{"id":12543,"date":"2021-03-23T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.advicelocal.com\/?p=12543"},"modified":"2021-03-23T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:23:27","slug":"value-of-data-aggregators-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.advicelocal.com\/blog\/value-of-data-aggregators-free\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Data Aggregators \u2013 Plus We Include Them Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I\u2019d like to highlight one of the addons available to our Advice Local platform partners at no additional cost \u2013\u00a0data aggregators<\/a>. When you\u2019re selecting a listing management partner, it\u2019s important to weigh the benefits and options available with each provider.<\/p>\n

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Data Aggregators Are Included for Free With Advice Local<\/h2>\n

With Advice Local, our platform partners can get their clients\u2019 business data submitted to the data aggregators at no additional cost. If you are an Advice Local legacy partner, this is yet another reason you may want to consider upgrading today.<\/p>\n

At Advice Local, we understand the importance of having your clients\u2019 data accurate on as many sources as possible. This is exactly why we include distribution to the data aggregators.<\/p>\n

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Competitors Charge for Data Aggregators<\/h2>\n

Many other listing management companies (who shall remain nameless here)<\/em> charge an additional fee for submitting to data aggregators. The additional fee is separate from what you pay them for the business listings.<\/p>\n

I did some quick competitor research and looked at two other listing management providers. I found one provider charges $60 and includes only 3 data aggregators. Another charges $129 and includes 4 data aggregators.<\/p>\n

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At Advice Local, we include 5 data aggregators. We submit your clients\u2019 business information to dataprovider.com, Factual, Foursquare, Data Axle (formerly Infogroup) and Localeze. And as you correctly read above, as an Advice Local platform partner you won\u2019t pay an additional penny for this.<\/p>\n

Data Aggregators Are Data Amplifiers<\/h2>\n

Do you know that data aggregators feed other websites, directories and mapping solutions? This is why it\u2019s so important to have your clients\u2019 data submitted to them, and that the information listed on them is accurate.<\/p>\n

While some may think submitting to data aggregators is not<\/em> important, or that you only need to worry about submitting to them one time, at Advice Local we do not agree with that point of view. Data aggregators are important.<\/a><\/p>\n

Joy Hawkins<\/a> did a study on whether a business should annually pay for data aggregators or not. While their study found that \u201cthe inconsistent name being listed on other sites online didn\u2019t have any measurable negative SEO impact,<\/em>\u201d consumers say it matters to them, loud and clear.<\/p>\n

Local Citations Trust Report, a study conducted by BrightLocal, revealed the following:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n