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The Ultimate Blog Directory Handbook: Over 1800+ Submission Sites

June 12, 2006 by Liz

The Ultimate Lists as of June 2006

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Every few months someone compiles a new list of blog directories for submission. I thought it might be nice to pull them together with a basic how-to piece on using directorires best to promote your brand and your blog. With that in mind, I’m reposting I piece I wrote and combining the several directory lists I’ve been able to gather into one Directory Submission Handbook. This will have it’s own page in the sidebar for easy access whenever you need it. It will be called the 1800+ Directory Lisitings page.

Directory Listings as Blog Promotion

The blog looks great. You’ve been through the Blog Review Checklist. You’ve got several posts with great titles and compelling content–to let readers know you’ll be around, when they come back. Now it’s time to let people know that you exist.

List your blog in the Blog Directories. Which ones? All of them–every one that you can find the smallest reason to. Listing is a slightly longer and more involved task than changing phone companies. However if you take the time, your work will last for the life of your blog.

Prepare a document with the following information before you start. Keep this document. It’s your blog’s biography. You’ll have reason to use it as your blog makes friends and influences people.

Your username. Pick one with no spaces. Many directories and forums require that, and no one needs too many usernames.

Your email address This email address will get directory updates and be used for verifications. You may want it separate from your personal email address. You’ll need a system to keep track of directory correspondence. Much of the login/password email that you want to keep will have subject lines that start with blog-something.

Your password I’m sure you know the cautions and rules about passwords.

The name of your blog Be sure that you have the spelling, spacing, and everything about the name exactly as you want it. Some directories make it difficult to go back to change it later.

The URL This is http:// (nameofmyblog) .com

The feed Some directories will ask for your RSS or XML feed. You should be able to find that address within your blogware documentation. It will look like your URL with an extension.

The description Though you’re probably anxious to get done, don’t hurry through this one. This is your advertising, and it will be out there a long time. Again, in some places you may not be able to change it later. Make two versions one under 150 words and one under 300 words. Some directories have stricter length limits.

Keywords Choose keywords that readers would use to look for a blog like yours. Review them to make certain that they’re not so broad that they apply to every blog, or so narrow that only you would know them.

Then start with one of the lists below. Approach the task as suits your nature. I did a few every day until I was done. That way I could work on writing and do things on other parts of my blog too.

Words of Caution

You don’t need to be in every list and you don’t need to carry ever link on your blog. So take a look around before you submit. Will someone new there ever be able to find your blog in the crowd? Will you? I’ve gone back to directories and not been able to find my own blog even though I knew it was there!

Certainly you the more “phone books” you are in the more chances that people will find you. But if the phone is poorly organized or shoved off in a drawer the chance that particular phone book will help is fairly slim for you.

On to the Directory Lists

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There are some duplicates in these lists. Not nearly so many as you might expect. I quite counting how many links to directories were here when I reached 1800.
Google’s Blog Directory List

Robin Good’s RSS Top55 – Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites

Free Web Directory List from Smiley Cat

Top Rank Monster RSS and Blog Directory List

Other Directory Lists

These Lists from The V7 Network
Nine lists here.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Other posts to check out:
Directories and Click Exchanges as Promotion
Blogger Forums as Promotion
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Filed Under: Successful Blog, Tools Tagged With: bc, blog-promotion, click-exchanges, directories, Directory-Submission-Handbook, NEW-BLOGGER-PAGE

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Successful and Outstanding Bloggers.

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They take conversations here back to their readers.
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Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

Content

Generating and curating relevant and valued content, including writing, publishing, blogging, and journalism.
10000 Words
bagtheweb

Big Think
California is a recipe for a Black Hole
Digital Photography School
Flipboard
List.ly
Pinterest
Blogging Without a Blog
The Blog Herald
confused of calcutta
Copyblogger
ContentGyan
gapingvoid
GROSH blog
How to Blog by Emily Robbins
howstuffworks
the How-To Geek
How to Make My Blog
How to Split an Atom
Interactive Insights Group
junta42
on Life as a Literary Agent
Lorelle on WordPress
mandarine
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
Media Dragon
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mousewords
The Parody
Performancing
Reason 4 Smile
Suite 101

Design

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1st web designer
2expertsdesign
bit rebels
The Blog Studio
Board of Innovation
Brian Gardner Media
Colour Lovers
css mania
css tricks
David Airey
Debbie Millman
Derek Semmler dot com
Design Sponge
Different Pixel
Digital Strategy
Essential Keystrokes
Experience Curve
Fathead Design
The Floating Frog
inspiration bit
Inspired Magazine
iStrategy Labs
Jessica Doyle ca
Just Creative Design
Left the Box
Noupe
Presentation Zen
rohdesign
Savy Agency
Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally
Six Revisions
solostream webstudio
Spoon Graphics
Sumeetjain.com
Technosailor
Top Web Resources
Tutorial 9
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Whiplash Design
youthedesigner

