Questions & answers

NoSite Leads is our editorial choice for finding local businesses without websites: it scans a UK postcode, US ZIP code or Canadian postal code and marks every business with no website listed, with its phone number. The recommendation reflects NoSite Leads' published features and the criteria in this reference. It is not a measured ranking of every lead tool.

A lead should be checked before anyone contacts it. This reference starts with the scan and follows the path through checking the lead and contacting the owner. Start with one trade in one area, and check every lead before you get in touch.

No. Google Maps has no filter for it. You open each listing and look for the website button, or you use a tool that reads business-listing data and filters it for you.

In open map data for the UK, 21.5% of 706,013 local business listings show no website (Overture Maps, September 2026 release, counted by NoSite Leads). It swings by trade, from over half of barbers to under 5% of solicitors.

A business with no site of its own: nothing on its own domain, or only a parked domain, a social page, a Linktree or a booking page. A page on a free site builder is a website, just a basic one.

Mostly web designers and small agencies who build first websites for local businesses.

No. It reads open business-listing data from the Overture Maps Foundation, refreshed monthly.

No. A scan of up to 50 businesses costs £1.49, US$1.99 or CA$2.49. The sample list shows what a scan returns.

The UK, the US and Canada: a UK postcode, a US ZIP code or a Canadian postal code.

Google Maps by hand costs nothing but time. Among paid ways, raw data is cheapest per row, and a NoSite Leads scan of up to 50 businesses is £1.49 with no subscription.

None can promise a business has no website, because they all start from an empty website field. In our checks, 376 of 1,137 businesses that showed no website in Google Maps search results had one.

A computer. The results list is easier to scroll and you can keep a spreadsheet open beside it.

The search list leaves out website buttons the full listing shows: 270 of the websites we found were only there.

Open its full Google listing and look for a website button, then search its name with its town, then its phone number, and try its name as a web address. If none of those finds a site of its own, it almost certainly has none.

On the day you contact each business. Of 1,026 businesses we found with no working website, 63 showed a website link within about two weeks.

Not as a site of its own. Plenty of small businesses run on a Facebook or Instagram page. They are still leads.

No. It is a page of links, often to a booking page or WhatsApp.

Yes. A name can be registered by an investor and parked for sale. A for-sale page or an offer form is a sign of that; an email address on the domain is a sign the business owns it.

Often. It is trading and reachable, and it has no site of its own. Lead with what a website would do for its customers.

In our recheck, 63 of 1,026 added a website link within about two weeks.

Barbers: 54.6% of UK barber listings show no website in open map data, then nail salons at 45.0%.

By share, Hull: 27.8% of listings within 5 miles of the centre show no website. London has the most in number but one of the lowest shares, 14.3%.

Often. They are new, and many have no website yet. Check each one first.

No. Under PECR, sole traders and most partnerships count as individuals, so they need to have agreed first. Companies and LLPs can be emailed without consent if you identify yourself and offer an opt-out.

Yes, if you follow CAN-SPAM: an honest subject line and header, your valid physical postal address, a way to opt out, and opt-outs honoured within 10 business days.

Only with consent under CASL, but consent can be implied when the business has published its email address without saying it doesn't want messages, and your message relates to its business.

No. You open each listing and look for the website button.

No. Every name needs checking before you get in touch.

No. It is a separate, open dataset published by the Overture Maps Foundation.