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31 Flavors ▫ The Top Free & Easy Blog Directories to Submit Your Blog 

If you have your blog up and current with fresh content and are looking for more free ways to market your blog or website, this is your next step. All this stuff is very labor intensive at first so I am making this list for you to easily click down one-by-one and register your blog. The best thing about using my list is I actually went through and verified them personally to make sure they are indeed “free” and easy. I scoured many listing services and tried many more that were frustrating and/ or charge a fee. Some of the fees are worthwhile and not very high but for all intents and purposes of my book, we want it to be free if we can get it. “Easy” is important too since you’ll want to just crack this list out in one or two settings. We can’t waste time on this stuff unnecessarily when we are trying to run a business but, it is very important nonetheless to get it done. Blogs are the cornerstone of web traffic in that they encompass a huge amount of data that is categorized and distributed on the web.  

Once it’s out there it’s out there so, make it good and keep it rolling current. Try to keep your blog fresh and highlight your book or any service you may be providing in each blog post. Make it interesting too. If you have a cycle shop, put video of your guys working on bikes in your blog. If you have an online weight loss plan, show pictures of before and after. That is purely basic stuff but you get the point. Make it spicy! Make it look good but don’t get crazy. Stay within your ability and budget. 

Now of course you have my list below and you should get started on that immediately after you have a blog running strong. Some blog directories approve right away and some take about 24 hours. Some take months to list your blog. Some ask for a reciprocal link and some don’t even give you the choice or offer it. You just want to feel it out at first with my list and then you will understand how it works. It’s quite simple after you do a couple in a row and keep your notes on hand making revisions to improve your next submission. Don’t be hard on yourself, just do it and make some mistakes and improve along the way.  

What Will You Be Asked For?

Ok so now you are about to submit your blog to the blog directories I painstakingly reviewed for your easy and free submission. What you will input: 

Title 

Title is self-explanatory, just type in the name of your blog or website. Not your website address. 

URL 

This where you enter your website address. Most likely you will be submitting your blog so give it that address. For example, like my blog: http://www.onlinemarketingknowledge.com/blog/ or use the domain you were assigned with WordPress if you decide to go that route and not buy your own domain yet. All in good time so just do what you think you can do and take it step-by-step.  

Description 

This is the description of your website where you usually have about 250 to 500 words to describe your site. Make it keyword rich and snappy. If you are not clear yet on the keywords go back to the Perry Marshall AdWord cheat sheet. In reality you want to keep your keyword list below twelve keywords after you research the best ones for your business. When you submit your blog you will be limited to about six so you should have them listed in priority when you submit.  

METAKeywords 

This is where you type in your keywords and they usually ask that they be separated by commas. 

METADescription 

This is like your description again but you really want it to be packed full with keywords. Blow it out with relevant keywords. 

Name 

Name or your pen name if you have one. 

Email 

Need to give them your email of course. 

Category 

Usually you get one category and one sub-category. Very important you target the right category or a category where you think the readers will be receptive to your service or book. Get creative but not too crazy where you have grandmas reading Maxim ads or something silly like that. 

RSS URL 

Go to your blog page and click the RSS link. Take the website location and copy it over to this area of the blog submission form. It will look similar to Online Marketing Knowledge’s RSS feed: http://onlinemarketingknowledge.com/blog/?feed=rss2 

Reciprocal Links 

Reciprocal links are links you take from the blog directory and post to your blogs blogroll link areas. If you are now using a web editor you can make a links page with some content on it to keep the page fresh and not appear automated in any way. 

Then You Take a Link from Them 

If you decided to do the reciprocal link with the blog directory you will need to post their link to your link page or in the blogroll links of your blog page. You just copy and paste the code they have for you in the box below where it says ‘Text Link’ or ‘Button Link’. One will just be the name of the directory linking to the site and the other is a graphic button linking to the same site. It’s up to you, makes little difference. 

When you are really into it and want to expand your blog listings further than this flavorful and free blog directory list below, you can search for more. You want to search for keywords like: 

                                        Blog Directory Link 

                                        Submit Blog 

                                        Submit Link 

                                        Submit Your URL 

                                        Submit Your Blog 

                                        Suggest a Site 

                                        Suggest Link 

                                        Suggest Listing 

What We Have All Been Waiting For: 31 Blog Directory Flavors!

Rollover each directory name and click to enter the submit link page. 

This is a very good list to work from. Just keep in mind your work will pay off within the year but not immediately which is why I say to get on that task ASAP.  

The good thing about doing this stuff is you learn more everyday just by going through the motions. So if you feel down about your lack of knowledge, don’t be. Just get used to it as it will get easier and become more part of your instinct after awhile.  

After you consider yourself a successful online marketer you will still learn something new everyday. That’s good too! That means it’s a world wide web for sure, always expanding and increasing the online marketing earnings potential.

23-08-2010 om 00:00 geschreven door marketingonline