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Important Blog Directories to Help Your Blog

Blog Marketing Journal — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:03:05 +0000

So you have launched a blog and you are starting to write in it everyday and a few months go by and you start to ask yourself what else can I do to further my blogs reach. One thing you have to realize is that your blog is like any other website and it requires an additional shove to get it moving. A blog requires various marketing efforts to further it’s reach and really become visible. It is important to take advantage of all platforms at your disposal.

Submitting your blog to various online blog directories is a good start to get things moving. Below are a few directories to get you started.

Blog Catalog is great website to get things started for your blog. One of the industry leading blog directories you can include links to your blog, a description and also social interaction.

Blogarama is also a very high powered blog directory that is a must for your blog to be in. With over 100,000 blogs already listed and still growing this directory will be great for your blog.

Bloggapedia has also become a great place for your blog to be visible on. With the ability to set up a profile and interact directly with web traffic the social aspect will be great to help grow your new blog.

Best of Web Blogs Directory is a new website as part of the BOTW franchise of directories and should be considered when you start to perform link building for your blog.

Bloggers Getting Jitters Over Google’s Take On Blog Directories

Blog Marketing Journal — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:59:11 +0000

There are a lot website owners, and even more bloggers, who seem to be getting the jitters over Google’s apparent change of heart over blog directories, or directories in general. Google used to recommend directories such as DMOZ and Yahoo! – not any more.

However, why are bloggers and the like getting the jitters. Okay, so Google removed any reference to blog directories altogether. They have not however, said that there is anything wrong with directories.

From Google’s point of view they may be fine about links from directories; it just suits their current situation that making a recommendation is not quite right. Never fear, Google can speak, at least through a forum:

[Google's John Mueller]I wouldn’t necessarily assume that we’re devaluing Yahoo’s links, I just think it’s not one of the things we really need to recommend. If people think that a directory is going to bring them lots of visitors, then it’s obviously fine to get listed there. It’s not something that people have to do though.

Google have, in the past, discounted any directory that requests payment (except Yahoo! and is not hand moderated. Perhaps over time blog directories will, in general terms, lose any search rank relevancy. Rumor abounds of late that Goolge is going to incorporate more into general social media. Perhaps this is just the first step down that track.