Launching a new blog is a lot of fun, and so is building links to it. I have written about blog directories in the past, and used to own one, and honestly have been very shocked about how bad the quality has gotten with some of the blogosphere’s first directories. That being said, here is a round up of some of the top resources for listing your blog.
Submitting your blog to an established human edited blog directory has many benefits besides additional exposure. Proper link building is a critical component of launching a new blog or helping grow an established blog and submitting to a respected blog directory helps give credibility to your blog from the perspective of search engines.
How do you tell if a Blog Directory is credible?
The key component in directory submission of any kind is that all listings are verified by a human before going live. By adding this critical component of editorial integrity quality directories help distinguish themselves from the herd. Many sites that claim to be directories are really just link farms.
- If there is no editorial integrity how will they monitor the quality of the blogs listed in the directory?
- Why should the engines consider it a positive vote from the site if anyone can get listed submitting any type of site?
- Do you want your blog listed on a page that links to potentially bad neighborhoods, made for adsense blogs or inappropriate content?
What is a Quality Blog Directory?
A quality blog directory monitors each submission and grants access or denies based on criteria of the blog worthiness.
There is often a nominal fee charged for this service which covers the time of the editor to properly review a submission. This is what separates and makes directories such as BOTW.org, Yahoo and Business.com so special.
Getting listed in those directories tells the engines that the listing is spam free and human edited; this increases the trust associated with the site being submitted. Without this component the directory becomes a free for all link farm. What’s the value in being listed somewhere if they’ll list anything? There is none.
This blog directory list is short and sweet. 5 quality blog directories that exert editorial control and will help grow the online presence of your blog in a positive manner.
Best of the Web is one of the oldest and most heavily promoted web directories on the web. Recently they added a directory exclusively to blogs. They exert editorial control and maintain a large database of spam free blogs. BOTW is one of the most recognizable names in the directory business. Getting your blog listed in their blog directory is of value and will cost you a fraction of what they are charging for websites.
2) Bloggeries
Bloggeries is a growing and respected human edited blog directory that caters only to bloggers. It’s also the only blog directory on this list that offers deeplinks or seperate links on the listing page to inner pages of the blog submitted. This helps promote inner pages of your blog and not just the main home page. Each listing receives its own unique details page with 3- 5 additional deeplinks.
Delight Blogs is a quality blog directory that manually reviews all submissions before they go live. It has been around a long time and continues to be one of the few blog directories that maintains a respectable spam free database.
EatonWeb maintains a strong select inclusion blog directory that charges a nominal fee for review. This is a well established blog directory that maintains strict editorial integrity like the others listed on this page.
Blog Announce is another human edited blog directory that has been around for quite sometime and continues to selectively list blogs that meet their criteria. It’s a simple directory that makes submitting and finding blogs easy and hassle free. They also charge a nominal fee for the time required to ensure all listings meet the grade.
This is a short list, but full of good directories. Which blog directories and blogging resources do you suggest adding blogs to? Please feel free to add your favorites to the comments below (and get a link back to your site).
RT @Bloggeries: Cool Piece by Loren of Search Engine Journal on Blog Directory Links: http://tinyurl.com/bhdj3d Check it out! #bloggeries
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Cool Piece by Loren of Search Engine Journal on Blog Directory Links: http://tinyurl.com/bhdj3d Check it out! #bloggeries
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Great source for blog directories Thanks @the_gman: List Your Blog and take a break from Twitter http://tinyurl.com/bhdj3d
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Blog Directory Links : List Your Blog http://tinyurl.com/bhdj3d
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DMOZ being the most valuable directory (for the time being) is still worth submitting to.
To get in, you do need to use some mental “elbow grease”.
I twittered the editor of the section I was submitting to and got in within a MONTH last year.
,Michael Martin
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Last year, during the Google Tricks and Treats webinar, they (Google) said that directories would lose their “power of link love spreading” as time goes by - not with these words, of course.
It just happened something like Google removing a “best practice” such as “submit your site to trusted directories” from its guidelines.
I don’t remember exactly, but the overall message is that directories will no longer be a valuable link source over time.
However, directories are still good, so, nice listing Loren! =)
Thanks for that!
