If you know a little about SEO, than you will understand that getting high-quality SEO backlinks is one of the most important factors for improving your domain authority and keyword rankings.
When other websites are writing about you and publishing links to your content, this shows you are authentic and an authority on the subject. Therefore your website rankings will improve in the search results.
The higher the score of the website talking about you (domain rating) then the better the SEO juice you will get from that backlink.
Usually for startups and new websites, getting registered on all of the national and local directories is a great first step. To make things much easier for you, we’ve created a list of our favourite 50 directory sites in the UK, giving your website that powerful backlink juice that Google loves.
We have a simple process we recommend you follow.
It is very important that the information you add to these directories is consistent. Make sure your business name, contact details and description match up exactly across all directories.
Usually these directory sites will ask for the following information, so I find it handy to have this data saved in a file I can copy and paste from to make sure everything matches.
URL
Title
Meta Description
Category
Email
Keywords
The best part about the directories we’ve listed below is that they are all free! After a little time, you can build a good number of high quality links to your website. An added bonus over time, you’ll end up getting referral traffic from these sites too, which will contine to boost your SEO score even more.
You may come across paid and reciprocal directories, these are not neccessarily bad for your website, you just need to consider if you’d prefer to use that budget elsewhere.
In the meantime, here’s our list of 50 free UK directories for quality SEO backlinks, enjoy!
- 118118.com (DA 49)
- 192.com (DA 76)
- Accrington Observer (DA 45)
- Apple Maps (DA 97)
- Batley News (DA 41)
- Bing Places (DA 78)
- Birmingham Mail (DA 79)
- Birmingham Post (DA 71)
- Burton Mail (DA 70)
- Central Index (DA 73)
- Chester Chronicle (DA 70)
- Chronicle Live (DA 78)
- Coventry Telegraph (DA 75)
- Crewe Chronicle (DA 50)
- Cylex (DA 74)
- Derby Telegraph (DA 73)
- Dewsbury Reporter (DA 45)
- Examiner (DA 73)
- Facebook Business Manager (DA 100)
- Four Square (DA 92)
- Free Index (DA 85)
- Gazette Live (DA 74)
- Google My Business (DA 98)
- Grimsby Telegraph (DA 69)
- Hinckley Times (DA 50)
- Hot Frog (DA 69)
- Leicester Mercury (DA 75)
- Lincolnshire Live (DA 63)
- Liverpool Echo (DA 80)
- London Evening Standard (DA 89)
- Loughborough Echo (DA 54)
- Macclesfield Express (DA 49)
- Manchester Evening News (DA 82)
- My Local Services (DA 63)
- Nottingham Post (DA 75)
- Pontefract & Castleford Express (DA 46)
- Pixel Puppet (DA 31)
- Rossendale Free Press (DA 44)
- Scoot (DA 75)
- Scunthorpe Telegraph (DA 59)
- Show Me Local (DA 74)
- Stoke Sentinel (DA 83)
- Touch Local (DA 73)
- Tupalo (DA 71)
- Wakefield Express (DA 56)
- Wales Online (DA 82)
- Web Design Directory (DA 54)
- Where To? by Future Tap (DA 50)
- Yell (DA 91)
- Yelp (DA 82)
