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Depends what you mean by helpful. Citations rarely bring customers directly, and most directory listings send very little referral traffic on their own.

What they do is support the thing that does bring customers, which is your Google Business Profile showing up in the map pack. Google cross-references your name, address and phone across directories to confirm the business is real and where it says it is. When they all agree there's more to corroborate. When they disagree there's less.

They're foundation work, not a lead source. A business with a complete profile, real reviews and consistent citations does better than one with two of the three. But nobody's phone rings because they got listed on a directory.

Two things that matter more than the count. Consistency, meaning identical details everywhere, not just accurate ones. And relevance, meaning directories your customers might actually search rather than whatever a bulk package includes.

If you're starting out, sort the Google profile first. Citations after that.
 
Someone asked how long citations take to go live so here's the honest answer.

Some directories publish the second you hit submit. Some sit on it until a human gets round to approving it, on their schedule. Some want you to verify, a postcard or a call to the number you listed, and nothing happens until you do that bit.

So it's not one clock. It's dozens, all running at different speeds, and most of them aren't ours to control.

About 80% go live. The rest are usually just waiting rather than rejected. And the ones that need you to do something will sit there forever until you do it.

If someone quotes you one turnaround time for the whole order, ask what happens to the ones that don't make it.

Details in the opening post.
 
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