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Submitting to those blogs directories is worth like $100 USD. I think it´s a fair ammount to pay to get your blog listed and get all the benefits Loren mentions in this post (If you compare it to the $300 USD you must pay to get listed in the Yahoo Directory, or the $250USD to be in Business.com, although those aren´t exclusively for blogs, you can keep that numbers as reference)
I´d say that it could be specially useful for new blogs …
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We’re listed at Bloggeries. It’s worth paying for the deep links.
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Thanks for the list. I like Bloggeries the best and they have a good forum too. I did want to mention that there are some free blog directories that are worth the time. I know that directory I own is set at free right now to build momentum and I will charge eventually. Because it is free does not mean that it is not high quality or human edited. Even if it starts off as no PR, I am expecting at least PR3 on the next update
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Loren Baker Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Sounds good, besides http://submitmyblog.com/ , what are some others that you recommend?
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BlogRateDirectory Reply:
March 18th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Loren, Not trying to get a free plug but he is correct that there are at least a dozen free directories worth submitting to.
topofblogs.com, bloggapedia.com, blogs.con - just to name a few.
However, the directories you’ve mentioned in this article are all exceptional and worth paying the submission price for, especially Bloggeries because Rob, the owner of Bloggeris is a very helpful person.
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Thanks for the links. Blog directories is something I have been considering for a while but so busy
I suppose typing in blog directories into google will reveal a lot
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By the way The best of the web blogs is a prked domain
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Niche Blog Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Sorry it does work. I had a typo in the URL
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Enjoyed reading your post. All your points about the directories are very good. Ideally you want your blog in a human edited directory which attempts to keep only quality content blogs listed.
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Great list. Bookmarked!
What about Paid Blog Directory? They are first result in Google for the phrase: paid blog directory, but they seem pretty new, they stats display
Active Links: 12
Pending Links: 189
Only 12 active links (looks like it is directory under construction) but first search result? The phrase is exact as the domain, but consist only of generic keywords. Weird.
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My Blog is listed in the five now :), thanks a lot Baker
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Sorry for the off-topic comment: I usually try to convince my SEO friends to optimize the keywords that comment spammers use on their comments, so we really outrank them, have you ever considered that against spamming? =D
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Thank You Loren Baker , its really helpful for my blog.
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Hi Loren,
I found TopRank has published nice list of worth submitting RSS - Blog Directories http://www.toprankblog.com/rss-blog-directories/
Thanks
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Hadn’t thought about human edited directories with quality listings before vs low quality directories. Didn’t even occur to me that there was any, or to look for them
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This blog is very infomative. However, not many people would like to pay to submit their blogs as there are so many free directories available around.But if these paid directories are providing some exceptional services, then its worth trying them.
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EatonWeb maintains a strong select inclusion blog directory that charges a nominal fee for review. This is a well established blog directory that maintains strict editorial integrity like the others listed on this page.
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Bloggeries is a growing and respected human edited blog directory that caters only to bloggers. It’s also the only blog directory on this list that offers deeplinks or seperate links on the listing page to inner pages of the blog submitted. This helps promote inner pages of your blog and not just the main home page
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Hey its really great list of blogs. Thanks it helps many people to submit and get new blogs. I will surely check it. Thanks
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I’d like to find any updated lists also. if you know any please publish it Baker . Thanks
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Great list, you might want to try submitting your blogs to our blog directory: http://www.blogbal.com/
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Directory exclusively for blogs and blogging resources. Free and paid listings available. Submit yours today and join the ranks of bloggers everywhere.
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EatonWeb maintains a strong select inclusion blog directory that charges a nominal fee for review. This is a well established blog directory that maintains strict editorial integrity like the others listed on this page.
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It’s also the only blog directory on this list that offers deeplinks or seperate links on the listing page to inner pages of the blog submitted. This helps promote inner pages of your blog and not just the main home page
“Great article on Bloggeries”.
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By adding this critical component of editorial integrity quality directories help distinguish themselves from the herd. Many sites that claim to be directories are really just link farms. .
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If there is no editorial integrity how will they monitor the quality of the blogs listed in the directory?
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Very informative and helpful post specially for new bloggers with great blogs list, keep it up good work. Thanks
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I’ve noticed lots of link lists on blogs… Is there somewhere you can get on these lists?
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Well done! although I do have a question, how do you suggest one keep the activity on a blog fluid but maintains control over the content so as not to allow inappropriate postings to get inserted.
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