The channels directory
A guide to every promotion channel, from search to social, with a plain account of what each one actually needs from you.
Browse channels →You have a website but not much of a plan for getting people to it. This guide works through search, social and paid promotion for UK businesses, explaining each term the first time it appears and pointing to worked tools where the numbers matter.
Start with the guides See every channel in the directoryWebsite promotion covers a lot of ground. These are the places on the site built to answer a specific question.
A guide to every promotion channel, from search to social, with a plain account of what each one actually needs from you.
Browse channels →Longer explanations of the ideas behind each calculator and checklist, for readers who want to understand the working.
Read the guides →Answer a few questions about your business and get a ranked shortlist of channels worth trying first.
Try the tool →Terms like domain authority and click-through rate explained without jargon, for whenever a guide assumes you already know one.
Look up a term →A full walkthrough of getting a site found in the UK, from search console basics to paid channels.
Read the playbook →The guides, tools and channel breakdowns readers come back to most, starting with the one to read first if your site gets little traffic today.
A structured, full-lifecycle guide to promoting a UK website — from pre-launch groundwork through launch-day amplification to sustained ongoing traffic growth.
Practical zero-budget promotion methods that actually work for UK websites — community participation, directory listings, social organic, and content syndication.
A structured, printable checklist covering everything to do in the 30 days before and 30 days after launching a UK website — emails, social, directories, and outreach.
A practical guide to A/B Test Significance Calculator: what it means, how it works, and how to use the interactive a/b test significance calculator.
A practical guide to Ad Budget Calculator: what it means, how it works, and how to use the interactive ad budget calculator.
A practical guide to Promotion Channel Prioritiser: what it means, how it works, and how to use the interactive promotion channel prioritiser.
A practical guide to Content Distribution Planner: what it means, how it works, and how to use the interactive content distribution planner.
A practical guide to Core Web Vitals Checker: what it means, how it works, and how to use the interactive core web vitals checker.
A practical guide to CPM / CPC Benchmark Comparator: what it means, how it works, and how to use the interactive cpm / cpc benchmark comparator.
A practical guide to Keyword Intent Classifier: what it means, how it works, and how to use the interactive keyword intent classifier.
A practical guide to Website Launch Promotion Checklist Scorer: what it means, how it works, and how to use the interactive website launch promotion checklist scorer.
A practical guide to Launch Promotion Countdown Planner: what it means, how it works, and how to use the interactive launch promotion countdown planner.
Every guide starts from the problem you actually have and explains the mechanism before it gets to the steps.