You may want to read Part I of this series which is the overview of Marketing a website in the UK - Click to ViewÂ
Every link that you can get on a reputable site will boost your overall search engine rankings. It is also another possible signpost out there in the vast world wide web pointing towards your site. These are the sites that we have submitted to while building our empire in the UK
http://dmoz.org/Â which is a directory of many websites throughout the world.
www.gumtree.com Gumtree allows you to place a business service advert free for 7 days. It then drops off and you have to resubmit it.
http://www.freeukstuff.com/links-review.html This is a site where as long as you are offering something for free and don’t mind posting a reciprocal link they will list your site.
What I do in regards to sites like this as I don’t want to litter my front page with links is to place a link on a links page or on the Blog that is associated with the site.
German Web Directory This site lets you either place a reciprocal link or alternatively you can pay a small fee to be listed in their directory.
This is just beginning you need to do this on a daily or weekly basis, continually adding links will gradually increase the traffic and ranking of your sites.
In the next article we will look back at how these links have helped us increase traffice to the sites.