Top 97 citation sites to list your business in 2026
Business citations, press and NAP listings — the highest average DR on the list. Ranked by Domain Rating, each row showing how a listing is actually created there — a form, an account, an editor to convince, or a payment — and whether we have confirmed it.
| # | Destination | DR | Link | Price | What it is | Site | Submit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 99 | nofollow | free | Google Business Profile is Google's free tool that lets eligible local businesses manage how they appear in Google Search and Maps. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 2 | 97 | nofollow | free | Wikipedia is a free, collaboratively edited online encyclopedia anyone can contribute to under its content policies. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 3 | 94 | nofollow | free | The Forbes Cloud 100, produced with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures, is an annual editorial ranking of the top 100 private cloud/SaaS companies. | Visit ↗ | Pitch → | |
| 4 | 94 | nofollow | free | Online publishing platform for people and companies to publish long-form articles, stories, and ideas. | Visit ↗ | Account → | |
| 5 | 94 | nofollow | free | Consumer review and local-business discovery platform for nearby services, restaurants, and establishments. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 6 | 93 | nofollow | free | The Better Business Bureau operates a public directory of business profiles with ratings, complaint history, and reviews, plus a voluntary paid Accreditation program. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 7 | 93 | nofollow | free | Bing Places for Business is Microsoft's free platform for businesses to create or claim listings that appear in Bing Search, Bing Maps, and related surfaces. | Visit ↗ | Pitch → | |
| 8 | 93 | dofollow | free | British newspaper and global digital news organization producing independent journalism. | Visit ↗ | Pitch → | |
| 9 | 93 | unknown | paid | Mental-health publication and professional directory where people find therapists, psychiatrists, treatment centers, and support groups by location and specialty. | Visit ↗ | Open form → | |
| 10 | 93 | nofollow | free | Tripadvisor is a travel guidance platform with user reviews and listings for hotels, restaurants, attractions, and experiences. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 11 | 92 | nofollow | free | Visit ↗ | Open form → | ||
| 12 | 92 | nofollow | free | Visit ↗ | Submit → | ||
| 13 | 92 | nofollow | free | HuffPost is a digital news and opinion publication covering politics, culture, lifestyle, personal stories, and social issues. | Visit ↗ | Pitch → | |
| 14 | 92 | nofollow | free | Stack Overflow is a question-and-answer community for programmers, used by millions of developers to solve technical problems. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 15 | 92 | dofollow | free | TechCrunch is a technology news site covering startups, venture funding, product launches, AI, and related innovation. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 16 | 92 | dofollow | free | The Verge is a technology news and culture publication covering gadgets, software, science, policy, and technology's effect on everyday life. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 17 | 92 | dofollow | free | The Wall Street Journal is a major American newspaper covering business, finance, markets, and economic news. | Visit ↗ | Open form → | |
| 18 | TIME Best Inventionstime.com | 92 | dofollow | paid | TIME is a global news magazine and website that publishes annual lists including Best Inventions and TIME100 Companies. | Visit ↗ | Submit → |
| 19 | 92 | dofollow | free | WIRED is a magazine and website covering how emerging technology, science, and innovation reshape culture, business, and society. | Visit ↗ | Account → | |
| 20 | 91 | nofollow | free | Crunchbase News publishes data-driven reporting on startups, founders, investors, and private markets. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 21 | 91 | nofollow | free | DEV Community is a platform where software developers and organizations publish articles, discuss topics, and share technical knowledge. | Visit ↗ | Account → | |
| 22 | 91 | dofollow | paid | Entrepreneur is a business media publication that publishes staff and contributor content, paid press releases, and business-opportunity listings. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 23 | 91 | dofollow | paid | Fast Company is a business media brand covering innovation, leadership, technology, design, and progressive ideas in companies and culture. | Visit ↗ | Open form → | |
| 24 | 91 | nofollow | free | Glassdoor is a platform for company reviews, salary data, interview insights, and job listings contributed by employees and managed by employers. | Visit ↗ | Pitch → | |
| 25 | 91 | nofollow | free | Hacker News is Y Combinator's technology news community where users discuss startups and post Show HN launches for things they built. | Visit ↗ | Account → | |
| 26 | 91 | dofollow | free | Mashable is a digital media publication covering technology, digital culture, social media, and consumer technology. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 27 | 91 | nofollow | free | Mashable India is Mashable's India edition covering technology, internet culture, entertainment, and related news. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 28 | 91 | dofollow | free | Nextdoor is a neighborhood social network where local businesses can claim or create Business Pages for discovery, recommendations, posts, and messaging. | Visit ↗ | Account → | |
| 29 | 91 | dofollow | free | Technology publication covering consumer and business technology. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 30 | 91 | dofollow | free | VentureBeat is a technology publication covering enterprise technology, AI, data infrastructure, security, and startups. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 31 | 91 | nofollow | free | Visit ↗ | Submit → | ||
| 32 | 90 | dofollow | free | Engadget is a technology news and reviews publication covering gadgets, consumer technology, and digital culture. | Visit ↗ | Pitch → | |
| 33 | 90 | dofollow | free | Gizmodo is a technology and culture news publication that accepts editorial tips and freelance story pitches. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 34 | 90 | dofollow | free | MIT Technology Review publishes reporting and analysis about technology and its real-world impact. | Visit ↗ | Pitch → | |
