I have gone through a vast number of "blog directories" where one can submit ones link and improve the search standingings and my findings on non specilist and reasonably general blog directoies are summarised in the sortable chart below. Some very good directories were left out of the listing because they were too specialist. Once you start including speicist listings where do you stop?
| Blog Directory |  |
Notes | Alexa Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| dir.yahoo.com - Weblogs |  |
Although no longer the "king of the hill" a yahoo listing is still imporant. It is worth taking the time to get your entry just right. Unless you have money to burn choose the free option. | 1 |
| dmoz.org
- Weblogs |
|
You will need to navigate to a respectable subdirecory first. After your submittion to yahoo this may seem oddly familure. If you have saved your short description that you worked out for yahoo's directory then you can use it here too. Remember there is no court of appeal should you offend the editor in question. | 330 |
| blogcatalog |  |
A strong rival for MyBlogLog. Blog Catalog started life as a simple directory but has gained social search and other web 2.0 trappings. They povide widgets for your site and tracking stats for your clicks and visitors. | 3832 |
| blogflux |  |
At first look it seems a bit "spammy" which is simply a minor design consideration. You will need to take the time to register to get listed. | 5014 |
| blogs.botw.org |  |
Once I saw you needed
to pay to be listed I left again. |
7501 |
| geekyspeaky.com |  |
You are going to need
to pay or link back to them to get your listing. |
12720 |
| blogpulse.com |  |
Blog puls is not so
much a directory as a search engine. It provides a large
number of metrics and tools for monitoring blogging as a whole. |
24623 |
| blogdigger.com |  |
Also a search engine
however with this offering you need to submit your XML feed. |
2959 |
| blogarama.com | |
A classic Directory.
However, a link back "boosts" your in the ranking. |
34422 |
| bloghop.com | |
I did not bother creating an acocunt. The list of directories I have yet to get through is too long to mess about with accounts. | 43893 |
| blogrankings.com | |
DMOZ "wanna be". You need to provide a lot of information and fill out a captcha test so I moved on. | 55745 |
| findory.com | |
Not so much a
directory as a mush up of all blogs submitted. A news centre
if you will. End result is - it adds value for it's readers
and is not part of a mild gaming of the system. |
60456 |
| bloggernity.com | |
I did not like the look of the site and would have left but for the need to keep going witht he research. As it required a membership I did not want to create I did not add my site. | 49235 |
| bloggeries.com | |
If you want your link here be prepared to part with piles of cash even if you give a link back tot hem for a discount. | 62304 |
| bloghub.com | |
Looked exactly like bloggernity. So much so that I'd have to say they must be using the same package and theme. | 72842 |
| lsblogs.com | |
Very much like DMOZ but a tad harder to navigate. If you are to ge any value from adding a link here you will need to locate a good page to be added to. | 75375 |
| blog-search.com | |
What can one say about a site where the directory options are tiny and most of the rest of the space is other things? If you think the site is worth being listed on then sign up otherwise move on. | 79859 |
| weblogalot.com | |
As ugly as sin but so easy to submit to your feed to that you can easily forgive it. In fact if your blog has the ability tosend custom ping notiifications then you can submit automatically every time you post. | 81829 |
| globeofblogs.com |  |
This site is also quite ugly and at first I thought it was some sort of dodgy reblog or maybe a splog. The listing add page is a pop-up and is very very long. Not at all friendly. | 78974 |
| bloguniverse.com | |
Looks like a spam-u-like fake search engine. Requires a membership. None of my friends link to it. I, therefore, do not trust it. | 91595 |
| getblogs.com | |
Being sure to pass the quest of getting in to dmoz.org (The ODP) will get you listed here as a knock on effect. | 101260 |
| delightfulblogs.com | |
Not only do you have to pay but you have to link back to them to. Another "PHP Link Directory" script. | 130650 |
| bloogz.com | |
What a nice, clean and easy to use site. Adding the blog was a case of simply submitting the root url and then they take care of the rest. Brilliant. | 107448 |
| portal.eatonweb.com | |
Although a login ID is required once you have that the submit form is in the sidebar ready for use whenever you want it. | 116027 |
| readablog.com | |
On the whole this is a good directory but when I fed it a feed that had a technically incorrect character in it then it could not use the feed at all. A better method would have been to skip the "damaged" element and continued regardless (error tollerance). | 119470 |
| findingblog.com | |
Another register to
use directory. It boasts some impressive stats but seems to
keen to promote wordpress themes and downloads. |
136705 |
| all-blogs.net | |
You are going to need
to pay or link back to them to get your listing. Another one
that seems to run "PHP Link Directory". |
141526 |
| bloglisting.com | |
A very odd looking
directory. Easy enough to submit to even if you have three or
four blogs to do at once. |
163050 |
| blogdup.com | |
Another one running a common directory script. A return link is required. | 169322 |
| outpost-earth.com |
|
This is more of a
metablog than just a directory. Sorted by region and topic
the most recent updates to lsited blogs are listed. The add
process is painless and creates a simple account for each blog. |
103881 |
| blogcode.com | |
You will need an account to get in here and add blogs. However you might not want to turn this one down. It has a quality look about it and I think this is one I might come back to when I have more time. | 200304 |
