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There are a number of ways your business or visitor attraction can feature on Undiscovered Scotland. Follow the links below to find out more.
If you are an accommodation provider, restaurant or other business wanting to know about a free link from Undiscovered Scotland, click here.
If you want to know how to increase your prominence on Undiscovered Scotland with a photo entry, click here.
If you want to place a banner advert on Undiscovered Scotland, click here.
Undiscovered Scotland is a highly cost-effective way to reach a very large number of potential visitors to Scotland from around the globe. In 2008 we received over 2.7 million distinct visitors to the site from 187 countries. And we expect to exceed 3 million distinct visitors to Undiscovered Scotland in 2009.
The 2008 visitor figures reflected a continuation in the growth of traffic to Undiscovered Scotland in terms of distinct visitors in each of the last six years: over 2.7 million in 2008; over 2.5 million in 2007; over 2.0 million in 2006; over 1.4 million in 2005; over 860 thousand in 2004; and over 550 thousand in 2003.
Another important strength is the large number of Internet sites whose operators feel we are worth linking to, and this also continues to grow. During 2008 we received traffic via active inward links from 20,178 distinct web sites. This compares with 17,597 distinct web sites with active links to us in 2006; 16,735 in 2006; 13,720 in 2005; 8,233 in 2004; and 5,680 in 2003.
But don't take our word for it: find out for yourself. Simply to talk to our existing advertisers about our effectiveness in forwarding traffic to their web sites.
We also have maps available showing the Origin of Visitors to Undiscovered Scotland. This is updated live, so takes a little time to download.
Information is set out on the Site Design Page.
To find out how you can make use our extensive library of digital images of Scotland, click here. And our free wallpaper collections can be viewed here.
The nature of the site means that a lot of information is placed on it for all to view. Our policy is not to divulge any other information to any third party for any reason.
Adverts served directly by Google, such as those carried by Undiscovered Scotland, may use cookies to help support "interest-based advertising." There is more information about this subject available here on Google's site. Web users wishing to opt out of this process may do so here on Google's site.
Payment of listing or placement fees is by invoice, and an invoice is not issued until the customer is happy with the entry or banner as listed or placed on the site. Refunds are not made on listing or placement fees once the listing or placement has taken place to the satisfaction of the customer.
We've been asked whether sites featured on Undiscovered Scotland can link back to us if they wish to do so. The answer is an unqualified "yes".
We have also been asked whether we provide graphics to be used as the basis for links to Undiscovered Scotland. If you want to link to us, you can do so in any way you choose; but if you do want to use a button or banner as the basis for a link, a selection can be found here.
Undiscovered Scotland has changed, and grown, dramatically since it was launched early in 2000. You can view many earlier versions of the complete site (and the rest of the Internet at any particular moment in time) via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Additionally, an archive copy of the original May 2000 version of the site can be viewed here.
Undiscovered Scotland a wholly independent website based in Livingston, West Lothian. For contact information, click here. We try to respond to all customer queries made by email within 48 hours.