What is US Business Directory?
US Business Directory is a listing site for American businesses. You create a listing describing what your business does and how to reach it, and that listing becomes a permanent page on this site that anyone can find. Creating one is free and takes about ten minutes. There’s no sales call and nothing to negotiate — just a quick check by a person before it goes live.
Getting listed
Three steps, and you can stop after the first two if you want to come back and finish later — a listing stays a draft until you send it in.
1. Create your account
Pick a plan and check out. Free is a real plan, not a trial that expires — it costs nothing and there’s no card to enter. Paid plans are billed annually or monthly, and you can move between them whenever you like.
Checking out is what creates your account and your dashboard. You’ll land there straight afterwards.
2. Write your listing
The form asks for your business name, what you do, where you work and how people can reach you. Nothing is mandatory except the name, your city and state, and a description.
As you fill it in, each field tells you what your plan includes — how many photos, how many categories, how long the description can be. You won’t hit a limit you weren’t warned about.
3. Send it in
We read every new listing before it goes live. It’s a quick check that there’s a real business behind it and that nothing has landed in the wrong field — within two business days, usually sooner. We’ll email you the moment it’s up.
After that your listing has its own permanent web address, and any changes you make go live straight away.
What goes on a listing
Every listing, including free ones, carries the basics. Paid plans add the things that help somebody decide about you without leaving the page.
Every listing
- Your business name and logo
- What category you’re in
- A description in your own words
- Your phone number and website address
- Your city and state
- A map, or the areas you serve
- A direct email link
Plus and Premium add
- A photo gallery
- Your opening hours
- A clickable link to your website
- Social profiles
- Frequently asked questions
- Room for a longer description and more categories
How we check a listing
Throughout the directory, you’ll see that some listings carry a Verified badge. Here is what that means, and what it does not mean.
What Verified means
Someone on our team checked the business against at least one independent source that the business itself doesn’t control, and wrote down what they looked at and what they found. Every Verified badge on this site has a record behind it.
It’s a check on identity. Independent records exist for this business, and what they say matches what the listing says: the name, the trade, the place.
None of that is proof, and we won’t pretend otherwise. Records go out of date, and a registration shows that a filing exists rather than that anyone is
trading today. What the check does is put real evidence behind a listing instead of a name and a phone number typed into a form, and tell you we went looking.
What Verified doesn’t mean
It isn’t an endorsement or a rating, and it isn’t a comment on anyone’s work. We haven’t visited a job site, called a customer, or formed a view on whether
you should hire them.
Verified is about who a business is. Whether they’re right for you is still
your call.
← This is what you’ll see on Verified listings
What the process may include
Verification looks different from one listing to the next, because businesses
are different. A board-certified surgeon, an interstate trucking company and a one-person landscaping outfit leave three completely different trails, and
insisting on one kind of proof would rule out two of them for no good reason.
Depending on the business, and on what exists to be checked, it may include:
- state business registrations and registered trading names
- professional and trade licenses, held either by the business or by its owner
- federal registers, in industries that have them
- an established Google Business Profile with a genuine history behind it
- agreement between several independent public sources
We don’t publish the exact test a listing has to pass. A published test is a
test to beat, and the people most interested in the details tend to be the ones we’re trying to keep out.
Where you’ll see it
A verified listing carries a Verified badge, alongside the Claimed badge if the business manages its own page. It shows in search results and on the listing itself, and the listing adds the date we last checked. The date is there so an old check can’t quietly pass for a current one.
Common questions
The things people ask before they sign up.
Do I have to publish my address?
No. Choose “I travel to my customers” and your street address never appears — not on the page, not on the map, not in the page’s underlying data. Your city and state still show, so people can find you locally. A shop that also does callouts can show both.
How long does it take?
About ten minutes for a free listing if you have your details to hand. Longer if you’re uploading photos or writing a careful description, but you can save and come back.
Is the free listing really free?
Yes, and it stays free. There’s no card required, no trial period and no date where it turns into something you have to pay for. Free listings show your name, logo, category, description, phone number and website.
How long before my listing appears?
Within two business days, and usually sooner. Every new listing gets read by a person first — it’s how we keep scraped entries and dead businesses off the site, which is most of what makes a directory worth using. You’ll get an email when yours is live.
What’s the difference between Claimed and Verified?
They answer different questions. Claimed means the business manages this page — someone connected to it holds the account. Verified means we checked the business against an independent public record. A listing can be one, both or neither, and plenty of accurate listings simply haven’t been claimed yet.
Why isn’t every listing verified?
Because not having a paper trail says very little about a business. A sole proprietor trading under their own name files nothing with the state in most of the country, and a business that opened last month has no history to check yet.
An unverified listing hasn’t failed anything. There was nothing independent to check it against, or nobody has looked yet.
Can I pay to be verified?
No. Verified isn’t part of any plan and there’s no way to buy it. A badge you can pay for doesn’t tell anyone much, and we’d rather it meant something on fewer listings.
My listing should be verified. Can you take another look?
Yes, and we’d like to. Get in touch and point us at whatever we should be looking at: a license number, a registration, a professional body, or simply the places your business turns up. If it checks out, we’ll add the badge.
This is my business, but I didn’t create the listing.
Get in touch and we’ll hand it over at no charge. After that you edit it, it shows as Claimed, and nothing changes without you. If you’d rather we corrected it or took it down, just let us know.
Can I change my listing later?
Any time, from your dashboard, and your changes appear straight away — you are never waiting on us to correct a phone number. We do still read what changes, the same as we read new listings, but nothing is held up while we do. Your listing keeps the same web address, so anything linking to it keeps working.
What happens if I downgrade?
Nothing is deleted. If you drop to a plan that shows fewer photos or social links, the extras stop appearing on your public page but stay saved on your account — so upgrading again brings them straight back, exactly as they were.
Can I list more than one business?
Premium covers up to three listings on one account, managed from the same dashboard. That’s built for multiple locations, separate brands, or service lines that people search for differently.
Who can see my contact details?
Whatever you choose to put on your listing is public — that’s the point of a directory. The email address you sign in with is separate from the business email you display, and we don’t publish the one you sign in with.
Do you sell my information?
No. We don’t sell visitor data or member data, and we don’t pass your listing inquiries to your competitors.
Looking for a business?
Browse by category, or narrow by state and city. Every listing shows what the business does and how to contact them directly — we don’t sit in the middle. Browse the directory →
Ready to get listed?
Start with a free listing and upgrade later if it earns it.
