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Claim your profile on MapQuest and HERE Maps

30-45 minImpact: mediumEffort: low

Claiming your profile on MapQuest and HERE Maps extends your listing coverage to additional mapping platforms some GPS systems and apps still draw from.

While less dominant than Google or Apple, these platforms still power real navigation and search use cases worth being accurately listed on.

The full picture

MapQuest and HERE Maps represent additional mapping and navigation platforms that, while carrying meaningfully less direct traffic than Google or Apple's mapping ecosystems, still power real navigation and local search use cases for some users and, notably, for certain GPS and in-vehicle navigation systems that draw on these underlying data sources rather than the more dominant platforms.

The practical effort required here is genuinely modest, and the primary value is the same completeness and consistency principle that applies across the full landscape of local citations — accurately claiming and completing these listings closes a real gap in your overall citation footprint, ensuring that anyone or any system checking your business information through these specific platforms encounters accurate, current data rather than an unclaimed or inaccurate listing.

This is appropriately treated as lower-priority relative to your primary Google Business Profile and Apple Maps listings, given the genuinely smaller direct audience these platforms reach for most businesses — but lower priority doesn't mean zero value, since comprehensive, consistent presence across the full landscape of relevant platforms is part of what builds the aggregate trust signal that a thorough local SEO strategy depends on.

Maintaining the same NAP consistency standard here that applies throughout this citation-building work — exact, matching business name, address, and phone formatting — ensures this listing reinforces rather than potentially confuses the broader consistency signal your other, higher-traffic listings are working to establish.

How to do it

  1. 1
    Claim your MapQuest business listing
    Through their business portal.
  2. 2
    Claim your HERE Maps listing
    Through HERE's business listing portal.
  3. 3
    Ensure consistent NAP information
    Matching your canonical business details.

Common mistakes

How you will know it is done

Your business is claimed and accurate on both MapQuest and HERE Maps.

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