PROMOTE YOUR SITE!
It is essential to have as many links into your site as you can manage. These are
websites that might list, promote or advertise your 2day website:
TOURIST INFORMATION
Tourist Info Offices – get your site listed on your local TIC website if they have
one.
http://www.touristinformationcentres.com/
To find your nearest TIC click
http://www.information-britain.co.uk/tic.cfm
and search by county
CAB
Citizens Advice Offices - your local CAB website might list your site as it is a
useful source of local information.
Find your local area offices
http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/index/getadvice#txt_getadvice_header-Anchorsearch
CHURCH
Find A Church – UK Church Directory (all denominations)
www.findachurch.co.uk
ask for your church to be listed if it isn’t already and to put link to your 2day site.
This is free.
Church of England
www.cofe.anglican.org
Page with parish website directory – get your site listed here
http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/diocesesparishes/parishchurches/
Page with dioceses directory – click your diocese and there will probably be a list
of parishes to which you can be added
http://www.cofe.anglican.org/links/dios.html
Church of England Youth Council
http://www.ceyc.org/
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland
http://www.ctbi.org.uk/
Churches Together in England
http://www.churches-together.org.uk/
Church in Wales
http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/
The Anglican Communion
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/
Ecclesiastical Church
Has a Church of the Month competition
http://www.ecclesiastical.co.uk/triweb/triweb_publish.nsf/framesetter/JBEM54PF
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Church Urban Fund
http://www.cuf.org.uk/home.htm
Church Army
http://www.churcharmy.org.uk/
Evangelical Alliance
http://www.eauk.org/index.html
Methodist Church
http://www.methodist.org.uk/
The Salvation Army
http://www2.salvationarmy.org/ihq/www_sa.nsf
United Reformed Church
http://www.urc.org.uk/
ReJesus
http://www.rejesus.co.uk
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
http://www.quaker.org/
The Catholic Church in England and Wales
http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/
Link to RC dioceses and parishes – get your site listed
http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/dioc/dioceses.htm
MEDIA (papers, online newspapers/radio)
General
Local Newspapers – North of England – find your local paper in the list
http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/norpress.htm
Local Newspapers – South of England – find your local paper in the list
http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/soupress.htm
Local Newspapers – Wales - – find your local paper in the list
http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/wales.htm
Local Newspapers – Scotland - – find your local paper in the list
http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/scotland.htm
BBC Where I Live
– might put link but this is county-based rather than by town.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/whereilive/
There is a Faith page so if you have an interesting launch of your site, they might
put it here.
County Online Papers
Some counties have online newspapers This is Wiltshire,
(www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk ) etc.
Try typing into Google “This is (your county)” to see if there is an online
newspaper for your county or town.
Christian Media
Chrisitan Herald Newspaper
http://www.christianherald.org.uk/
Premier Christian Radio
http://www.premier.org.uk/
Church Times
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/
Church of England Newspaper
http://www.churchnewspaper.com/
The Good News.co.uk
http://www.thegoodnews.co.uk/
The Tablet
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/
Independent Catholic News
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/
You can list your parish website by emailing them your link.
Ekklesia.co.uk
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/links/churches.shtml
Has links to individual church websites – get yours listed.
Christians In Touch
http://www.christiansintouch.com/
register your site – this is a sort of Friends Reunited site where people can look
up churches and make contact with lost church friends after moving away.
DIRECTORIES
Thomson Local
Get your church and website listed FREE
http://www.thomsondirectories.com/internet_advertising/freelisting.asp
Yellow Pages – Yell.com
Get your church listed FREE – but cannot put website link, just address etc.
http://www.yelldirect.com/basiclisting/
Scoot
Get a FREE listing but cannot put website link, just address, etc.
http://www.scoot.co.uk/bulk/index.asp
VILLAGE / TOWN DIRECTORIES
You can add your parish/village site to these for free. Easy to do.
UK Towns and Villages
http://www.thesite.co.uk/
Get your site added
Villages Online
http://www.villagesonline.com/
Village Key
http://www.villagekey.com/
UK Villages online
http://www.rural.co.uk/
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
All local governments in England, Wales, Scotland, NI.
http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/uklocalgov/localtxt.htm#england
some will have links to parishes/villages – get your site listed
For example: See this page on Kennet District Council website>community page
http://www.kennet.gov.uk/Policy/e-info.nsf/e-info+main+page?OpenPage
has links to lots of village sites. If you village/town already has a site, make sure
your church site is linked to it. If your village/town does not have a site, see if the
council will put a link to your site.