This morning I spent a bit of time working on increasing the traffic to my blog. I came across a great resource in the form of a list of links to blog directories and news aggregators that you can submit your blog articles to so that you are able to reach wider audiences. Boosting your blog traffic is very important, especially if you are trying to make money from advertising and affiliate programs.
I really have to say that the best thing I did today that had almost instantaneous results was submitting my blog to StumbleUpon. I kid you not, my daily average of about 8 to 10 unique visitors per day skyrocketed to 118 in a matter of a few hours.
Don’t believe me? Check out this screenshot of my analytics page from this afternoon!
Anyway, onto my compiled list.Before I continue I must give full credit to PowerHomeBiz.com from which this list comes from. However the list was a little outdated so I have taken the liberty of checking the links and removing the ones that are no longer in existence or no longer relevant.
As an overview the list contains links to the following services:
- Blog Readers
- Ping Services
- Social Bookmarking Sites
- Blog Directories
- Paid Blog Directories
- News Aggregators
- Other Directories
1. Blog Readers
- Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reader
- Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com/register (Requires Free Registration)
2. Ping Services
- Google Blog Search: http://blogsearch.google.com/ping
- Ping-o-Matic: http://pingomatic.com (I like this one a lot)
- FeedBurner Ping: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/ping
- Weblogs: http://weblogs.com
- Blo.gs: http://blo.gs/ping.php
- Pingoat: http://www.pingoat.com
- Ping.in: http://ping.in
3. Social Bookmarking Sites
- BlinkList: http://www.blinklist.com
- Blogmarks: http://blogmarks.net
- BMAccess: http://www.bmaccess.net
- BuddyMarks: http://www.buddymarks.com
- Connotea: http://www.connotea.org (Bookmarking for clinicians and scientists)
- Delicious: http://delicious.com
- Diigo: http://www.diigo.com
- Gnolia: http://gnolia.com
- MyLinkVault: http://www.mylinkvault.com
- OnlyWire: http://www.onlywire.com (Looks fancy)
- Simpy: http://www.simpy.com
- StumbleUpon: http://www.stumbleupon.com (Awesome results)
- Taggle: http://www.mister-wong.de (German)
- ToRead: http://toread.cc (E-mail based)
4. Blog Directories
- Bloghub – http://bloghub.com (Free registration and link-back required)
- Blogcatalog – http://www.blogcatalog.com/signup (Free registration required)
- Boingboing – http://boingboing.net/suggest.html
- WeBlogAlot – http://www.weblogalot.com
- Globe of Blogs – http://www.globeofblogs.com/register.php
- Blog Universe – http://bloguniverse.com
- The Truth Laid Bare – http://truthlaidbear.com/amember/signup.php
- Blogarama – http://www.blogarama.com
- RDF Ticker – http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php
- BlogDigger – http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp
- Blogz – http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/add.php
- GetBlogs – http://www.getblogs.com/directory (Requires link-back)
- BlogExplosion – http://www.blogexplosion.com/signup.php
5. News Aggregators
- Syndic8 – http://www.syndic8.com
- Topix – http://www.topix.net
- NewsIsFree – http://www.newsisfree.com
- NewsKnowledge – http://www.newsknowledge.com
- BotABlog – http://www.botablog.com
- Newsgator – https://www.newsgator.com
- Awasu – http://www.awasu.com
- Seeita – http://www.seeita.com/RSSA/Requirements.shtml
- Fuzzy Duck RSS Reader – http://www.fuzzyd.co.uk/rssreader
- NewsFire – http://www.newsfirerss.com/ – (Mac OSX)
- Newsplorer – http://www.newsplorer.com
- RSS Bandit – http://www.rssbandit.org/
- RSS Owl – http://www.rssowl.org/
- Snarfer – http://www.download.com/Snarfer/3000-9227_4-10479363.html
- Yoono – http://www.yoono.com/ (Recommended 🙂 )
- FeedBlitz – https://www.feedblitz.com/f/f.fbz?UserRegister
- Crayon – http://www.crayon.net/using/suggest.html
- Headline Spot – http://www.headlinespot.com/site/suggest.htm
6. Other Directories
- Dmoz: Open Public Director – http://www.dmoz.org/add.html
- IPL: Internet Public Library – http://www.ipl.org/div/contact/
That’s the end of the list!
There should be plenty there to keep you busy for a while. I haven’t even checked out half of the items on the list myself. I hope these are of assistance. As always if you have a comment or a suggestion leave me a comment below.
Until next time, happy blogging and thanks for reading!
I assume this is a WP website, correct? What plug-ins do you like?
Thanks for the comment, this is a WordPress website, yes. Currently I am running the following plug-ins:
Adsense Optimizer
Fast Secure Contact Form
FD Feedburner Plugin
Google Analyticator
Lightbox 2
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This is a great resource. I’ve had some success with StumbleUpon before, but noting like the numbers you got. How many followers do you have in StumbleUpon?
I think the StumbleUpon spike came from an article I wrote about Starcraft 2, which at the time had just been released and was hugely popular. It is rare to get spikes like that on SU consistently though. I think I have about two followers on StumbleUpon lol.
Do you have many followers?
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