Getting a good UK search engine ranking requires more than just putting up a pretty website and occasionally mentioning to people that it exists.
For starters, you have to make your website attractive to the search engine spiders so that they will crawl around it. This is an essential first step but fortunately the search engines are actually quite good at finding new sites fast most of the time.
It's the next steps that confuse people and leave them wondering why their UK search engine ranking leaves a lot to be desired.
The same steps apply to every website - not just UK based ones.
Take a long hard look at the title of your page. It's in the HTML code that you can see when you choose the "view source" option on your browser. You can also see it in the blue bar at the top of browsers like Internet Explorer or Firefox.
Your page title is the first introduction most potential site visitors will have to your site. And like almost all first impressions, you need to make a good impression.
So make sure that your page isn't called something boring like "Home page" or "Index page". You wouldn't want to click on that if you encountered it in the search results and the same goes for your potential visitors.
There are lots of other factors that you need to consider when you're looking for a good UK search engine ranking but if you're short of time fixing your page title will go a long way for not too much effort.