Submit your Blog Url or RSS Feed to as many blog directories as possible and gain maximum exposure. It is a very efficient way of advertising and gaining free targeted traffic for your blog. It is also very useful for getting quality inbound links if your blog provides valuable content and resources to others. By your blog to blog directories, blog readers are able to locate your blog easily and I believe that is your main goal for setting up your blog. That is to reach out to many concerned readers as possible.

If there is a blog directory that I have missed out or if you wish to list your blog directory, just leave a comment with the necessary details here and I will update it as soon as I see it. Thanks!

List Of Blog Directories

1. 2Rss
2. 5starblogs
3. Addurlblog
4. Addyourblog
5. Allblogs
6. Answers
7. Bestblogs
8. Biggerblogger
9. Blloggs
10. Blog Catalog
11. Blog Search
12. Blogadr
13. Blogannounce
14. Blogarama
15. Blogbib
16. Blogbunch
17. BlogCatalog
18. Blogcode
19. Blog-collector
20. Blogdigger
21. Blogdir
22. Blogdirectory
23. Blogdirectory : Blogtory
24. Blogdirs
25. Blogdup
26. Blogdust
27. Blogexplosion
28. Blogflux
29. Bloggapedia
30. Blogged
31. Bloggeries
32. Bloggernity
33. Bloggernow
34. Bloghints
35. Bloghop
36. Bloghub
37. Blogintro
38. Bloglines
39. Bloglisting
40. Blogpoint
41. Blogpulse
42. Blogrankings
43. Blogroll
44. Blogs BOTW
45. Blogs For Small Business
46. Blogscanada
47. Blogscholar
48. Blogscollection
49. Blog-search
50. Blogsrating
51. Blogstreet
52. Blogsweet
53. Blogtagstic
54. Blogtoplist
55. Bloguniverse
56. Blogwatch
57. Bloogz
58. BOTW Blog Directory
59. Britblog
60. Browseblogs
61. Bulletize fee
62. Chinabloglist
63. Chordata
64. ContentsMatter
65. Crayon
66. Delightfulblogs
67. Diarist
68. DreamTeamMoney Directory
69. Eatonweb
70. Emarketingblogs
71. Etalkinghead
72. Feedage
73. Feedboy
74. Feednuts
75. FeedsFarm
76. Feed Directory – 88tem.com
77. Findingblog
78. Findory
79. FyberSearch
80. Geekyspeaky
81. Getblogs
82. Globeofblogs
83. Gobignetwork
84. Highclassblogs
85. Iblogbusiness
86. Industryblogs
87. Jenett
88. Kmax
89. LSBlogs
90. Misohoni
91. MyBlogLog
92. NewsGator
93. Photoblogdirectory
94. Plazoo
95. Portal.eatonweb fee
96. Postami fee
97. Pressradar
98. Quickblogdirectory
99. Rateitall
100. Readablog
101. Redtram
102. Sarthak
103. Scienceport
104. Search4blogs
105. Small Business Blog
106. SmallBusiness.com
107. Sportsblog
108. Strategic Board
109. Syndic8
110. Tailrank
111. Technorati
112. Thevital
113. Tomstopsites
114. Top 100 Bloggers
115. Topblogsites
116. Topix
117. TruthLaidBear
118. Weblogalot
119. Wilsdomain reciprocal
120. Wingee
121. Yahoo Blog Directory

P.S: There may be some directories that are defunct, so if you ever come across any of them, kindly let me know so I can update this list too!

Did you ever find yourself in the situation where you just had to press that “Buy now” button but hesitated, because you didn’t want to spend $47, $97 or even more just to find out that you chose the wrong product again? Let me tell you that I have been in that situation many times and that I finally found a 5 step guide to overcome it.

Step 1: Find your product

Let’s say you search a book for “dog training”. The first step would therefore be to go to the Clickbank Marketplace (http://marketplace.clickbank.net) and to take advantage of the recently introduced search feature. The results you get are ordered by popularity by default, which means that the first match will also be the top-selling product on Clickbank. Just browse around a few websites to get an impression which product could be your favorite.

Step 2: Product reviews

What do you do first when you want to buy a new car? You sure don’t go to the dealer and hand over your hard earned money right away. What you usually do is find a possible model and then look out for some tests or reviews in magazines or on the internet. And that’s exactly what you should do next.

Assuming that the product you have an eye on is the ebook “Sit, stay, fetch”, you would then go to your favorite search engine and type in the product title in quotes plus the magic word “review”. The results you’ll get may not all be appropriate, but you will eventually find some reviews on “Sit, stay, fetch”.

Hint: It is always recommended to read more than one review on a product as some people will promise you heaven on earth just to make a sale.