Leadership

Leadership in a huge organization or a company of one.
All Things Workplace
authentic organizations
carpe factum
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good to know
Heart of Business
in over your head
Kent Blumberg
Laurinda Shaver
Lead Change Group
LEADING BLOG
The Leadership Challenge
Leadership for Good
Lead Quietly
Leading by Example
Life Beyond Code
Living Leadership
Management Craft
Manage to Change
One Mann’s Opinion
Steve Farber Extreme Leadership
Terry Starbucker

Marketing

How companies talk to customers, including marketing, advertising, sales, social media, customer service, community building, and public relations.
1 Good Reason
123 social media
1to1 media
2morrowknight’s awesome-blog
360 Connext
360 Digital Influence Blog
451 Marketing Heat
9o1
AdRANTs
After Offer$
All Digital – Mana Ionescu

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Angus Whines
The Anti-Social Media
Bad Language
Bad Pitch Blog
beyond the hype
Marketing Java
Biz Growth News
Blog for Profit
Blog Til You Drop
BRAND NEW
brandsavant
Chief Happiness Officer
chrisbrogan.com
chrisg.com
Cision Blog
Communications Conversations
Communication Overtones
Creating Passionate Users
Dave Peck
Digital Intelligence Today
Digital Relativity
Drew’s Marketing Minute
Duct Tape Marketing
econsultancy
emarketer
Feverbee
Finger Candy Media
fizz
Fuel Lines>
futurenow
Get in Front Communications
grow
Guerrilla Comm Blog
Hank Wasiak
Hey Whipple!
Immediate Influence
Inside CRM
jaffee juice
Janet Clarey
Janet Fouts
Janet Lee Johnson
Jim Kukral
Josh Klein Web Strategy
Just In Case You Were Wondering
Level 343
Linkedintelligence
Logic + Emotion
Make Marketing History
The Marketing Fresh Peel
Marketing Pilgrim
Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog
The Marketing Technology Blog
McLellan Marketing Group
Method to the Mayhem
Michelle Lamar
Miss Nicole Jensen
Missy Ward
Muhammad Saleem
Not Easy to Forget
onebyone media
Outspoken Media
PR 2.0
Paine Publishing
pamorama
patricia-martin.com
Paul Gillin
perkettPRsuasion
Point of Contact
Pop! PR Jots
PPC Advice
PR Warrior
Prevential
Problogger.net
Quick Online Tips
ReveNews
roundpeg
The Sales Blog
Savvy B2B Marketing
Search Engine Jounal
Search Engine Marketing Musings from an Old School SEO
seocom
Seth Godin’s Blog
Service Untitled
she-conomy
Soshable
Small Biz Survival
Social Media Club
Social Media Explorer
Scott Monty
Social Strata Blog
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Some Assembly Required
spatially relevant
Steve Woodruff
Straight North
Success CREEations
sugarrae
The Thing that Should Not Be
TopRank Marketing Blog
Thinking Home Business
Traffikd
Twitip
unbounce
Unconventional Thinking
Urlfan
V3 Integrated Marketing
Verge New Media
Viperchill
The Wallace Effect
Wayne Liew Dot Com
Web Marketing Therapy
WindChimes
Nitemare Cafe
Wired PR Works
Words of a Broken Mirror
Zocalo Group

Personal Development

Personal choices that affect the quality of our work and our life.
Abundance Highway
Acquire Wisdom and Live with Passion
Adversity University Blog
ALLIED
change therapy
Change your thoughts
Christine Kane
Cindy King
Craig Harper
A Daring Advenure
Dean Hunt . com
delightful work
Digital Jungle
Direct Marketing Observations
The Dreaming Cafe
duncanriley.com
The Elder Generation
Enhance Life
Escape from Cubicle Nation
The Fluent Self
Genuine Curiosity
The Glamorous Life
good word editing
Heroes Not Zombies
The Hot Mommas Project
How to Be an Original
It’s Different for Girls
jonathan fields
Joyful, Jubilant Learning
Justin Kownacki
Just Thinkin’
Life Dev
Life in Perpetual Beta
lifehack.org
Live Your Best Life
M.A.P. Maker
Personal Branding Blog
Point A to Point B Transitions
The Positivity Blog
Pow! Right Between the Eyes
Randy Gage
Robin Dickson
Reiki Help Blog
Recovering Engineer
ririan project
Sensational Color
Success Begins Today
Think Simple Now

