One NAP, everywhere, always, owned forever.
Agencies pay per-seat and per-client fees that scale with their success. Self-hosted, pay-once tools replace per-seat pricing with a flat cost that margins actually survive.
The tool this job usually means renting is BrightLocal, at $39-59/mo — roughly $468 a year, every year. Citewatch does the job for a one-time $34 — running on infrastructure you control.
Name, address, phone, website and hours as the single source of truth, with multiple businesses supported.
For agencies, canonical NAP profile pays off across every client account, with no per-seat math — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
11 seeded core and industry directories plus your own custom ones: open the directory, paste what it shows, done.
For agencies, structured audit workflow pays off across every client account, with no per-seat math — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
Normalizes phone formats, case, punctuation and USPS abbreviations so it flags only real problems as match, formatting only, incomplete or mismatch.
For agencies, smart diffing pays off across every client account, with no per-seat math — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
One payment of $34 gets the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/local-seo-citation-tracker-mvp and run it yourself for free.
Docker-compose onto a $5 VPS to run it public, or run the desktop build locally with data in your user profile.
Enter your canonical name, address and phone, then work the directory list pasting what each one shows to see exactly what drifted.
Citewatch is $34, once. BrightLocal at $39-59/mo — roughly $468 a year, every year. At $468 a year for BrightLocal, Citewatch pays for itself in about 27 days.
At $468 a year for BrightLocal, Citewatch pays for itself in about 27 days. Citewatch costs $34 once; BrightLocal charges $39-59/mo — about $468 a year. For agencies, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes, Citewatch is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/local-seo-citation-tracker-mvp. The $34 buys the packaged Windows installer and 1-click setup; building from source is free.
In a SQLite file on your own server, with no telemetry.