2006-05-19T11:27:00.000-07:00

BEST DIRECTORIES - FOR TRAFFIC TO BLOGS

Yahoo! has a search engine, directory and news resource in which you can add your blog, feed and Web site. Few can argue against Yahoo! Search being one of the top major search engines and directories available online, so you want to make sure your stuff is listed on Yahoo! wherever possible. Yahoo! lists plenty of blogs within the appropriate categories for the blogs and you can add yours to the list (see below). Yahoo is a massive and it gets confusing. Its help page explains the Directory and how it differs from the other parts of the site. Search Help is also a good resource for understanding the Yahoo! Network. Yahoo! Directory organizes Web sites and pages into categories and subcategories. Sometimes visitors don't know what they want and prefer to look through the directory instead of entering keywords. Or they want to find keywords within a specific category. Yahoo! News is also a major source for news information online. It's possible to directly submit your news-based Web site, blog or RSS news feed to Yahoo News through an official submission form. Yahoo News requires submission of your name, email, URL, the selection of the item "Suggest news site for news search index" in the drop down menu labeled "What are you writing about" and any extra comments you may have. Your site is immediately submitted to the Yahoo News editorial review team and checked for approval. If your site produces original news content on a daily basis you may want to seriously consider submitting your site to this resource as it may provide for major increase in reach and exposure once your content is regularly spidered by the Yahoo News content crawler. To submit your site: When you go to the submission page, it'll have you do a search of your site's URL to ensure it's not already listed. Once done, you'll have to login with your Yahoo! ID. The best thing to do is search for the category in the directory where your entry belongs and then click

Suggest a Site. FAQ on how to suggest a site.

Directory submission page: http://add.yahoo.com/fast/add?17051064

Feed submission page: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

News submission page: http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/news/cgi_feedback/

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Dmoz

Directory of major weblogshttp://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/%20Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/

Directory of directories about weblogshttp://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/%20Weblogs/Directories/

How to add a site to the Open Directoryhttp://dmoz.org/add.html

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Moreover

Moreover is one of the most extensive and popular news syndicators around. His presence online across sites of all kinds is remarkable and being able to get added to his newsbase is a very worthwhile effort. Three great in-points are listed here below. This info is worth gold!

http://w.moreover.com/main_site/aboutus/sourcesubmission.html

http://w.moreover.com/main_site/aboutus/contact-us.html

MailTo:edmanager@moreover.com

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Syndic8

According to SearchEngineWatch: “Another major directory of RSS feeds. It lets you look through thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted or which have been added by volunteers to its collection. In other words, it's an Open Directory for RSS feeds.” Definitely worth all of you best efforts to get your blog/RSS feed tracked and validated. http://www.syndic8.com/suggest.php?Mode=data

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Newsisfree

Newsisfree is mainly a web based aggregator and a publisher of RSS sources. Newsifree is also one of the oldest and most prominent directories of RSS feeds. It organizes thousands of news feeds into categories. An absolute must-submit-at RSS/blog resource. NewsIsFreeWe is very selective about what sources it adds to its directory (even more so since their aggregator users can add feeds that are not in the directory). NewsKnowledge: it's the commercial branch of NewsIsFree. It features a subset of the sources and provides syndication services for companies. http://www.newsisfree.com/contact.php

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NewsKnowledge

NewsKnowledge gathers News Headlines from more than 20'000 news sources from all over the world and in more than 20 different languages. It is one of the more respected sources for news syndication by corporate and business enterprises. It is possible to suggest news sources through this form:http://www.newsknowledge.com/contact_us.html

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The Guardian Webblog Guide

The Guardian WebBlogis one of the best online resources providing hand-picked lists of outstanding online Weblogs. The Guardian DOES NOT ACCEPT automatically any submission and it only accepts weblog recommendations, without ever linking to RSS feeds. More information on how to get in touch with The Guardian Newsblog can be found here.

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GeneCastNewsService

Add a newsfeed to the http://www.genecast.com/news/create.jsp

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Technoratti

Simply type your website/blog Internet address in the main search box and Technorati will start tracking you. Also it is possible to use the Technorati Ping-Site form (high priority indexing queue) which may help in this process.http://www.technorati.com/ping.html

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DayPopUp

Submitted sites must be news sites or weblogs that update and provide information on a timely basis. Other sites will not be included since this is a current events search engine.

Enter the URL followed by a space followed by the word "news" or "weblog" depending on the category of your site. Example: "www.danchan.com weblog" http://www.daypop.com/info/submit.htm

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BlogLines

Register at Bloglines and enter the MyBlogs area. There you can submit anyone RSS feed and have it automatically tracked by Bloglines. http://www.bloglines.com/

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FeedSter

Feedster was originally known as Roogle when launched in March 2003 and absorbed the formerly separate RSS Search service in June 2003.

