20 Essential Blog Directories to add your blog to

Gaining exposure for your blog is critical to building a following, readership, and revenue. Besides the basic SEO steps of adding compelling and keyword friendly titles, URL structure and descriptions (along with the basic WordPress SEO plugins) basic link building for blogs begins with listing them in blog directories.

There are many paths to consider when building links to your site or blog such as link baiting or blogroll link swapping, but few are as easy to implement and cost effective as submitting to blog directories – and good link juice is essential to a healthy growing blog.


Let us take a look at 20 popular directories worthy of your consideration.

1. Best of the Web Blog Search La Crem de la Crem, Best of the Web’s Blog Directory is very selective and only lists aged and valuable blogs. A link from here is majestic and well deserved.

2. Bloggeries has the best categories and subcategories home page on the internet. The layout is clear and concise, and readers are able to find what they are looking for in a snap!

I am really liking what Rob is doing with Bloggeries and this is bound to be one of the premier Blog Directories on the web.

3. EatonWeb Blog Directory is a real jewel with many aged inbound links and a blog rating system. You may have to pay a fee for your blog to be reviewed, but like Yahoo, the review fee is well worth the few dollars.

4. OnToplist.com is a free human-edited blog directory where you submit the RSS feed of your blog. You can also set up your own micro-directory (blog ranking) and compile a list of your favorite blogs in one place. OnToplist is also a social network that allows you and other bloggers to get in touch and promote your blog by attracting more readers.

5. Blogged.com is an interesting mix of a blog directory and a Google News type site which fuels its news feed from the blogs listed on the site. Blogged.com is very impressive and is free to list your blog.

6. One of the most selective Blog Directories on the web (and WordPress powered), Blog Search Engine is owned by Performancing’s parent company and serves search results powered by IceRocket.

7. Blog Catalog features a vast directory of categories, from academic to writing, while offering the ability to search by country, language, or user. It has a no frills design, but offers convenient member access through simple blog registration.

8. Globe of Blogs has too many features to list. In order to be listed on the site, the blog must not be commercial. The site may appear to be busy, but I like the features of being able to search by title, author, or subject. Narrowing the search becomes easier on this blog.

9. The ultimate directory of British blogs connotes all things British. It is not directed by location, but by the culture! It is asked that bloggers be genuinely “britished.” Being listed in this blog reaches readers all the way across the pond!


10. Blog Universe is the perfect place to promote your video or podcast themed blog. Its layout is easy to navigate. Although the content is limited, it is an all around good directory site worthy of submission.

11. Bigger Blogs is a relatively new blog directory with only a few blogs registered. The blog is intertwined with a business directory. The blog section is difficult to find, and it is located through a link on the right side of the business directory page. However, the benefit is that the earlier you are accepted on a blog directory, the more exposure your blog will obtain. In addition, a back link is indeed a back link, so this can help with your search engine placement.

12. Upon visiting Bloggernity, you find a crisp, clean, and easy to navigate site. Scrolling down, you find the new blogs. As there is little advertising on the home page, it is pleasant to the eye of the reader as well.

13. Bloggapedia has an interesting and eye catching homepage. Readers are easily connected to the top blogs and newest posts. Innovative categories and a colorful design make this blog directory a hit.

14. Spillbean is a well-designed blog directory site with categories such as health, society, internet, and personal. The site is aesthetically pleasing, but there are not many listings yet.

15. Blogging Fusion is a blog with over sixty categories. These categories include photo blogs and family focused blogs. Blogging Fusion has an good amount of blog listings within the directory, and it also has visitor stats available.

16. Blogflux is not only a tool for bloggers, but a directory that has the listings in alphabetic order. The blog listings are organized and clear. It is definitely an effective blog directory in which to be listed.

17. The blogs on the top listings of Bloglisting are fun, colourful, and catch the attention of the reader. Bloglisting displays the page ranking blogs, which is a helpful tool when determining with whom you want to exchange links.

18. Blogio may be a small blog directory with few listings, but it worthy of a submission. Despite its small size, there are quality blogs and a solid ability to search on this site.

19. Blog Explosion claims to be the largest blog promoter on the internet. They have a vast directory but do not seem to have direct links. However, the listing in the directory can still show up in SERP’s, so keep this in mind.

20. Super Blog Directory is a great site that offers tools to posters that others do not. You can see the latest submitted links and blogs on the site, which is a perk that draws traffic into the directory.

The above listings are a glimpse inside the large and vast world of blog directories and the valuable inbound links that your can build for your blog and your business.

There are countless more directories at your disposal, which are always just a Google, Yahoo, Live or Ask.com search away.

