Blog directory listings you can submit to and the importance of friendship building

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It’s all very well that you have this great looking blog that your so proud of, but if no body comes to visit then whats the point of having a blog. It’s like making the effort of keeping your house clean everyday in case friends happen to drop by then only to find that no one hardly ever shows up.

Every little bit of effort that you apply to your blog rewards you ten fold and trust me when I say that there are a few tricks that you can apply to make your blog rank high in the search engines and have a constant flow of traffic on a daily bases that keeps on growing day by day.

Making your blog popular and visible requires a few tricks and within this blog I will explain tricks that I use which always work, but for this post I am going to explain the first thing that I do to help get the word out there about my blog.

Blog directories in my opinion are a crucial and most important way of getting recognition for your you and your blog.
There are many blog directories you can join totally free which give your blog firm grounding for long term free advertising.

Blog directories allow you to submit you blogs URL and a short description of your blog. It also gives other people a chance to find your blog when going through the different blogs categorized amongst many others.
What makes blog directories even more important is the fact that it allows you to have a link of your blogs URL permanently out there for people to find. Also it allows other bloggers to find your blog and that’s where friendships start to form. My favourite blog directory is Blogcatalogue because not only does it give you a place to add your URL to but has great community of bloggers who you can interact with.
One of the many great features about Blogcatalog is that you can create a friends list. This means that anyone who asks to be your friend or anyone you want to be friends can do so. You will then receive an email to tell you someone has added you as a friend and then you can decide if you want to return the same courtesy and add them. Or you can just ask someone to visit your site in return for visiting theirs. This gives you leverage when it comes to getting your name out there because you will show up in your friends list & them in yours. People will go in search to find good quality friends depending on the type of blog they have. You can also check who has looked at your profile and then if you want to you can add them also as friends. By adding friends you will created for yourself a very powerful network of people that just keeps growing on auto pilot which them gives your blog more exposure.

My favorite feature about Blogcatalog is that you can also broadcast a topic for discussion, in other words you can ask a question or give an opinion and then the message is shout casted to thousands of other members who can respond if they wish. This gives you the opportunity to fine tune what people are interested in and therefore allows you to create topics of interests for your blog topics.

From my personal experience, I discovered that there are quite a few good blog directories you can join and many not so good. The important thing is though that you are distributing your blogs URL out there on the web, and the more you do this, the more your blog will not only be easier to find but also will rank better in the search engines because it makes your blog seem more important if you are links all over the place.

Here is a list of some of my recommended blog directories that you can submit to. One requirement when joining a blog directory is that you also put a link back to the directory on to your blog which then once verified gives you instant listing.

1. Blog Catalog
2. Blog Top List
3. Bloarama
4. Blog Hints
5. Bloggapedia
6. Blogrankings
7. Blogflux
8. Topblogs
9. Bloggernity
10. Ontoplist
11. Blog Rate Directory
12. Super Blog Directory
13. 9rules
14. BlogHop
15. Bloghub
16. GetBlogs
17. NYC Bloggers
18. Socialspark
19. TheBestLinks
20. BiggerBlogger
21. Blogged
22. OnToplist
23. Bloggeries