Best citation sites in Bangladesh

BD Trade Info runs a substantial company database with an explicit add-your-company path and crawlable company pages, strongest in trade and B2B. BangladeshYP offers the classic yellow-pages model with a free listing tier. Moumachi runs a human-verified local directory organised by city and sector across Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and beyond, and WhitePagesBD adds a categorised business and contact directory. All four publish structured contact records, which is precisely what search engines and AI assistants read when they verify a business. List on each with identical details.

In a directory-rich market your competitors have listings too, so consistency is defensive. In Bangladesh most businesses have almost no structured web presence beyond social media, so a complete, consistent citation profile is offensive: it can make yours the only business in the niche whose data an engine can verify confidently. That confidence is what turns a query into your phone ringing, especially for the B2B and export queries where BD Trade Info's database is strongest.

Foursquare, OpenStreetMap, Bing Places, Hotfrog, Brownbook and the other global generals are all free, all crawlable, and all feed the maps, apps and AI models that international buyers and local smartphone users rely on. For a Bangladeshi exporter or service business, the global anchor layer is the difference between existing and not existing in a foreign buyer's AI-assisted search. The order of work is in our citation building guide.

Business directories in Bangladesh operate mainly in English, so define one canonical English NAP: exact registered name, one address format including the area and district, and one +880 phone format. If you maintain Bengali-language profiles, keep the phone and address structure identical so every record reconciles to one entity. Check how your business reads today with the free NAP checker.

BD Trade Info, BangladeshYP, Moumachi and WhitePagesBD cover the general layer, and for many Bangladeshi businesses that plus the global anchors is the whole realistic set. Where a vertical option exists it is worth more than another general listing: garment and leather exporters have trade directories that buyers abroad actually search, private clinics and diagnostic centres have healthcare platforms, and education and IT services have their own niche business directories.

If your category genuinely has no vertical platform in Bangladesh, do not invent one by listing on low-quality sites. A short, accurate set on directories that are indexed and visible beats a long set on pages search engines ignore.

Bangladesh has been renumbering and rebuilding fast: new commercial addresses in Dhaka, mobile numbers replacing landlines, businesses moving between Gulshan, Banani and Uttara. Every one of those changes leaves stale copies behind on directories nobody went back to update.

Decide the canonical form once, including how the area and postal code are written and whether the mobile number carries the +880 country code, then keep every copy in step. The value of a citation set is not the day it is created; it is that the same answer keeps coming back from independent sources months and years later.