199) BlogAnnounce
BlogAnnounce is a human edited blog directory that lists family friendly and spam free blogs organized by category. The people behind the directory have rules and procedures in place to prevent spam blogs from being listed.
Explore new blogs by checking out the Latest Links and Top Hits pages, both of which provide a brief description for each blog to facilitate quick scanning. The directory also includes a search box and entries can be sorted by hits or in alphabetical order.
Get tips on how to get blog traffic with blog directories in SEO Tips or try SEO Tools so you can identify your web site's keyword density, find out what sites link back to yours and learn your site's ranking with several search engines. BlogAnnounce also has a Google Groups page to answer questions and get feedback.
To submit your feed to BlogAnnounce, enter your blog title, URL, description, your name, email address and category. After the submission gets processed, you should receive a confirmation on the top of the page. Leave the "Reciprocal Link URL" blank if you haven't place a button or text link pointing to BlogAnnounce. However, the confirmation note says the site requires reciprocal links due to the large amount of spam the directory receives.
198) moQvo
moQvo is a social media center that allows you to add web sites and feeds that aren't already in the directory. Find content on the site by browsing the Channels in the Content Categories bar on the left side. After choosing a Channel, there’s more choices under the Shows tab. Once you see a Show that matches your interests, click on it to view a list of Episodes with descriptions of the content. Then select View or Listen, to experience the content you want.
You can also search for content by name by clicking the Search tab at the top of the screen. Type in what you’re looking for, click search, and browse the content that matches your request. It takes time for the search to run, but you know it's running when you see "Searching" at the bottom of the box. View takes you to the content and Share with friends.
moQvo provides frequently asked questions for more information and help. Be patient with the site as it takes time to load content. The site doesn't work well in Firefox and works better in Internet Explorer.
To submit your feed to moQvo, register and click on MyMoQvo tab. Select the blue MyMoQvo Directory tab to open the window that lets you add your favorite Web links.
Update: The site does not work anymore.
196) GoldenFeed
The Golden RSS Feed puts a spin on RSS feed to give users a chance to create traffic. Advertisers bid on spots within the feed and compete for a higher rank. The frequently asked questions page explains this process in detail. There's no charge for submitting a blog feed, however.
The Golden RSS Feed shows only the top paying sites. But you can find sites of interest using the site's search box or viewing all feeds. The site also has a list of the most popular blogs. Each entry has its own detail page that contains its release date, link, last view and refresh, page reviews, user comments and the ability to save the feed to your favorite tool or application.
To submit your feed to GoldenFeed, just enter your blog's URL or feed and it's immediately submitted for review. You can only submit up to three feeds per day.
195) Feed Mailer
Feed Mailer is an RSS subscription directory that sends feed updates to readers by email. Select the feeds you want and Feed Mailer emails updates on those selected feeds. Updates can go out every hour, daily or weekly. You can also select the number of items (blog entries) you want to receive. Its Global Directory holds over 1000 feeds.
You can browse the directory by category including podcasts and non-English feeds. The directory lists blogs with the option to add them to your account. There are no details available for each entry. Find feeds with the Global Directory's search box. To add new feeds requires free registration and adding them to your account. Once you've added the feed, you can delete the feed and it remains in the directory.
More information is available from the frequently asked questions page and the news page keeps you updated on the web site's changes and problems.
To submit your feed to Feed Mailer requires free registration. Once registered, you can add feeds by entering their URL. If you want to receive the feed by email, also select the frequency and the number of items (blog entries). The default for receiving a feed is daily with 10 items. You can change these options any time.
194) Shadows
Shadows is a community-oriented site for sharing links and giving users the ability to discover, rate and share saved pages. If you just want to search tags and browse Shadow pages, you don't need to register. However, the site requires free registration to take advantage of its features including adding your blog and favorite web sites. With registration, you can track your links, friends, comments, groups and tags.
Shadows provides a toolbar for tagging web pages as you visit them. The toolbar also allows you to search tags, rate pages and link directly to the Shadow Page of any web page you're visiting. It also has buttons to take you to your own User Profile page and to the Shadows homepage.
For more help, check out the the frequently asked questions, tagging tips and support group. You can also import bookmarks and del.icio.us links, so you don't start from scratch.
