Drive traffic to your site with UK web directories
Leading UK web directory - Haabaa
Getting website to your site using organic search engine ranking is becoming increasingly difficult, even if you are ranked number 1 on page 1 of any of the major search engines, getting clicks from your natural ranking is very difficult. On Google search engine result pages there are three sponsored link before organic results are displayed and sponsored links from to to bottom of the right hand side of result pages.
Microsoft’s Bing even goes a step further than Google when it comes to displaying sponsored links on search result pages, it displayed 4 sponsored link at the top of result pages for some keywords, reducing your changes of getting clicks even if you are number 1 for that keyword in organic SERPS.
UK Web Directories for Low Cost Clicks
Given that it is so tight and competitive to get traffic from natural organic search engine result, PPC which tend to cost and arm and a leg is the only alternative, one other source of traffic is web directories. For some reason most webmasters do not explore the possibilities of generating traffic from web directories, perhaps because it is time consuming and unlike traffic from search engines, it does not come in large quantities but when compared with traffic from PPC, the cost is negligible.
If you have the time and resources, it may be worth investing in getting your site listed on most of the high quality UK web directories. There isn’t that many of them there so if you choose about ten and submit your site the traffic you will get will certainly pay for itself, beside, it give you advantage over your competitors as most webmasters do not use web directories this days.
Some UK web directories
The list below give a brief description and link to some of UK leading online web directories.
* Ozami Web Directory
Ozami web directory is a hand coded directory, by this it means that listing is added to HTML pages using good old fashion hard coding. Listing in Ozami cost a one-off fee. Ozami is hosted in the UK so despite its .com domain extension its a UK web directory.
* FX1 Directory
FX1 is one of the oldest directories in the UK. There is nothing special about it, it is just a plain old directory, listing in FX1.coo.uk cost £20 for a year.
Other UK web directories includes:
- ABR Directory
- This Is UK Business
- Haabaa Web Directory
- Wura Web Directory
- ThisIsUKBusiness
- Directory.velnetsearch
You can discuss web directory related issue at the directory section of webmaster serve. You can find more information about manual UK directory submission here.