How To Add or Update a Business Listing To Mapquest

Mapquest.com, the original online map app, was acquired by Aol several years ago. While the site is no longer the dominant mapping service, it still gets a lot of local search traffic for people looking for both directions and businesses. You want to make sure that your business is listed there and that it’s up to date.

In January 2014, Mapquest decided to completely outsource the Mapquest local business center to Yext. So now if you want to add a business listing to Mapquest or you want to know how to update your Mapquest listing, you need to use Yext.

It’s pretty simple. You just sign up for a Yext Powerlistings subscription and then you can add or update your business info, not only on Mapquest, but on the 50+ other local search sites in Yext’s network. Yext Powerlistings also has some other great features including review monitoring, reporting on traffic to local search site profile pages and posting to your Facebook, Foursquare and Google+ accounts.

You can check out how your business appears in Yext’s network here.

Disclosure: I get a cut from sending business to Yext. It’s not much but it keeps the lights on at the blog, so if you’re interested in Yext, I’d appreciate it if you buy it through my link. Thanks!