Other Successful and Outstanding Small Business Blogs

45 Things
Alister Cameron, Blog Consultant
The Art of Non-Conformity
Ask Dave Taylor
audio tuts
Adria Richards
Angela Connor
agentgenius
Ari Herzog
Atlantic Canada’s Small Business Blog
Barry J. Moltz blog
Beth’s Blog
BIGG success
Blogopreneur
Bold Enterprises
Both Sides of the Table
Brain Based Biz
bretlsimmons
Bruce Clay Inc
bub.blicio.us
Business Blogging Tips
Business of Design Online
CKs Blog
Convene
Conversation Agent
Constructing Social
Creative Freelancing
Creative Think
Cross the Breeze
Danny Brown
davidbullock.net
Digital Likeness
Doc Searls Weblog
dmiracle.com
Ecopreneurist
The Education Business Blog
Fastgrowth Advisors Blog
The Engaging Brand
Escaping Mediocrity
Flooring the Consumer
flyteblog
Founders Forum
FREELANCE FOLDER
garaphernalia 6.0
Get Rich Slowly
geekpreneur
Girlfriendology
Happenings, advice, & other technology thoughts!
the Hot Iron
Host Wisely
Inflexion Advisors
Information Playground
Information Wants to Be Free
Instigator Blog
the Intersection Of People and Process
intuit Small Business United Blog
Itty Biz
The J spot
Jacob Morgan
JeetBlog
JibberJobber
Legal Andrew
LTTLEWYS
Lip-Sticking
Live Live Where You Want
Liz King Events Blog
the local tourist
Lori Moreno
Ma.tt
Midcourse Corrections
Musings from My Minivan
new music strategies
Obsessed with Conformity
Office Freaks
Online Success
OPEN Forum
The Peregrine Agency
Perspectives
Phil Gerbyshak
Pick the Brain
Plagiarism Today
Plastibag.org
Pluperfecter
Professional Powerhouse
Ramsey Mohsen
Resort Marketing
Rockett Science
RickMahn.com
Scobleizer
Selfish Giving
Silicon Angle
Social Fish
Steve Boeses HR Techonology
Strategic Conversations
susan piver
Suzemuse
TDH
Techguerilla Talk
think maya
Thrilling Heroics
Timeless Information
Todd and the Power to Connect
Trends and Outliers
Trends in the Living Networks
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vc cafe
WAHM.com
Web Urbanist
Wendy Piersall
wisebread
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The Work at Home Woman
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Working at Home on the Internet
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Write to Done
The Writer Underground
Writer’s Notes
A Writer’s Words, an Editor’s Eye
Writing Great Ezines and Blogs
You Already Know This Stuff
Your Online Go to Gal
Zaneology

 

If You’re An SOB, Let Me Introduce You.

In the SOB Hall of Fame, you’ll see some blogs have a blog description. Do you know about this opportunity? Send me a brief two or three sentence description of your blog. Using your description, I can write an official introduction post for you blog. I’ll feature that post on the front page before I add the description to the SOB Hall of Fame. E-mail Liz at lizsun2@gmail.com That’s all there is to it!

If You Are Not, But Would Like to Be an SOB?

Now, now, you know that means a Successful and Outstanding Blogger!

Here’s how to make this list:
Add an outstanding idea, insight, or spark to the conversation going on this blog,
or start a great conversation on your own blog and tell me about it. You might take a post home with you to the share Successful-Blog ideas and dialogue with your readers. If you do, find a unique way to “add value” to the conversation. Then tell me about it. E-mail Liz at lizsun2@gmail.com with a link to your post or a brief description of what you did.
That’s all there is to it.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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The SOB Directory Update 02-07-06

February 7, 2006 by Liz

SOB Button

Have you visited the SOB Directory lately? It’s got its own page–right there in the sidebar. Check it out! It’s constantly changing, updating, adding the links of the latest Successful and Outstanding Bloggers. You can browse there to find the bloggers who take the conversation at Successful-Blog back to their readers,
contribute great ideas, challenge us, and make us better. It’s a great place to discover a favorite blog to read–a blog writer you have something in common with.

Want to become an SOB?

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Directory. Click the link or visit from the sidebar.
Everything you need to know is on that page. Everyweek we add new SOBs to the list, no reason you can’t be one–you’re outstanding aren’t you?

Send Bios for the SOB Directory

If you already are an SOB, the Directory is my thank you to the Successful-Blog Community. It’s a way that we can keep connected, an annotated blogroll with logos, so to speak.

Why not send me 1-2 sentences about your blog? You must have a short description from some directory listing on your computer. Dust it off and send it along. Think of it as free advertising to a substantial readership.

