for {entity_s}.
Common traps
What counts as a citation is broader than most owners assume: structured listings qualify too.
Left undone
Even therefore, a citation is any place on the web where the service area appears for {entity_s}.

Why Consistency Beats Volume

What ranking systems read