6 Free Places to List Your Trades Business (And 3 That Waste Your Time)

You already spent a Saturday on directories that don’t ring

Search “where to list my business online” and you get fifty names. Manta. Brownbook. Hotfrog. Something ending in “local.” An agency PDF that says you need 200 citations before Google will take you seriously. You spend the afternoon copying the same paragraph into dashboards nobody’s opened since 2014.

Monday the phone does the same thing it did last week. Because homeowners looking for a locksmith, HVAC tech, plumber, or garage door shop are not browsing citation farms. They’re in Maps, on an iPhone asking Siri, on Yelp, on Nextdoor, or they typed you into Facebook the way their parents still “search the internet.”

You don’t need fifty directories. You need six that actually move a phone, a NAP sheet that doesn’t contradict itself, and the discipline to skip the rest. That’s the whole job. This is the 2026 playbook — verification, gotchas, trade-specific notes — not another listicle with affiliate links buried under “resources.”

Why most directory listicles are sales funnels (and NAP poison)

Those “75 free places to list your business” posts exist to sell a $79–$299/month submission service. Volume looks thorough. Thorough is not the same as useful. Most of those sites are dead traffic. A few are actively bad for you.

Here’s the mechanic. You, or an intern, or an offshore VA, paste your info into 80 forms. Three of them flip the suite number. Two store a tracking number from last quarter’s Google Ads test. One auto-generates a description that says you’re a “general contractor in the greater metro” when you’re a two-van locksmith. Scrapers copy the wrong versions. Google sees a mess. Local ranking is a matching problem: same name, same address, same phone, same story. Noise is not a ranking strategy.

Brownbook is a backlink farm wearing a directory costume. Manta was a real B2B index in 2008 and is barely breathing now. Yellowpages.com still has a brand people over 70 remember; the website is a sales-call machine. Hotfrog and its cousins (Cylex, Tupalo, ezLocal) exist so agencies can print a spreadsheet. Nobody in your service area is opening Hotfrog to find a plumber.

NAP consistency checklist (do this before any dashboard)

NAP = Name, Address, Phone. Google, Apple, Bing, and every scraper treat string matching like gospel. “Close enough” is how you get two listings that look like two companies.

Write the canonical version once. A notes file, a printed card on the shop wall, a row in a spreadsheet — I don’t care. Then copy it. Do not retype from memory on Yelp at 10 PM.

The tracking-number trap

Call tracking is fine on ads. It is poison as the public listing phone.

Google Ads call tracking, Local Services Ads numbers, Angi / HomeAdvisor lead lines, CallRail, CallTrackingMetrics — if that number sits in the Yelp, Bing, Apple, or Nextdoor phone field, scrapers treat it as your real line. Six months later your GBP says the shop number and forty citations say a dead tracking pool. Google does not give you credit for “we were measuring ROI.” It sees two phones.

1. Google Business Profile — the only listing that can keep the lights on

If you only do one, do this one. When someone searches “locksmith near me” or “AC not cooling [city],” the three Map Pack cards above the blue links are Google Business Profiles. No profile, no conversation. A pretty website does not substitute. A Facebook page does not substitute.

Set up at: business.google.com · Time: 30–45 minutes to fill, plus verification wait · Weekly: 10–15 minutes (reviews + one post)

Storefront vs service-area vs hybrid — pick the one you actually are

Google’s own examples of a service-area business (SAB) are a locksmith and a plumber: you go to the customer; they do not visit you. That choice drives verification, what the public sees, and a huge chunk of suspension risk.

Google’s representation guidelines: a SAB should hide the address. PO boxes and virtual offices are not acceptable. Service area should not stretch farther than about two hours of driving from where you actually base — larger claims get you ignored or suspended, not ranked citywide.

