SmartBusinessSearch
SmartBusinessSearch highlights featured and recently added local businesses across states such as Indiana, California, and Georgia, covering categories from lawn care and HVAC to legal services and dentistry.
SmartBusinessSearch organizes businesses into categories across dozens of states, and keeping a profile accurate there means editing it directly in the directory, then redoing that work each time the name, address, or hours change. Listings API removes that manual step, creating, updating, and syncing the SmartBusinessSearch listing through one unified API.
With just a few API calls, you can publish a business to SmartBusinessSearch using details like business name, category, address, phone, website, and hours. Listings API lets you:
- Create a location and publish it to SmartBusinessSearch alongside every other citation on your plan.
- Update the business name, category, address, phone, website, or hours in a single call.
- Track publishing status and read the live listing URL once SmartBusinessSearch goes live.
What the API does on SmartBusinessSearch
Listing sync
Name, address, phone, hours, description, categories, website, and photos publish to SmartBusinessSearch from one canonical record. The same write updates the rest of your plan's network.
Publish status you can query
Per site publish state and live listing links are readable back through the API, so you can verify the SmartBusinessSearch listing from response instead of checking it manually.
Typed SDKs + MCP
Node.js and Python SDKs with full types, plus a hosted MCP server so agents and LLM tools can drive the same API.
Publish and sync your SmartBusinessSearch listing
curl -X POST https://listingsapi.com/api/v4/locations \
-H "Authorization: API $LISTINGSAPI_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"input":{"name":"Acme Dental","description":"Acme Dental is a family-owned dental practice in downtown New York offering preventive care, cosmetic dentistry, orthodontics, and emergency appointments. The team pairs modern equipment with a gentle, patient-first approach, and same-week visits are available.","subCategoryId":1432,"street":"123 Jump Street","city":"New York","stateIso":"NY","postalCode":"10013","countryIso":"US","phone":"6443859313"}}'curl -X POST https://listingsapi.com/api/v4/locations/update \
-H "Authorization: API $LISTINGSAPI_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"input":{"id":"TG9jYXRpb246MTgwMDI4OQ==","phone":"8073326999","street":"19 Trinity Enclave Main Rd"}}'curl https://listingsapi.com/api/v4/locations/TG9jYXRpb246MTgwMDI4OQ==/listings/premium \
-H "Authorization: API $LISTINGSAPI_KEY"Which plans include SmartBusinessSearch
SmartBusinessSearch is available on every plan, starting with Launch.
SmartBusinessSearch + Listings API
How do I add a business to SmartBusinessSearch with the API?
createLocation takes the business name, category, address, phone, website, and hours in one call, which publishes the listing to SmartBusinessSearch and every other citation on the plan at the same time, with nothing to fill in on the directory's own submission page.
How long does publishing to SmartBusinessSearch take, and how do I confirm it?
Most SmartBusinessSearch listings go live within a few hours to a few days of the update. Verify it by calling GET /api/v4/locations/{id}/listings/premium, which returns the current publish status and the live SmartBusinessSearch URL once the change has taken effect in the response body.
Do I need a SmartBusinessSearch account to publish a listing?
No account on SmartBusinessSearch is needed. Authentication happens with a single Listings API key, and the listing content comes straight from your Listings API data rather than a form filled out on the directory. Listings API is an independent service and is not affiliated with SmartBusinessSearch.
How do I update a business's address or hours on SmartBusinessSearch?
Pass whichever fields changed, address, phone, or hours, into updateLocation, and the update reaches SmartBusinessSearch and every other citation on the plan through that one call, keeping the directory entry aligned with the source record instead of the directory's own copy.
Can I publish posts or manage review replies on SmartBusinessSearch?
Through Listings API, SmartBusinessSearch only ever receives the sync fields, name, category, address, phone, website, and hours. Publishing posts and handling review replies work on two connected profiles, Google and Facebook, and those two plus Bing are the only sources for analytics; SmartBusinessSearch isn't part of either capability.
Which plan includes SmartBusinessSearch?
SmartBusinessSearch is available on every plan, including Launch. As soon as a location is created, it publishes to SmartBusinessSearch along with the rest of the citation set that plan covers, regardless of which tier you're on, with no separate request needed for this directory.
