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The Construction Directory

The Construction Directory

Launched on 1st July 2008

This new directory for Construction and Building services will provide a niche directory style of resources for all areas of the construction industry primarily in the United Kingdom. It will enable people and organisations to find resources and information for:-

  • A directory of Construction Industry advertisers
  • A directory of Building Companies
  • A directory of Main contractors and sub contractors
  • A directory for Construction workers news and information

What makes this Construction directory different to others is the type and quantity of information you can submit and display within the construction directory listings. Please use the enhanced keyword search facility to find what you are looking for or use the extensive links in the sections around the sides. Simple Design - This directory was designed to be simple to use, easy to find stuff and user friendly.

 

Become the Preferred supplier to your Customers!

You can submit all kinds of different information to The Construction Directory. You can enter a short description of your business or services in the front page and a more detailed description in the main listing page along with a various amount of other more specific information about your business. Its not compulsory to fill in all the information, but in my experience in the construction industry, it always helps your potential customers to be well informed and it all adds to your ultimate goal of making you their preferred supplier!

Contractors

If you are a main contractor and are looking for sub contractors you can post any "pre-approval to work" documents in your listing which will allow sub contractors who want to work for you download them and fill them in and then submit them to you in advance of any potential work available.

Sub Contractors

You can post any supporting information about your company in your listing such as any relevant insurances held, health and safety policies, professional qualifications and other company details which may attract potential Clients to make contact with you for tender invitations or offers of work. This could save you time in the long run. You can also upload images and present case studies using the image and documents facilities, the options available are quite unique. 

Listing Upgrade

As this directory grows and becomes more prominent in the search engine results pages you may want to take advantage of the available upgrades. You may very well start off with a free listing and in time you may want to offer more information or enhance your listings. You can simply do this from within your account using the membership plans . This website is purposely designed for you to make small incremental commitments from your FREE account.

How the Directory works

Membership is totally free, you can create an account and then add your free listings (up to five!), you will probably want to start with the free listing membership plan. You use your account to manage your listings, upgrades and other functions in the directory.

Directory functions in the membership plans

There are many questions asked in some of the more detailed membership plans but very few in the free listing. If you upgrade your plan you do not have to fill in all the information just the info that you want to show to your readers.

Logo

Every membership plan has the option for a logo. This is displayed with your listing on the front page and in the detailed page. The image must be max 300 x 300 pixels in size and no larger than 150kb. The system will make automatically create a small thumbnail to display in your category listing. Try and make your image as close to 300x300 as you can because this directory will resize your image to fit in the main listing detail page, if its too small it will not look very good because it may be expanded.

Side Banner

This is small image that is displayed on the front page side bar and every other page of the website and is rotated with other members side banners.

Top Banner

Shows under the keyword search box. This is the most prominent place on the home page of this or any other website. Having your Top Banner here will get your listing indexed first by any search engine spider when it visits the directory home page, it is also the first thing visitors may look at and maybe click on when they arrive at the construction directory home page. This is only available with the Premium membership plan, your detailed listing is also clearly marked as a Featured listing in the side bar summary list which is also rotated with other Featured listings.

Images

There is a picture gallery available for you to provide images for your visitors to view. You can take full advantage of the description facility with the image to further inform your potential customers of your products or services. We all like looking at pictures and this is good way to make your listing more interesting and attractive. We realize that some people may not have a website so may need a facility to be able to display their business products and services somehow, this construction directory make it possible.

Documents

You can upload documents to your listing, you can use PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, simple Text files and scanned image files as *.jpg(*.pdf *.doc *.xls *.txt, *.jpg). This will provide a facility to present more information in the format and style you want. You may want to show some professional documents that support your business services or even certificates and qualifications etc. You can scan them as PDF docs or an image jpg doc then upload to your listing.

Health & Safety

This is big subject and is a dominating business requirement these days for all of the construction industry. Please make full use of the Documents facility to upload your Health & Safety questionnaires so that potential sub-contractors can download it and complete it to return to you. This is most definitely a pro-active approach to getting sub-contractors Health & Safety approved BEFORE they start work with a Main Contractor.

Products

If you don't have a website of your own but are selling products you can use the simple products facility. You can upload an image of the product along with a description, packaging and availability as well as a link to the web page in your website where more information about your product can be found. The image needs to be 500x500 px and 150kb max, try and get your image to this size as it is also shown in a popup box. Smaller images look distorted because the directory will expand the image to fit into the 500x500 popup box.

Account Listing Statistics

You can track some detailed statistics in your account maintenance screen. You can monitor the performance of your listing within the Construction Directory with such elements as:

  • Banner Exposures: How many times your banner has appeared on the directory web pages.
  • Banner Hits: How many times visitors have clicked on your banner to view your detailed content.
  • Banner CTR% : This the Click Through Ratio and determines the effectiveness of a banner ad in terms of click-throughs. It is a ratio of the number of times the banner was clicked on by the visitor and the number of times the banner was displayed. Thus, if a banner has been displayed 1000 times and has been clicked 50 times, its CTR is 50:1000 or 1:20. Changing this CTR into a percentage value yields 5% (1/20 * 100); thus, 5% of the impressions have lead to clicks on the banner.
  • Hits: You can see how many hits have been made on your detailed listing, (this is the count of how many visitors have viewed your listing).
  • Website: this is a count of how people have clicked on the Visit Website link and gone to see your website.
  • Reviews: this tells you how many reviews you have for your listing.
  • Date Submitted: This is simply the date you submitted your listing and the logged IP address.
  • Updated: Simple date log of when the listing was last updated.

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Advertising Jobs

It would seem a shame to create a directory for the construction industry and not have a facility for businesses and companies to advertise jobs. Sure, you can use the newspapers, magazines or other media but have seen how much they charge lately! As this directory increases in popularity it will be a good place to advertise your construction industry job vacancies at a competitive rate. I speak from personal experience having done quite a few recruitment drives in my time in the various job roles I have undertaken over the last 30 years!

Guarantee

We can guarantee that this is probably the only directory that is dedicated to the Construction Industry that offers this sort of style, simplicity and detailed information about its content. It is probably the only one of its kind on the Internet today as of the 1st July 2008! and it is brought to you at very competitive membership plan rates by The Construction Directory!

If Heineken did a Construction Directory it probably would not be better than this one!

If you would like further information please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards

Peter Brooks
of Birmingham

sol22.com