Citation Audit $2/Location: Yelp, BBB, YP, Bing, Apple, Manta NAP Check

$2 per audited location. Includes the competitor directory gap report and the fix-before-payment vendor email draft.

Your citation vendor says the job is done. This checks every listing against the Google Business Profile before you pay the invoice, then writes the email telling them exactly what to fix.

What does it do?

Audit a business's citations against its Google Business Profile: wrong NAP, duplicates, missing listings and directory gaps vs the top 3 competitors.

Who is it for?

Local SEO agencies, citation-building resellers, GBP managers and AI agencies selling local marketing to home-service, legal, medical and other local businesses.

How it works

1. Pulls the client's Google Business Profile (name, address, phone, website, hours, categories) as the source of truth, plus the top 3 competitors for your keyword.
2. Searches Google for the client's listings on Yelp, BBB, YellowPages, Bing Places, Apple Maps, Foursquare, Manta, MapQuest, Nextdoor, Facebook, Superpages, Chamber of Commerce and industry directories (Angi, HomeAdvisor, Houzz, Thumbtack, Porch, BuildZoom, Avvo, Healthgrades and more).
3. Reads each listing's name, phone and address and flags wrong phone, wrong name, wrong address, duplicates and missing listings.
4. Runs the same search for the top 3 competitors and lists every directory they are on that your client is not.
5. Writes a white-label agency report (Markdown, HTML ready to print to PDF, JSON, CSV) and a fix-before-payment email DRAFT for the citation vendor. Nothing is ever sent.

How much does it cost?

Event	Price	What you get
Location audit	$2.00	One business location fully audited: citations, NAP check, duplicates, missing listings, competitor gaps and vendor email draft.

Google Maps + Google Search scrapes run on your Apify account (about $0.03 + $0.10 per location). Every sub-run has a hard spend cap (maxUpstreamSpendUsd). You can also set a maximum charge per run in the Apify Console.

Input example

{
  "clients": [
    "Chase Inc. Heating, Air, and Plumbing"
  ],
  "location": "Richmond, VA",
  "keyword": "plumber",
  "competitors": 3,
  "agencyName": "Rank Local",
  "vendorName": "Acme Citations",
  "invoiceRef": "INV-1042"
}

Output

One dataset row per directory checked with: business, directory, status, issue, fix, listingUrls, foundName, foundPhone, foundAddress, gbpName, gbpPhone, gbpAddress, competitorsListed, checkUrl, claimUrl. Key-value store: REPORT_MD, REPORT_HTML, REPORT_JSON, VENDOR_EMAIL_DRAFTS.

Sample output (live run, Nov 3, 2026)

Live run on Chase Inc. Heating, Air, and Plumbing (100 Oak Glen St, Richmond, VA 23225), keyword 'plumber', top 3 competitors: 7 citations found, 2 NAP issues, 11 missing listings, 5 competitor directory gaps.

directory	status	issue	competitorsListed
Yelp	mismatch	Phone shown as (804) 396-2063; GBP phone is (804) 745-3864.	Any Time Emergency Plumbing, Advanced Plumbing, LLC
BuildZoom	mismatch	Listed under a different name: 'Chase Roofing & Sheet Metal / VA / Read Reviews + Get a...	Advanced Plumbing, LLC
BBB	missing	No BBB listing found for this business.	Advanced Plumbing, LLC
Houzz	missing	No Houzz listing found for this business.	M.A. Williams Drain Cleaning & Plumbing
Porch	missing	No Porch listing found for this business.	M.A. Williams Drain Cleaning & Plumbing
Facebook	found-unverified	Listing found by name; phone/address not visible in the search snippet.	Any Time Emergency Plumbing, Advanced Plumbing, LLC, M.A. Williams Drain Cleaning & Plu...
MapQuest	found-unverified	Listing found by name; phone/address not visible in the search snippet.	Advanced Plumbing, LLC, M.A. Williams Drain Cleaning & Plumbing

Use it from n8n, Make, GoHighLevel, Claude or Cursor

• MCP: add https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=growth-installations/citation-vendor-auditor to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client.
• n8n or Make: add an HTTP Request step that POSTs your input JSON to the API endpoint below and returns the dataset items.
• API: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/growth-installations~citation-vendor-auditor/run-sync-get-dataset-items with header Authorization: Bearer <your Apify API token>

FAQ

Can I use my own scraped data? Yes. Pass items into the bring-your-own dataset inputs and the Actor skips those scrapes.

Is anything sent automatically? No. The vendor email is a draft for you to review.

Does it work outside the US? Directory coverage is US-first; the GBP comparison works anywhere Google Maps does.