In Canada we build 250 to 300 local citations for one business. Canada has solid national coverage — Yellow Pages Canada, Canada411, Canpages, Ziplocal — plus a French-language layer that most citation services either skip or fill in inconsistently. A bilingual listing only counts as the same business when the NAP matches across both languages, so we agree one address format and one phone format up front and file every submission, English and French, against it.
Why Canada tops out at 300.
Solid national coverage including the bilingual directories, which need consistent French and English NAP data to count as one entity.
The 300+ Elite tier is the ceiling here. Canada's directory ecosystem is national rather than municipal, so past roughly 300 listings you are building profiles rather than citations.
If you order above that ceiling we tell you before taking payment and move you to the tier that fits, or split the build across your other locations. Ask about your build.
Listings per market, compared
Confirmed per-market capacity, not a package ladder — see the full table.
Which packages we can deliver in Canada.
Same prices everywhere. What changes is which tiers have enough real Canadian directories behind them — so the ones we cannot fill here are marked, not quietly sold.
| Package | Listings | Price | Deliverable in Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 25 | $15 | Yes | |
| Growth | 50 | $25 | Yes | |
| ProfessionalMost popular | 100 | $45 | Yes | |
| Business | 200 | $80 | Yes | |
| Elite | 300+ | $115 | Yes | Get a quote |
| Platinum | 500+ | $195 | Not in this market | — |
500+ builds are only deliverable in the United States, which has the directory depth to fill them. That tier is shown here so you can see the ceiling rather than discover it at checkout. If you trade in more than one country we can run a separate build per market.
What’s different about building citations in Canada.
The process is the same everywhere — audit, benchmark, clean, submit, report. These are the Canadian specifics that decide whether a submission goes live or sits pending.
Bilingual NAP is one record, not two
Ourbis, Pages Jaunes and the Québec directories publish in French. The street type translates, the province abbreviation doesn't, and the phone number must be formatted identically. We fix one canonical address and one phone format, then file the French listings against the same record so Google resolves them to a single entity instead of a duplicate.
Postal code and province formatting
Canadian postal codes are written A1A 1A1 — uppercase, one space, no hyphen. Province is the two-letter code, not the full name. Directories accept all sorts of variations; consistency is what actually matters, so we standardise before the first submission rather than correcting 200 listings afterwards.
Canada411 and Yellow Pages Canada are the spine
These two are still the records other Canadian directories and data sources cross-check against. They are claimed and corrected first, by hand, before the long tail is built on top.
Québec: French-language obligations
If you trade in Québec, your public-facing business information is expected to be available in French. Building the French directory layer properly isn't only a ranking decision — it is how a Québec customer finds you at all. We list the French entries separately in your report so you can see exactly what was published.
Building somewhere else?
Each market has its own ceiling, its own directories and its own verification quirks.
Citation building in Canada — FAQ.
The Canadian-specific questions. The general ones — what a citation is, how long results take — are answered on the main service page.
How many citations can you build for a Canadian business?
Between 250 and 300, with 300+ as the largest deliverable tier. Canada has strong national directories but no municipal directory layer comparable to the United States, so beyond roughly 300 listings there is nothing legitimate left to build. We tell you that before taking payment rather than filling the gap with generic profile sites.
Do you build French-language listings as well as English?
Yes. Ourbis, Pages Jaunes and the Québec directories are part of a Canadian build, and the French entries carry the same name, address and phone as the English ones so Google reads them as one business. They're itemised separately in your report so you can see what was published in each language.
Which Canadian directories do you submit to?
Yellow Pages Canada, Canada411, Canpages, Yelp Canada, Ziplocal, Ourbis, GoldBook, Hotfrog Canada, Cylex Canada and the Canadian business directories below them, on top of the universal platforms. The full working list is published on our Canada citation sites page.
My business is bilingual — will duplicate listings hurt my ranking?
A French listing is not a duplicate if the NAP matches. The damage comes from a French entry with a translated street type, a different phone format or a different business name — that reads as a second business at a similar address, which is exactly the ambiguity that suppresses map rankings. Handled consistently, the French layer adds coverage rather than confusion.