Exact setup steps

1. Sign in at business.google.com with a Google account you will still own in five years. Not the intern’s Gmail. Not a personal account you share with a cousin.
2. Search your exact NAP name + city. Claim the auto-generated profile if it exists. Creating a second one next to an unclaimed duplicate is how you start a suspension.
3. Set business type: storefront / SAB / hybrid. For SAB, enter the real operating address for Google, then hide it from customers.
4. Paste every field from the NAP sheet. Do not retype.
5. Primary category first (most specific: Locksmith, not Security Service; Garage Door Supplier if that’s the work; HVAC Contractor). Then up to nine secondaries that you actually sell.
6. Service area: cities or ZIPs you truly cover this week. Not “and the next county if it’s slow.”
7. Services: every job you want to be found for, with a one-sentence description. These are searchable. “Car lockout,” “residential rekey,” “no-cool diagnostic,” “torsion spring” beat a vague blob.
8. Hours: the hours a human answers. Mark 24/7 only if nights actually dispatch. Add special hours before holidays — stale Christmas hours in January is a trust ding.
9. Website: the real domain. Not a Facebook URL. Not last year’s landing-page subdomain.
10. Photos: minimum ten, from a phone, this year. Truck (readable door), tools, a completed job, crew if they consent. No stock vans. No other company’s shop in the background.
11. Description: what you do, where, and when. No keyword salad. No “best cheapest 24/7 emergency locksmith Dallas Fort Worth Arlington Irving.”
12. Submit for verification. Use the method Google offers. You do not get to shop for postcard because a blog said it was easier.

Video verification script (service-area — locksmith / plumber / HVAC truck)

In 2026, video is often the default for mobile trades. Postcard still exists for some profiles (code in the mail, usually within 14 days, expires in 30; do not edit name/address/category while it’s in transit or the pin dies). Google picks the method. If you get video, do video.

Google wants one continuous, unedited recording, shot and uploaded on the manager’s phone inside the GBP flow. Offline clips you edited in the truck do not count. Review can take up to about five business days.

Shot list — walk it once before you tap Record:

1. Location (start outside). Street sign, building number, or a neighborhood landmark at the operating address. Empty dirt lot with no markers fails. Home-based SAB: film the nearest readable street sign and a landmark on your block — you are proving the pin to a reviewer, not publishing the house. The public profile still hides the address.
2. Business exists. Tools of the trade in frame: lock picks / decoder / key machine, gauges / recovery tank, torsion bars / opener box, drain machine. Branded van, door magnets, embroidered shirt. Not a sedan and a flashlight.
3. You manage it. Unlock the branded van on camera. Or hold a permit, invoice, or utility bill whose name matches the GBP name exactly. Cover account numbers and SSNs. Faces of neighbors and customers stay out of frame.
4. Keep rolling. No cuts. No jump from kitchen to warehouse. If you miss the street sign, start over — do not splice.

Postcard still happens — don’t sabotage it

If Google offers postcard: confirm the mailing address, request once, wait. Most codes arrive within 14 days. Expire at 30. Do not request a second pin because you got impatient — that kills the one in the mail. Do not change name, address, or category while you wait. Enter the pin in the same account that requested it.

Weekly maintenance (10–15 min, not a content department)

Trade-specific

• Locksmith: Primary = Locksmith. Secondaries for auto / residential / commercial if you really do them. Urgency category — Google screens LSA locksmiths harder (background, licenses). Keyword names and fake storefronts are why this trade eats mass suspensions. Keep the reinstatement playbook bookmarked.
• HVAC: HVAC Contractor as primary. List no-cool, no-heat, maintenance, install as services. Seasonal posts matter; a July profile that still says “furnace tune-ups this week” looks abandoned.
• Garage: category must match the work (repair vs supply). Spring / cable / opener as services. Same SAB rules if you never have a public counter.

2. Yelp — claim the free page, hang up on the ads

Trades owners love to hate Yelp. The filter is opaque. Real reviews vanish. Sales calls start the week you claim. None of that changes the fact that a chunk of homeowners still open Yelp before they dial, and Apple Maps still surfaces Yelp review data on a lot of place cards. An unclaimed page is a ghost with your name on it. A competitor, or a customer with a vendetta, will use it before you do.

Set up at: biz.yelp.com · Time: ~20 minutes · Weekly: 5 minutes if a review landed; otherwise leave it alone

Exact setup steps

1. Search your NAP name + city on Yelp first. Most shops already have an auto-generated page. Claim that one. Do not create a second business.
2. Sign in at biz.yelp.com. Verify ownership — usually a phone call to the number on the listing. Answer it. If you put a tracking number here, the verify call goes into a dead pool.
3. Paste name, address (or hide if they allow service-area and you are SAB), phone, website, hours from the NAP sheet.
4. Categories: the closest Yelp equivalent to your GBP primary. Locksmiths, HVAC, garage — pick the specific one, not “Local Services.”
5. Photos: at least eight from the same real set you used on GBP. Truck, job, crew.
6. Description: service area + what you actually do. One short paragraph. Same facts as GBP, not a new slogan.
7. Yelp Connect / messaging: optional. Turn it on only if someone will answer DMs during posted hours. A rotting inbox is a bad review waiting.

