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Finding Blog Directories and RSS Submission Sites
Are you wondering where to submit your RSS feed or weblog URL for more exposure and search engine visibility? Then you must get Robin Good's Maximum ExpoRSSure - Best Blog Directory and RSS Submission Sites. http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/.
This is from his page of directory listings, each generously detailed with instructions and background information: http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/ Robin has listed more than 100 directories to submit your blog and weblogs to. Here are some comments from him on how he does this:
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I have personally tested each one of these services to make sure that they are alive and functioning.
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 list 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.
The directories to which to submit your RSS feed are listed in my very subjective order of importance. Higher up are those directories that, in my experience, will give you much higher exposure, visibility, credibility and traffic than any of those listed toward the end. After a point (say from ranking n°20 onward), the order is not too relevant anymore as I did not yet have any specific criteria to properly rank these many different resources. Proceed accordingly.
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Tom here: One point I want to make is - be sure to also use traditional SEO techniques for promoting your blog and blog articles. For example, LINK to your blog from other websites you own and visa versa. Be sure to use keyword phrases that bring you good traffic in your blog articles when it makes sense.
Ok back to Robin ...
So set aside some time to visit Robin Good's site http://www.masternewmedia.org because it's full of insightful ideas on publishing on the Internet. He's committed to keeping track of what's happening in the area of independent news publishing and web-based collaboration tools and spreading his knowlege globally. I was so impressed with his work I called him up in Rome, Italy, and completed an hour-long audio interview with him. I hope to have that edited and up for listening in a week or so. You'll want to check back for this interview. He explains exactly how you can earn money (or increase your websiite visibility) by utilizing RSS feeds and various other technologies that make it easy to be an independent news source on the Internet.
Now go check out Robin Good's list of Blog and Weblog directory submission sites.
Tom
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