A UK business directory operated by Thomson Directories Ltd, trading since 1980. The free listing is real but expressly time-limited to three months, and the operator distinguishes owner-created "listings" from third-party "citations" that make up much of the database.
Domain Rating ist eine datierte Ahrefs-Momentaufnahme der Domain-Autorität. PetroHrys Score is an independent editorial assessment of the directory’s practical business value. They are separate measurements and are never combined. Domain Rating is measured by Ahrefs and read through their public Domain Rating API. Each value carries the date it was read and describes the whole domain that was measured, not the individual page it appears beside. Where several records are published on one measured domain they repeat that domain’s single dated reading rather than each carrying a figure of its own. A record shown as not measured is a record nobody has a reading for, which is not the same as a record measured at zero. Domain Rating is a third-party metric produced by their respective providers, not by PetroHrys.com. Each recorded value carries its provider and the date it was measured, and describes the domain that was measured rather than one page on it. No source has been consulted for authority score, geschätzter traffic and verweisende domains, so they are not published for any record.
The free route is a real submission form with business name, address, phone, email and category fields — not merely an enquiry button.
The operator is unusually open about where its data comes from, separating owner-supplied listings from bought-in citations rather than presenting the whole database as owner-managed.
The submission form asks explicitly whether you are the business or a third party, which at least records provenance at the point of entry.
Einschränkungen
The free listing EXPIRES. The operator describes it as “A three-month time limited free business listing”, so it is not a permanent presence and no permanence is asserted here.
The free listing does not include a link to your website. The operator footnotes its own comparison table: “Website link is available when purchasing a thomsonlocal backlink product or paid advertising”.
Much of what appears in search results was never supplied by the business. The operator states: “Listings are directory entries whereby the owner of the business or organisation has a direct relationship with Thomson Local. Whereas citations are provided from a third party.” It names 118 Information Ltd as the source of most citations.
Beyond the website-link footnote, the free-versus-paid feature split is rendered by the page’s styling rather than stated in text, so which specific features a free listing includes is NOT established and is not asserted.
A third party may submit a business: the form offers “I am promoting this business on behalf of someone else”. An entry is therefore not evidence that the named business created or approved it.
Whether verification is required, and by what method, is not documented by the operator, so nothing about verification is asserted.
Businesses can reply to reviews, but the operator’s own wording bounds who: the review form promises “Get notified - if an advertiser responds to your review”. Responding is documented for ADVERTISERS, and whether a free listing can reply is not established.
A listing is a directory entry. It is not evidence that a business is solvent, currently trading, licensed, or checked beyond what the operator documents here.
No ranking, indexing, traffic or lead outcome is asserted. The operator markets outcomes; this record does not adopt them.
The operator states a free listing can be live “in as little as 48 hours” after applying. What is checked in that period is not documented.
Am besten für
UK local businesses wanting a free entry in a directory with a named, long-established operator.
Businesses that want to understand exactly what a free tier excludes before paying for anything.
Nicht empfohlen für
Anyone who needs a permanent free listing. The operator states the free listing is time-limited to three months.
Businesses whose main reason for listing is a link to their own website. The operator states that is a paid feature.
Vorbereitungs-Checkliste
No checklist recorded yet.
Häufige Fehler
No common mistakes recorded yet.
Establishing required submission assets requires submitting a listing and observing the result. That has not been done for any directory in this dataset, so it is not published rather than estimated.
Was dieses Verzeichnis akzeptiert
Startups
Unbekannt
SaaS products
Unbekannt
Enterprises
Yes
Agencies
Unbekannt
Freelancers
Yes
Local businesses
Yes
Developer tools
Unbekannt
Open-source projects
Unbekannt
Non-profits
Unbekannt
AI products
Unbekannt
Mobile apps
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Ecommerce stores
Unbekannt
Empfohlene Branchen
local-services
retail
professional-services
Wie der PetroHrys Score zustande kam
Editorial trust 15%
6 / 10How far the entries a directory publishes can be relied on as accurate.
Business usefulness 15%
6 / 10How much practical use a listing there is to the business being listed.
Verification quality 12%
4 / 10How thoroughly the directory establishes that an entry is genuine before publishing it.
Platform reputation 10%
7 / 10How the platform is regarded in its field. Deliberately not a popularity, traffic or recognition measure.
Spam resistance 10%
5 / 10How well the directory keeps low-quality and promotional entries out.
Industry importance 10%
6 / 10How central the directory is to its sector, independently of how useful one listing is.
Long-term stability 10%
7 / 10How likely the directory is to still exist, and to still carry the entry, years from now.
Submission quality 8%
7 / 10What the submission process asks for and how workable it is for the business submitting.
Transparency 5%
7 / 10How openly the directory states its rules, costs and criteria.
Moderation quality 5%
5 / 10How the directory maintains entries after publication.
The PetroHrys Score is a first-party editorial assessment, not a third-party
authority metric. It is the weighted sum of the ten factors above, divided by ten, so the number
on this page is reproducible from the values shown. Each factor is scored from 0 to 10 by a human reviewer and weighted as shown. The definitions describe what was weighed, not a rubric: no threshold or formula maps a directory onto a value, and two reviewers could reach different numbers. The score is reproducible from the factors shown on every record, but it is an editorial judgement, not a measurement.