People are constantly searching Google for local businesses. There are a number of local SEO strategies to drive more targeted visitors to your website. All are important, but one of the biggest local search boosts comes from Australian business directory listings.

Listing your business on local directories is just as important in 2018 as it was in years gone by. But don’t take my word for it. According to the experts, having consistent NAP details (Name, Address, Phone) on the best business directories is a critical local ranking factor.

Don’t do directory listings or Local SEO without a physical address. It really puts you at a disadvantage. Why? Local listings play an important role in making your business more visible in local search, and an address is required to get quality local listings.

Australian business directories are not just for boosting local rankings, they can also provide referral traffic from people clicking through from your listing.

So time to start finding Australian directories and submitting your business right? You’re in the right place. We’ve put together the go to list of directories for Australian businesses. But before you start submitting your business there’s a couple of things to get organised.

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How do I find the best Australia Business Directories?

You’ll come across directory lists or submission services offering 50, 100 or even 250 Australian business directory websites. The best they will do is waste your time or worse, damage your Google ranking. Here’s why.

They are often scraped from old outdated lists

They contain directories requiring payment, or a reciprocal link

They haven’t actually been tested so many directories have broken forms or are abandoned

The websites have no traffic or value, some are even de-indexed by Google

First published in 2014, our best directory list is now updated for 2018. We started with a big net, searching for the top 100 results in Google for approximately 20 industry terms. This gave us almost 300 directories. After weeding out all the Australian business directories that failed the tests above we took one more step to ensure the remaining websites had real traffic value.

Back in 2014 we used “Alexa Ranking” which was the best measure of local Australian website traffic. Fast forward to 2018 and there’s much better data available. SEO tools, in particular ahrefs.com allows us to estimate the actual volume of search traffic for a website. In fact it also calculates the equivalent cost if you purchased the traffic through paid ads (Adwords), which is a basis of our ROI calculations for Local SEO packages.

The Top 25 Australian Business Directories (2018 Update)

Here is our list of the best Australian directories for 2018 ranked by Google search traffic. All have been tested to ensure submissions are approved.

yellowpages.com.au truelocal.com.au yelp.com.au womo.com.au infobel.com aussieweb.com.au australianplanet.com startlocal.com.au superpages.com.au pinkpages.com.au hotfrog.com.au showmelocal.com cylex.com.au au.enrollbusiness.com aussie-hours.com tuugo.biz searchfrog.com.au fyple.biz misterwhat-au.com savvysme.com.au comeonaussie.com businesslistingnow.com zipleaf.auz.net australiaonlineadvertising.com.au businesslistings.net.au