178) Blog Resource
Blog Resource is a directory of blogs and podcasts. The blog directory is sorted by categories with the latest listings appearing below the categories. You can also click Popularity to get a list of the top 10 blogs for each category.
Discover new podcasts using the search tool, which also has advanced search options that narrows your results by selecting the search type and where to search. When browsing categories, you can sort by title, date, rating or popularity. The entries don't have their own detailed page, but you can get the description for each blog along with the number of hits, rating and the date of the last update.
Also available are articles and reviews on content management systems (CMS), hosted solutions, Web hosts, blog tools and more. The forums have discussions on blog resources, CMSes, hosted solutions, tools and software.
To submit your feed to Blog Resource, enter your blog title, URL, category and description.
Posted on June 5, 2006
177) Blog-Watch.com
Blog-Watch.com is a basic blog directory with blogs sorted into categories and subcategories. It also has a separate list for New Blogs, Hot Blogs and Top Rated Blogs. However, the Hot Blogs is currently empty and only two sites appear in the Top Rated list.
Its advanced search tool lets you specific a title, URL, description, category, contact name or Email. You can search by one item, some items or all items.
When you browse the directory, you'll come to a list of blogs from one of the lists or subcategories. These have thumbnail images of the blog along with a summary, hits, ratings and link to the blog's details. The detail page has a nice layout that's easy to scan. In addition to the basic information, it also has a chart of its ratings from Alexa and a list of the most recent entries. You can review any of the blogs by entering your review at the bottom of the blog's detail page.
To submit your feed to Blog-Watch.com, enter your blog title, URL, feed URL, description category, contact name and email. You can optionally enter a reciprocal link.
Update: The site does not exist anymore.
Posted on May 29, 2006
176) gabbr.com
gabbr.com is a community-based social networking site that allows bloggers from various blogs to submit their thoughts for discussion in Gabbr as well as their own blogs for cross-promotion and for the building of online communities. Gabbr also has a social bookmarking service, a public news aggregator, forums, games and a trade-up application for exchanging used games, toys and books.
When users register, they get access to more services including tagging, online networking, private messaging and media linking. You don't have to register to add your blog's feed to the site. But you do have a better chance of having your feeds seen if you join up. It wasn't easy to find the submitted feeds for a non-registered member.
When browsing tags or news items - which come from feeds and users - users can comment on the items. Exploring the site, you'll find a wealth of content to keep you busy for a long time.
To submit your feed to Gabbr, enter your blog's feed URL, tags and select the content type from the drop down list (weblog, podcast or vodcast).
Update: The site does not exist anymore.
Posted on May 22, 2006
175) Answers.com
Answers.com is a quick reference for finding answers, and it accepts blogs. The site attempts to be different from a search engine by providing details instead of just links when you search for something. Submitted blogs become a part of the Answers.com resource and appear whenever a person is looking for answers on a topic covered in the blog.
Enter a word or two into the search box, and the results display definitions, word-related information (thesaurus, antonyms, encyclopedia references and more depending on the searched word), categories, external links and translations. Or if you're not sure what you want, check out the subjects and see where the wind takes you.
You can change your preferences to show find as your type (words pop up while your typing) and to select which languages you wish to translate.
To submit a blog to BlogBiB, go to http://www.answers.com/main/new_blogger.jsp and enter your name, email address, blog title, URL, subject and description. Optional fields: picture URL and blog update frequency.
Posted on May 15, 2006
174) All-Blogs.net
All-Blogs.net directory contains only blogs, not just any site that has a feed. This simple directory lists many categories and subcategories on its home page. Select a category to see a list of subcategories and blogs listed in the category. To get to the list of blogs for the category, you need to scroll down past the ads.
Latest Links and Top Hits list blogs in each of these lists along with their titles, brief description and URL. When you click on these, it may look like there's no content. Again, scroll down to find the content. Not a fancy site, but worth submitting your blog as it's a growing directory.
To submit a blog to All-Blogs.net, go to http://www.all-blogs.net/submit.php and enter the title, URL, your name, email and category.
Posted on May 8, 2006
173) Best of the Web Blogs
Best of the Web Blogs is a directory that spotlights the Web's premier destinations. A team of editors reviews all sites for quality, unique content, no broken links or pictures, running 24/7 and placed in the most relevant category.
The site has two main parts: Best of the Web and Best of the Web Blogs. The former focuses on Web sites in general while the latter is for blogs. The directory has high level categories so you're not going nutty trying to decide which one to explore or submit your blog under.
