47 Weblog Directories, Portals & Platforms

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:22:00 GMT

You need links and lots of them. If you're a blogger however acquiring links can seem challenging if not downright impossible at times - even more so than for e-commerce or service-oriented sites. Our upcoming June 2010 issue features a helpful article from John Alexander of Search Engine Academy called "Stress-Free Link Building" which I'm sure will be an instant hit among our audience as it provides very practical insights on this challenging aspect of search engine optimization and guidance on how the problem can be overcome.

That upcoming article will be available early June for Website Magazine monthly subscribers. If you're not yet a member you can sign up now or keep reading below for some related guidance.

Alexander's article got me thinking during our final round of edits how truly common the feeling of stress must be among those responsible for building links. Since finding sites that like what you do enough to send a link your way is so time consuming, many opt instead by starting their link building campaigns by submitting to directories. This can be especially helpful for those that frame their sites exclusively as weblogs. Below we've listed some of the top blog/weblog directories on the 'Net and provided an estimate (courtesy of the DoubleClick Ad Planner) on their monthly unique visitors.

These sources should be just one part of a multi-phase link building effort but it's handy to use them to get your link building underway. Keep in mind that many of these are not your traditional "directory" or "portal" but rather multi-user blogging platforms. But hey, a link's a link - especially when you're getting started. Did we miss one (or two)? Comment below and let WM and our community know.

Website URL (Estimated Uniques)

aboutus.org (1.7M)

allforblog.com (9.4K)

biggerblogger.com (13K)

blloggs.com (1K)

blogarama.com (63K)

blogburst.com (22K)

BlogCatalog.com (2.9M)

blog-collector.com (10K)

blog-directory.org (21K)

blogdirectory001.com (10K)

blogexplosion.com (44K)

blogflux.com (260K)

bloggapedia.com (57K)

Blogged.com (760K)

Bloggeries.com (52K)

bloggernity.com (58K)

bloggernow.com (26K)

bloggerschoiceawards.com (58K)

bloggingfusion.com (24K)

bloghub.com (48K)

blogintro.com (8.7K)

blogio.net (12K)

bloglisting.net (22K)

blogobbler.com (8.5K)

blogoriffic.com (13K)

blogpulse.com (76K)

blogrankings.com (150K)

blogs-collection.com (25K)

blog-search.com (30K)

blogsearchengine.com (43K)

blogsforsmallbusiness.com (9.4K)

bloguniverse.com (15K)

blogville.us (18K)

getblogs.com (10K)

Globeofblogs.com (47K)

liquida.com 27K)

OnTopList.com 84K)

regator.com (77K)

submitblognow.info (10K)

superblogdirectory.com (10K)

topblogarea.com (390K)

weblogs.com (57K)

webworldindex.com (84K)

zimbio.com (9.1M)

totalblogdirectory.com (39K)

bloghints.com (39K)

blogtoplist.com (630K)

Thirty-Plus Essential Blog Directories

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:54:00 GMT

:: Take These Links to the Search Engine Bank ::

The most challenging aspect of developing a successful Internet promotional campaign is generating enough links (in both the short term and the long term) to garner a competitive listing on top algorithmic search engines.

It should come as no surprise that, despite search engines' efforts to emphasize recency, the explosion of chatter related to the value in social media, or the low cost/high return of e-mail marketing, the vast majority of consumers continue to use traditional search to initially locate topics of interest to them. That means building the number and quality of inbound links remains the most important project you will undertake as a Web professional.

Since more links equal more traffic, what you need are more links, right? Most sites are lacking enough links to make a difference when it comes to developing an ongoing stream of traffic to their site for the keywords they need to convert users to clients/readers/advocates, etc. Let's start changing all that.

If you have a weblog and are using it to promote yourself or your company, you'll need exposure. Submit your website to these 30-plus directories and you'll be on your way to taking higher search result pages listings to the bank. Readers will notice that the sites listed are in no particular order. Data is provided by Compete.com, Quantcast.com, Google (PageRank), Ranking.com, and Alexa.com.

If you have a blog directory that you'd like Website Magazine readers to know about, comment below.

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Blog Directory	Compete.com	Quantcast.com	Google PR	Ranking.com	Alexa.com
blogarama.com	72,614	170,855	2	233,834	30,318
blogcatalog.com	868	583	6	3,312	410
blogexplosion.com	58,840	372,365	5	244,371	20,841
blogflux.com	10,292	15,662	4	17,551	11,751
blogged.com	7,901	10,193	6	128,615	8,244
bloggeries.com	50,899	340,007	3	368,011	33,514
bloggerschoiceawards.com	46,796	212,325	5	368,015	27,663
bloghub.com	106,217	n/a	7	128,616	39,570
bloglisting.net	149,532	n/a	5	368,045	55,357
blogs-collection.com	394,358	n/a	3	368,074	65,926
bloguniverse.com	153,146	n/a	4	368,108	112,398
chordata.info	140,451	330,583	4	123,165	100,055
feedage.com	14,425	11,952	5	50,414	10,128
feedcat.net	95,704	1,515,726	5	399,022	31,632
feedfury.com	46,594	32,111	3	39,748	15,029
feedplex.com	376,050	n/a	5	124,983	97,853
globeofblogs.com	102,121	345,006	7	154,040	44,807
gobignetwork.com	17,064	18,907	7	31,820	30,129
goldenfeed.com	183,059	n/a	3	234,798	81,730
icerocket.com	10,531	12,632	6	40,271	13,978
info-listings.com	141,701	n/a	6	107,702	30,450
lsblogs.com	250,514	n/a	4	101,509	64,962
millionrss.com	64,503	329,191	5	97,571	21,264
plazoo.com	124,674	n/a	6	279,025	28,945
readablog.com	69,470	40,768	4	466,892	49,329
sportsblogs.org	271,770	n/a	4	481,463	216,058
technorati.com	469	837	4	1,754	647
topblogarea.com	7,833	6043	3	13,735	6,680
bloghints.com	177,600	n/a	5	n/a	35,665
bloggapedia.com	68,154	301,830	6	n/a	37,673
blogville.us	250,200	n/a	4	n/a	55,943
bestblogs.org	608,932	n/a	4	n/a	256,919
spillbean.com	462,523	n/a	2	n/a	160,810
bloggernity.com	156,402	n/a	6	n/a	40,939
blogrankings.com	88,880	n/a	4	n/a	28,447
quickblogdirectory.com	827,092	n/a	4	n/a	331,866
weblogalot.com	102,245	603,433	6	n/a	67,125

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