(edited by: Brett_Tabke)
www.aol.co.uk
www.msn.co.uk
www.freeserve.com
www.btopenworld.com
www.tiscali.co.uk
www.ntl.com
www.yahoo.co.uk
www.looksmart.co.uk
www.ukplus.com
www.google.co.uk
www.lycos.co.uk
www.altavista.co.uk
www.mirago.co.uk
Yahoo, Ink, L$, Goverture, Espotting, Google, Lyocs & AV should cover it. And Mirago if you can be bothered.
[britindex.co.uk...]
[cilmeri.com...]
[excite.co.uk...]
[god.co.uk...]
[mugomilk.co.uk...]
[searchrocket.co.uk...]
[ukmax.co.uk...]
[webtop.com...]
Changes
[moonmist.co.uk...]
now
[moonmist.info...]
Not on your list
[ask.co.uk...]
[askalix.com...]
[abrexa.co.uk...]
[limeysearch.co.uk...]
[south-online.co.uk...]
[now2business.co.uk...]
[thematren.co.uk...]
[cambsearch.co.uk...]
[shiresearch.co.uk...]
[countyweb.co.uk...]
[smallbiz.uk.com...]
[yell.co.uk...]
Some of these actually belong to WebmasterWorld members, others I have found via other sources.
Surprising omission from your list is Cambsearch which has been around for a long time. (It appears to now be part of shiresearch - or could be that shire search is an extension of cambsearch_
Countyweb has also been around a while.
Smallbiz.uk.com has to win prizes for the worst SE/Directory yet. You can get listed and I have even managed a couple of referrals but the URL addition page takes some finding. (Its design is actually quite pleasant)
On average, what percentage of total traffic do you find comes from the smaller engines & directories?
[clickforchoice.co.uk...]
[purplepages.ie...] (irish sites only)
[selu.co.uk...]
[shopq.co.uk...]
Otherwise, looks like you got all mine covered already.
A few surprising results on some sites the following engines/directories are responsible and on my worth keeing an eye on list.
ukplus - 1 site at about 2% on its own -ahead of some so called majors
great-british-pages.co.uk - the reason I couldn't put the combined at less than 1% on average. (I now submit all sites)
ukwebstart.co.uk - one site gets 3% of its traffic from this directory alone - doesn't seem to repeat with any of my other submissions though.
On the bigger reputation than performance list:
[mirago.co.uk...]
[askalix.co.uk...]
[searchengine.com...]
One omission from the original list (which should also be on the bigger reputation than performance list)
[scoot.co.uk...]
Biggest hassles to the UK Webmaster/Small Business owner
[scoot.co.uk...]
[askalix.co.uk...]
[countyweb.co.uk...]
High pressure telesales, they will try and sting you for £200 for a years inclusion (less for countyweb) - this money can be better spent elsewhere (e.g. Looksmart.co.uk or Inktomi)
I live/work in Surrey, most of my clients are in Surrey, so I always get them on SurreyWeb (www.surreyweb.org.uk) the theory is that many people are interested in a local service even though we're using a worldwide service to promote them.
Does it help a site's LinkPop by getting on minor directories and SEs even if there's little traffic coming from them?
You can cover virtually 95% of all UK search traffic with those that shuffler mentioned collectively (included the paid ones) and although there will be pockets of isolated traffic and the occasional additional link pop boost the benefit of being in a local directory/index will be one of credibility and ego rather than of necessity. Certainly when I submit sites I try to incorporate as many of these as possible (a few new names that I hadn't heard of, so thanks guys, but a lot will depend on the business model, be it local/regional/national/international.
I suppose the other thing is that it helps the "submit your site to 20,000 search engines for $20" merchants in business.
What amazes me is how some of these providers think you will part with £25-100 to be in an index with no qualified results, when the same money spent on an e-spotting campaign could bring you pretty reasonable amount of targetted traffic.
url snipped ;)
at the moment, except for survival reasons we're having to relaunch it the wrong way round - new design (done), then new content and functionality.
ie we won't be a pointless "not another shopping" directory forever, mark my words!!
<once again, apologies for plug, but not if its been snipped!>
(edited by: engine at 10:29 am (utc) on Mar. 7, 2002)
(edited by: NFFC at 8:02 pm (utc) on Mar. 7, 2002)
Eddie, did someone say it wasn't??
Did I see a link to the 'most used' UK SE's and directories somewhere? (US would be useful also)
Thanks in advance
are search king also local in regions of the uk? I received a singular hit from borders.searchking.com
are search king also local in regions of the ukand the answer is yes. We have started to build up the county directories and all are doing good. Searchking and UKsearchKing are getting local. We want to provide all with local results and bring that ecommerce to the counties!!!
[uknetguide.co.uk...]
<Mod note: URL snipped - that last one was a little too specialised.>
(edited by: engine at 3:39 am (utc) on April 26, 2002)
Basically we've lost interest - much better things to be getting on with!
Anyone want to take it on?
Phil
