Local Business Directories

List of Local Business Directories, Niches Directories, IYP Sites & Social Networking Sites

Below is a list of some great local business directories and sites that you can add your local business to in order to attract customers already searching for what you offer. Local search is on the increase and your business must have a presence on the internet to take advantage of local search marketing.

If a potential customer types in "personal trainer in Wimbledon" you want them to find YOUR personal training business based in Wimbledon - and even if your site can't make it to the top of the search engines you can find other places that will and use them - local business directories are great for that.

Local Business Directories

http://www.uksmallbusinessdirectory.co.uk/

http://www.gomy.co.uk/ - businesses with added customer reviews

http://www.city-visitor.com/

http://www.uk-local-search.co.uk/directory/

http://www.uk-link-directory.co.uk (submit articles too)

http://www.toplocallistings.co.uk/

http://www.local.co.uk/

http://www.misterwhat.co.uk/

http://www.britaine.co.uk/

http://www.ukzone.info/ (not free)

Local Niche Directories

Directories that cover a particular topic and/or area

http://www.atuk.co.uk/addurl/index.htm - travel search engine and directory

www.parwich.org (covering Derbyshire)

www.harringayonline.com (community site for Haringey, London)

www.digbeth.org

www.pitsnpots.co.uk

http://www.thebestof.co.uk/ - find the local one for your area

www.ventnorblog.com (Isle of Wight)

http://www.impressyourpartner.com/ - For businesses that could be used for a romantic event.

http://www.mylocalservices.co.uk/ 

http://www.lollo.co.uk/ - restaurants only

http://www.touchlocal.com - get your customers to add a review

http://www.linc2u.com/ - Links to web sites in Lincolnshire and NE Lincs England

London Business Directories

Enjoy London - The essential London guide
Guide to London including whats on, entertainment listings, events, london hotels, restaurants and bars. add your London business to it

London Information and Resources
http://www.londoncentral.info/
London News Portal and London Web Directory offers various news and links related to London and much more.

http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/ - Directory for clubs, bars, restaurants - if you run one in London you need to be in here

http://www.londondirectory.co.uk/

www.kingscrossenvironment.com

www.london-se1.co.uk

www.w14london.ning.com

http://www.insidebattersea.co.uk/ (covering Battersea, Balham, Clapham)

Business To Business Directories

B2B Index - UK Business Directory –

Internet Yellow Pages

188 directory http://www.118.com/

Getting into Yahoo Local and City Local

Infoserve provide the UK local search results for Yahoo local, city visitor and other local business directories. They are known as IYP sites or Internt Yellow Pages. With the local industry sites service you can actually chose the specific area you want to be listed under.

http://www.infoservegroup.com/products/

Google local Center is actually free to get your business listed.

http://www.192.com/

http://www.thomsonlocal.com/

UK Busines Networking Sites

http://www.4networking.biz  - joined up networking in the UK

http://www.qype.co.uk - get your customers to write a review

http://www.business-scene.com

http://www.yelp.co.uk

http://explore.bttradespace.com/what-is/

http://www.ecademy.com

 Blog Directories

Places to add blog to get more traffic - they are not UK specific but still worth adding your RSS feed and/or blog to for the link back. They will of course have other people from the UK included.

http://www.blogrankings.com/  

http://www.blogcatalog.com/signup 

http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp 

http://www.bloggernity.com/cgi-bin/user.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloggernity.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fadd.cgi&from=add 

http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html 

http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/add.php 

http://chordata.info/suggest.php 

http://www.getblogs.com/directory/ 

http://www.globeofblogs.com/register.php 

http://www.icerocket.com/c?p=addblog 

http://www.libdex.com/add 

http://www.lsblogs.com/howtosubmit.php 

http://www.newzalert.com/AuthorCenter/ 

http://pingomatic.com/ 

http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp 

http://www.podcastalley.com/add_a_podcast.php 

http://www.podcastpickle.com/AddPodcast.php 

Add your business

Being part of these local search business directories will mean having to pay a fee in most cases but what you will have is a valuable one way link back to your website/blog from sites which receive thousands of visitors a day and so the thing to focus on is the benefit rather than the cost!

Also think about the return on your investment. If listing your business cost £50 a year how much will you have to sell before being in profit? For some businesses one or two sales from customers who find you in these local business directories.

If funds are tight start with the free ones and add your business as soon as you can into the others. You can still do a lot to make sure you are found in the organic search results, just keep reading our articles to learn how.