local citation
A directory or profile listing a business. Note the collision: in the answer-engine sense a citation is a source credited in an answer.
What local citation means
This glossary keeps them separate because conflating them makes both numbers meaningless.
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Declaring who you are in a form a resolver can use without guessing.
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Questions about local citation
What is local citation?
A directory or profile listing a business. Note the collision: in the answer-engine sense a citation is a source credited in an answer.
Which area of the glossary does local citation belong to?
Entities and schema: Declaring who you are in a form a resolver can use without guessing.
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