20 Blog Directories Sites To Submit Your Blog


  1. Best of the Web Blog Search La Crem de la Crem, Best of the Web’s Blog Directory is very selective and only lists aged and valuable blogs. A link from here is majestic and well deserved.
  2. EatonWeb Blog Directory is a real jewel with many aged inbound links and a blog rating system. You may have to pay a fee for your blog to be reviewed, but like Yahoo, the review fee is well worth the few dollars.
  3. Blog Hub offers a drop down category and member blog list. With its “new blogger” list and hot topics, Blog Hub is a great directory to list your site.
  4. Upon visiting Bloggernity, you find a crisp, clean, and easy to navigate site. Scrolling down, you find the new blogs. As there is little advertising on the home page, it is pleasant to the eye of the reader as well.
  5. Blogarama has an impressive listing of over 65,000 blogs. The site is well designed and follows the same content categories as many other sites.
  6. One of the most selective Blog Directories on the web (and Wordpress powered), Blog Search Engine is owned by Performancing’s parent company and serves search results powered by IceRocket.
  7. Blog Catalog features a vast directory of categories, from academic to writing, while offering the ability to search by country, language, or user. It has a no frills design, but offers convenient member access through simple blog registration.
  8. Globe of Blogs has too many features to list. In order to be listed on the site, the blog must not be commercial. The site may appear to be busy, but I like the features of being able to search by title, author, or subject. Narrowing the search becomes easier on this blog.
  9. The ultimate directory of British blogs connotes all things British. It is not directed by location, but by the culture! It is asked that bloggers be genuinely “britished.” Being listed in this blog reaches readers all the way across the pond!
  10. Blog Universe is the perfect place to promote your video or podcast themed blog. Its layout is easy to navigate. Although the content is limited, it is an all around good directory site worthy of submission.
  11. Bigger Blogs is a relatively new blog directory with only a few blogs registered. The blog is intertwined with a business directory. The blog section is difficult to find, and it is located through a link on the right side of the business directory page. However, the benefit is that the earlier you are accepted on a blog directory, the more exposure your blog will obtain. In addition, a back link is indeed a back link, so this can help with your search engine placement.
  12. Bloggeries has the best categories and subcategories home page on the internet. The layout is clear and concise, and readers are able to find what they are looking for in a snap!
  13. Bloggapedia has an interesting and eye catching homepage. Readers are easily connected to the top blogs and newest posts. Innovative categories and a colorful design make this blog directory a hit.
  14. Spillbean is a well-designed blog directory site with categories such as health, society, internet, and personal. The site is aesthetically pleasing, but there are not many listings yet.
  15. Blogging Fusion is a blog with over sixty categories. These categories include photo blogs and family focused blogs. Blogging Fusion has an good amount of blog listings within the directory, and it also has visitor stats available.
  16. Blogflux is not only a tool for bloggers, but a directory that has the listings in alphabetic order. The blog listings are organized and clear. It is definitely an effective blog directory in which to be listed.
  17. The blogs on the top listings of Bloglisting are fun, colourful, and catch the attention of the reader. Bloglisting displays the page ranking blogs, which is a helpful tool when determining with whom you want to exchange links.
  18. Blogio may be a small blog directory with few listings, but it worthy of a submission. Despite its small size, there are quality blogs and a solid ability to search on this site.
  19. Blog Explosion claims to be the largest blog promoter on the internet. They have a vast directory but do not seem to have direct links. However, the listing in the directory can still show up in SERP’s, So keep this in mind.
  20. Super Blog Directory is a great site that offers tools to posters that others do not. You can see the latest submitted links and blogs on the site, which is a perk that draws traffic into the directory.

5 Reasons Why Bloggers Fail To Make Money

Do you make serious money from your blog?

Do you make any money?

About 90 percent of bloggers will answer no to the first question, and many of those will also answer no to the second. Making money online has never been more difficult. All of the methods we used a few years ago have become incredibly ineffective, leaving bloggers scrambling for new ways to earn. Many of them have stopped blogging completely.

You don't want to stop blogging, do you?

The good news is that you can, indeed, earn a decent income while blogging. In a recent guest post I talked about getting people to buy from your blog, which is a great way to turn traffic into money. But today the focus is not on how to make money from your blog, but rather why you're not making money right now.