Step 3: Customer testimonials

It is quite common for most of the Clickbank products that customers send testimonials to the creator whether they liked the product or not (but would a good businessman really publish bad testimonials on the product website?!). Assuming that the product creator is an honest person those testimonials will be real and you can get quite a good impression how the customers are satisfied with the product they bought.

Hint: Most published testimonials also include the author’s email address or website. If you are skeptical about a certain testimonial then drop the writer an email and see if you are able to get a response.

Step 4: Bonus material

Of course you will primarily be interested in the product you buy, but it is always nice to have some bonuses that come with it. A list of bonuses, if any are offered, can most of the time be found at the bottom of the sales page. Just navigate to the website of the product and have a look at which additional goodies you will get when you buy.

Step 5: Refund policy

In October 2005 Clickbank announced an official refund guarantee for any product which enables you to get a full refund within 8 weeks after the purchase was made. After that 8 weeks the purchase is final and you cannot get your money back. To guarantee customer satisfaction, a lot of merchants offer a refund policy past that 8 weeks limit, some up to a full year. Others are even willing to give you a refund of 200% because they believe so much in their product.

Step 6: Other alternatives

While there are many really outstanding and excellent products available at Clickbank, there are also some that just cannot beat a hardcopy of a book, a retail software, etc. To be honest, why would you want to pay almost a hundred bucks for some ebook that is only 40 pages long and doesn’t contain half as much information as a product available at Amazon or retail stores that costs like 30 bucks?

Hint: The internet is the biggest information source available today and if you just spend some time searching you might find out that a valuable information you need could also be available for free on a website or message board.

Everybody knows that Page Rank is important. It indicates the content volume of a site, and it also proves the site’s popularity, or how many external links it has pointing to it. We all strive for the highest Page Rank we can muster for good reason. Having a high ranking means traffic, and traffic means more sales potential. Which is why we write and submit articles. Placing articles on your site increases its relative content volume, and submitting the articles with a bio box creates external links pointing to your site.

It’s all about exposure! The more we have the more profit we make.

Simple!

But then the plot thickens . . .

Site Popularity doesn’t come from having your links just anywhere. You see, there’s a method to the madness that brings it all full circle. To achieve a higher Page Rank through external links, you need to put your articles on sites that have an equal or higher Page Rank than yours does.

But does this apply to Article Directories?

If you’re one who submits articles manually and are under time constraints, the quick answer would be yes, it does apply. You have only so much time to get your articles into sites that will bring you the quickest exposure you can get. However, when we look at Page Rank for Article Directories in these times of rapid fire article submission software, services and scripts it becomes hard to judge the validity of the every day statisics. Some Article Directories of late have appeared out of nowhere one week, and the next have well over 1,000 articles already submitted to them. After a month’s time, some have even reached the 5 to 10 thousand article mark.

Now considering that Google adjusts a site’s Page Rank every three months, an Article Directory could show a big fat “0″ Page Rank one day, and after Google makes their adjustments, could climb to a PR4 or PR5 the next. So, thinking logically, the only time an Article Directory’s Page Rank should concern you is the day after Google makes its adjustments. And even then, that would still only matter if you’re in a time rush to get quality links to your site and manually submit to 5 to 10 of the best known sites to do it.

So the answer is twofold . . .

For those who submit their articles manually, yes, current page Rank for Article Directories should concern you. But for the rest of us, what should matter most is that, when you submit to every possible site you can, you’re helping to establish more Article Directories with a higher Page Rank than ever before! This can only bode well for everybody.

What is natural linking? That is an easy question to answer. Natural linking occurs when someone places a link to your blog from another site or blog. The reason that someone might link to your blog is not really important, the fact that they placed the link is the only thing that matters.

Some of the reasons that someone might place a link to your blog or to a page within your blog are:

1) Your blog offers some information that supports a fact or reinforces a position contained within another site.

2) Your blog offers some tools or resources that would be helpful to others.

3) Your blog contradicts a common misconception that others want use to validate their own views on that topic.

4) Your blog represents a controversial viewpoint that others might want to showcase for their own purposes.

5) Your blog is just so very cool that others need to be made aware of it and seeing as my website links to your site, my site must be cool too!

Regardless of the reasons why someone might be linking to your blog, these natural links are very important. Even if someone is linking to your blog because they think it is a sad joke and they want others to see how bad your blog is, it really doesn’t matter.

Knowing that these types of links are important the next question is, “How do you get people to link to your blog?” There are several ways you can get people to link to your blog with the easiest being, make a useful blog. Easier said then done you are thinking eh?

When you think about it, creating a useful blog isn’t that difficult, it just requires time. Time to find helpful tools to share with others, time to find sound advice regarding your blog’s topic of interest and time to make your blog ooze the “It” factor. The amount of time it will take is solely dependent upon how much effort you want to put in to it.

