what is citation submission in seo?

[northerncarspar]

what is citation submission in seo? and what are the benefits of it?

[sajid israq]

A citation is any mention of your business out on the web, with or without a link. It can come in various forms:

Company Name, by itself.
Company name & phone number.
Company name, phone number, & address.
Company name, phone number, address, & link.
etc.
Even just the phone number by itself can be a citation. Hat tip to Nyagoslav Zhekov. See his comment below.

A complete citation should include the company name, address, and phone number. A citation that does not include all three of these is sometimes referred to as a partial citation.

[smmexpertss]

In SEO terminology, a citation is a mention of your company’s contact information on another website, even if the site doesn’t provide a link to yours. A complete citation would follow the NAP (name, address and phone number) format, while a partial one could contain only one or two of these elements. A common example of a citation would be an online directory listing for your business in the Yellow Pages, or any other business directory. However, citations do not have to come only from directories, but can be from various sources, such as the websites of business associations, your local chamber of commerce, news stories, forum posts, and social media posts.