Getting your business listed on Bunity takes about 5 minutes and costs a one-time $3 fee. Here’s exactly what happens at each step, what you’ll need, and how to make the most of your listing once it’s live.
Before You Start
Have these ready:
Required: Your business name, address, phone number, website URL, and a valid email address. You’ll also need a credit or debit card for the $3 payment via Stripe.
Recommended: A business logo or profile photo (square format, at least 400x400 pixels), a cover photo (landscape format, at least 1200x400 pixels), and a 2-4 sentence description of your business. These aren’t required to complete signup, but they significantly improve how your listing looks and performs in search results.
Step 1: Check if Your Business Is Already Listed
Bunity has over 29 million business listings imported from public business data. Your business may already be on the platform as an unclaimed listing.
Go to bunity.com and search for your business name. If you find it, you’ll see an “Unclaimed” badge on the listing. Click “Claim this listing” to take ownership. If your business isn’t listed yet, click “Add Business” in the top navigation.
Claiming an existing listing is preferable to creating a new one - it means your business already has a URL on Bunity that may already be indexed by search engines.
Step 2: Create Your Account and Pay
Whether you’re claiming an existing listing or creating a new one, you’ll be asked to create an account and pay the one-time $3 fee. Payment is processed through Stripe, so your card details are handled securely and never stored on Bunity’s servers.
There are no recurring charges. The $3 is a lifetime fee - your listing stays active permanently.
Step 3: Complete Your Profile
After payment, you’ll be directed to your business information page. This is where your listing goes from basic to valuable.
Business description: Write 2-4 sentences describing what your business does, who you serve, and what makes you different. Avoid copying your website’s about page verbatim - Google can detect duplicate content across domains, and a unique description performs better for SEO.
Categories: Select the categories that best match your business. You can choose multiple categories. These determine which category landing pages your business appears on (e.g., “Plumbing in London” or “Hair Salons in San Diego”).
Photos: Upload a profile photo (typically your logo) and a cover photo (your storefront, team, or a professional branded image). Listings with photos get significantly more engagement than those without - and completing your profile with images qualifies you for featured placement on the Bunity homepage.
Contact details: Confirm your address, phone number, and website URL. The website link on your profile is a dofollow backlink, which means it passes SEO authority directly to your website.
What You Get
Once your listing is complete, here’s what’s live:
A dedicated profile page at bunity.com/your-business-name with your description, photos, contact details, category tags, and a map showing your location.
A dofollow backlink to your website. Unlike most directories (Yelp, Yellow Pages, BBB) which use nofollow links, Bunity provides dofollow links on claimed listings. This means Google counts the link as a vote of confidence for your website, contributing to your domain authority.
Visibility across 190+ countries. Bunity is a global directory, so your listing is accessible to anyone searching for your business category in your city - regardless of where they’re searching from.
Structured data markup. Your profile page includes LocalBusiness JSON-LD schema with your name, address, phone, website, geographic coordinates, and category. This helps Google and other search engines understand your business entity and can contribute to rich search results.
How to Get Featured on the Homepage
Bunity’s homepage displays 20 featured businesses in a rotating showcase. The selection is automatic - if your listing has a profile image or cover photo AND a description, it qualifies for featured placement.
Featured businesses are rotated based on when they first qualified for featuring - the moment a listing adds both an image and a description. The 20 most recently qualified businesses appear on the homepage. Adding a new image or description triggers qualification, but updating an already-featured profile does not refresh the timestamp.
Tips for Maximizing Your Listing
Keep your NAP consistent. Your business name, address, and phone number on Bunity should exactly match your Google Business Profile and other directory listings. NAP consistency is a key local SEO ranking factor.
Update your listing periodically. Adding new photos, updating your description, or adjusting your business hours signals to search engines that the listing is current.
Link to your Bunity profile. Adding a link to your Bunity listing from your website’s footer or “Find Us On” page creates a two-way link relationship that strengthens both your site and your directory profile.
Use your listing in outreach. When pitching to new clients or partners, a claimed Bunity profile with photos and a complete description serves as an independent third-party reference - similar to a LinkedIn company page or Google Business Profile.
Ready to get started? Add your business to Bunity - it takes 5 minutes and costs $3, once.