Verification and NAP gotchas

• If the auto-page has the old DBA or a previous owner’s cell, fix it on day one. That wrong phone will get scraped.
• Yelp will try to “optimize” you toward a paid package during claim. Close the modal. The free page is the product.
• Review filter: you cannot force a 5-star through. Asking every happy customer “review us on Yelp or else” looks like gating. Ask for a review on the platform they already use (usually Google). If they live in Yelp, fine.

Maintenance: answer reviews. Update hours if they change. That is the whole weekly job. Five minutes, not a strategy session.

Trade-specific

• Locksmith: Yelp is where lockout price fights go to die. Quote like an adult — see quoting over the phone — and reply to “he charged WHAT” reviews with the scope you actually did, not a tantrum.
• HVAC / garage: before/after photos on the page do more than a paragraph about “family owned since.”

3. Bing Places — five extra minutes, Copilot included

Bing is still a single-digit slice of U.S. search. That slice is older homeowners, Windows defaults, and offices glued to Edge. For residential trades, that is real money, not a rounding error. The 2026 reason to care is bigger than the blue links: Bing’s index feeds Copilot and some AI answers. An unclaimed, stale Bing listing is how an assistant recites last year’s phone number.

Set up at: bing.com/forbusiness (bingplaces.com redirects here as of the late-2025 rebuild) · Time: 10 minutes if GBP is clean · Weekly: 0 unless hours/phone changed — then 5 minutes to confirm Bing still matches

Exact setup steps

1. Finish GBP first. Importing a half-built Google profile just clones the mistakes.
2. Sign in with a Microsoft account you will keep (Outlook is fine). Agency accounts exist if you manage more than one shop; a one-truck owner does not need that.
3. Choose import from Google Business Profile. Grant access. Wait for the pull: name, address, phone, hours, categories, photos, description.
4. Stop. Read every field. Confirm the phone is the NAP line, not a tracker that snuck onto GBP. Confirm suite format. Confirm hours. Confirm you did not import a keyword-stuffed name.
5. If a Bing listing already exists and is unclaimed, claim / merge rather than creating a twin.
6. Verify if Bing asks (phone, email, or postcard). Import from a verified GBP often unlocks the fast path. Until you verify, edits may not show.
7. Decide on sync. If you leave sync on or you re-import later, GBP can overwrite Bing-side edits. Do not customize Bing hours or a Bing-only promo paragraph and then hit sync. Either let Google be the source of truth, or turn sync off and maintain both when something changes.

NAP / verification gotchas

• Import is only as clean as GBP. Garbage in, garbage in Copilot.
• If Bing already has a zombie listing (old owner, old cell), claim it and overwrite from the NAP sheet. Leaving two Bings is the same duplicate problem as Google.
• Photos: if the import drops half of them, upload the truck shot again. AI answers and Maps cards still use whatever image survived.

Maintenance: when you change hours, phone, or name, change GBP first, then open Bing the same day and confirm the new values stuck (or edit Bing if sync is off). Otherwise ignore it.

Trade-specific

• Locksmith / garage: after-hours searches from desktop Edge are a thing — overnight lockouts, Sunday spring snaps. If Bing still says “Closed” because you never imported hours, you donated that call.
• HVAC: older homeowners on Bing are exactly the furnace-and-no-cool demographic. The import is cheap insurance.

4. Apple Business (formerly Maps Connect / Apple Business Connect)

Half of residential customers are on iPhones. iPhones default to Apple Maps. “Hey Siri, find a plumber near me” does not query Google. If you are not in Apple’s location graph, you do not exist for that voice query. Trades shops skip this because the URL kept changing and nobody at the supply house talks about it. That is the opportunity.

As of 2026, Apple Business Connect is gone as a standalone product. Apple merged it (and Apple Business Manager / Essentials) into the Apple Business portal. Searchers still type “Apple Maps Connect” and “mapsconnect.apple.com” — those are the old names. The live door is business.apple.com. Claimed locations, place cards, and photos migrated. You still control how the shop appears in Maps, Siri, and Spotlight.

