Submit Blog to Blog Directories and Increase the Traffic

This post explains how to increase your blog traffic by submitting your blog to different kinds of blog directories which rates, provide statistics about your blog and provide free traffic and maximum exposure to your blog.

Submitting your blog to these directories is a very good thing to do particularly if your blog is very new one with low traffic.

These blog directories have high pageranks than your blog (since your blog is a new one with pagerank Zero). So, if someone searches for a particular keyword, there is more possibility for the blog directory to appear in the results than yours.

So, by adding your blog to these directories, the visitors enters these directories containing your articles(when they click the article, they enter your site) and also your blog posts will be indexed little faster. So, submitting your blog to these directories will gain you more traffic.
(If your blog is a new one,then put a visitors tracker button in your blog,sothat you will see how many visitors are coming from these directories, from search engines, visitors geolocation, etc).

List of Popular Blog Directories:

• Technorati: Technorati is the largest blog(weblog) directory currently tracking more than 112.8 million blogs. Join technorati and verify your authorship, then you will be provided with detailed statistics regarding your blog, how many blogs are linking to your blog, (they call it 'authority'). It is one of the best blog directory and will send tons of triffic if your blog is regularly updated.
• Topblogarea: This is another big blog directory which rates and rank the blogs interms of Unique visitors your blog gets. They start the counting from Zero every week, so that even newly submitted blog can have the chance to rank higher in the list.
• Topblogging.com: This is another source of weblogs which also rank the blogs according to the unique hits they get. Nice blog resource, bring you lots of traffic to your blog.
• Blogtoplist: Same here, they rank according to the unique hits you get. But, there is a little change,  they will give you to place a voting button in your blog. If any visitor votes for your site from your blog, that is equal to 100 unique hits, but there is only one chance per visitor (one IP address) a day.
• Fuelmyblog: This is a cool weblog resource which is different from the ones we discussed so far. You can vote to other blogs and others vote to you. They will keep the top six blogs(voted the most) on the homepage. You can join their forums, read other blogs content, joining in the compitetions and win prizes, etc.
• BlogCatalog: It is another good blogging resource, you can promote your blog here for FREE, find other blogs related to yours, etc. They have a special formula to rank the blogs, the more visitors, hits, comments, neighbourhood you get the more your rank will be. Another recommended one. You can join their forums, discussion board, groups, etc, with other bloggers and share your thoughts.
• Blogging Fusion: It is a new one and not a very big one (around 950 blogs) at this time. But, it is a good one and doing pretty well. You can increase your blog exposure, worth a link to it.
• Blogarama: Cool weblog directory currently having more than 69,000 blogs. It will list the blogs in terms of the score your blog have. The score depends on so many things like incoming traffic, outgoing traffic, user ratings, etc., and if you send more traffic to they, they will list your blog in the top 100 blogs.
• Topbloglists: Another blog directory which will rank your blog according to the unique hits your blog will get.