Facebook business listings

Facebook Pages carry a full set of business details, and people use them the way they use a directory: to check hours, find a phone number, and see whether a business looks active before contacting it.

Why Facebook matters for local search

A Facebook Page is one of the most visible listings a local business has, and one of the most commonly outdated. Pages are often set up once, by someone who has since left, and then left to drift.

It is also frequently the second result when someone searches your business name, which means an abandoned Page with an old address is doing damage in a prominent position.

For local search purposes the Page is a citation like any other. Matching details reinforce your data everywhere else, and conflicting ones dilute it.

Facebook is one of the directories, maps, voice and AI platforms in the LeadSnap publisher network, which reaches 46 directories for a business in the United States and covers 250 countries and territories. Listings are maintained on a subscription rather than submitted once, because directories keep refreshing their data from whatever they find around the web. See how citation management works or browse the whole network.