For a few Service Area Business types, Yext is unable to publish new listings.
Adult:
Yext will never create Adult listings, but we will claim adult listings unless the publisher asks us not to.
Locksmiths, Garage Doors, Movers:
Due to the behavior of service-area businesses (i.e. the frequent inability to verify the business's location and the predominance of spam listings), our premium publishers have made the decision to block this category from their directories. This applies to businesses categorized as Locksmiths, Garage & Overhead Doors, and Movers.
Any existing listings can still be claimed, but the following list blocks Yext from creating new listings on their platform.
- Bing
- Citysearch
- Mapquest
- Foursquare
- ShowMeLocal
- Superpages
- Yahoo
- Yelp
- Blocked completely from:
- Apple
- HERE (Nokia)
- TomTom
- Bing
- Citysearch
- Mapquest
- Foursquare
- ShowMeLocal
- Superpages
- Yahoo
- Yelp
- Blocked completely from:
- Apple
- HERE (Nokia)
- TomTom
Changing Yext Listing categories
If Categories maintained in business profile does not match match with that in Yext dashboard, yext sources will fail to sync. On clicking a message shows up as "One or more of your Business Categories are invalid."
Once you go to Yext dashboard, you can change the Primary Category as the relevant alternative to the business profile category.
For example, "Local Services > IT Services & Computer Repair" is a suggested alternate category for "Information and Communication Technology" by Yext.
However, the changes should be made in business profile as well.
Once the changes are made, syncing will start immediately.
However, you can also do a re-scrape to the listings for quicker effect.