OK, so you finished your blog, now what? How do you let people know that your blog is ready to amaze others? There are several ways to let people know about your blog. If you have a budget set aside you could set up a PPC campaign that may bring in some traffic. You could join groups or forums that share your interest or even better, that are totally opposite to your blog’s message or theme. Perhaps one of the best ways is to write articles that others can use on their sites that are seeded with a few well placed links pointing back to your blog.

One of the next big trends that is about to take off is, the “Bartered Link”. Bartered links are where you offer space on your blog to host an article written by other webmasters, which contain text links to their sites in exchange for a one way link back to your blog. Are bartered links considered to be natural links? If they aren’t then they sure do a fine job of mimicking them.

Regardless of the motivation behind someone linking to your blog, even if it is because they think your blog is bad or your opinion is wrong, just remember this… the fact that they did is all that truly matters as the link is the thing.

Blog Marketing is something that many take seriously. However, if you are into blog marketing and make your living off of your blogs, you are quickly going to realize how important staying on top of the blogging news is. Blogs are also known as web logs, and are used for many things. They are used for journaling, promoting things, and just getting your point across at times. Using a blog to get any of these things done is a great thing. That is because so many people love to read blogs, and they like to hear what others have to say. If you are a blog owner, then chances are you read blogs yourself and often appreciate other’s views on things. Whether it is something that you are looking to purchase, a hobby, or news. Blogs are loved by many.

Blog marketing is only as hard as you make it. You market a blog a lot like you do a website. You are going to find that blog marketing is somewhat less expensive than owning a website though. For example, when you buy a domain, you do not buy it for life, you only buy it for so many years. That can be just one year, or more. Which is a personal preference. So, starting a blog does not have that cost up front that you are looking at for a website, nor does it cost anything monthly to host as a website would. With all of the free blog options that are available to you, there is no need to pay for one.

When you are blog marketing, it is a great idea to stay on top of the news for blogging as well. This will ensure that you are aware of the new things and tools that become available to bloggers. Whether they are promotion tools, or tracking tools, any of them will allow you to keep track of your blog and market it better than ever. Whenever a new tool or technique comes out, you can bet that it will be talked about in the blogging news. Which is great because that makes you as well as other bloggers aware of what is going on.

Not only does blog marketing news make you aware of new things, but it also keeps you up to date on old things that you all ready use. For example, if pinging your blog no longer was good for a blog, you would definitely find out about it in the blog marketing news. So, it can be used for new techniques and tools as well as old ones.

Blog marketing news can be found anywhere that you would go to find website marketing news. You will see that it is also blogged about so if there is anything particular in the news that you are looking for to read about blogging, you will not have to go far. But by reading other blogs about the new news, you are able to get others views on the tools and techniques as well.

As you can see, it is very important to keep up to date on blog marketing and the new things that come out for it. You never know when the latest thing is going to hit the blogging world again, so keeping your eyes peeled is great idea.

There are tons of resources available that will teach you how to make money on the internet. Heck, I’ve written tutorials like that myself. But, perhaps it’s easier to demonstrate what to do, with a lesson on what not to do. This article will teach you how to drive visitors away from your website screaming “Get me outta here!” If you prefer being alone with your website and don’t want all those pesky visitors bothering you, then follow the guidelines below and you’ll get rid of them quick as a blink.

1. Don’t state on your website what you do or what you sell. Make it a complete mystery why you decided to build your website in the first place. It’s like a secret club — your visitors are left in the dark. Have you been to sites like this where you show up and think “What the heck is this site about?” If you’re not presenting a clear statement about why your visitors should spend their money (or at least come back again), then you’re on your way to hermit-land.

2. Overwhelm visitors with lots of information. Almost as bad as the “What the heck is this site about?” problem is the “Oh my Goodness! Oh my Gracious!” sites. As a visitor, you know the sites I’m talking about. The page opens and your jaw drops. There is a sea of banners, with links everywhere and articles galore. Where do you go? What do you do? I’ll tell you what I do. Click the little “x’ in the upper right-hand corner to get the heck outta there!

3. Make the ordering process really complicated. There’s nothing I love more than putting items into my shopping cart and then spending 20 minutes trying to figure out how to set up an account and pay. Guess what? I sure don’t click the ‘contact us’ button. I click the “x” instead. You’ve succeeded in getting rid of yet another pesky customer who wanted to spend money.

4. Fill your site with outdated information and broken links. Phew. You dodged a visitor with that one. They clicked on a link that was broken — and off they went.

5. Make sure there’s no way for an interested customer or business partner to contact you. Heaven forbid, you might get some spam if you have your contact information on your site.

Thank Goodness you don’t have those gosh-darned customers emailing you while you’re trying to read up on Brad Pitt’s love life.

Obviously, I’m being silly, but you do know that these examples are true. You’ve seen sites that seem like they are trying to drive you away. If you are spending time and energy putting up a website to make money, then, make some money. You CAN do it!