You can also search blog about your currently selected category in other blog directories including Yahoo! Google, Technorati, Feedster, Bloglines and Blogpulse by clicking on the search engine's name.
To submit your blog to Best of Web, review the three steps, choose a category, click on Add Blog and review the terms. Once you agree to the terms, complete the form to submit your blog.
Posted on May 3, 2006
172) Flookie
Flookie is a human-managed blog search directory to ensure the quality of the blog and that it's not unsavory. We've unfortunately seen many spam or junk blogs that look like they have original content when they don't. Flookie works to avoid having such blogs listed.
The directory also has a related blog with news, current events and personal stuff from the directory's author called Journal of Flookie. The directory has submission guidelines.
The author plans to add more features. Meanwhile, you can browse blogs by category or use its search box. When browsing blogs, clicking the title takes you straight to the blog's home page. It's a fast and easy directory to use.
To submit a feed to Flookie, select the category that best fits your blog and then click Add URL to [category name] and enter the URL, title, description and keywords. Be sure to read the submission guidelines before submitting your blog.
Posted on April 24, 2006
171) BlogXchange.us
BlogXchange.us is a blog exchange site where you get more traffic for your blog by checking out others in exchange. Like other blog exchange sites, you're required to register before you can enter your blogs and start surfing other blogs to get credit. You must view a blog for 20 seconds before getting credit and moving on to the next one.
Four boxes appear and you have to select the one that matches the color of the selected box before you move to the next blog. The selected box didn't appear in Firefox 1.5 on one computer, but it appeared on another with a different screen display setting.
You can randomly earn bonus credits while surfing. You don't have the option of bookmarking blogs you like or blocking the ones you don't want to see again. You can report a Web site that's inappropriate or doesn't follow BlogXchange's rules. While you're surfing blogs, you can select a category of blogs you wish to surf and you may or may not get blogs in that category.
Occasionally, the site holds a competition where you can try to win more credits. You can create up to three banners and 10 text ads to be shown on the site to other surfers as advertisement.
To submit your feed to BlogXchange.us, start by registering and then click on My Blogs from your BlogXchange tools page. You can add up to three blogs.
Update: The site does not exist anymore.
Posted on April 17, 2006
170) Blog Search
Blog Search is a simple blog search engine for finding blogs, adding yours or grabbing an RSS feed. You can also add Blog Search's most popular blog sites, most recent blog sites, or both lists by category to your blog by copying and pasting javascript into your blog.
Click on Blog Statistics to see a list of the 10 most popular and 10 most recent blogs. When you select a category, the results list total number of blogs in that category with a list of 15 per page. The list of blogs displays the name and a short description. Blog Search is quick and easy to use and comes in handy when you're looking for blogs covering a topic.
To submit your blog to Blog Search, register first. Once done, click Add New Sites and enter the blog's URL, title, description, keywords and category.
Posted on April 10, 2006
169) BlogMighty
BlogMighty is a search engine and directory of blogs and blog-related sites. Use its advanced search engine to find links or articles by keywords or browse the top searches. You can also browse the directory by category, by newest sites, by most popular and random picks.
The site also has articles about blogging and accepts article submissions. You can browse articles by newest, most popular and top rated. Like the links, articles also have their own categories. The stats on the home page display the number of links, articles and the average ratings for both.
With free registration, you can manage your profile, track your favorites and subscribe to newsletters. At the bottom of the home page are six RSS feeds for the site's content.
To submit your feed to BlogMighty, you need to register for free. After you've successfully registered, go to Add in the links menu.
You can save time by letting a script read your metatags and let it fill in as much information as possible for you. Once it's done, you can review and edit the information. If your site is approved, it will show up in the directory within a day at the most.
Update: The site does not exist anymore.
Posted on April 3, 2006
168) Industry Blogs
http://www.industry-blogs.com/
Industry Blogs is a catalog of business blogs related to specific industries as opposed to blogs that are based on the blogger's wide range of interests including those that are industry-related. The directory requires subjective judgment for submission and the people behind it do their best to be fair.
Blogs are sorted by category with a number next to each indicating the number of blogs in the category. You can also search for blogs with the search tool. When viewing a category, each entry gets one or two lines of information with its URL and a short description. You can sort the blogs by hits or by alphabet.
Frequent visitors and those who just want to find a random blog can find new ones by clicking on Latest Links. This is a no-frills directory that aims to provide a listing of those specializing in specific industries.
To submit your feed to Industry blogs, go to the Submit Link that appears on every page. Just enter the blog title, URL, your name, your email address, and select the category.
