November 23, 2010
Lots of new categories

Over at blinks.org.uk we are just as aware as everybody else that Christmas is coming… anyway we’ve added some more useful categories to help our members promote their businesses.

So what are you waiting for? Sign up today for your free business listing!

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October 4, 2010
SOL Electrical Ltd are a featured business in the directory.  Based in Mid-Devon, they are centrally located making them well placed to undertake works in all areas of Devon & Somerset. SOL Electrical was established by Simon Lord in 1998, and has since gained an impressive portfolio of work which ranges from small domestic jobs to large contracts up to £100,000. They offer a range of services including: General electrical work Electrical design and installation including three phase Re-wiring Periodic inspections Lighting Solar photovoltaic systems Audio/Visual Fire alarms Energy saving consultancy IT infrastructure

SOL Electrical Ltd are a featured business in the directory. 

Based in Mid-Devon, they are centrally located making them well placed to undertake works in all areas of Devon & Somerset.

SOL Electrical was established by Simon Lord in 1998, and has since gained an impressive portfolio of work which ranges from small domestic jobs to large contracts up to £100,000.

They offer a range of services including:

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April 19, 2010
We’re also now on Twitter. Why not follow us? Keep up to date on our new business listings and listen out for new features and great tips to promote your business.

We’re also now on Twitter. Why not follow us?

Keep up to date on our new business listings and listen out for new features and great tips to promote your business.

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Check out our Facebook page

Check out our Facebook page. We’re inn the process of rolling out a whole series of updates, one of which is to automatically post an update to Facebook whenever a new listing gets added to our great free link directory.

Why not become a fan?

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blinks-Free-UK-Link-Directory/333878061365

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August 26, 2009

Win a signed limited edition print

To help promote Blinks.org.uk our Free UK Business Directory we’ve decided to launch a competition.

The 1000th business listing on the site will recieve a copy of this gorgeous limited edition print of an alphabet by John Elliott.

… so what are you waiting for, tell all your friends and get them to register today after all, why not?

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July 23, 2009

A few updates

Recently we’ve been doing quite a bit of work on the site, tweaking and adding new features.

The main features we’ve added are as follows:

  • New Listings on the front page of the site
  • A Featured Listings Page
  • Full Text Search for the site, allowing you do a free text search by keywords, categories and locations
  • A whole host of little design tweaks

Screeshot of Free Business Directory

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June 6, 2009

Here we go, a bit of background

Today my free business directory www.blinks.org.uk was let loose on world, albiet in a very quiet way. It is now live, but I’ve just asked a few people to take a look at it sign up etc. - testing in the real world, with real people.

The site is stable, but it is often hard to anticipate the flow of an application in advance. What I mean is, as a developer you may well anticipate that an application will work in one particular way, but your users insist on trying to do something else with it. In this situation, what do you do? The answer is obvious to me, you have to change your application. You may think you have built the easiest to use registration form in the whole world, but if your users don’t agree then frankly it is for nothing.

What is Blinks.org.uk

Blinks.org.uk is a Free Buisness Directory for the UK. There are plenty of business directories out there, but most of them are terrible. The aim of blinks.org.uk is to create something that is easy to use and navigate for somebody who stumbles across the site hand something that appeals to search engines.

The registration proceedure is quick and unobtrusive although it does require you to valiadate your email address. Every entry also has to be approved before it goes live and each buisness musrt provide a valid address (whether or not they choose to publicise it on the website), the aim being to create a very spam free directory.

Good for SEO

Blinks.org.uk has been designed to appeal to web developers and companies carrying out SEO for their clients. Each registered user can add multiple unrelated businesses quickly and easily, so it easy to create and maintain lsitings for each of your clients.

What do you get?

  • The directory is completely free.
  • List your UK business or service in up to five categories.
  • Add an image or logo
  • Link to your own website (without rel=”nofollow”)
  • Choose to display contact details.
  • Choose to display a map.
  • Create a short summary.
  • Create a longer description.

Within each category precedence is simple. The sooner you register, the closer to the top your listing will be, forever.

There is no requirement to link back to us, but if you do, your listing will be prioritised.


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