Set up at: business.apple.com → Brands → Locations · Time: 15–25 minutes · Weekly: 0 unless hours/phone/services changed

Exact setup steps

1. Create or use an Apple ID you will still control if a tech quits. Add a user whose role can manage locations (Organization / Marketing admin, not a random employee Apple ID).
2. In the browser: Brands → Locations. Add a location. Enter the address; drag the pin if Apple dropped it on the wrong building. Service-area shops: still give Apple a real operating address for the record, then use the place-card / display controls so you are not advertising a house if the product allows hiding — match the SAB logic you used on GBP.
3. If the location already exists on Maps, phone verification is often available. Answer the NAP number. Same tracking-number trap as Yelp.
4. If you see “This location is already managed,” finish adding it, then request a transfer. Attach a license or utility bill. Review can take up to five business days. Allow mail from apple.com domains or you will miss the follow-up.
5. Fill hours, phone, website, categories/services, photos from the NAP sheet and the same truck set.
6. Add Actions (call, website, directions) so Siri has something to do besides recite a name.
7. Skip Apple Maps ads until organic place-card data is clean. Ads started rolling in the U.S./Canada through Apple Business; they are optional, not a setup step.

Verification and NAP gotchas

• Old bookmarks: Maps Connect → Apple Business Connect → Apple Business. Same job, new door. Tell whoever runs your listings the new name so they stop saying “we couldn’t find it.”
• Pin accuracy: Apple is picky about the building. A pin on the shopping center next door sends iPhone users to the wrong lot. Drag it.
• Duplicate / previous owner: transfer with documents. Do not create a second location 40 feet away.

Maintenance: when hours or the public phone change, edit Locations the same week you edit GBP. Otherwise leave it. This is not a posting feed.

Trade-specific

• Locksmith: Siri lockout queries are impulse. If the place card has no call action or a dead number, they ask again and get the next shop.
• HVAC / garage: same as GBP — services on the place card should match what you will actually book at 9 PM.

5. Facebook — a local business page, not a vanity like-farm

Facebook is not a directory in the Yelp sense. It still functions as one for customers who treat Facebook as the internet — a lot of 50s and 60s homeowners, which is a lot of HVAC, garage, and lockout work. The page also ranks in regular Google results for your shop name. That makes it a second SEO surface whether you post or not.

Set up at: facebook.com/pages/create · Time: ~20 minutes · Weekly: 10 minutes (one real post) or you will look dead

Exact setup steps

1. Create a Page, not another personal profile. Choose Local business or place (or the current equivalent). Category = the trade, not “Brand.”
2. Name = NAP name. Not “Apex Locksmith | 24/7 | Cheap Keys.” Facebook will show that junk in Google.
3. Address: real shop if you have one. SAB: use the location tools to attach a service area / hide the street if the UI still allows it. Do not drop a pin on a strip center you do not rent.
4. Phone, website, hours: NAP sheet. Enable a call button.
5. About: the same facts as GBP. Service area in plain English.
6. Profile + cover: truck photo, not a sunset. The first thing a skeptical homeowner sees is whether you look like a real van.
7. Turn on Messenger only if someone will answer during posted hours. Overnight unread quotes are how you lose the job to the shop that called back.

NAP / verification gotchas

• Facebook will nag you to boost the page. Boosting a post to “people who like pages like yours” is not lead gen. Ignore it until you have a real offer and a ZIP target.
• If an old employee is still an admin, remove them this week. Hijacked Pages are a weekend you do not have.
• Hours that say Open when GBP says Closed will get you a one-star from the guy who drove over on Sunday.

Maintenance: one post a week or the page looks abandoned in search. Reply to comments and Messenger the same day. That is ~10 minutes, not a social strategy retainer.

Trade-specific

• Locksmith: do not post lock-opening “tricks.” Post that you cover [cities] and a tap-to-call. Emergency callers are not reading a carousel.
• HVAC / garage: seasonal posts work here because this is where those customers already scroll. A first-freeze reminder beats a stock quote.