1. Your Design Is Terrible
The old adage claims that content is king, but that's not necessarily true. It is at least prince, but there is one element that is probably more important: design. Think about it this way. If you visited a site that was poorly designed, would you even bother to read the content? Chances are you'd just leave and think that the page was spam. If your site isn't well designed, it doesn't matter what kind of content you have.


2. People Can't Navigate Your Site
Navigation falls partly under design, but it is also a category unto its own. A website is not just a single page, but rather a series of pages that link together -- which is why they call it a web. Yet too many bloggers make the navigation process far too difficult. If people don't know how to get around your site, how are they going to become regular readers or customers? When people can't find their ways around, they tend to leave.

What irks me most about poor site navigation is that it's so easy. The WordPress engine allows you to add a full and robust navigation menu, complete with drop-downs, on every single page of your blog. So why not take advantage? Create navigation bar entries for your most popular pages. Add drop-downs for categories and tags. Make sure there's a clear and click-able "home" button. In other words, make sure that you can get essentially anywhere on the site, no matter your current page.

3. You Don't Make It Easy To Pay You
To repeat, selling stuff is probably the most effective way to make money blogging these days. Your readers are your potential clients. You can use your blog in large part to inform and entertain them, and in small part to steer them towards your products. It is a balance that has worked for many a blogger seeking to make more money than is available through CPM advertising. Yet even bloggers who get the balance right sometimes don't execute the sale correctly.

The No. 1 rule for any sales process is to make it as easy for the customer as possible. Don't make them fill out extra forms. Don't make them hop around to different sites. The fewer steps between adding an item to a cart and successfully completing an order, the better. Offering more ways to pay also helps. Sure, PayPal might work for some, but not for all. Offering mobile payments is another way to make things easier for your customers. Ease leads to sales. It's the one lesson any online businessperson should never forget.

4. You Created Your Site To Rank In Google
In the mid-00s there was a gold rush on the internet. Google had risen to prominence, and by 2003 or 2004 it was driving obscene amounts of traffic. If you ranked highly for a commercial search term, you were almost guaranteed sales. That's when SEO really took off. Of course, when Google realized all the money people were making within its ecosystem, it decided it wanted a larger slice of that pie. In recent years they have made it much more difficult to rank for highly commercial search terms.

This is a problem for bloggers who create their sites with an eye on ranking. Those practices have been flagged by Google. Bloggers who used them in the past have been penalized, and those who continue to use them will continue to get penalized. While you might not rank as highly as before, it is highly recommended that you follow Google's guidelines for high quality sites. Google shouldn't tell you how to make your site, but you should also recognize Google for the potential sales it can bring -- if you do it right.

5. You Don't Make Yourself Visible
When people buy something, they want to know the source. Big brands have a huge advantage here. They're instantly recognized, and so people trust them more naturally. When you're a blogger trying to sell products or even services on your site, you have to be forthcoming with people. So smile for the camera and be prepared to divulge a lot about your self. The more people get to know you, the more likely they will be to trust you with their money.

Top Reasons Why AdSense Is Not Accepting Your Request

Copied Images :- This is being a common things to disapprove applications by Google AdSense because if you have copied some images from Google image Search then Google will disapprove your application stating "Sites Does not Comply With AdSense Policies". So, I recommended you to add only those images which are made originally by you. Well I understand that every blogger is not a designer itself so you can post your posts without adding images. Once you are approved then if you copy images from Google image then it does not matters.


Too much Ad networks :- This can be a big cause for getting your AdSense disapproved because if you already have too much advertising networks already on your site then there is no chance that AdSense will give even the first approval to you. So, If you want to get approved you must remove all the ad networks when applying for AdSense. So that these things do not come between to approve your AdSense account. One more thing if you have added any ad-fly website entry script or any other script then that is highly recommended to remove it before applying for Google Adsense.

Less Number of Posts :- Well as said in the starting of post bloggers just starts their blog and try to apply for AdSense and gets disapproved and AdSense stats the problem as "Insufficient Content". So, you must have around 10 genuine written posts on your blog so that AdSense might approve you. If you have less posts then 10 then it might be difficult for you to get approved.