Google Indexing Problems

This article contains useful tips, help and advice to solve common Google indexing and crawling problems including partial website indexing. We offer a separate page on solving Google Supplemental Results.
Firstly, it's common for a low ranking website to be included in the Google index without actually being visible in the search engine results (SERP).
You can check whether your website is in fact indexed and cached by Google, using a simple query command. To accomplish this, type site:www.mydomain.com in a Google search window, replacing mydomain with your registered domain name.
If Google returns the message: "sorry no information is available for the URL www.mydomain.com" then none of your website pages are Google indexed and you may have a Google indexing or crawling problem.
Sometimes Google indexing problems can be the result of little more than Robots.txt file errors. This is a text file which sits in the root directory of your web server informing search engine robots what they should exclude when indexing a website. A Robots.txt error can sometimes prevent Googlebot (Google's search spider) from crawling your website altogether. For help with creating or formatting a Robots.txt file click here.
Check Google Cache

The Google site:www.mydomain.com query returns a list of all web pages in your domain which are indexed and cached in the Google index. If no webpages are indexed, this is often due the web domain being new or recently launched with not enough quality backlinks to make it into the index. To solve a Google indexing problem (including partial indexing) first check for website navigation problems which will prevent Google crawling your website.
If no website navigation problem problem is found, we recommend getting more quality links to your website from other WWW websites and that you consider submitting a Google Sitemap to inform Google about your website hierarchy and how often your content is updated. This will help influence how often Googlebot crawls your website with a view to helping Google keep a fresh cache of your recently updated page URL's.
Tips for Increasing Google Crawl Rate

Even a few additional links from other websites pointed to your domain can help increase the crawl rate and frequency of Googlebot visits, ensuring that your website is deep crawled more regularly.
It's worth mentioning that Google operates a smart-crawling system so it will notice when extensive page updates are made to a site as it interrogates and utilises the web server responses. Matt Cutts did an interesting video on how Google crawls sites and we'd recommend taking 5 minutes to watch it: Matt Cutts Googlebot crawl method video.
For more help and advice on acquiring additional inbound links for your website, read our informative link building and Google SEO strategies articles.
If, on the other hand, Googlebot is visiting your site too often then the crawl rate can be manually reduced from the Google Webmster Console (Webmaster Tools). Unfortunately, Webmaster Tools does not allow upward adjustment where a site gets infrequently crawled - you really need to get more inbound links (backlinks) and to update your website content frequently to encourage that.
More backlinks will significantly help to get more of your page URL's Google cached and fully indexed.

Google Big Daddy Update

Following the "Big Daddy" Google infrastructure update in Spring 2006, the crawling rate of websites is now heavily influenced by the number and quality of backlinks the site has acquired. For this reason, it is not unusual for a website with few inbound links to receive one or less Googlebot deep crawls a month.
Since Google's Big Daddy update, many websites have developed website indexing and Googlebot crawling rate problems. After Big Daddy, Google seems to be indexing fewer web pages, particularly on recently launched website domains and low quality sites. This has affected the backlink count for many sites, which previously relied on low quality directory links amongst other sources.
Partial Google indexing is now common for websites with few inbound links. This frequently results in only the top level domain (homepage) being Google crawled and included in the Google index, with other internal pages being partially indexed or not indexed at all.
The well documented Big Daddy update problems have now been resolved, but some new less new domains and older, trusted sites are still left with significant numbers of partially indexed pages in the Google index. These pages would have shown up as Google Supplemental Results until the labelling of such pages was removed in the summer of 2007.

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How to make Google’s Blogger more search engine friendly

Google owns Blogger is one of the best online blog services available. Blogger is not very search engine friendly, though, and the Blogger team even managed to block Google’s search engine crawlers from indexing some of the Blogger blogs.
Pandia takes a look at the Blogger/Google relationship and what a blogger can do to make a Blogger blog succeed in the search engines.
When size hinders learning and collaboration
Running a huge multinational company is hard. You may gather the best talent in the world, but there is always a limit to how many people any person can interact with. Because of this, there will be instances when independent business units do not communicate, even when needed.
Yahoo! is a company known for its “silo mentality”, where institutional barriers and struggles for power and money hinder active cross pollination of ideas.
Google has been known to be acutely aware of the problem and is clearly better at handling it.
Visiting the Google headquarters up at Mountain View I was told that their focus on interaction even applies to the famous Google cafeteria.