6. Nextdoor — the residential recommendation flywheel

Nextdoor users are verified residents of a specific neighborhood. When someone posts “who do we use for a lockout / no-cool / garage that won’t close,” the answers are neighbors with names, not ads. For residential trades that is worth more than another Brownbook profile. Commercial-only shops can skip this.

Set up at: business.nextdoor.com · Time: ~15 minutes + the week you ask three happy customers · Weekly: 5–10 minutes when a thread appears in your area; otherwise nothing

Exact setup steps

1. Claim a free Business Page. Use the NAP name and the public phone.
2. Verify location / service area. Stay inside neighborhoods you actually roll to. Claiming 40 neighborhoods you cannot hit in 45 minutes is how you collect public complaints.
3. Services, photos, hours from the same set.
4. After the next three clean residential jobs, ask those customers — in person, on the invoice text — “If you’re on Nextdoor, a neighbor rec helps more than a Google star.” Three or four named recs in a neighborhood is often enough to become the default reply.
5. Decline Local Deals and paid placements until the free flywheel exists. The product they are selling is not the product that works on Nextdoor.

NAP / verification gotchas

• If Nextdoor already auto-created you with a tracking number or old cell, claim and fix before you ask anyone to rec you. Neighbors will copy whatever phone is on the page.
• Service-area honesty: a Dallas locksmith claiming Denton + Fort Worth + Waco on Nextdoor will get called out in the thread.

Maintenance: watch your neighborhoods a couple of times a week, or have the office check the business inbox. When a “need a plumber” thread is live, you have minutes, not days. Otherwise do not post for the sake of posting.

Trade-specific

• Locksmith / garage / HVAC: this is a residential machine. If 80% of your book is commercial, spend the 15 minutes to claim so the page isn’t wrong, then ignore the feed.
• All three: the ask for a rec belongs at job close, next to the Google review ask — not in a mass text that sounds like a campaign.

The ones that waste your time (3 + the dead farms)

SEO blogs pad the list so they look thorough. Thorough is how you spend a Saturday producing NAP contradictions. Here is the honest skip list.

1. Manta — claim-to-fix, then never again

Manta was a real B2B directory in 2008. In 2026 the pages are thin, auto-written, and often wrong. Nobody is hiring an HVAC tech from Manta. The only reason to touch it: an auto-profile probably already exists with a mangled phone or an old suite. Claim it, paste the NAP sheet, save, close the tab.

Time: 10 minutes once. Weekly: zero. Don’t: “optimize” the auto-generated paragraph or buy whatever upgrade they flash.

2. Brownbook — backlink farm, not a customer

Brownbook exists so directory-submission packages can show a row on a spreadsheet. There is no consumer habit here. The “backlink” is the kind Google’s spam systems already discount. Skip the create flow entirely. If an agency lists Brownbook as a deliverable, that is the tell.

Time: 0. Don’t: pay to be listed. Do: fire the vendor who needed 40 of these to look busy.

3. Yellowpages.com — brand memory, website rot

People over 70 still say “yellow pages.” They almost never mean yellowpages.com. The free listing is a hook for months of Premium Listing calls ($40–$300/month, historically). Leave the auto-profile alone unless the phone is wrong. One narrow exception: rural shops whose customers are genuinely 70+ and still start with that URL. Even then, claim-to-fix beats a paid upgrade.

Time: 10 minutes only if the phone is wrong. Don’t: buy Premium to “get more from the brand.”

4. Hotfrog (and Cylex, Tupalo, ezLocal, 2findlocal, ShowMeLocal)

Same species: citation farms, auto-pages, outbound links for agencies. No homeowner habit. Creating fresh profiles here is how you multiply a typo. If one already has your old cell, fix the phone and walk away. Do not build new ones “for SEO juice.”

The “200 listings for $99” trap

Every other week: an email, a Fiverr gig, an SEO closer. “We’ll submit you to 200 directories.” Sometimes 500. Sometimes they say “citations” so it sounds like Google-science.

Why it is a trap:

• Most of the 200 are dead. The vendor knows. Volume is the demo, not the outcome.
• Bad NAP spreads. One wrong suite, one tracking number, one old DBA — copied 40 times — is worse than six clean listings. Google is matching strings. You just taught it you are two companies.
• Some are link farms. A pile of low-quality directory links is not a 2014 ranking hack. It is noise, and enough noise can look like a spam pattern.
• You cannot un-submit. Removal is a weeks-long scavenger hunt through dashboards that barely work. The $99 job becomes a $2,000 cleanup, paid in time.
• They will not maintain them. Hours change. You move. The 200 stay frozen, which is how Bing/Copilot and random scrapers keep the old number alive.

