Every UK directory worth a listing, with its Domain Rating, whether it is free, how long it takes to go live, and a direct link to submit. Work down it in DR order and you will have covered the sites that actually move UK local rankings. If you came here looking up one particular directory, it is in the table.
69 directories, 53 of them free to list on. Every site last checked live on 9 November 2026.
Looking up Cylex? Our Cylex UK page covers what it is, what its reviews say, what Companies House shows, and how to claim or correct a free listing.
Doing this yourself? Our step-by-step guide to submitting your business to UK directories covers the order to work in, what each one needs, and the mistakes that waste the effort. Wondering about the paid ones? We looked at whether paid directory listings are worth it and the short answer is usually no.
Paying someone else to do it? We put ourselves next to the two tools people usually shortlist, CitationHQ vs BrightLocal and CitationHQ vs Whitespark. Both are honest about what each one costs and where we come off worse. And before you spend an afternoon on any directory below, our free tools will check its authority and tell you which listings you already have.
Some trades have their own directories and registration bodies that matter more than anything on the general list.
| Directory | Category | DR | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustpilot Is a Trustpilot listing worth it? DR 94, free to list, email verification, typically live in 7-14 days. The pros, the limits, and how to claim yours. | Review | 94 | Free |
| Crunchbase Crunchbase (DR 91) is a free company profile and one of the highest-authority listings a UK business can hold. Included in every CitationHQ plan. | General | 91 | Free |
| TripAdvisor UK TripAdvisor UK at DR 91: what the free listing gets you, what it does not, and how it fits a UK citation profile. Verification is by email. | Review | 91 | Free |
| Yell Yell is the UK's largest online business directory with over 25M monthly visits. DR 91. Free to list. Every CitationHQ plan includes Yell. | General | 91 | Free |
| Time Out Is a Time Out listing worth it? DR 90, free to list, email verification, typically live in 7-14 days. The pros, the limits, and how to claim yours. | Review | 90 | Free |
| Reviews.co.uk Reviews.co.uk is a paid review platform (DR 82). What a listing includes, how email verification works, and whether it is worth claiming for UK local SEO. | Review | 82 | Free |
| FreeIndex FreeIndex at DR 81: what the free listing gets you, what it does not, and how it fits a UK citation profile. Verification is by email. | Review | 81 | Free |
| UK Small Business Directory UK Small Business Directory (DR 81) is a focused directory for UK SMEs. Free listings include backlinks and good category structure. | General | 81 | Free |
| Brownbook Brownbook at DR 80: what the free listing gets you, what it does not, and how it fits a UK citation profile. Verification is by email. | General | 80 | Free |
| Yelp UK Yelp UK is a high-authority review and directory site (DR 80) used widely for restaurants, beauty and service businesses. Free to list. | Review | 80 | Free |
TownDirectory lists over a million UK businesses from the official registers: the Food Standards Agency, CQC, Ofsted and Companies House. Listings are free and position cannot be bought. If you are registered, you are probably already there. Claim the listing to add your website and correct anything the register has wrong, and use it as the version of your name and address to copy everywhere else.
Directory listings are also where ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews read about local businesses. WhereInAI checks for free whether they recommend you, and who they name instead. TownDirectory and WhereInAI are run by the same company as CitationHQ.
All 72 of them, with Domain Rating, sorted by authority. The ten above are where we would start. Every one of these has its own page explaining what a listing gets you, what it costs, and how to submit.
Every row above is an account to create, a form to fill and a verification email to click, with the same details typed identically every time. Do those ten yourself, they are genuinely free and the links are right there. Or we do the whole list by hand for £149 one-off.
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