Posted on March 27, 2006
167) Blog Advance
Blog Advance is a community in which bloggers surf other blogs in exchange for getting traffic to their own blogs. For each blog you surf, you get credits to allocate to your blog. You can also earn credits by clicking on sites or playing jackpot slots.
Meet others in the community through the forums and the tagboard (top menu on every page - opens in a new window). The tagboard is similar to a chat window. Discover blogs by checking out the Blog Directory. You can browse by category or use the search box.
To surf random blogs, click on Manual Surf from the Member Home page. You must view each blog for at least 30 seconds before clicking to move on to the next blog. You can open the blog outside of the frame by clicking Open Site and bookmark it with your browser since Blog Advance doesn't have a way to bookmark blogs from within its application.
To submit your feed to Blog Advance requires free registration. From the Member Home page, click on Add Additional Sites. Enter your site name, URL, language and click the link to test your URL. You may enter up to three blogs on the free account. Your blog is automatically entered in the Blog Advance directory.
Posted on March 20, 2006
166) BlogClicker
BlogClicker is a blog traffic exchange where you get credit by visiting other members' sites. For every two blogs you view, one other blogger sees your blog. You can also earn credits through the weekly surf competition and the referral competition.
You can talk with others in the community through the messenger and tagger. You must view member blogs for at least 20 seconds to get credit before continuing to the next blog. While surfing member blogs, you can bookmark the blogs of the ones you like, view your stats through Options, leave Comments about the blog and check other links through Resources.
BlogClicker provides free tools you can use including free image hosting, stats counter and banner templates for creating your own banners. All of this is on the Account Overview page where you can also get a summary of your account.
To submit your feed to BlogClicker requires free registration. From the Account page, click on Manage Blogs. Scroll down until you see Add Blog and enter your Blog URL. Before you submit your blog, review the primary terms to ensure your blog meets them.
Update: The site does not exist anymore.
Posted on March 14, 2006
165) About.com
http://weblogs.about.com/mlibrary.htm
About.com is a huge resource with many guides providing information on topics of every kind. Its Computing and Technology: Weblogs guide has a weblogs resource where blogs are sorted by high level categories. Half of the categories are about blogging while the other half are the different types of blogs that aren't about blogging. Here's the list of category or theme.
The Weblogs guide has plenty of articles, how tos, tutorials and resources to help anyone start a new blog whether it's the first time or another blog. Blogs listed here could be found using About's search, but the site is gigantic that the chances are not great. The best way to find a blog is to look at the high level category list and work from there.
For example, the Technology & Computers Blogs category lists blogs that are sorted alphabetically, which you can change to Recent or Guide Picks. Each listing shows the title, link and a brief description. Just like the rest of About, when you go to the blog's site, About appears in the top frame. You can turn off the top frame so you can view the site.
To submit your feed to About, enter your name, email address, blog URL, blog title, brief description, suggested category (use this list to find the right fit), type of site, location, any additional comments and whether or not you want to subscribe to the newsletter. It's suggested that you read the reminders that appear on the submission page, so you know what to expect.
Posted on March 6, 2006
164) Blog Soldiers
Blog Soldiers is a blog exchange site where others discover your blog in exchange for your viewing theirs. To start, register and enter your blogs. Then surf members' blogs so you can rack up credits. You view each blog for at least 20 seconds before moving on to the next one.
Another way to earn traffic is to get promoted. While surfing, your earn letters that spell out the name of the next rank. With a new rank, you earn credits, banner impressions and text links. Once in a while while you're surfing member blogs, you're surprised with free bonus credits.
While surfing sites, you can bookmark the blog, ignore the blog, report the site, go to your account or open the site in a new window without the Blog Soldiers frame.
To submit your feed to Blog Soldiers requires free registration. Once you register, click on My Blogs from the Member Control Panel menu and you can enter up to three blogs. You can also submit your blog to the directory without registration.
Posted on February 27, 2006
163) Bloggeries
Bloggeries is a Yahoo-style blog directory that also has a few articles on blogging. The directory is easy to use as you just click on the category or subcategory of interest to get an alphabetical list of blogs. Blogs can also be sorted by hits. The lists display the blog's title, link and brief description.
Blogs also come with a Refer This Blog link so you can send the blog listing to a friend just by entering your email addresses and an optional message. Only blogs may be submitted not sites that happen to use a blogging tool for non-blogging activities. Here are the submission guidelines.
The directory also lists recent blogs and top blogs and welcomes category suggestions. You can also find blogs with the site's search tool. A feed is also available so you can get the latest updates.