The right count for a trades shop is 6 (this article) plus 2–3 industry (table below) plus a Chamber or BBB only if you want the badge and will keep the billing clean. Past ~12 you are making noise. Angi / HomeAdvisor / Thumbtack free profiles are industry, not a 200-pack. Their paid lead products are a different decision — usually expensive, sometimes useful after ops are tight.

Industry directories worth 15 minutes (not $15/lead)

These are optional. Claim the free profile. Decline the pay-per-lead upsell until you can answer the phone, quote, and dispatch without leaking the job. A $70 Angi lead that dies in WhatsApp is a donation.

BBB is a badge some customers still look for. It is not free (accreditation costs). Do not confuse the badge with a lead channel.

Day-by-day setup (~90 minutes of work, not 90 minutes of waiting)

Do them in this order so Bing inherits a clean GBP and you are not retyping. The clock below is hands-on time. GBP verification still takes days (video review ~up to five business days; postcard often up to 14).

Hands-on total if the folder is ready: about 90 minutes. If you are hunting photos and arguing about the legal name, budget two hours and settle the name first.

Weekly maintenance reality (20–30 minutes, not a marketing hire)

Owners overbuild this. You are not running a media brand. You are keeping six records honest and answering humans.

Most of the time you burn this week is one ugly Google review you did not have a template for. Write the templates once — thanks for the 5-star; factual + invite offline for the 1-star; report path for fakes. Then the 20 minutes stays 20 minutes. Details: handling bad Google reviews.

What results to expect (honest ranges, no fake lift)

The original internet advice loves “20–50% more calls.” That number is not a measurement. It is a brochure. Here is what actually happens, qualified.

• If you had no GBP or an unverified / wrong GBP: verification is the step-change. Calls can start as soon as you are live in Maps for queries you already had a chance at. That is not this article inventing demand. That is you finally showing up.
• If GBP was already decent and the other five were empty or wrong: expect a trickle, not a flood. Apple / Siri and Bing / Copilot are the quiet ones — a few extra weekly conversations over a month or two, concentrated in iPhone households and Edge/desktop users. Nextdoor is lumpy: nothing, then a thread, then two jobs.
• NAP cleanup: Map Pack movement is weeks to months. It depends on review velocity, primary category, distance, and how many other vans already own the pack. A clean phone across six sites helps Google trust you. It does not teleport you to slot one in a packed metro.
• Yelp: defensive plus occasional. Claiming stops a ghost page from rotting. Some cities still send real jobs; some barely will. You will not know until the page is claimed and the phone is right.
• What will not happen: Hotfrog will not start ringing. A 200-pack will not outrank a shop with better reviews and a faster site. Listings will not save a number that goes to voicemail.

After the phone rings — listings cannot dispatch or quote for you

A listing is a doorbell. If nobody answers, or the quote sounds like every other shop, or three vans get the same WhatsApp blast, you paid for a doorbell on an empty house.

• Quote without hanging up. They want a number. You cannot see the lock yet. The playbook that books the job anyway: how to quote a job over the phone without losing it.
• Do not blast the lockout into group chat. No GPS, no accept, no owner. Full teardown: WhatsApp group chat dispatch fails.
• GBP is a single point of failure. If it gets suspended, the other five matter more. Do not panic-edit; use the 2026 reinstatement playbook.
• Listings without a fast site still leak. Emergency callers tap the website from the profile. A six-second homepage or a keyword-mush landing page burns the click. That is the SEO long game and why Sites & SEO exists as a retainer, not a one-page brochure.

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Bottom line

Six free listings. One NAP sheet. Video verify the SAB the way Google actually asks. Use Apple Business, not the dead Maps Connect bookmark. Import Bing from a clean GBP and read the fields so Copilot does not recite a tracker. Claim Yelp and ignore the ads. Facebook is a local page. Nextdoor is neighbor recs. Skip Manta/Brownbook/YP/Hotfrog except to fix a wrong phone. Never buy 200 directories.

Then answer the phone like a company that wanted the call. The listing is the easy part.

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