| 35 | 90 | nofollow | free | PCMag is a technology publication that provides independent, lab-tested product reviews, buying advice, and analysis. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 36 | 90 | dofollow | free | Slate is an online magazine that commissions opinion, analysis, reporting, essays, and culture coverage. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 37 | 90 | dofollow | free | Smashing Magazine publishes practical articles, guides, case studies, and opinions for web designers and developers. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 38 | 90 | nofollow | free | Yellow Pages is a business directory where owners can claim or create a basic business profile and manage its public details. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 39 | 88 | dofollow | free | HackerNoon is a technology publishing platform where individuals and companies publish technology stories and updates. | Visit ↗ | Pitch → | |
| 40 | 87 | nofollow | free | Visit ↗ | Open form → | ||
| 41 | 87 | nofollow | free | Visit ↗ | Open form → | ||
| 42 | 87 | nofollow | — | Visit ↗ | Submit → | ||
| 43 | 87 | dofollow | — | MakeUseOf is a technology publication that covers practical technology education, recommendations, and product reviews. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 44 | 86 | dofollow | free | Visit ↗ | Submit → | ||
| 45 | 86 | dofollow | free | GeekWire maintains a startup database and ranking for eligible Pacific Northwest technology startups. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 46 | 85 | nofollow | — | Visit ↗ | Account → | ||
| 47 | 84 | nofollow | — | Visit ↗ | Submit → | ||
| 48 | 83 | nofollow | free | Android Central is a technology publication and community covering Android devices, apps, news, reviews, and the wider Google ecosystem. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 49 | 83 | nofollow | — | Visit ↗ | Submit → | ||
| 50 | 83 | dofollow | free | MarketingProfs publishes articles, training, events, and community resources for B2B marketers. | Visit ↗ | Account → | |
| 51 | 82 | nofollow | free | Tech in Asia is an English-language technology media company covering startups, funding, trends, and news across the Asian tech ecosystem. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 52 | 82 | dofollow | free | Tech.co publishes technology solutions, software reviews, buying guides, and business advice for professionals and companies. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 53 | 81 | nofollow | free | Inc42 is an Indian media and data platform covering the country's technology and startup ecosystem with news, features, profiles, and intelligence tools. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 54 | 81 | dofollow | free | OECD.AI is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's AI policy and resources platform, including a Catalogue of Tools and Metrics for Trustworthy AI. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 55 | 81 | nofollow | free | Visit ↗ | Open form → | ||
| 56 | 79 | dofollow | free | Brownbook is a free, editable global business listing database used for business discovery and local-search citations. | Visit ↗ | Account → | |
| 57 | 79 | dofollow | free | One Page Love is a gallery and showcase of single-page websites, templates, and related design inspiration. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 58 | 79 | nofollow | free | Pocket-lint is a consumer technology and entertainment publication covering gadgets, news, hands-on reviews, guides, and features. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 59 | 79 | nofollow | free | Tech.eu is a European technology publication covering the startup ecosystem and wider technology industry. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 60 | 78 | dofollow | free | BetaKit is a Canadian publication covering startup and technology innovation news. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 61 | 78 | nofollow | free | Show Me Local is an international local-business directory and growth platform offering listings, reviews, and digital tools for small and medium businesses. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 62 | 77 | dofollow | free | Android Headlines is an independent Android and technology news site covering phones, tablets, apps, reviews, and industry news. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 63 | 77 | dofollow | free | MacStories is an independent daily publication focused on Apple, apps, automation, iOS and macOS productivity, and related technology. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 64 | 77 | nofollow | free | VCCircle is an Indian publication covering alternative investments, deals, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity, and startups. | Visit ↗ | Account → | |
| 65 | 76 | unknown | free | Raindrop.io is a bookmark manager for organizing, sharing, and publishing collections of web links. | Visit ↗ | Pitch → | |
| 66 | SiteInspiresiteinspire.com | 76 | dofollow | free | SiteInspire is a curated showcase of high-quality web design examples from around the world. | Visit ↗ | Submit → |
| 67 | 75 | nofollow | free | Cybo is a global business directory with listings across hundreds of countries and languages. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 68 | 75 | dofollow | free | Lobsters is an invite-only, computing-focused link aggregation and discussion site where members can submit relevant technical stories. | Visit ↗ | Open form → | |
| 69 | 75 | dofollow | free | MaRS Discovery District is a Canadian innovation hub that supports selected science and technology startups with advisory services, networks, programs, and a companies directory. | Visit ↗ | Account → | |
| 70 | 73 | dofollow | free | Freebie Supply is a design-resource collection and catalog of free PSD, Sketch, Figma, Illustrator, XD, and related resources shared by designers. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 71 | 72 | dofollow | free | eCommerceFuel is a vetted community for seven- and eight-figure ecommerce owners, with a member-written SaaS and agency review directory and a separate vendor partner program. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 72 | 72 | nofollow | free | Visit ↗ | Submit → | ||
