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Old 15th August 2008, 01:47 AM
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We are pleased to announce the inclusion of the UKBL Business Directory. As part of the Full Membership package, you can now add up to five links to your various business websites.

• The Directory is wide open to the search engines - to maximise your SERPS (search engine results pages).

• If you wish, you can post different URL's from the same domain up to your maximum of 5 total.

• The Directory has not yet been filled out completely but is fully expandable. That's where we want you to come in! Please post in this thread the Categories and Sub-categories you'd like to see for your or others' businesses.

• To create a link to your website in the Directory, simply click on the main Category heading, then click 'Submit A Link' and follow the instructions.

• The links you create will automatically show a thumbnail of your home page, however it may be out of date. The thumbnails are generated via http://www.thumbshots.org/ and you can manually force the robot to visit your site by submitting the form on this page. Your thumbshot will be updated usually within 72 hours and you can only update thumbshot for links that are in the DMOZ.org directory.

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I went to add my site to "IT & Computers", but when I clicked "submit a link" there was no IT&Computers section for me to submit it to
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Thanks David, that's why we're asking for sub-categories. We don't want to overpopulate the directory immediately with empty space. What particular fields (sub-categories) would you like to suggest?

I've now added:

Computers General
Networking & Cabling
Repair & Maintenance

to start with.
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Toys
Educational Toys
Ride-on Toys
Clothing
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Thanks. Some of these have now been loaded on but we're just being cautious about adding too many too soon.

Thanks for your feedback. The UKBL Directory is a work in progress so keep those suggestions/wants coming.
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There is a category for public relations, marketing & SEO, but no actual sub-category for public relations on its own. Can you add this?

Same with Printing & Marketing products -Printing, Marketing products & services. Could you add a marketing services category?

And how about?

copywriting
proofreading

Sorry if being picky!

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There is a category for public relations, marketing & SEO, but no actual sub-category for public relations on its own. Can you add this?
Done.

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Same with Printing & Marketing products -Printing, Marketing products & services. Could you add a marketing services category?
Shouldn't marketing services come under 'Public relations, marketing & SEO'?

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And how about?

copywriting
proofreading
Happy to add those but I think they should be a sub-category... but under what?

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Not at all. Doing it this way also means that the paying membership controls (to an extent) their listings.
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Default I'd say they were under marketing services

But not sure if you want to get into sub-sub categories

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Transport & Logistics-
Couriers
Light Haulage
Pallet Delivery
Parcel & Package distribution
Freight Forwarding

And for the chaps...

Fleet Management

erm, erm.. cannot recall what the rest would want now... never mind, they can get their own acts together

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Done. Kinda.

Hope they make sense!...
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What about one for "music" Tuition, CD, and sheet music.
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Ok, thanks for the suggestion. We've put up an 'Entertainments' section.

Keep the suggestions coming.
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Wink Add new catagorie (is that right spelling)

Please could you add Collectables
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Done for you (under 'Retail').
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in IT & Computers I'd like

IT support
Business Continuity Planning
Disaster Recovery
Data Recovery

In Catering, Events & Hospitality, would Events also include Corporate Event Management?

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IT support
Business Continuity Planning
Disaster Recovery
Data Recovery
Added: Data Recovery & Business Continuity Planning

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Yes, changed to: Events & Event Management

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Many thanks

However, I now find I can only submit a URL once, rather than once per category. Can I change an entry to "deep link" to a more appropriate page?
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