Someone had complained about wasting 7 minutes standing in line for lunch. Google then did a study and found that six minute queuing was good for competence dissemination. People talked to colleagues they didn’t know in the line, opening up new possibilities for interaction and creativity. They changed the queue system, though, to stop people from being distracted by the food so they could focus on interaction!
Still, there are limits to what even Google can do as regards interorganizational learning.
Google owns Blogger, one of the most popular online personal blog tools available. Still, even if it is owned by the world’s leading search engine company, Blogger has been amazingly search engine unfriendly.
Content warning stopping spiders
One example of how this may pan out, is the recent case of Blogger blocking Google’s search engine crawlers from indexing Blogger blogs. Not all Blogger blogs, mind you, but for a company that wants to index all content everywhere, it must have been kind of embarrassing to find its search engine crawlers being banned from even a few of them.
Blogger has a feature that lets the bloggers (or the Blogger team) add a content warning splash screen to the blog.
Anyone trying to enter this blog will first be presented with a web page warning them that that they are about to view may contain content only suitable for adults. This may apply to disturbing images, controversial topics or even adult content.
This is an excellent feature in our view, but the problem was that the content warning page contained no regular link to the blog itself, only a button triggering a javascript (which the search engine spiders do not follow).
As one Blogger blogger put it:

“Even if Blogger is a part of Google, no one has apparently told the Google spiders how to find away around this javascript. Nor has anyone told the Blogger people to change the code of the content warning page (or to give the spiders another route around this hurdle). Now nearly all my listings in Google give a title and description from the Content Warning page, and I am pretty certain that they will disappear soon as well.”

That did not happen.
In this case the Blogger team did registered the complaints over at Google Webmaster Help .
It probably also helped that WebProNews took an interest.
In late January Blogger presented a new content warning page that did let the crawlers through. (That this new page also blocked users of Internet Explorer 6 is another matter. They are working on it.)
Still, it took years for Blogger to fix this problem.
Now, this may have something to do with the fact that Blogger can be used as an efficient tool for spamming. Setting up a large number of free Blogger blogs promoting porn, may seem like a good idea to some living on the shady side of the Web.
Given that Blogger can set up a content warning even if the blogger do not ask for it, Blogger could have used the content warning page to dis-encourage spammers from using Blogger for this purpose.
On the other hand, Blogger may achieve the same effect by handing over a list of spam blogs to their colleagues responsible for Google Web Search. This way they could have punished non-spammers delivering content behind the content warning wall.
More Blogger search engine problems
Let’s make one thing clear: We like Blogger.
Its current incarnation is a huge improvement compared to the previous. It is easy to use for beginners who cannot or will not learn anything about HTML and CSS, while at the same time it is flexible enough for more advanced users.
We hesitate to recommend it for professional blogs, let alone corporate sites, but then again it was never meant for that kind of use.
Blogger is for those who want to put up a personal blog or a blog focusing on their passions. If you need a blog like that, you can have one up and running in less than an hour using Blogger.
Still, you would like people to find your blog in the search engines, wouldn’t you? This means that you should be able to to use the most common tactics for letting the search engines and your potential readers know what the various blog posts are about.
Unfortunately Blogger is, in general, not particularly well adapted to search engine optimization, even when it lets the search engine crawlers through.
There are no metatags
You cannot add Keyword or Description metatags to Blogger.
Some would probably argue that this doesn’t matter, as the search engines do not make use of these anymore.
We agree that the keywords metatag probably has no or merely a negligible effect, but Google may make use of the description metatag for their listings, and you should be able to control that. You cannot with Blogger.
We propose that Blogger add a description field for all blog posts, a field that can be used for the first paragraph, for summaries, and for the Keyword description tag.
You cannot control spider access to individual pages
There is no robots.txt, nor can you add robots metatags to individual pages. So as search engine crawling goes, it is all or nothing.
Under the Settings/basic tab there are two settings that are relevant for spider access. Select “Yes” under “Let search engines find your blog”. If you select “No” Blogger will add a NOINDEX metatag to all your pages. So far, so good.
Be very careful about the other relevant setting, however. If you select “No” under “Add your blog to our listings” (meaning that Blogger makes your blog visible on the Blogger network), Blogger will add a NOINDEX tag, regardless of what you answer under the “Let your search engines find your blog” option. Hence, you must answer Yes for both.
We propose that blogger add an Index/Noindex tick box for all posts.
No nofollow tags
You cannot add nofollow tags to links.
Google would like you to add such a tag to links to untrusted content, paid links and to pages of no value to searchers.
In Blogger that is not possible, unless it is done in the HTML view, unintelligible to many Blogger users. Given that others may report you to Google for having paid links, and such links may harm your search engine rankings, that might be a problem.
We can see that Blogger would hesitate to add too many options to the interface, and regular users may be confused by a button for “nofollow links”. We do not think that will be much of a problem, though, as users normally ignore features they do not understand.
What can a Blogger blogger do to succeed in the search engines?
Fortunately, the current incarnation of Blogger does allow for some search engine optimization. The blog post headline will be included in the TITLE field (the text found in the browser window bar), so do include important keywords in the headline.
There is no introduction/summary field, but be sure to use the first paragraph to tell the reader as well as the search engines what the post is about.
If you want to use the blog to follow a particular topic, it might be useful to select a name that reflects this topic, although we see that this may not always be advisable. Still, the name of the blog will be reflected in the URL, like this: thisismyblog.blogspot.com. The URL will be visible in search engine results, and may entice interested searchers to click on your link.
Do also include the relevant keywords in the regular blog post text.