To submit your feed to Shadows requires free registration. Once done, add a blog like you would add any web site when you come across one. Click Add a Link that appears on the top right of every page to get the popup box and enter the URL, blog title, tags and comments. You can also add your web site and blog to your profile.
Update: The site does not exist anymore.
193) Tailrank
Tailrank is a memetracker which finds the most popular posts from thousands of blogs. Tailrank looks at linking behavior, the entry's content, links in common with other users, search relevance and other factors.
Tailrank's blog covers product direction, feature releases and other Tailrank news. The site also has a mobile edition for those on the go with cell phone and small devices. Just create an account, import your OPML, and then you can read it on your mobile device.
Tailrank filter lets you view recommended posts within your blog subscriptions filtered by ranking. This saves time in scouring hundreds of feeds as Tailrank lists thousands of posts every week. The site also offers tools to help users.
To submit your blog to Tailrank requires free registration. Once you've registered, you can import your weblog feeds from an RSS reader like NewsGator or Bloglines or you can enter a URL. enter the blog's information into the Add a Company page. You don't have to fill in all of the fields.
The frequently asked questions page states, "You don't need to do anything other than have other people link to and discuss your content. If people aren't linking to you or talking about a specific blog post or some news story about your product or weblog then Tailrank won't index it."
192) HappyFish
http://thirstycrow.net/happyfish/
HappyFish is an RSS reader, podcast client and feed directory. HappyFish mainly provides software for you to download and add feeds. But it does have a growing directory in which you can download feeds by subject.
Read an overview of Happy Fish and check out its frequently asked questions. Here are screenshots of HappyFish's RSS reader and podcast client. Download the client -- beware it requires installing the free .NET Framework. The site explains how to do that.
The forums discuss bugs, feature requests and general comments.
To submit your feed to HappyFish, you can use the form or upload your OPML file. In the form, enter your feed title, URL, category, description and your name.
Update: The site does not exist anymore.
191) Free Feeds Directory
http://freefeedsdirectory.com/
Free Feeds Directory is a basic feeds directory with links to RSS-related sites and their feeds as well as to sites that have feeds including blogs, business and retail sites and more. Check out the latest links to see the most recently submitted links and a description of each. The links take you straight to their respective feeds.
Top Hits just like it sounds, provides a list of the most popular links of sites listed on Free Feeds Directory. A search box appears on the top right-hand side of every page for quickly entering keywords to search for feeds.
To submit your feed to Free Feeds Directory, you must submit the link to the feed instead of the web page. Enter your blog's title, link, name, email and select a category. You can add a description, if you wish -- it's not required.
190) UncleFeed
UncleFeed is a resource for RSS technology. The site provides a directory for finding feeds by category, a forum for discussing RSS, articles and a list of software tools. Its sister site, YeahReader offers free program for reading news feeds in RSS, RDF and Atom formats and podcasts.
When searching for feeds, the site produces the matches in a column layout along with the search keywords highlighted. You see the title, category, description and date updated (probably when added to the directory) for each entry. The title takes you to the entry's detailed page. The site is well-organized, clean and easy to use.
To submit your feed to UncleFeed, select the category and enter the URL. That's it. No registration.
Posted on September 4, 2006
189) nfeeds.com
nfeeds.com is a basic portal for feeds sorted by categories. nfeeds.com lists recent and popular feeds. Select a category to view the feeds sorted by hits. You can change it to sort alphabetically. Every entry comes with its feed link, a brief description and links to add the entry to Google, MSN or Yahoo. The link on the name of the site takes you to the feed, not to the site's web page or to its own entry.
nfeeds.com has no bells or whistles. The portal is just a simple directory listing along with links to feeds.
To submit your feed to nfeeds.com, review the submission guidelines to avoid wasting your time should your feed not qualify for the directory. The site only accepts XML/RSS feeds, not links to web pages.
Submit your blog's title (it must be the title not a description or keywords), feed, name, your email address and select the category. You can also add an optional description of your blog. The submission page also requires entering the code shown -- beware that it can be difficult to read the letters and may take several tries.
You'll instantly receive an email confirming that your submission went through. If your feed is approved, you will get another email.
