UK Business Directories
Ajay Kumar Singh on May 6th, 2011The best thing about the UK is that you have very good Internet business directories. Internet directories are taken very seriously in the UK. Most of these directories invest millions in building a successful directory services. Even in the USA you will not find so much craze for Internet directories.
Most of them offer free for basic listing. For featured listing you will have to pay a fee. Some of them offer additional advertisement solutions as well. The benefits of submitting your business directories are many. Firstly you get a back link from these reputed directories. Secondly you get traffic. and lastly which is the most important you get leads. People search on these directories to find business and services. On a wild guess I can say that these business directories must be getting at least 100 million visits a month all together. So there is a big opportunity to exploit the traffic to generate leads for you business.
Whether you are one man business, small business or big corporation getting listed in these directories is your first step towards tapping the huge potential of online market.
With my years of search I’ve collected about 100 very good UK business directories which I use regularly to submit my own businesses as well as client’s businesses. I’m not going to reveal all the list, I’ll only reveal some of them. If you are interested in UK Business Directory Submission services then check out my SEO services.
Google Places – The monster Google also has a directory called Google places. When you search for any local business related terms on Google then it shows the results from the Google Local on the top.
E.g.
Search for London Restaurants on Google.co.uk and you will see that top SERPs are flooded with results from Google Local.
Adding a business to Google local is free and after some verification they make it live. However getting ranked in top in Google Local result is another ball game all together.
Free Index - I’ve been using Free Index since it started. It has evolved a lot and now offers a lot of features. It also offers clients/customers to review.
Thomson Local – Yellow pages with online presence as well. It takes ages to get listed in it.
Hot Frog – I’m with Hot Frog since it was launched. It used to be a buggy directory in the beginning but in past 5 years it has evolved a lot and now looks better but worse as well thanks to it’s excessive advertisement. Now more or less it looks like sponsored advertisement link directory than business directory.
Small Business Directory UK – Simple yet very nice directory. Good for link building.
UK Business Directory – Another good directory. You can add your services in addition to just description.
Swami Directory - Internet Directory as well as UK business directory.
Yahoo Local UK – It is a hidden secret. Yahoo maintains a local business directory in the UK. The problem is that it is managed by a media agency. When you submit listing they will call you and push for their own SEO and top ranking services before they can allow listing to go live. I’ll leave it to you to find out how to submit their ;)
great list .. but very short .. Where we can find more .
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