| 73 | 71 | dofollow | free | All my faves is a visual, curated directory and personalized homepage of favorite websites organized by categories and Favelines. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 74 | 71 | dofollow | free | Feedough is an entrepreneurship and AI resource site that publishes custom-written startup review articles with email, social, and notification distribution. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 75 | 68 | nofollow | free | Visit ↗ | Submit → | ||
| 76 | 66 | dofollow | free | LibHunt surfaces popular and alternative open-source libraries and projects by tracking social-network mentions for developers. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 77 | 66 | dofollow | paid | SuperbCrew is a business and startup news site that offers company interviews and sponsored guest stories. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 78 | 65 | dofollow | free | Nocode.tech is a resource and curated directory for no-code tools, guides, courses, and a tool-matching quiz for building business software without code. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 79 | 63 | nofollow | free | Ben's Bites is a newsletter and related community and catalog covering AI tools, launches, startups, investing, news, and reviews for AI builders. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 80 | 60 | dofollow | free | Made With Vue.js is a curated showcase of Vue.js projects, websites, UI components, frameworks, apps, tools, and resources for the Vue community. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 81 | 59 | dofollow | free | Web Designer News is a curated collection of current news stories for web designers and developers. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 82 | 58 | nofollow | paid | SaaSGenius is a B2B software comparison site that adds products after an emailed request and payment. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 83 | 56 | dofollow | paid | DokeyAI is an AI-tools directory and product showcase with thousands of AI websites and tools across dozens of categories. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 84 | 54 | unknown | paid | Ezilon is a human-reviewed regional web directory with Europe-wide business, software, internet-service, education, and government categories. | Visit ↗ | Open form → | |
| 85 | 54 | dofollow | free | TechPluto is a tech and startup news site that reviews and features submitted startups rather than automatically listing every submission. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 86 | 49 | nofollow | free | The Fastlane Forum is MJ DeMarco's entrepreneur discussion community, not a product-launch directory. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 87 | 47 | dofollow | free | How Brands Are Built is a branding blog and podcast about brand strategy, naming, architecture, messaging, and visual identity. | Visit ↗ | Submit → | |
| 88 | 45 | nofollow | free | Visit ↗ | Submit → | ||
| 89 | 42 | dofollow | free | Visit ↗ | Submit → | ||
| 90 | 32 | dofollow | free | Visit ↗ | Account → | ||
| 91 | 95 | nofollow | free | Visit ↗ | — | ||
| 92 | Business Insiderbusinessinsider.in | 92 | nofollow | — | Visit ↗ | — | |
| 93 | 91 | nofollow | free | BostInno is the Boston Business Journal section covering Boston-area startups, technology news, events, and innovation. | Visit ↗ | — | |
| 94 | 90 | nofollow | — | Visit ↗ | — | ||
| 95 | 89 | nofollow | free | Visit ↗ | — | ||
| 96 | 83 | dofollow | free | SiliconANGLE is an independent media company covering enterprise and emerging technology through news, analysis, interviews, and theCUBE video coverage. | Visit ↗ | — | |
| 97 | 81 | nofollow | free | Hotfrog is a global local-business directory where businesses create profiles to promote their products and services. | Visit ↗ | — |
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What is in this list
Business citations, press and NAP listings — the highest average DR on the list.
Citations are business listings: name, address, phone, category. They carry the highest average DR on the whole list because they are old general-purpose directories rather than software catalogues.
They are also the category where consistency matters more than volume. The same legal name and the same address on every one is the entire point; a scattered set of near-matches is worse than a short consistent set.
What this page leaves out
Software directories, and anything that does not want a real business identity.
How this list is built
Merged from eight public datasets plus entries we added by hand, de-duplicated on registrable domain, then loaded one by one: we open each submission page ourselves rather than trusting a source list.
- Every row here has a DR reading — this category is well covered by Ahrefs.
- Some require a verifiable phone number or postal address; fully remote companies will not qualify everywhere.
- Country-locked directories are kept in the list and marked, not silently dropped.
Using the filters
Search by name or domain, narrow by category, tier and access, and re-sort by Domain Rating, name or when a destination was added. Columns: Domain Rating, link type, price.
How often it is refreshed
Every submission URL is re-probed daily — last check 2026-09-23. Dead pages drop off, recoveries go back on, and Domain Rating is re-read quarterly. The full record is on what changed.
Who this is for
Companies with a verifiable name, address and phone; less useful fully remote.
Questions
Do citations help a software company, or only local businesses?
Less than they help a plumber, more than nothing. They are high-DR general listings, so they contribute baseline references — but they will not send buyers to a SaaS product.
What if the company has no public address?
Skip the ones that require it. Submitting a fake or mailbox address to a citation site is the one mistake in this category that is hard to undo.
Does NAP consistency actually matter?
Yes, and it is the cheapest thing to get right: decide the exact string once, use it everywhere, never abbreviate differently.
Domain Rating is Ahrefs data, fetched per domain and refreshed quarterly (licence).
Pollendo submits to these for you, chases the confirmations, and verifies each listing logged-out at day 7, 14 and 30. You pay for listings that are live, not for submissions sent.
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