Get found by UK businesses looking for independent trainers
Skillyard is a human-curated national directory of independent training and coaching businesses. Buyers browse by subject and location and contact you directly. There is no middleman, no commission and no paid promotion.
Why list on Skillyard?
Your Skillyard listing boosts your presence everywhere through valuable backlinks and constant SEO and AEO improvements.
The site indexes independent trainers by subject and location. Buyers browse, filter and contact you directly. Every category page, sub-category page and combination page is another route into your listing.
No middleman, no commission, no fees other than the listing fee. Skillyard is not a part of the conversation. Contact details on your listing point straight to your inbox.
Every listing on Skillyard is reviewed by a person before it goes live. That makes the site fundamentally different to the automated backlink networks and open-listing directories that search engines have learned to discount. When Google, Bing and the LLMs see a link from a curated editorial site, they treat it as a real trust signal.
Your listing is marked up so that ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google's AI Overviews and other LLM-driven search tools can read it accurately. When a UK business asks an AI for a trainer in your subject and region, your listing sits inside the data those tools rely on.
Skillyard invests continuously in getting the site and listings indexed, ranked, cited and referenced across search engines and LLM search tools. Your listing comes along for the ride without you having to lift a finger.
No one dominates the top of a category page indefinitely. No paid placement, no promoted listings. Every trainer gets a fair share of the top positions over time.
Marketplaces, lead-generation platforms and non-training businesses don't get on Skillyard. That protects the search trust signal for you and keeps the site useful for buyers.
Skillyard does just one thing and it does it well. It's a carefully executed directory that puts your business in front of buyers and gives your wider online presence a huge boost. There are no featured tiers, no promoted placements, no bolt-on packages, no upsells trying to catch you out, no calls from call centres. One price, one strong listing, one steady stream of discoverability work happening in the background on your behalf.
How signing up works
The whole process usually takes about half an hour of your time, spread across a few sittings if you prefer.
- 1Confirm your email address
A quick verification so we know you're a real person. Only takes a minute.
- 2Choose a payment plan
Monthly or annual. Secure payment through Stripe.
- 3Build your listing
Fill in the details of your business. Categories, location, formats, contact details, logo and a short set of descriptions. You can save your progress and come back to finish it later.
- 4Submit for review
We aim to review new listings within 24 hours. If there's anything to tighten up, we come back with feedback. Once approved, your listing goes live.
Pricing
Two ways to pay. Both give you exactly the same listing.
Ready to list your business?
Get your listing live in about half an hour of writing time and start getting found by UK buyers, search engines and AI search alike.