To appear in UK SE's and directories

[dougie]

Hi all,

If you wanted to get your website known to as many people as possible, that are only in the UK, where would your top ten websites be for submitting to for free please?

Any help appreciated.

[jsnow]

Our main market is Uk and I've found by achieving top results in Google Uk search you get pretty good results as this feeds others like ntlworld btopenworld etc

[exmoorbeast]

Got to be www.dmoz.org as my number one.

Pretty hard to get good listings on other free engines. I would also suggest www.splut.com for it's free link power.

Can't think of any others, it's all going paid listings these days I'm afraid. If you are smart enough to have found this site, then my guess is that you could probably do well if you read a few more threads.

Paying for traffic is actually not a bad thing to do. Many people have made a lot of cash by doing pay per click affiliate marketing. Some where they have not even built a web site.

I am of course assuming that you want to make some spondulas from the web!

Good luck

[fasteddie uk2001]

Although most of our traffic comes from google.co.uk there are still a number of other sources out there. dmoz.org is the largest directory along with smaller directories that have their own indexes such as splut.co.uk and intersearching.co.uk amongst others.

I'd also try mirago.co.uk, as well as getting into Inktomi which backfills a lot of the Espotting/Inktomi affiliates. A small number of our sites are also getting traffic from altavista.co.uk which you can submit to free for also.

Hope this helps.
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[dougie]

Many thanks for this info, I had never heard of a couple of them.

Any others for free?

[ncw164x]

Try this
<snip>

There is a full list of UK search engines from the links at the top of the page, some accept sites and other are just search results sites which are powered by PPC engines

ncw164x

[edited by: engine at 8:49 pm (utc) on Jan. 20, 2004]
[edit reason] No urls, thanks. See TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[engine]

The big list is available here, in the UK forum, on this site.

[webmasterworld.com...]

[dougie]

Phew, that list referred to is a bit on the big side lol

Many thanks for all your help guys.

So, would I be right in saying that the top TEN places to submit for FREE for the maximum chance of maximum hits would be something like :

Aol.co.uk
msn.co.uk
freeserve.co.uk
google.co.uk
altavista.co.uk
yahoo.co.uk
lycos.co.uk
mirago.co.uk
espotting.co.uk
overture.co.uk

Is that about right?

[exmoorbeast]

don't know how you can submit to freeserve, espotting or yahoo free, am I missing a trick?

[ncw164x]

You can't submit to any of these free, your site can or could appear by having a paid listing or by being listed in google

Aol.co.uk
msn.co.uk
freeserve.co.uk
yahoo.co.uk
lycos.co.uk
espotting.co.uk
overture.co.uk

That's why the link on message 7 which engine posted has so many search engines and directories listed, it's up to you to go through them to see what is and is not suitable for your site.

ncw164x

[dougie]

Apologies, maybe I've got things confused a little. The list will be very useful, but what I'm looking for really, is personal viewpoints on which would be say, the top five for FREE submissions to UK SE's.

Dougie.

[Qui Gon Jinn]

Terrific list. Thanks very much for your input.

[bunder]

the good news of course, is that if you look around you can still submit your site for free to some of the search engines and web directories. of course, don't forget that submitting does not guarantee a listing if you do not meet the requirements of those sites

those still allowing it include:

Yahoo (for non-commercial)
Google (for all sites)

Leslie

[edited by: IanTurner at 11:21 am (utc) on Feb. 2, 2004]
[edit reason] no self promotion thank you [/edit]

[ncw164x]

A lot of us own a UK search engine or directory which accept Free listings but we go about promoting it in the correct procedure

ncw164x

[edited by: engine at 8:52 pm (utc) on Feb. 3, 2004]
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[dougie]

Just to say that, basically, I'm a very small business, with very limited funds and looking to submit to the 10 most popular UK SE's for FREE, so at this stage, I'm very grateful for any and all information on this.

Dougie.

[bunder]

Of course, there is talk of us looking to buy one of the other two :)

<snip>

Leslie

[edited by: IanTurner at 11:25 am (utc) on Feb. 2, 2004]
[edit reason] self promotion again [/edit]

[exmoorbeast]

I am really not sure if there is much point spending a lot of time looking for free listings any more. There are some great directories out there that charge 50 to 200 GBP and that has got to be worth looking into. No one can be in business if they cannot afford to spend 200 GBP on web marketing can they? IMO, and other than google.co.uk, a listing on yahoo.co.uk is the best investment one can make. In the US the charge for this is more like 200 GBP per year. I thought Yahoo would have chenged this in the US but maybe they thought the market was not mature enough in Europe for this.

[piskie]

Some of my clients scrape together a few hundred pounds for a website in the early stages of a new busines and to muster up another 500 or 600 pounds for paid listings when they are not yet generating much if any income is just not possible.

Clients like these are worthy of a functional website just as much as the larger companies that have several thousand to invest in website promotion.

[exmoorbeast]

We deal with a lot of SMEs, many of which get UK Online grants, and we always reccommend a Yahoo listing as a matter of course. Many of my friends have small one man bands, and they nearly always go for the Yahoo link.

The one step at a time approach works though. Agreed, and a budget of 600 - 1000 GBP for submissions works well for us too. Yahoo is even better value than the local newspaper if you look at it as a 3 year investment.