Free business listing sites in the UK

The main UK business directory and a long-standing citation source.

Neighbourhood recommendations, which is where a lot of local word of mouth now happens.

Secondary UK directory, still crawled and still cited.

The listing every other one is compared against. If the name, address and phone here are not exactly right, nothing else you fix will hold.

Feeds Bing Maps and Microsoft Copilot answers. The closest thing to a second Google, and most local businesses never claim it.

Every iPhone using Apple Maps, Siri and Spotlight reads this. Free, and a large share of your customers are on iOS.

A strong, trusted citation and often the second result people click after Google.

Heavily crawled and frequently quoted by AI assistants when they list local options.

Reviews here get quoted back by AI assistants and often show up on page one for "your name reviews".

The map data behind a long tail of apps and websites, including plenty that never touch Google. One edit propagates a long way.

Feeds map data to a long tail of apps, so one listing propagates further than it looks.

Feeds in-car navigation for several major manufacturers. Invisible until somebody is driving to you.

A high-authority link and a consistent name, address and phone signal.

The other big in-car and satnav dataset. Worth doing once and forgetting.

An old, heavily crawled US directory that still turns up in local results.

Smaller than it was, still indexed, and takes about two minutes.

A business to business network that produces a real, indexed profile page.

A plain directory listing in most countries. Low effort, small but real.

Open to anyone and feeds a handful of aggregators. Do it after the ones above.

Minor on its own, but it syndicates to other small directories.

Not a classic citation, but the profile carries your name and location and people genuinely check it before visiting.

The name UK homeowners check before hiring a trade. Close to essential in the UK.

The UK equivalent, and the first place most couples look.

The other big dealer marketplace, and the one buyers use to sanity check a price.

The main European salon marketplace. Commission on bookings it brings you.

Second UK trade directory, still widely used and well indexed.

The alternative to OpenTable, and stronger for places people book in advance to be seen at.

Large marketplace for care and tutoring, heavily indexed.

Well-ranked UK car marketplace and dealer listing.

A business to business directory that carries weight in Europe if you sell to companies rather than consumers.

The other European business to business listing worth doing if you trade across borders.