| blogannounce.info | |
Not only do you have to pay even with a link back but it's ont he overspammed dot info TLD. I would be sceptical of using this service at all. | 224876 |
| blog-directory.org | |
Shocking design, nice easy to use form to add a blog. Third party JavaScript might want speeding up a bit though. | 238082 |
| sarthak.net/blogz | |
Blog search engine. Clean, nice, easy to use. Loved it. | 235945 |
| blogdirs.com | |
One more cookie cuter script packaged reciprical link directory with no added value. | 234280 |
| addurlblog.com |  |
Not currently taking new entries until next year. | 255780 |
| 5starblogs.com | |
Nothing on the site that gave any reason to sign up for an account. | 231730 |
| blogtagstic.com | |
The front page may be PR5 and some lsiting pages might be PR4 but for the price you'd be better off swapping links with regualr bloggers. | 266704 |
| MyBlogLog |
|
MyBlogLog is relatively new to the scene but has already made big waves getting purchased by Yahoo in no time flat. It combines social media with blogging and a directory to form something new. | 444 |
| industry-blogs.com | |
Another phpWebDirectory script. As with all such insallations a link back is not optional. | 270163 |
| blogbib.com | |
You are going to need
to pay or link back to them to get your listing. Another one
that seems to run phpLD. |
270449 |
| kmax.ws |  |
I finally found a message saying how to get listed by using the firefox search page tool and it mentioned snding an email but I did not find an email address. | 291340 |
| blogs-collection.com | |
Looks exactly like a spam-u-like fake search engine. You have to use thier link code to get "premuium" listing (whatever that might be). | 285682 |
| diarist.net | |
They seemed to have
moved the add page without updating the links to it when I was there. Whoops! |
314116 |
| blogbunch.com | |
For some reason it rejected the feedburner feed. So I'm not listed on that site - I would complain but there are a lot more directories to review. | 304342 |
| bloghints.com | |
Appears to be another phpLD directory. The free and no link back seems to work. | 344265 |
| search4blogs.com | |
The focus of the site is to push affiliate programs and cross link lots of the webmasters other sites. The Alexia Rank seems to have dipped of late too. I would not use it to look for anything. | 417680 |
| thevital.net | |
A simple ease to use
directory. If only there could all be like that. |
424309 |
| highclassblogs.com | |
This site seemed to
have some encoding issues which was a shame because it seemed to stand
out as otherwise very different. |
487013 |
| http://jenett.org/ageless/ | |
More a listing than a
directory. |
498614 |
| bestblogs.org | |
You are going to need
to pay or link back to them to get your listing. Another one
that seems to run phpLD. |
577038 |
| blogdust.com | |
When attempting to choose free, regular link (with the reciprical link option) I faced a pile of smarty template errors. As a result I could not register. Runs the same script as geekspeaky.com something called phpLD. | 598780 |
| blogadr.com | |
I had a hell of a task getting the focus to move intot he form. I'm not sure if it was broken JavaScript or a pagejacking by an advert. I used the tabs to tab in from the google search box. | 520364 |
| technorati.com | |
You can and possibly
should create an account at this site. They are considered an
authority on blogs even though they are sometimes accused of
naughtiness. |
198 |
| biggerblogger.com | |
Powered by a "free" php directory script so expect copies to abound. | 631231 |
| blogroll.net | |
Not just a directory. Voting and stats included too. | 697881 |
| blogscholar.com | |
Once I realised it was by account only I quickly grew cold on this site and left rather to quickly to be able to tell you much about it. | 766713 |
| http://www.blogpoint.com/ | |
A multi stage form
that lost us on page two when it asked for the location of the
reciprical link. |
731357 |
| browseblogs.com | |
A nice enough directory. Easy to use and easy to submit to. | 904243 |
| blogsrating.com | |
A site where others vote for your blog. It was unclear if there was added or reduced value from this feature. | 887004 |
| blogdir.co.uk |
|
Like DMOZ or Yahoo they ask that you naviagte to the correct section before submitting your link. They also ask for a link back but were unclear if this was optional. | 1044878 |
| quickblogdirectory.com | |
Looks spammy and requires a reciprical link in place before you submit your URL. | 1358270 |
For reference: Icons came from here and te sorting JavaScript came from here whereas the list of directories came from all over the show.
To
get listed in this "directory" you need only join in the blog
conversation
Loved
it. This site is worth the effort required
Pass
Mark. Good but not outstanding.
Only
just a pass. I did not like it at all but there is nothing
technically wrong with it.
Check
the small print there are conditions to be met
If you see this icon it means that I had technical issues with the
site.
Take
care and do this buy hand very complex or errors are fatal
An
accounted is needed so did not review it
Pay for listings only. Do not use unless you have plenty of
spare cash.
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Compiled by "Lord Matt" for globally local dot com.
When we review this listing next (meaning when I get a chance to go over it looking for dead links) any site with the technical issues icon that still has issues will be removed.
Furthermore sites of questionable quality or sites that failed to put up the test listing (one of my actual blogs) will also be removed to ensure that only directories woth being listed in and worth submitting to are in the review list.
New sites will be added if I have found any.
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