Domain Type and Age :- Well, If you are using blogspot blogs and don't have it older then 6 months then it proved to be difficult for you to get approved. Even with 6 month old blogspot blogs it is much harder to get an AdSense account approved. So you must buy an .com domain for your blog. With .com domains there is no need for your domain to be 6 months old.

Blog Content :- Yeah, your blog content matters more than anything else. So you must have genuine posts on your blog that are originally written by you else you won't be approved because you might have heard that Content is the king. So you must have genuine content on your blog to get approved.

Age Verification :- You should be above 18 years to apply for Google AdSense. So before applying for Google AdSense make sure that you are shown as 18 years or older in your Google+ profile else you won't get approved by Google AdSense. If you are not 18 years old and wants to get an AdSense then you must have the payee name of your Father or any body else that totally depends on you.

Address not Formatted Correctly :- If you have not filled your address correctly while applying for Google AdSense then do not think that you will get approved because AdSense also takes the address of the users because the payment of your AdSense account will be send to your address that you fill. So fill out your address correctly when applying for AdSense.

Traffic :- Traffic plays an major role for you to get approved you must have around 50 page-views/day to get approved. Well sometime AdSense also approves the sites with less traffic but only sometime so be on the safer side and have some good traffic before applying. This will increase the chances of getting approved.

How To Protect Your Blog From Being Copied

Table of contents

  1. Put thieves on notice
  2. Mind your images
  3. Set up RSS footers
  4. Hire a monitoring service
  5. DO NOT prevent right clicks
  6. Conclusion
Put Thieves On Notice
When people take content, do they even understand that they are stealing? The internet's propensity for copying has blurred the concept of ownership. 
Information wants to be free, right? Sure. People want to be free too, but that doesn't mean we don't demand wages for our labors. It seems that people have confused the different definitions of the word free.
Still, this raises a relevant point. If people don't think they're stealing, it becomes incredibly difficult to stop them.
Even the simplest of measures can deter thieves who don't understand that they are stealing. Consider adding some of the following to your site.

Copyright footer. These are common and easy to add to your site. You can place the notice right in your footer. © 2014 YourSiteName.com. It's that simple. Note: make sure you keep the year up to date.
DMCA badge. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act lays out pretty strict copyright rules for digital content. No one wants to receive a DMCA takedown notice. Use this WordPress plugin to place a DMCA badge in your sidebar, in a prominent position so everyone can see it. 
Terms and Conditions page. The problem with a copyright footer: many people will never see it. That's why the DMCA badge is a nice addition. Another great addition is a terms and conditions page. You can state, in no uncertain terms, that you own the content on the site and that is not available for reproduction. Don't know the legalese to create a T&C page? Check out this T&C generator. 
Trademark symbol. Did you know that anyone can use the ™ symbol? It is not reserved for registered trademarks. That's the ® symbol, which you absolutely cannot use unless you own a federal trademark registration. If you didn't know that, chances are many people also do not know that. (Even if you did know that, it still holds true; most people do not know.) Slap the ™ symbol on your blog title. It lends you a sense of authority and could deter thieves.

Mind Your Images
Here's an oddity about copying on the web. Many people know that copying text is wrong. Teachers dedicate entire class sessions to plagiarism. They remind students before every paper that it is wrong to steal other people's words. 
Because we didn't include images in papers, we never learned that it is wrong to steal them, too. Perhaps that's why people think it's OK to take anything found in a Google Images search and use it. But just as copying and pasting text is wrong, so is using someone else's image.
If this practice is so widespread, how can you protect your own images? If you host original photography on your site, it is in your interest to protect it. Images have become paramount on the web. Yours gives you an advantage, and you shouldn't give away that advantage to anyone else. 
Here are some resources that will help you manage your website's images.
Preventing right clicks. If you've scrolled down you already know that I don't prefer this method. Right clicking on the web is natural. You can do much more than just copy stuff with a right click. This WordPress plugin prevents right clicks only on images, so it's not as bad as blocking right clicks in general. But it's still not preferable. Why treat your readers like thieves?

Watermark your images. If you work with Photoshop or Illustrator, watermarking your images is easy. You can even use a WordPress plugin. The downside: watermarking doesn't prevent theft. People will be less likely to reuse a watermarked photo, at least. The problem is the practicality. If you place a watermark in the corner, as the WordPress plugin does, users can just crop it out. If you place it in the middle, the image gets distorted. 

