Business Listings FAQ’s

Free Basic Business Listing (When our free listing promotion is active)

Our Free Basic Listing provides an opportunity to upload a single business listing only. You have the ability to upload a title, description and basic details. Our free plan includes one image upload, but does not include our verified business green tick or feature on our homepage. Basic listings are not SEO optimised. You can upgrade anytime, by viewing your free listing in your dashboard and clicking “More > Change Plan” anytime or clicking the link ‘Upgrade Your Plan‘ link in our website footer.

Premium Business Listing Plan – Only £5.99 / per month

Our Premium Listing Plan showcases your business to our web traffic and search engines. Choose from a single or multiple (upto 10) listing uploads all managed via your listing dashboard. Backlinks have ‘do follow’ applied to boost your Google page rank, without requiring a reciprocal link. Premium listings gain prime homepage placement, alongside a verified business green tick and event management. You have the ability to upload upto 8 images, select multiple categories and include a video url. We also optimise your page, apply SEO and submit your listing to Google using our fast-track submission tools.

Two ways…. Firstly, click the red button in the top right of your screen that says “+Add Listing“. You will then be asked to create a username and password to access your listing dashboard. From your dashboard you can submit your listing for approval. All your listings are managed from your personal dashboard.

As a valued member of OnTheHighStreet.co.uk, we invite you to seize a unique opportunity to boost your business visibility. Our e-newsletter reaches 50,000+ subscribers and we want your business to shine! Simply contact us for more information.

Yes. We offer flexible advertising options to give your business maximum visibility to all visitors to our website.

Ads are placed in ‘hotspot’ locations on our directory such as the homepage and recent listings pages. We have two options available:

Option A – Leaderboard Static Banner Ad – 925 x 520pxls (Can be animated. If supplied no more than 1MB in size) 

Option B – Listing Leaderboard Static Ad – 728 x 90 pixels (Can be animated. If supplied no more than 1MB in size)

Option C – Sponsor a blog/article – Inclusion of your logo and link back to your website at the bottom of the article

We design banner ads for our clients as part of our advertising packages.

To read more about our advertising services, please visit our advertising page.

Alternatively, contact us for more information on placing an ad on our directory.

Yes. We help businesses daily with SEO reporting, identifying problem areas and offering advice on what needs to be fixed to see an improvement across Google. We have our own reporting tool which analyses your website and gives us a clear indication on next steps for improvement. For only £55.00 you will receive an in-depth SEO report on your website. Please allow 2 hrs for your report to be sent to your inbox. Our team will work with you over the following 2-3 months to resolve issues.

Yes. If you are an estate agent for example you can create multiple listings for multiple office locations. Our monthly subscription plan gives you the flexibility you need to upload as many listings as you require.

We are a family run UK online directory based in Newton le Willows – Warrington, UK.

Yes. You are in full control of your dashboard and can cancel any time you wish. Alternatively, you can drop us a note via our contact us form to let us know your leaving.

Yes. We promote your business across our social network and email campaigns as part of your subscription. It is good to elevate your brand and good for us to showcase our members on the directory.

Google likes to see links back into your website. It helps see your website as an authority. If people find your listing on our directory and click into your website from the URL you provided, google looks upon this favourably and can help your main website page rank score on Google.

Yes. Complete the form on our contact us page and we will respond quickly should you need any help with your listings. Alternatively use the chat button visible on all our pages (bottom right). We are here to help and offer advice. 

Yes. We do run banner advertising and promotions across our directory. We do offer rotational leaderboard banner advertising to our subscribers. Banner advertising across the website makes your business far more prominant.  To advertise on this website, simply use our contact form to make an enquiry.

We utilise PayPal and Stripe payment gateways for services we offer via this website to give you flexibility on your preferred platform.

Simply let us know…. Complete the online “contact us” form and your specific location will become available for you to complete and publish your listing. We have tried to include every UK county in our database though.

Let us know. Complete the form on the “contact us” page and we will have your business caregory ready within 24hrs.

Yes. All controlled via your personal dashboard. Your entire OnTheHighStreet.co.uk account is managed easily from there once you sign-up. No hidden gotchas!

Yes. If you advertise your property to let privately rather than through a lettings agent then OnTheHighStreet.co.uk is the perfect platform for you. All your listings, images, descriptions etc are manage by you through your own personal dashboard. You can start and end a listing anytime.

We also promote classified listings through our social media channels using appropriate location hashtags.

Yes. If you want to sell your house privately rather than through an estate agent (and save on fees) then OnTheHighStreet.co.uk is the perfect platform for you.  All your listings, images, descriptions etc are manage by you through your own personal dashboard. You can start and end a listing anytime.

We also promote classified listings through our social media channels using appropriate location hashtags.

Yes of course. If our website does not meet your needs you are free to cancel any paid lisings and services. We will remove your account accordingly.

Yes we are. It means we have a team working on the website and listings promotion daily. We maintain the website and add new features constantly. We are a genuine family business based in Warrington UK.

Yes. We are very active across channels promoting the website daily. You will see us in Google when you search for ‘Free Business Listings’. Traffic to the website does vary day to day but we have a significant number of visitors crawling through the website constantly.

We have an automated system running the website. You will get emails prior to your listing expiring asking you to upgrade to our paid yearly membership. Our free listings last 7 days. As soon as your listing is made live we submit your listing page to be crawled by Google. Listing pages are picked up very quickly from our website and page ranked. If your listing expires and is not renewed, your listing will be deleted from our directory automatically and you will lose any page rank gained from your listing page. Also, any backlinks to your website will also be lost. This is detrimental to your own website page rank. It really does pay to be listed on our directory.

We get alot of requests daily to list businesses not only in the UK but overseas. Most businesses are legitimate some are not unfortunatley.

OnTheHighStreet.co.uk does not want to be associated with non genuine entities. The hard work that goes into building and maintaining our website is representative of the genuine companies we allow to list their services / products.