Create listings for business owners to claim

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With this, you can use the “near me” filter to keep your listing results as relevant as possible to smartphone users. By simply clicking the “near me” button, local listings are displayed to the user. If GPS data is not available, the user can instead drag a pin on the map to the location they are most interested in. While location tracking is useful in some scenarios, you should not rely on it for your directory.

Google Maps Integration
To make sure your audience finds your listings useful, you bwb directory can easily integrate this plugin with Google Maps. This adds interactive Google maps to your website and listings . This then provides your visitors with more information and an easier way to find the businesses or other entities listed in your directory. There is a premium add-on available that gives you a lot of control over how Google Maps looks and works on your website. However, even without this add-on, you can still integrate your listings with Google Maps.


Creating listings for businesses that you want to use with your website is one way to start your directory. You can then make those listings claimable so that the owners of the businesses listed can curate them and add more information. The Premium Claim Listings add-on lets you create a listing for a local gym, for example, then let the owner of that gym sign up and start managing that listing. The benefit of claiming the listing is that they can add more useful content to it to help it appeal to their target audience.

You can also use this add-on to add a verified badge to your claimed listings to give them a more official look. You can also enable email notifications to keep everyone updated when a listing claim application has been initiated.