✔️ BrightLocal gives you complete ownership of your listings. Once they’re created they’re yours with no need to pay renewal fees.
❌ SOCi is a subscription service that needs renewing regularly. If you cancel your subscription, your listings are up for grabs and could change.
✔️ Each listings campaign is tailored to you with BrightLocal. Build what your business needs, by choosing from our network of over 1,000 sites.
❌ SOCi, like the other big expensive listings services, only offers access to a limited network of listings. All while promising you’ll dominate search results off the back of them.
✔️ BrightLocal knows that what really helps shift the needle is relevancy. Our network lets you build listings on industry and location-specific sites.
❌ SOCi only offers a batch of generic listing sites that aren’t specific to your business’s needs.
✔️ All of our listings are built and managed by people. Each of our citation specialists is an expert, allowing a personal touch to ensure accuracy and nuance.
❌ SOCi’s entire listings platform is automated and managed by bots. This makes it highly inflexible and harder to spot and correct errors.
Launching ActiveSync changed the listings game. We created a cost-effective and simple tool to help you manage the key listings in one place, at a fraction of the cost of networks like SOCi.
✔️ BrightLocal offers a powerful suite of rank-tracking tools for local businesses. Put your rankings on the map with Local Search Grid or Local Rank Tracker.
❌ SOCi’s platform offers limited support for local businesses looking to compete in local SEO with simple listings tracking, but no ranking insights.
✔️ Our Local Search Audit and Google Business Profile Audit help you pinpoint specific actions for improving your local visibility.
❌ SOCi doesn’t focus on local SEO and doesn’t offer you the same level of insights to really move the needle.
The table below compares Uberall pricing for the building listings individually against BrightLocal’s Citation Builder service.
| Feature | ||
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| Cost | ||
| Pay Once, No Recurring Fee |  |  |
| No. of Sites in Network | ||
| Manual Submissions | | |
| Data Aggregator Submissions | | |
| Ability to Order Aggregators Individually | | |
| Build New Listings | | |
| Update Existing Listings | | |
| Claim Listings | | |
| Data is Permanent | | |
| Remove Duplicate Listings | | |
| Detailed Reports | | |
| Countries Available In |  | |
| Local Rank Tracking | | |
| Local SEO Auditing | | |
