Blog directories are they worth it
by:
Allan Burns
Several weeks ago I spent a nice few hours finding web log directories with decent traffic to submit my web log to. Now it is time to see what sort of results there has been in terms of traffic from these directories.
I have submitted http://www.blogtonomy.com/ and http://newsniche.com/ to a handful of web log dig directories. These are directories that list the blogs themselves rather than their RSS feeds. The aim of the exercise is to see if this generates any traffic back to these sites.
The source of referrals that have been used to track the results are from log analysers looking at my raw logs and a third party page trailing service. This should give a more balanced view of actual traffic. The reason for this is that several software system seems to report several results, these difference in these result can sometimes be quite startling.
Now for the results. So far only two directories have contributed any traffic back to my site. In several cases I think the traffic was generated from the new listings areas of the directories. The amount of referrals are few, I do not expect more much traffic to be generated in the futurity as my sites are no longer listed in the new listings section.
Most of the directories do not do direct links and instead use redirects, this is normally because link trailing is in place. Remarkably LSblogs links directly to the sites it lists which I believe wish count towards your back links unlike redirects.
Besides LSblogs that I have simply mentioned the another directory that generated several traffic was Blogarama.
Unfortunately you do not cognize which directories are going to generate traffic until you have been listed. You can increase your chances of ensuring traffic by submitting to directories that already have a lot of traffic. I would-be suggest that as it takes little time and effort to submit your site to web log directories and as they are few and far between compared to generic directories it is a worthy
exercise.
The experiment is far from over as I still have galore web log directories to submit to and I wish be looking at the long term traffic from these sites. There wish be an update to move which wish include a list of all of the web log directories.
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Allan is the webmaster at http://www.blogtonomy.com/ wherever
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