Business Directories, who do you use and why?

Good point, there has been a few directories riding the wiki wave.

We've been listed with brownbook and aboutus for a sometime. Just checked the analytics, and since Jan this year, we've had 3 visits from Brownbook and nothing from about us.

But, you never know... if 1 of those clicks produced a sale, then it was worth the 10 minutes it took to list, is another way of looking at it

No will leave it there ticking over, as I said, the freebies keep adding to the SEO, and even my advert on there is performing very well, in fact outperforming my main site in a few searches, hence the complete overhaul going on at Kip FX, the SEO of UKBN is done solely by how well somebody writes their advert, I am still shocked at the searches it dominates in, power of WP backend I guess.

My viewpoint has changed. I don't mind paying for directory listing so long as it's a quality directory and it's a reasonable price. Yahoo and friends charge a hell of a lot. To make it worse it's an annual price.

The main reason for us listing is for the link value. That's it.

UK Small Business Directory - are you talking about this site: Business Directory UK small business directory free advertising and local business search. ?

Yup. We've had consistently good traffic from the UKSBD over the years.

I'm for Freeindex as the best one and some others but cant drop a link yet. I have a web page with a list. Saves people hunting them down individually.

that would be good to see..... i can check if theres any ive missed

which reminds me I suppose that I ought to also add MLS directory too.

Who??? never heard of them

Nice thread guys.

IMO free directories can not hurt your business so if you have the time to submit to some of them then why not?

If you are using them to generate a load of traffic to your sites then the free versions probably won't do such a great job at this. However, directory submissions can have a massive effect on Google Local Listings (Google places/Maps) if done correctly. We tend to use directory submissions as a way of helping get our clients in the map listings rather than to generate traffic (though any traffic gained from it is most welcome!!).

Here is a small list of free directories which won't hurt submitting to:

Hot Frog - Your UK Business Directory

MerchantCircle.com | Find new customers.

B2B advertising to promote your online business visibility!

https://www.touchtarget.com/product/home


Also, try typing into Google the name of the area you are located in and 'Local Directory'. For example, 'Watford Local Directory'. This should help your site a little when people do local searches, for example, 'Watford Plumber'.