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Old 06-28-2006, 07:34 PM
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Blog directories will probably help, but it takes time. If you purchase
Adwords for your site, that could bring traffic to your site, but
Adsense on your site will not bring traffic to your site.

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Getting listed anywhere takes time. My latest blog entry addresses the issue of getting listed on search engines and the amount of time it takes by engine. My blog is listed in my signature.


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Thanks for this post. I need to get my blog out there.
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The most important aspect of a blog is to offer your readers value on a regular basis, daily if possible, or at least 2-3 times a week. Value can mean different things:
  1. Well-written opinions on topics of interest--often controversial but supported by facts and strong reasoning
  2. Tips, techniques, strategies for success
  3. Humor
  4. "Inside" information, not found elsewhere and/or compiling a collection of insider information from other sources about a carefully defined subject
  5. Alerting readers to valuable resources you have discovered
  6. Giving visitors an additional reason to subscribe to your blog's RSS feed so they return often. See my sig file for an example.
I visited your Popcorn and Twizzler blog. I'm not sure what it's about. TV network news? Movies? I recommend writing a description of your blog and putting it in the Description section (on Blogger &gt; Settings &gt; Basic) of your blog. That way readers know up front what your blog is about. Plus, writing it forces you to decide what your blog's focus is.

I like the layout and colors. Some suggestions:
  1. Put your first Adsense ad above the fold
  2. Try a different color scheme for adsense--maybe no background with white and red text so it blends in better
  3. Don't use posts to promote affiliate products very often
  4. Unless they've worked for you, I'd take out the Adgenta ads since they look too much like ads (people ignore them) and even if someone clicks on them, the sites they link to aren't related well to the content of the ad.
  5. Vary the color of the text on the right margin so people notice it--contrast is important o/w visitors are "blind" to everything on your right margin.
I hope this helps,

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I've put my blogs on every directory you guys listed. Do you think it'll really help? I've submitted my blogs to Yahoo and Google and Technorati and anything I could find, but my site traffic is still pretty non-existent. I also have Google Adsense on there.
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Wow. This is a great thread. I am just getting into posting to my blogs more seriously and regularly for my businesses and I was just gearing up to start searching for directories.


Thanks for making my search easier!
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I didn't see www.blogher.com listed. It is primarily for women run blogs. Free registration.


Posting meaningful comments on other people's blogs is another way to build blogging "relationships" and increase traffic.
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Old 09-15-2006, 10:10 AM
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I'm working on a huge SEO project right now for a client.





As part of the project I need to build back links to several sites...
I'm working on blog directories now... Here's some good ones I've
found. I'll list more as I get them


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http://www.5starblogs.com/</font>

http://www.blogcatalog.com</font>

http://www.blogflux.com</font>

http://www.bloggernity.com</font>


http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html</font>


http://www.blogsearchengine.com/</font>


http://www.blogwise.com/submit</font>


http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php</font>

http://www.synblog.com</font>

http://findingblog.com</font>

http://www.blogtagstic.com</font>

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Thanks for the links. I'm already in technorati.. but I can see that bloglines seems to be an interesting place to visit [img]smileys/smiley1.gif[/img]
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Update - Blogher was listed and it is www.blogher.org not .com.


Your blog needs to be atleast 30 days old first.
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It looks to me as though Blog Daisy is no longer accepting new blogs into it's directory. Just wanted to let you all know!


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