Top Blog Directories to List Your Blog for Free Traffic
People need to know that you have a
blog and they should be able to find you. In the early days of blogging where
your blog is like a desert, no one is really visiting your site, you need to
submit your site to top directories.
Now I went high and low on this matter,
I spent time on over hundreds of different blog directories. Finally I have
come up with just a handful of sites that you really should have your blogs
listed in them.
So please do your best in having your
blogs listed in these following reputable blog directories, this will help you
get the word out quickly.
Alltop: This is a list of online blogs in category. It has
sections and under the sections you can find blog articles. To submit your
blog, first sign up for a free account. Then you can submit your site using
this form,Upon submission, your blog will be listed on that category and 5 of
the latest blog articles will be displayed. Sometimes if you get lucky, one of
your blog articles will be featured in your category. This will result in
additional flow of visitors.
Bloggers: Is a directory for bloggers. Basically you have to
sign up as a blogger and then submit your blog. You have to add their badge in
your site to verify your blog. Bloggers has a community of bloggers and it’s a
fine way to reach other people who blog and read in the same topic as you do.
Bloggers has a voting system that will
help you go up in your category. Just signing up for a bloggers account and
submitting my blog has sent me some good amount of traffic over time.
Networked Blogs: This is a very good and old network of blogs.
It has a facebook app to read blogs you are following. You can sign up, add
your blog and then get votes from your peers. An individual can follow your
blog and then they can receive your updates in their dashboard.
I like the feature where you can have
facebook publishing and facebook tab to use on your facebook page. This helps
to reach some more people over the facebook platform.
BlogCatalog: Is the all in one community for blogs. It has
groups, it has forum and it has an active bloggers community. You can sign up
and learn a lot about blogging from the members. You can use this community to
get new visitors and link partners.
To register your blog you have to add a
Meta tag or a badge to verify your blog. After
that your blog will be listed on the directory upon approval.
Technorati: The biggest blog directory on the internet. They
simply hold up all the blogs that are submitted and rank them in technorati
rank. After submitting your blog it will use the tags (called technorati tags)
to categorize your blog. Mainly the blogs goes listed in multiple tags. Most
people and advertisers go to technorati to find relevant blogs that are looking
for.
Here is an article on Technorati and
how to add your blog
So that’s a wrap!
Please bookmark this article and come
back later as I happen to update this post in the future with more blog
directories. Do you recommend any other blog directories I should be including
here? Please share them on the comments section.
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