To submit your feed to Bloggeries, enter blog title, URL, your name, email (for verification) and category. The description and reciprocal link fields are optional.
Posted on February 20, 2006
162) Blog Directory Submit
http://www.blog-directory-submit.com/
Blog Directory Submit is a new Atom/RSS feed directory with over 500 categories. The site wants to be a forum for news, stories, photos, and general networking. Blog Directory Submitaccepts only RSS Feeds and Atom XML feeds, but you can convert your feed at 2rss.com. In the future, it hopes allow regular blog submissions.
Discover feeds by searching or browsing the new feeds, popular, random or check the home page, which displays the editor's pick and the top ten feeds. The feed profile contains Feed Comments, Additional Details, Editor Review, Printer Friendly Page and Send to a Friend links. The site is very young and doesn't have a wealth of content just yet.
To submit your feed to Blog Directory Submit, enter your feed URL, select the category, and enter your name and email address. Though no registration required, it requires a reciprocal link. "You must link back to blog-directory-submit.com in order to be listed in our directory." The site accepts only RSS Feeds and Atom XML feeds, but you can convert your feed at 2rss.com.
Update: The site does not exist anymore.
Posted on February 13, 2006
161) Blogazoo
Blogazoo is a community-driven blogging tool where members read and comment on blogs. After registration, your account isn't activated until you've read 10 blogs. The more blogs you read, the more credits you get that can be used around the site. To read the first blog, click Surf. Then a set of numbers or colors appear on the bottom or top frame (after so much time passes) where you must click the matching number or color.
If you arrive on a site you like, you can Watch it. This adds the site to your watch list -- much like bookmarks. You can also read the site's profile or ban it. Blogazoo provides an original way to discover new sites while helping you build readers. Some features like banning a site require upgrading your account to Blogger Extreme for USD$10.
The community-focused site allows you to create a personal profile, post messages to other members, use the personality ranker tool, list feeds, and search the blog directory (known as Blogectory) by category or search. Blogazoo gives credit for making referrals and adding a banner. Click Profile to set your preferences including SafeSurf, which indicates the level of offensive sites you're willing to view.
To submit your site requires free registration. Free members can only add two sites while upgraded members can submit six sites.
Update: The site does not exist anymore.
Posted on February 6, 2006
160) Blogion.com
Blogion.com is a blog directory to help you find blogs by language, country, keywords, categories even blog host and most popular. The language listing actually displays languages by the language's name along with its English name in parenthesis (for example, it displays Español (Spanish) (235)). The (235) indicates the number of blogs listed that are in Español.
Not only can you search for blogs by entering keywords into the search box, but also by browsing the keyword directory. Click a keyword or any item in the other directories to view a thumbnail list of blogs along with their title, brief description and other information.
Directory Statistics show the top ten items for each list. Click "see all" to view the statistics for all items in the selected list. This is a well-organized and easy to use directory that provides many ways to discover new blogs and makes it effortless to add yours.
To submit your feed to Blogion.com, enter your blog URL, title, author, email address, description, keywords, host, language, category, country and content rating (like movie ratings). You can update your blog after the initial entry per the instructions here.
Posted on January 30, 2006
159) BlogExplosion
BlogExplosion is a directory of over 32,000 blogs. You can see the top ten countries with blogs in its directory on the home page. Browse the directory by category or by country.
The category and country pages list thumbnail images along with a paragraph's worth of information for each entry. Members can rate and review blogs, "blogmark" site, add and view comments and more. Surfing member blogs is a great way to discover new blogs. One of the best features about surfing member blogs the frame displays the category for the blog you're currently viewing. I've yet to see any other sites with this feature.
If you register for the site, you can earn BlogExplosion credits, which you earn from completing different activities. For example, to ask a question in the Knowledge section costs five BlogExplosion credits. The section has member asked and answered questions covering a over ten categories including Review My Blog!, Fix My Blog! and General. You can use credits to promote your blog.
The site has many community-based features. Rent My Blog is for renting space on your blog and other blogs to gain more traffic. Another fun section is Battle of the Blogs in which members set up a challenge that involves wagering 10 to 100 credits. It's an opportunity to earn credits. BlogExplosion Blog Tools has a "Ping My Blog" tool for pinging a handful of directories. More about pinging here.
To submit your feed to BlogExplosion requires free registration. Once you register, click on Add/Edit Blogs from the My Blogs menu on the left. Once you enter the title, URL, category and site description; confirm it by following the on screen directions. You can also add a thumbnail, include the RSS feed and ping the blog.
