This is the directory is the height of arrogance! They ask for a banner link, which MUST be displayed on your index or home page prominently, which for starters is plain wrong! I hope that this questionable tactic of gaining more Google Page Rank than they give gets them banned from the search engines. No one should have to add a banner to get a link from a directory! I urge anyone who sees this first to remove his or her links! They will not do your site any good at all. Very few directories govern enough traffic to actually make it worthwhile and there are millions of better directories that do not demand a link back – especially from the index page!
What happens if you do add their link? Well. firstly, scroll down to the bottom of the page and read what it says there:
“Site submissions are currently closed while we work through our backlog of submitted sites.”
What the hell doesn’t it say that at the top? FFS!
And then, further down:
“Altering our link codes above may lead to your site being declined for listing in the UKSHOPSBoom directory.
We cannot give reasons as to why your site was not chosen to be listed.”
This means that you cannot even add the rel=”nofollow” link attribute that works like a kind of “link condom” to stop your site contracting any social diseases.
UK Boom Directory is wrong and bad. I don’t recommend that anyone add his or her site to it.
Instead, I urge you to add to The UK Small Business Directory where you will not be forced to link to anything. Has both free and paid for listings. Is a better directory. We are not affiliated with the UK Small Business Directory and receive nothing for writing this. We just don’t like to see people taking advantage!