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BlogDex

Add your weblog/RSS feed by simply providing a URL and your email. http://blogdex.net/add.asp

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Topix

Topix.net is the Internet's most complete targeted news site, allowing users to quickly and easily find all the news on their particular topics of interest. Topix.net gathers news stories from over 3,000 sources into over 150,000 topically based, individual news-pages. Strong, US-based geographical slant. Separate news page for each of the 30,000 cities and town in the US. Topix.net scans every article for geographical references, such as streets, parks, rivers, stadiums and arenas, hospitals, schools, and so on. The result is a story classified both geographically as well as by topic. Accepted feeds include RSS, XML and HTML news index pages with links to stories.

Suggest a quality RSS newsfeed here: http://www.topix.net/topix/faq?feedback=1

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PopDex

The Website Popularity Index. Worth a submission.

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

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BlogCritics

Independent bloggers syndication site aggregates good content from many sources. You have to input your selected articles manually. No RSS feed submission. Eric Olsen recommends: "most people participating in Blogcritics post their own stories to the site directly rather than any kind of automatic aggregation, so if you could let them know that all we need from those who want to join is ONLY their site URL, email, and name, that would be terribly helpful. Thanks again! http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/06/134209.php or by contacting Eric Olsen at: mailto:ecolsen2003@cs.com

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BlogStreet

Directory of existing RSS feeds. BlogStreet operates also Info Aggregator, an outstanding software-free service lets you subscribe to RSS feeds and have posts delivered via email.

http://www.blogstreet.com/bin/addrss.cgi

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BlogWise

A richer form to fill for this valuable online resource. But it is all in your interest.

http://www.blogwise.com/submit

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BoingBoing

A Directory Of Wonderful Things Suggest a site but give them time to review it. Give them hints at what is exactly relevant and interesting to look at and why. What we're getting at here is that a submission along the lines of "My blog, Crazy Bob's Discount House of Internet, is full of Webby goodness

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2rss

A directory of RSS feeds.

Submit directly on the home page.

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WeBlogALot

Aggregating The Power Of Blogs http://www.weblogalot.com/Ping/

http://www.weblogalot.com/

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GlobeOfBlogs

Must provide content category and author information.

http://www.globeofblogs.com/register.php

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Blogtree

http://www.blogtree.com/

Simple and immediate.

Submit here:
http://www.blogtree.com/signup.php?

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Bloguniverse

http://www.bloguniverse.com/

Add a site directly. Need to specify a category among the ones available.

http://www.bloguniverse.com/radlinks/?id_category=%7BCAT_ID%7D&act=add_new

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TTLB Blogosphere Ecosystem

http://www.truthlaidbear.com/

Submit directly here:
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/addtoscan.php

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Memigo

http://memigo.com/

Personalized news aggregator
http://www.memigo.com/feed

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BlogHop

http://www.bloghop.com/

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Blogarama

http://www.blogarama.com/

Directory of blogs with categories. Recently updated (February). Simple and well organized.

Blogarama requires you provide a description and a username/password to submit your site/blog.
http://www.blogarama.com/index.php?show=add

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Contents Matter

http://www.contentsmatter.com/

Directory of blogs with categories.

Need to register and log in to submit.
http://www.contentsmatter.com/add.php

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PubSub

http://www.pubsub.com/

PubSub.com checks over 100,000 RSS feeds, matches messages to subscriptions and delivers messages to subscribers in real time. Very promising service.

Submit your RSS feed here:
http://www.pubsub.com/add-feed

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Blog Search Engine

http://www.blogsearchengine.com/

Not a high profile resource. Requires submission of email and registration username/password.

http://www.blogsearchengine.com/add_link.html

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EatonWeb

http://portal.eatonweb.com/

General directory of weblogs subdivided geographically and by content categories.

http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php

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RDF Ticker

http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/

RDF-Ticker is a newsticker application which fetches news from RDF/RSS-feeds and displays them on a ticker-bar.

http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php

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Blogdigger

http://www.blogdigger.com/

Submission is as simple as it can get.

http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp

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Bloogz

http://www.bloogz.com/

World Wide Blog.

http://www.bloogz.com/man_en/add_your_url.php

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Blogz

http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/

A new kid on the block. Requires age, keywords and description on top of the basics.

Submit here:
http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/add.php

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BlogMatcher

http://blogmatcher.com/

Helps people find weblogs that match their interests and find like-minded blogs.

Submit here:
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

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Scripting.com

http://feeds.scripting.com/

Lots of great RSS feeds there. Upload your OPML and help the system out.

Right here:
http://feeds.scripting.com/

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FreeBlogTraffic

Bloguniverse

TTLB Blogosphere Ecosystem

Memigo

http://memigo.com/

BlogHop

Blogarama

Contents Matter

PubSub

Blog Search Engine

EatonWeb

RDF Ticker

Blogdigger

Bloogz

Blogz

BlogMatcher

Scripting.com