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Aug 03 2011

Submitting Your Blog to RSS & Blog Directories

blog-directoriesAs a blogger, you probably want more exposure and more readers. Am I right? Have you considered submitting your site to the various blog directories?

Submitting your blog to RSS & blog directories is much easier than submitting a ‘traditional’ sites to website directories. This is because there are free, automatic systems in place that allow you to submit an updated version of your blog to directories. Ain’t automation grand?

One of the really cool things that work with these directories is that you just ‘tell them’ that you posted a new post and they handle the rest. Better yet, WordPress has a build in mechanism to handle this! What could be better??

This automatic system for submitting your blog to RSS & blog directories is known as pinging. You ping your blog at sites like kping.com and pingoat.com. When you ping your blog, the system will automatically send the latest update from your blog to all of the largest blog directorires – usually on the order of about 40 or so. This means that submitting your blog to RSS & blog directories can actually be as simple as filling in your URL and title – and then hitting submit. The only thing you will want to be careful about is the title you use. You will want to make sure that you use your most targeted keyword in the title you submit, as that will be attached to all of the backlinks you receive from these directories.

Additionally, submitting your blog to RSS & blog directories will get your blog placed on the front page of a number of blog directories. This may generate some quick traffic for you from people who are looking at the latest blogs to be updated.

Once you are finished submitting your blog to RSS & blog directories via ping, you will then want to search out directories that you cannot ping and submit to them individually. You will want to first submit to directories that offer certain perks (i.e., first page listings) or have higher PR – as this will confer higher more PR to your blog. Since you cannot submit to most RSS directories via ping, they will probably make up the bulk of your submissions.

Come back tomorrow and I will provide instructions on how to do this, as well as a list of places you can ping!

Written by Paul · Categorized: Blogging Category · Tagged: Directories

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Comments

  1. Lori Ferguson says

    August 3, 2011 at 5:54 pm

    Thanks, Paul. This WordPress technical ‘stuff’ is mumbo-jumbo to me… I just follow directions and hope everything works OK!

    Thanks for the clear instuction and I’ll wait till tomorrow for the details. 🙂

    Question: if you’re using your keywords in the titles, how do make sure all the titles are varied enough? Wouldn’t they all (eventually) seem too repetitive?

    Reply
    • Paul says

      August 3, 2011 at 8:07 pm

      Let me know if I ever say something ‘mumbo-jumbo’ and you want it explained in more English! Thanks for stopping by!

      Reply
      • Lori Ferguson says

        August 4, 2011 at 6:11 am

        Thanks Paul – you’re posts are beautifully explained and clear to understand!

        Reply
        • Lori Ferguson says

          August 4, 2011 at 6:13 am

          I mean… “YOUR” posts.

          Reply
  2. denny hagel says

    August 3, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    Love this! Can’t wait for your next article! Thanks Paul!

    Reply
    • Paul says

      August 4, 2011 at 9:56 am

      It will be here soon! Thanks, Denny!

      Reply
  3. AJ says

    August 3, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    I definitely want to learn to do this. I’ll be back tomorrow!
    Thanks Paul!
    -AJ

    Reply
    • Paul says

      August 4, 2011 at 10:00 am

      Look at that, AJ – it is tomorrow already! Hang tight – It will be posted as soon as I write it 😉

      Reply
  4. Elizabeth Pratt says

    August 3, 2011 at 9:20 pm

    Thanks for the details. I have been submitting post all over and using just ping.fm. Glad to hear there is more places and I could automate. I love automation!!

    ~Liz

    Reply
    • Paul says

      August 4, 2011 at 9:57 am

      Automation certainly is nice! It beats having to go to various sites to submit your posts yourself.

      Reply
  5. Michele says

    August 3, 2011 at 10:57 pm

    Thanks Paul for the great info! I’ll be checking in tomorrow as well!

    Reply
    • Paul says

      August 4, 2011 at 9:59 am

      Stay tuned, Michele!

      Reply
  6. Tamarah says

    August 3, 2011 at 11:22 pm

    Ohhh…I have been interested in understanding more about the whole “pinging” thing. I look forward to the read tomorrow!

    Reply
    • Lori Ferguson says

      August 4, 2011 at 6:12 am

      Thanks for bringing that up, Tamarah! I need to understand that too!

      Reply
  7. Olga Hermans says

    August 4, 2011 at 9:01 am

    Thanks Paul, I am using pingomatic and ping-fm; I am glad to hear there are more; I am defintely coming back today or tomorrow?

    Reply
  8. Paul says

    August 5, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    Sorry everyone! I got caught up with a couple things, but the follow-up is now available! Go check out: https://digitalmaestro.com/automate-your-wordpress-pinging/

    Reply
  9. Solvita says

    August 5, 2011 at 1:42 pm

    Thanks Paul for sharing this valuable information. It is very clear and to the point, exactly how I like it 🙂

    Reply
    • Paul says

      August 5, 2011 at 1:51 pm

      Glad it works for you, Solvita!

      Reply

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