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Saturday, March 18, 2006
Best Blog Directory And RSS Submission Sites
*As more and more people get involved with the Internet and as more Web sites, blogs, news services and other online resources continue to grow in number and variety it becomes increasingly important to maintain high visibility and exposure for the content being generated by closely following the major distribution media.
Until now the web was populated by Web sites and other HTML-based content pages, and the main vehicle for reaching content has been the large use of major search engines and directories.
As a rapidly increasing number of content sources, new and old, migrate or add RSS as a key distribution channel, and as more people utilize RSS newsreaders and aggregators to keep themselves informed, the ability to maintain high exposure and visibility is gradually shifted from a complete attention to major search engines and content optimization techniques to an increasing awareness of RSS feed directories and search tools.
If until now the world of content optimization online went under the umbrella of SEO (search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing) from now it exist, at least in principle the opportunity to grow another complementary field tentatively called RSSEM (RSS search engine marketing).
One of the key benefits of this reference list is that it provides all of the submission links directly, so that you don't have to waste any time at all to find these at each destination site. This by itself is a significant effort, especially as a number of sites make it consciously hard to find this info, in order to discourage spam and superficial or automated submissions. In some cases I have been able to dig out valuable emails and contact forms after a lot of searching.
I have not included regional or geographically limited directories or search engines, and have dropped any service that did not look reliable or trustable.
By adding up a good set of new and important resources I have been able to more than double up on Ari's initial list of submission sites while extending the coverage to important global news syndicators. The list is also unique as it offers only english-based global directories and no specialized or niche resources.
Other lists available online and which I have credited are either too superficial and not up-to-date (including many sites that either do not work or are not reliable) or listing many search services and tools which do not rely on manual submission to become aware of new blogs/sites/RSS feeds.
I think that this is a VERY powerful list to use to increase your RSS feed/blog exposure and visibility online. If you organize yourself well, with an Excel spreadsheet and the time to track your process through it, you can do the whole effort in less than a day and you can start to see the results the day after.
Where to submit your RSS feeds and Weblogs
1) Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com/
Yahoo! has a search engine, directory and news resource in which you can add your blog, feed and Web site. Few can argue against Yahoo! Search being one of the top major search engines and directories available online, so you want to make sure your stuff is listed on Yahoo! wherever possible. Yahoo! lists plenty of blogs within the appropriate categories for the blogs and you can add yours to the list (see below).
Yahoo is a massive and it gets confusing. Its help page explains the Directory and how it differs from the other parts of the site. Search Help is also a good resource for understanding the Yahoo! Network.
Yahoo! Directory organizes Web sites and pages into categories and subcategories. Sometimes visitors don't know what they want and prefer to look through the directory instead of entering keywords. Or they want to find keywords within a specific category.
Yahoo! News is also a major source for news information online. It's possible to directly submit your news-based Web site, blog or RSS news feed to Yahoo News through an official submission form. Yahoo News requires submission of your name, email, URL, the selection of the item "Suggest news site for news search index" in the drop down menu labeled "What are you writing about" and any extra comments you may have.
Your site is immediately submitted to the Yahoo News editorial review team and checked for approval. If your site produces original news content on a daily basis you may want to seriously consider submitting your site to this resource as it may provide for major increase in reach and exposure once your content is regularly spidered by the Yahoo News content crawler.
To submit your site: When you go to the submission page, it'll have you do a search of your site's URL to ensure it's not already listed. Once done, you'll have to login with your Yahoo! ID. The best thing to do is search for the category in the directory where your entry belongs and then click Suggest a Site. FAQ on how to suggest a site.
Directory submission page: http://add.yahoo.com/fast/add?17051064
Feed submission page: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request
News submission page: http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/news/cgi_feedback/
Posted on February 05, 2004
2) Open Directory
http://dmoz.org/
Directory of major weblogshttp://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/ Directory of directories about weblogshttp://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/Directories/
How to add a site to the Open Directoryhttp://dmoz.org/add.html
Posted on February 05, 2004
3) Moreover
http://w.moreover.com/
Moreover is one of the most extensive and popular news syndicators around. His presence online across sites of all kinds is remarkable and being able to get added to his newsbase is a very worthwhile effort.
Three great in-points are listed here below. This info is worth gold!http://w.moreover.com/main_site/aboutus/sourcesubmission.html http://w.moreover.com/main_site/aboutus/contact-us.html
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posted by DJViBE TV @ 8:42 PM
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