Directories and Third-Party Websites

Web presence analysis now incorporates directory listings — such as BBB, Yelp, and Yellow Pages — as a first-class data source. What this means for your results:

Directory listings are now used to identify the correct business website
Officer information is extracted from directory profiles
Contact details (address, phone, email) found on directories are validated and matched

options: ["Order.DirectoryListings"] is now a new option in the payload that will retrieve third-party directories where the searched business appears listed. The new found_directory_listings will return an array of objects like this one:

"found_directory_listings": [
        {
          "source": "artisanhub.co.uk",
          "url": "https://artisanhub.co.uk/store/artisan-island-ltd/?page=1",
          "category": "Consignment Store",
          "business_name": "Artisan Island Ltd",
          "phone_number": null,
          "email": null,
          "business_website": null,
          "address": "41 ST MARY STREET WEYMOUTH ENGLAND DT4 8PU UNITED KINGDOM",
          "people": []
        }
      ],

Additionally, a new DIRECTORY_LISTING source type will appear in web presence fields such as address_match_sources wherever directory data contributed to a match. You can request directory listings via API or the console:

Contact your Baselayer representative if you’d like to learn more.