N.A.P. Hunter Lite

 

If you’re like us, you probably think citation work is the worst. All that manual work to clean up local business data at publishers that can’t keep their own databases accurate is hardly a challenge worthy of a local SEO genius like yourself.

N.A.P. Hunter Lite is a Chrome extension we built to help us speed up that manual citation auditing process, and we wanted to share the wealth. N.A.P. Hunter Lite performs searches for various combinations of a business’ name, address and phone number to give you a look at its citation profile and automatically download it to a .csv file.

You can get the extension at NAPHunterv1 for now, although soon it will be available in the Chrome Web Store.

How To Install N.A.P. Hunter Lite in Chrome

1. Get a Google Chrome Browser
2. Click on the “Hamburger” menu in the top right of the browser. Select “Tools” > “Extensions” to go to the Extensions page.  You can also just copy chrome://extensions/ into the Awesome bar.
   
3. Enable “Developer Mode” in Chrome (note: this appears to be an issue for Windows PCs. You may need to wait until we add this to the Chrome Store)
4. Drag and drop the unzipped N.A.P. Hunter Lite file onto the page
5. If you are on a Mac you need to drag the file into the Chrome extension page directly from the Finder
6. If you are having issues with Chrome de-activating the plugin make sure you delete it, enable “Developer Mode” and then re-install the extension.

Potential Bugs:

• We have updated the extension at 5:19pm PST 6.10.14. If you had problems before, delete the old one and download the current version
• We have had a report that the extension may not work on Windows XP Pro
• If you can’t install the extension, make sure you drag it from a folder, not the browser download bar.
• If asked if you want to copy the folder with encryption, select “Skip” (#NSA)
• If all else fails, delete the extension, click on “Developer Mode” on the Extensions page and then re-install it.
• We will get the app in the Chrome Store next week which should fix some of these issues

How To Run N.A.P. Hunter Lite
Pretty simple:

1. Enter the N.A.P. info in the boxes
2. Hit “Hunt” to run the query in the browser. You’ll get a lot of tabs that look like this:
   
   You can browse the tabs to find different citation sites for your N.A.P.
3. Hit “Export”. After a small delay, N.A.P. Hunter Lite will download all of the data in a csv like N.A.P.HUNTER.Local SEO Guide.2014-6-10.
4. The current version provides the ability to deselect different query types and the option to remove Yelp.com from the results because, well F#%& em!