For those of you not familiar with this topic: a “citation” or “web reference” is a reference to your business on some other website. It is not necessarily a link and always contains your physical business address and/or local phone numbers.

Registering yourself at the local business listing directories help increasing your Local search engine rankings.

• Whitepages.com.au – Government, business and residential directory (sign up)
• Yellowpages.com.au – Business directory (sign up) – powers Google Maps, Whereis.com and 1234
• Hotfrog.com.au – Business directory (sign up)
• Truelocal.com.au – Business directory (sign up) – powers Yahoo! Local

• http://www.aussieweb.com.au/- (sign up)
• http://www.aussielocal.com.au- (sign up)
• http://www.truelocal.com.au- (sign up)
• http://au.local.yahoo.com/- (sign up via true local – this used to be via Yahoo directly)
• http://www.localbusinessguide.com.au/- (sign up)
• http://www.local.com.au/- (sign up; same as localdirect.com.au)
• http://www.raveaboutit.com.au/- (sign up)

Source: David Mihm