You may or may not have noticed the new banner in the sidebar for Bloggeries Blog Directory. Besides this directory of course, Bloggeries is the best blog directory on the web and to celebrate our new partnership I am offering free featured listings on Superblog directory for those that submit and get accepted to Bloggeries. Just submit your blog to Bloggeries and once accepted submit your blog here as a featured submission and skip the payment process and then drop me a line with the URL of your Bloggeries listing.

And to those that are already listed here, I haven’t forgotten about you either. Just submit your blog to Bloggeries and once accepted, drop me a line with the URL of your listing here and on Bloggeries and your listing will be upgraded once your Bloggeries listing has been confirmed.

Now for the fine print. You must use one of the links in this post or from one of the Bloggeries banners on this site as they contain the tracking ID which will allow me to get credit for the referral. Other than that, there is nothing else for you to do other than get exposure for your blog from 2 of the best blog directories on the web and save $7 bucks in the process. And while your over at Bloggeries, check out their forum, it is loaded with valuable information to help you get the most out of your blogging experience.

Bookmark to:

Hide Sites

Lately I have become more and more diligent in enforcing certain submission requirements to the dismay of some that have been submitting. Despite what some might think, I am not having a bad day nor am I picking on anyone. With the recent crackdown by Google on directories, owners have had to become something more than just a place that provides webmasters with links or they face becoming irrelevant due to the dreaded Google penalty.

So what exactly does that mean? For one directories need to provide something useful for real users, and by that I mean those other than webmasters or bloggers. Before the latest Google “wild hair”, most directories rarely if ever provided a resource for the general browsing public. Webmasters submitted their sites and if they get some link juice from the directory they were happy, any visits received from a directory was a bonus that was normally not expected and rarely happened. The better directories have come to this realization and are now trying to be more than just a link farm.

What does that mean to those submitting here? As has been noticed by some, I am moving towards the DMOZ model of submission reviews. If you stuff your site title or description with keywords, you can guarantee it will be rejected immediately. Site descriptions must actually describe what your site is about, if by reading your description I am unable to determine what your blog discusses, It will be rejected.

Even given a good description and title, ensure you have some posting history. Nothing is more annoying to those looking for types of blogs than finding out about it here and clicking through to a dead link or going to a blog that hasn’t been updated since the Reagan administration. I have received a lot of complaints about that requirement but proving to me that you are serious about your blog by showing some history of updating it means that it will be less likely to turn into a dead link later on. That is also shown by those newer bloggers willing to submit as a featured listing which is why that requirement is waved for premium submitters. Lastly pick the most relevant category. Site users go to a category to find blogs that are relevant to what they are looking for, not for sites submitted to a category because it has page rank or is closer to the home page. Depending on my mood, sites submitted to the wrong category can also be rejected.

Finally I thought I would close with a comment on the benefit of upgrading to a featured listing. Besides the obvious of putting your site above all regular listings and the extra exposure generated by appearing randomly on our home page you also can submit your RSS feed. This feature gives your listing links to 5 more pages on your site along with the text from the article being linked to. As this site has matured, A much larger portion of the visitors are coming directly to the detail pages from search engines because of those post links. They then click through to your blog which if you think about it is what directories were supposed to do in the first place, get visitors to come to your site.

If all you are looking for is a link, feel free to submit your keyword spammed submission to the various directories. I am sure some if not many will accept them. If you want more, spend some time on your submission and write a description and title that would benefit someone looking to find what you offer. Those submissions are welcomed here.

Bookmark to:

Hide Sites

Anyone that runs a directory is familiar with spam sites. The minute you go live and start accepting submissions the spam immediately begins. Run a free directory and the spam submissions increase tenfold.

In the many months this site has been running, I have had to weed through an untold number of just horrible sites and being a blog niche directory I would say 90% of the sites that are submitted aren’t even blogs. With all that said, a submission I received today has to be the worst example of a web site I have ever seen and definitely belongs as the inaugural member of the Superblog Directory “Hall of Shame”.

The site supposes to be a resource for those with bad credit to enable them to get loans but if you look at the screenshot of the submission I have posted of the site (www dot loans-with-ccjs dot com) you will see that other than the 2 links, it is nothing but a MFA site, and a bad one at that.

Despite what the spammers might think, even though I was born during the day, it wasn’t yesterday. Please feel free to continue to spam the site with junk submissions if you wish to waste your time, just be aware it takes me approximately 2 seconds to hit the delete button and that is exactly what will happen. Thought in this case I must thank the spammer that submitted this site as I really enjoyed a good laugh.

Bookmark to:

Hide Sites

In my continuing effort to add value for our visitors I would like to welcome you to the new Superblog directory blog. Here I will be adding blogging news, information, tips and tricks related to blogging and the blogosphere. I hope to get up and running here after the New Year and in the meantime I plan on tweaking the template and adding a few useful plugins.

I will also be posting about some interesting templates and plugins we come across that you might be interested in. And finally I will eventually be offering blog reviews to those that would like me to write about your site. Details on that will be forthcoming in the not so distant future.

Bookmark to:

Hide Sites