6772771 sMake the Most of Your FREE Directory Listing

This is a simple, step-by-step guide to help you make the most of your Free listing on the UK Curtain Makers Directory.

Once you've registered, confirmed your email address, whenever you log in you will land on the "My Submissions" page. Here you will be able to add a new listing or edit one you created earlier.

If it's the first time you have logged in you will see:

When you hover your cursor over Add Item you will see "Company" pop up - select this to create your listing. Clicking "company" will take you to an input form. We'll run through each field, 1 by 1.

BUSINESS NAME - This is a required field and should be the name you use when communication with your customers. This is the Name that will be displayed in the Categories lists etc.

COMPANY CONTACT - Ideally this will be a named person in your business - perhaps this is you? Someone customers can ask for when calling.

SERVICE AREAS - Another required field - these are the main categories of the directory. You can select more than one by using your CTRL key. Press CTRL + click on the categories you want.

STRAPLINE - A short snappy phase that says something about your business. E.g. John Lewis use, "Never knowingly undersold"

PHOTO - This field will allow you to upload a picture that will appear just above the description when the full listing is displayed. If the picture is too large it will mess up the layout of your listing. The ideal is a .jpg of size no more than 400 pixels wide and about 512kb.

DESCRIPTION - A required field. This is where you can wax lyrical about you and your business. If you want to break your description into paragraphs then add another text area for each paragraph. 

TAGS - These help customers find your business when they search on key words using the Tag Cloud "Advertised Services" on the Directory's home page. You can select from the most common tags or add your own. For best results use single words not phrases.

BUSINESS LOGO - This will appear at the top of your Full Listing and in some of the widgets that appear in the side bars on the site. In the widgets it will chop out the centre of your Logo and display that.. weird I know. But in your full listing it will show the full logo so a .jpg of no more than 512kb and width of 250 pixels is ideal.

The META section - These fields are mainly for your contact details and probably need little explanation.   Be sure to set a City and County as this will help customers find services close to them. The EMAIL and WEBSITE fields allow you to set other attributes.

EMAIL - Enter the email address you want customers to use then select Show Options if you want to edit additional attributes. E.g. you may wish to set the subject line to: Message via the UK Curtain Makers Directory. However, the customer can change this when they come to send the email - so there's no guarantee that your changes here will be retained.

WEBSITE - A direct link to your website - enter the full URL including the http:// Select Show Options and chose Yes for New Window. That will leave the directory open in the background when a customer clicks to go to your website.

MAPS - This is the fun bit.. A map will appear at the bottom of your Full Listing and your business will also be added to the "On The Map" widgets accessed in the side bar of some pages. You can enter your Post Code here - as you type, Google will do a look-up to help you select an accurate entry. However, the Post Code will just find your street, you can add coordinates so customers will be taken to your front door when your business is displayed in Google Maps. To get coordinates go to Google Maps, zoom right in to your business's position, right click and select "What's here?" from the pop-up window. That will place coordinates in the Google search box. Copy the coordinates and past them into the MAPS field.

SUBMIT ITEM - This is the form submit button. Remember to click this or your hard work will be wasted.

We hope this all helps. If you have problems then please get in touch via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If you are struggling with the look or layout of your Full Listing then drop us a line. If you like, we will tidy up your listing for you.... as soon as there's a spare minute.

 

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