Posted on January 19, 2006
158) BlogBiB
BlobBib is a human-edited blog directory with over 500 blogs and 150 categories. Discover blogs by clicking on New Blogs or Popular Blogs. These lists display the title, link, PageRank (PR) number, number of hits and a brief description. When clicking on the title, it opens the blog in a new window. You can resort the list to sort by PageRank, Hits, Alphabet or Submission Date.
The categories have numbers beside them to indicate the number of subcategories and blogs in the category (some blogs are listed in the top level category rather than a subcategory). The subcategories also have a number listing the blogs shown in the subcategory. BlogBiB is a clean and simple site that's easy to navigate.
To submit a blog to BlogBiB, go to http://blogbib.com/submit.php and enter the title, URL, description, your name, email and category. The reciprocal link URL is required if you want to list for free. You can pay to have your blog as a featured link or a regular link without a reciprocal link.
Posted on January 16, 2006
157) FeedShot
FeedShot is a one-time blog submission service that manually submits your RSS feed to a collection of search engines and news services. By one-time, it means that it's not a pinging service that you ping every time your feed is updated. Rather, it means the site adds your feed to multiple sites instead of your going to each one to submit your blog. The service submits to nine sites for free or it can do more for a fee.
The site's FAQ explains the difference between its service and a pinging service like Ping-O-Matic. "Pingomatic alerts a large number of "ping" servers that your blog has been updated. Many of these ping servers require an initial, manual submission of your feed, which is what FeedShot takes care of."
There is no directory or listing of blogs. It's simply a submission service and nothing more. Once you submit a blog, the site displays a confirmation from each site. If any submission failed, click on the failed site's link and submit it there. We submitted seven blogs and not one failed. While we've submitted to most of the sites, it does have a few we had not submitted to till using FeedShot. The FeedShot Blog provides information and updates on the service.
To submit a feed to FeedShot for distribution, go to the FeedShot home page and enter your blog name, URL, feed URL and email address. Some sites require an email address. The submission page clearly states that the email is only used for submission and confirmation. It could take up to two minutes to process your request, but it only took about 20 seconds. If you have more than one blog, click on the Back button after the blog is processed and enter the new information (you won't have to enter your email address again as the form saves the information).
Posted on January 9, 2006
156) blogBunch
blogBunch is a simple category-based blog directory that also lists the most popular and latest entries. It doesn't have a search tool. To find blogs, select a category and then its subcategory to get a list of blogs sorted by title along with their brief description and the time they were last updated. Next to the entry is a thumbnail of the site.
Click on the blog's title to read all of its latest entries in one page. To view the entry on the blog's Web site, click on View Original Entry. Click on the date of the post to view the full entry.
To submit your feed to blogBunch, enter your name, email (for verification), name of feed, URL of feed and a description (optional).
Posted on January 3, 2006
155) RSSMad
RSS MAD is a collection of RSS feeds and a feed reader so you can read feeds from within the site. You can also view feeds through RSS MAD by entering the feed link on the Feed Reader page to get the latest entries for that feed appear and this page doesn't require registration. If you are registered, then you can immediately add the feed to "My Feeds" by clicking the related link.
Browse feeds by category or check out the 10 most popular and 10 recently added lists that appear on the right side. After selecting a category, the subcategories appear along with the number of blogs in each. Plus, the top-level category page lists random feeds and random articles from that category. RSS MAD has a search function.
Select a blog from the subcategory page to see the latest entries, date added, number of views, number of times it appears in someone's favorites, feed URL and a short description. The entries are displayed clearly and are easy to read. If an entry has an image, it appears on the feed details page.
To submit your feed to RSS MAD, go to the Add A Feed form that appears on every page on the lower right column after the 10 recently added feeds list. Just enter the feed URL, select the category and subcategory and enter a description.
Posted on December 27, 2005
154) Bulletize
Bulletize is a searchable blog directory with many categories and subcategories. As of this writing, there aren't many blogs listed. The site uses breadcrumb navigation while you're browsing the categories, so it's easy to move around the site. The site also has a search box for finding blogs by keywords.
Registration isn't required to use the site or add a blog, but it's available so you can customize features.
To submit your feed to Bulletize, browse to the category that best fits your blog and then click on Add URL. Enter the blog URL, email address, Title, description, and keywords. Reciprocal URL is optional as we had no problem submitting it without one. Those who do reciprocate most likely get higher priority. If you have trouble figuring out which category your blog belongs to, do a search and see what results you get.
Posted on December 23, 2005
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