Get your blog article on top of Google results today

Do you have a blog that is still not ranking well in the search engines? This article will get your newly keyword researched and optimized blog postinto the first page of Google search results today!

You must continue working on building quality content, and inbound links. That is what will get your blog into Google results. Sometimes it can take a long time to build search engine rankings, so keep doing it and your blog tipping point will come. In the meanwhile, you can try these options to get your blog articles on top of Google search engine result pages today:

1. Social media. Join social media and sumbit your articles there.

• Digg.com works best for this purpose. Join Digg.com, create your profile, start digging interesting articles and submit your own blog post. By submitting your blog article into Digg.com, Google will index your Digg.com submission and will rank it. Couple of hours after the submission, your Digg.com article page will be in Google search engine results. Search for your article title and you will be in the top 10!

• FriendFeed.com can do the same as Digg, just with a bit different process. Join FriendFeed and create your profile. Add your StumbleUpon profile, your Digg profile, your Twitter profile into your FriendFeed. Also include your blogs RSS news feed into your profile. Now when you post a new blog article on your blog, it will automatically show in your FriendFeed profile, Google will index it and your FriendFeed profile with a link to your latest blog post will rank high in Google search result pages. Search for your article title and you will be in the top 10!

• StumbleUpon is similar to the first two. Only thing is that your blog article will not show in the top 10 at Google automatically after your submission. You will need some thumbs-up and reviews to make your blog article popular within StumbleUpon before Google indexes it. Here are the simple steps on how tomake your blog articles popular in StumbleUpon.

2. Discussion forums. Find relevant discussion forums, create your profile, and start being helpful by writing useful responses to questions relevant to your blog content. When you feel confident enough in the forum, create a whole new thread with your article title as the thread name. Copy/paste your entire article in the thread and let forum visitors read the whole article without leaving the forum. You should include couple of links to your blog before, within, and after the article content.

Google will scan the forum, and will scan your thread and will indexed it fairly quickly. Search for your blog title on Google and you will shop in the top 10. Forums I use personally are DigitalPoint.com and WebmasterTalk.com. Go toGoogle and search for “10 Simple Steps To Increase Blog Traffic Via StumbleUpon” to see this in action.

This strategy will not send you lots of traffic, and it is very short term, but it will give you motivation to continue working on your blog content and building of quality inbound links. Let me know if this works for you. Please post a screenshot link in the comments if it does.

Force Google To Index Your Site Today

It seems like every body wants there web site indexed by google, the minute that they upload the index file to the server these days.  I for one don’t mind waiting for the site to get found organically, but there are some advantages of having the site indexed immediately.  Especially if you are going to sell a website or domain name, you want to make sure it shows up in google or people will know that the site was just thrown up and that does not look good.

Well the speed at which google will see a new domain name and decide it has enough value or worth to index it now, is dependent on where your site has been linked to, from.  Meaning that if you could get a link on the front page of MSN, Disney, Forbes or any huge site with high page rank, google will assume that your website is “important” and index it.  However, getting a link on sites like these is not easy and far from cheap.

So, that in mind, let me offer you another method to get your website on a high PR site with a direct link back to your website that google will love, for free and very little effort.  Getting listed on an “Authority” site is much easier than one would think.  You just have to know which sites google considers to be an “Authority.”  We are going to tell you the top free sites that google likes below, so keep reading.

Well, with all the recent rage of social media, social marketing, social networking and anything else that has the word social in it, google has started to really like sites with links on social bookmarking sites.  It really is nothing new that google will really boost search results and move up the index rate of any site that has links on social sites, but it is one of the most overlooked methods of old school seo experts. These sites are all easy to use and of course free.

The top sites to submit a press release to are Digg.com, Reddit.com, and StumbleUpon.com

There are many other sites of high PR and value to google, however these sites have so many new links being posted at such a rapid rate, that google Constantly indexes there news feeds and this can lead to lightning fast indexing of any site that is linked to on them.  Links on Facebook.comLinkedin.com Myspace.com and any other popular social network will all give similar results, but why not just use the cream of the crop?

Twitter has also shown a high rate of index value and many times, like digg, you can get on the first page of google within hours!

So take your time and make sure that your submissions to these sites are professional and not spammy and you will not believe how fast you can get any web site indexed by the google search engine.

Please leave any comments or questions you may have for me below.