By the way, if you’d have a better version of your logo feel free to send that too. Only one restriction–60 pixels high and not more than 200 pixels wide. That’s what fits.

In case you don’t know where to send them . . .e-mail them to me at lizsun2@gmail.com.

We’re making Success a habit.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Filed Under: Business Life, Community, SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, blog_promotion, SOB, Successful_and_Outstanding_Bloggers

SOB Buttons and Directory Update 2

January 20, 2006 by Liz

No Worries The SOB Directory Page

The Directory is coming along and looking fine. Go on it. Check it out! But it would be looking grand, if I got more of your bios in. So start sending them . . . . hint, hint, grin, grin. 🙂

Surely you must have 1-2 sentences description of your blog from some directory listing on your computer. Dust it off and send it along. It will get featured as others did last week. Think of it as free advertising to a substantial future readership. grin grin, hint, hint,.

By the way, if you’d have a better version of your logo feel free to send that too. Only one restriction–60 pixels high and not more than 200 pixels wide is what fits.

In case you don’t know where to send them . . .e-mail them to me at lizsun2@gmail.com.

The SOB Button Still Exists

If you are an official SOB and need a new one. Here you go.

SOB Button

By the way, please feel free to slightly adjust the size to fit your blog design. We want SOBs to have Successful and Outstanding Blog Designs too. (And Rob at Jamdo, it would look great in your sidebar below your ad space–hint, hint, grin, grin)

Want to become an SOB?

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Directory. Click the link or visit from the sidebar.

More New Features Are Coming–Even Today!

So hang in there. The fun is just starting. Some really strong articles are coming too.
We’re making Success the new Style around here.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Filed Under: Business Life, Community, SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, blog_promotion, SOB, Successful_and_Outstanding_Bloggers

SOB Buttons and Directory Update

January 13, 2006 by Liz

The SOB Directory and other pages are under construction. New Pictures. New Presentations. I thought it best to keep the Directory undercover until I got more of your bios in. So start sending them . . . . hint, hint, grin. 🙂

The SOB Button Still Exists

If you are an official SOB and need a new one. Here you go.

SOB Button

By the way, please feel free to adjust the size to fit your blog design. We want SOBs to have Successful and Outstanding Blog Designs too.

If you’re anxious to become an SOB, just link a post to share it with your readers. Write about it to add value to the conversation, and email me at lizsun2@gmail.com with a link to your post.
That’s all there is to it.

More New Features Are Coming

So hang in there. The fun is just starting. Some really strong articles are coming too.
We’re becoming a Magazine AND a Community for Outstanding and Successful Bloggers

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Filed Under: Blog Comments, Business Life, SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, blog_promotion, SOB, Successful_and_Outstanding_Bloggers

Announcing the SOB Directory

January 9, 2006 by Liz

To All SOBs and All SO-Wanna-Bs

Successful Blog is not just getting a new design. It’s changing to become even more focused on success, community, and our readers. That means you’ll be seeing content changes and new content features as well as spiffy new design and production values.

I’m prepared to announce the first change right this minute.

Though the old Successful and Outstanding Blogger page is still under cover. It’s now also undergoing a change of it’s own. No longer will it just carry a simple list of links as an honor roll.

Announcing the SOB Directory

As a service to our readers and our community, we’re turning this page into a directory. Each Successful and Outstanding Blogger’s link will expand to carry both the blog logo and a description of the content readers will find when they visit your blog. So the SOB directory entry for my business blog would look like this.

LMB logo

ME Strauss skews the world wondering about crayons, conformity,heroes, yo-yos, idiosyncrasies, and that person reading the paper at Starbucks. Enjoy storytelling that brings back memories.

What to Do

If you’re already an SOB, send me your blog description. I’m happy to do the rest. You surely have one that you’ve used for some directory listing hiding on your computer somewhere. Take it out and dust it off. No worries about your logo. Unless you want to switch the one I have. (The logo restriction is 60 pixels high.) Then e-mail me at lizsun2@gmail.com.

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, take a post home with you to share Successful-Blog ideas with your readers.
Just link to that post on this blog and write your own insights to “add value” to the conversation.
Then e-mail me at lizsun2@gmail.com with a link to your post.

That’s all there is to it. I’ll feature your logo with a link and you’ll get your SOB badge for your blog. Then your logo will be part of our new directory.

OR contribute an outstanding idea about how we might add value for readers to Successful- Blog.

Even more exciting changes that serve your needs are sitting right there on the horizon. Can you see them yet?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Related articles:
What Makes a Great SOB?!

Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: adding_value, bc, blog_promotion, relationships, SOB, SOB_Directory, Successful_and_Outstanding_Bloggers

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