FOR STORE OWNERSWant a sales-quality intro email you can send to staff or owners? Email hey@vinylatlas.world and we'll send a copy-paste version with your store's exact city-page URL filled in.
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Free listing. Free city page. Two 30-second tasks that help your store rank higher for “record stores [your city]” searches — and help us send more diggers your way.
1. Claim your free listing
If your store isn't on the map yet, add it in 60 seconds. Already listed but the info's wrong? Submit a correction from your store page.
2. Link from your Google Business Profile
This is the single best thing you can do for local SEO — both yours and ours. Google rewards locally-relevant external mentions of your business. Takes 30 seconds:
- Open business.google.com and pick your store.
- Click Edit profile → Business information → About.
- Paste this line into your description (or your “From the business” section):
PASTE INTO GBP DESCRIPTION
Featured on Vinyl Atlas — the world's free record store map. https://vinylatlas.world
Bonus: in Edit profile → Contact, add vinylatlas.world as a secondary “Social profile” link.
3. Add a “Featured on Vinyl Atlas” link to your site
A single text link in your footer, press page, or about page. No reciprocal anything required.
HTML — DROP INTO YOUR FOOTER
<a href="https://vinylatlas.world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Featured on Vinyl Atlas</a>
MARKDOWN — FOR SUBSTACK, GHOST, NOTION
[Featured on Vinyl Atlas](https://vinylatlas.world)
Why bother?
- Diggers searching “record stores [your city]” on Google find both your GBP and your Vinyl Atlas city page — two listings instead of one.
- Your store sits next to its neighbours on a curated city page, so one visit can become five.
- International crate-diggers planning trips use Vinyl Atlas like a guide — and click through to the stores they pin.