Why Comparison Sites Care About Agreement
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The clean record
Begin by pulling every existing record into one sheet before changing anything.
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Second pass
Give one person the logins and one document the truth; ambiguity is what causes drift.
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Second pass
Taken together, set aside time to fix at the begin of every quarter rather than treating it as a one-off project.
Local Citations: The Short Version
Audit Twice a Year, Not Once
Think of geographic signals as the paperwork map providers check before they trust a listing. Unlike content, citations don't need to be original; they need to be identical, once the obvious errors are gone. The return is durable: unlike ads, a corrected record keeps paying after the work stops, once the obvious errors are gone.
Where an ad stops working the moment the budget ends, a corrected record doesn't. The payoff surfaces as more qualified enquiries, and it compounds after the next data refresh. Every entry in a directory is a slight claim about who {entity_s} is and where it trades, at least in a competitive market.