188) Wikology
Wikology is a wiki-based business and web site directory. Think of Wikology as Wikipedia meets Chamber of Commerce. The site lists business blogs, web sites and profiles. The business profiles contain information on the business such as the date fonded, number of employees, industry (category), annual revenue and organization type. How much information provided depends on how much information is entered.
Since Wikology is a wiki, visitors can edit almost anything on the site. But you have to be a registered user before saving changes. This ensures no one abuses the editing privileges.
Wikology has a category for blogs and its own blog, Inside Wikology, provides the latest news regarding its directory.
To submit your blog to Wikology, enter the blog's information into the Add a Company page. You don't have to fill in all of the fields.
187) Ranking Blogs
RankingBlogs.com is a directory of sites by ranking. A blog's worth is based on the number of unique and average hits the blog receives since the last reset (no information on how often the blogs are reset).
Blogs are rated by category as well for overall rankings. Every listed blog receives direct links and dedicated individual pages that contain statistics, a description and other information. You only have to register with the site if you wish to submit a blog, but it's not required for rating and reviewing sites.
Discover blogs by browsing the category, using the search tool or reviewing the top ranked blogs. The search tool allows you to search in all categories or specific categories.
To submit a blog requires free registration and adding the ranking HTML to your blog. The form requires providing your email address along with the usual blog information.
186) Octora
Octora is a resource for grabbing live content feeds to add to your web site or to find blogs through its search tool. No sign up is required to use search, which provides a list of related results with links to the feeds. When you click an item, a pop-up box appears (turn off pop-up blocker to get the full benefit from the site) with the the blog's home page, the more recent blog entries and many feed subscription links. If you use Pluck, NewsBlog, Bloglines and so on, you can subscribe to the feed with a click.
Click Deep Search to find more results where the keyword may not appear in the feed title or URL. You can limit your results to keywords that appear in the feed title or feed URL. URL Search filters the results to show sites that have your keyword in the URL. The results page also lists the most popular keyword searches.
Registration is for those who want to use the My Feedbox feature. The site also has a blog providing updates.
To submit your feed to Octora just enter your blog feed. Before submitting your feed, search the site to ensure your blog isn't already listed.
185) iBlog Business
iBlog Business is a business blog directory operated by businesses or corporations. Businesses are sorted into a handful of subjects and 90 categories that fall under the subjects. The directory makes it easy to discover newly added links on its new links page and on its home page.
The search tool provides a summary of each blog that appears in the search results along with a link to the category, so you can explore more blogs within that category. You can check out the popular and top rated (empty as of this writing) blogs.
iBlog Business offers a newsletter. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.
To submit your feed to iBlog Business, review the criteria before submitting your blog. If you agree with the guidelines, then enter your your blog title, URL, category, description, contact name and email. You'll receive an email when your link has been validated.
184) gnoos
gnoos is a search engine with a focus on providing Australians with the latest online information. Though gnoos gives Aussie resources priority, the site accepts non-Aussie blogs. Plus, the search tool can search by region -- Australia, the world, or both. The home page provides a list of the top five searches and top tags long with the latest updates in Aussie blogs, Aussie media and global blogs.
In the search tool, you can search by keywords and the blog's name. Help provides more details on how to use gnoos and has a couple of screen shots showing you what each of the items in the results mean. The search results include individual posts, not just the blog.
You can leave comments about an entry, vote on the entry, and add tags to the entry to help improve gnoos' search results. Since the search results display individual entries, you can see entries from one blog by clicking on the blog's title. The search engine is simple and has a clean interface.
To submit your feed to gnoos, enter your blog's URL or feed and you're done.
183) Ask.com Blogs and Feeds
http://www.ask.com/?o=312#subject:bls|pg:1
Ask.com is a search tool that finds answers. The site has added a separate section for blogs and feeds that searches blogs by way of Bloglines. Therefore, all blogs submitted to Bloglines are included in Ask.com's blog search.
The search results page can be viewed one of three ways: by posts, by feeds or by news. Then further customize your results by selecting whether you want to sort by relevance, most recent or popularity. Roll your mouse pointer over the binoculars to preview the site without leaving the Ask.com results page. On the far right of the results page is a list of the top feeds for the entered keyword(s).
