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Citations are defined as mentions of your business name and address on other webpages—even if there is no link to your website.Citations are a key component of the ranking algorithms in Google and Bing.A good way to determine which citations one needs is by researching the competition and using their citations as a guide.

Google Scholar Citations provide a simple way for authors to keep track of citations to their articles. You can check who is citing your publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics.

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Are Google Citations important for gaining a higher ranking in Google Local Search?
One of the most asked questions I get from small business owners trying to get top rankings in Google Local Search results is;
I keep hearing that I need lots of Google citations to get better rankings in Google Places. What are they, and how do I get them?
If you are a small business owner trying to get page one rankings in Google Places, citations are a very important element to getting your business listing up on top. In this article I am going to explain what a Google citation is, and why you need them to get top rankings in the Google local search results.

Google Citation means that your website business is located in a location and must have 3 things attached with that business i.e NPA means Name i.e business name P stands for Phone number and A means Address of your business.

You have to use this information in most of business listing related websites to give you Google a ranking signal to give you ranking in local.