How To Make Money Blogging In 10 Steps: Step 9 – Register Your Blog With Top Directories

You have quite a few relevant posts and your blog is developing quite well.  But however you have no link juice and no traffic.  It’s now time to get the word out to the world.  You want all the publicity you can get.  Therefore you want your blog to be found by both people and search engines.  So we begin the first phase of promotion with getting your blog listed with blog and website directories.

Blog and website directories give your site free links.  There are countless of these sites available.  Be aware that some of the directories ask for a reciprocal link, while others do not.  Many require email verification, so make sure you use an email address that you don’t mind getting hundreds of verification from.

Some blog directories are niche specific while others accept all types of sites regardless the topic.  For example some directories only accept blogs in the food niche.  These directories are constantly crawled by the search engines checking for new content.  Listing your site with them will get the search engines to notice you.

Some of the directories are high rankings so they do get search engine traffics.  Therefore you may get some visitors from them.  Just don’t expect a whole lot of traffic this way; however this is a good start at getting exposure.

Below are some of the top blog and website directories to submit to right away.  Remember this is only a small list and you should submit to many more directors and use an email address that you wouldn’t mind getting hundreds of verification and approved email to.

After you finished submitting to blog and website directories it’s time to move on to the next step of our how to make money blogging guide.  This step is our second phase of promoting our blog. You will find many ways of getting traffic to your site through social means.