You can directly subscribe to the search feed or the entry's feed. You can also post the entry to one of the resources listed in the Post To drop-down. When you select a resource, you're taken to the resource's Web site in a new window where you login and add information regarding the entry.
You can save an item without registering and it goes to your Saved Results page. Ask.com's search technology and Bloglines' blog directory complement each other as they provide users with an easy-to-use service.
To submit a blog to Ask, register at http://bloglines.com/register and click Add in the My Feeds tab. When you add a feed, Bloglines automatically tracks the blog.
Posted on July 10, 2006
182) Sphere
Sphere is a blog search engine for finding blogs and adding yours. Customize the search results to select the timeframe of the last posting for the keyword you're searching. While you have a keyword in the search box, click Related Media to get photos, books, podcasts and news items containing your keyword.
On the results page, Sphere displays only two posts per blog to avoid having blogs with frequent postings dominate the page. Click Profile to see a new window with details about the blog including average posts per week, average words per post and average links per post. On the detailed profile page, Sphere displays the outbound and inbound links for the listed blog along with Quick Facts.
Here are tips for searching with Sphere. A bookmarklet for finding blog posts is available from Tools. TypePad users can download the Sphere Widget to display up to six search results in your TypePad blog's searchbar. The Featured Blogs page doesn't have an entry as of this writing.
To submit your blog to Sphere, just copy and paste the URL into the box. On the bottom of most pages is "Submit a Blog." Click that to enter your URL without going to the feedback page.
Posted on July 3, 2006
181) Blogmopolis
Blogmopolis is a blog directory and exchange. Use the search box to quickly find blogs by title or tags. Search by keywords, blog descriptions pr blog name. The site is very simple in that you enter keywords into the search box and it produces a list of related results. The list takes you right to the blog. It just takes two steps to start reading a blog that has your keyword(s).
The site doesn't have registration. Its purpose is to provide fast results without wasting your time. When entering a blog, you get to include six keywords along with the title and description all of which are searchable. Make it easy for people to find you by including keywords related to your blog.
To submit your feed to Blogmopolis, enter your blog URL, six keywords, description, title, category, and email address (not shared). It must be a blog and it takes about 24 to 48 hours to list it.
Update: The site does not exist anymore.
180) BlogCode.com
BlogCode.com is a resource of blog recommendations by starting with your favorite weblog (or perhaps even your own) and find others like it. This tool is based on StoryCode.com, which provides book recommendations based on the books you like. Recommendations are based not only on subject matter, but also on the style and input of the bloggers themselves and their readers. The recommendations come from the views of those who have read and enjoyed these same weblogs.
Registration is necessary so you can get personalized recommendations, but no registration is needed to submit your blog. The more people who review blogs, the better the recommendations as it takes a community to grow and sharpen the recommendations. It's a nice way to discover more blogs you like without just relying on keywords.
You can browse blogs by alphabet, or a search for a title or URL. Try searching for a blog you like. If it's in the list, then click Get Recommendations for blogs that best match your selected blog's style, content and delivery. Anything above 80% is a very good match. The site has a tool so bloggers can display the top BlogCode matches in their own blogs. This site provides a unique way of finding and sharing blogs.
To submit your feed to BlogCode.com enter your blog title, URL and submit it. The site does a search to see if it's already in directory. If not, then you use sliders to answer general, nature/type and subject-related questions about the blog such as how many bloggers, how often it's updated and so on. Once you finish, your blog is included and a list of recommended sites appears.
179) Globe of Blogs
Globe of Blogs is a blog directory that lists blogs beyond title and location. It also lists blogs by author name, birthday and topic. The directory has been up sine 2002, so it has over 35,000 blogs registered! Plenty to keep you busy for a while.
You can see how many blogs are listed for each listing type as a number in brackets appears next to the topic. The left and right side of the site list the blogs by different lists as well as recent additions and a random blog for those who like spontaneity. Of course, it has a search tool available should you want to find a blog by keyword.
It's an easy site to use and it has a lot of ways for you to discover new blogs of interest.
To submit your feed to Globe of Blogs, select New for submission type and then enter your blog title, URL, description, categories, author name, email, location, date of birth, gender and confirm whether you're 13 years and older.
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