Hotlink blocking. Sometimes people get really lazy. Instead of downloading your image and uploading it to their own servers, they will just link to your image. So not only are they stealing your work, but they're taxing your server. How rude. There is a WordPress plugin that prevents other sites from hotlinking your files. I recommend this in general, beyond image protection.

Run image searches. If you have a handful of original images on your site, run them through Google Image Search By Image every so often. It can get to be a tedious task, especially if you have a high volume of original images, but you can identify content thieves on the spot.

Set Up RSS Footers
So far I've mentioned "people" who steal your content. Truth is, humans only directly steal content in a fraction of instances. It is more common for them to set up automated scrapers to steal your content. And someone else's content. And someone else's. It's quite easy to steal massive amounts of content.
The bad news: there isn't much you can do to stop scrapers. There's no magic code that will send them away from your site. You can put in place deterrents, but many of them hurt your human readers. For example:
Truncated RSS feeds. Sure, they might increase click-through rate. But if you go from a full feed to a truncated feed, you'll upset your readers. Subscriber numbers will fall. Is deterring scrapers worth hurting the people who enjoy your site?

If you're starting a new site, perhaps setting the tone with a truncated feed will work. Even then, good scrapers can get by that. Back in the days of Google Reader, there were plenty of plugins that could turn a truncated feed into a full feed. You think scraper bots don't have the same ability?
Unfortunately, another popular deterrent isn't much of a deterrent at all.
Add an RSS footer. Since the late 00s bloggers have added some kind of RSS footer to their feeds. It hasn't deterred many scrapers. The good news is that while scrapers can, and often do, remove links from posts, they have a tougher time from feed footers. Try a WordPress plugin like this one. It's worth a try, at least.

You can try other methods, such as watermarking your photos. This blogger saw a reduction in the number of sites that would scrape his content once he watermarked his images. As described above, watermarking isn't a cure-all. It has its own problems. But if it deters a few scrapers, perhaps it is a worthwhile practice.

Hire A Monitoring Service
Let's get real. If you want to protect your content, you will have to pay. No, this isn't some mafia-type job where people steal your content and demand payment to stop. There are plenty of services that can help you keep track of your content and put thieves on notice.
Before you move on, this isn't for hobbyist bloggers. If you don't make money from your blog, then you probably can't afford to pay for a monitoring service. But if you're reading BlogTipsNTricks.com, chances are you make money. If you don't, that's your goal. If so, you have a huge interest in your content. Investing in monitoring and protection will prove worthwhile.
You can try a few different options. I have my own preference, which I'll share in a minute. 

Copyscape. If you want to know when people copy your content, you can sign up for Copyscape's copy protection services. It will cost you a bit: 5 cents per search, or you can sign up for their weekly service. But again, if you value your content, you'll have to pay some fee to examine duplicate usage. 

Mention. An alternative to Copyscape is alert service Mention.com. It costs $30 per month for the business grade, which is what you'll need. You can set up 10 alerts, which notify you when another website has mentioned you. Set up certain phrases within your post, which you know are unique, to see when someone has copied your work verbatim.

Virtual assistant. Here is the most expensive option, but also the most useful. As you know by now, you can outsource administrative tasks to a virtual assistant. It will cost you a fraction of what you'd pay a full-time assistant. (And good luck finding a part-time one who can do the job well.) An assistant can do a more thorough job of monitoring stolen content. Unlike Mention and Copyscape, a VA can find images, send out takedown notices, and file the proper DMCA paperwork. 

I prefer the virtual assistant path by a mile. I've enjoyed working with Worldwide101 virtual assistants, because they do more than admin tasks. Not only will they look for stolen content, but they can take action. After all, what good is knowing that people stole your content if you do nothing about it? A good VA can draft takedown notices, file DMCA paperwork, and handle outreach on your behalf. It might be more costly than Mention or Copyscape, but the investment is worthwhile.

DO NOT Prevent Right Clicks
Before wrapping up, I want to impart one important lesson. Getting your content stolen can be a frustrating experience. No one enjoys it. Sometimes we can overreact and do things we'll later regret. 

Please, for the love of your readers, do not prevent right clicking in general. It's bad enough if you do it for images. If you prevent right click on your entire website, I'm leaving. Many others are leaving. Not only are we never coming back, but we're going to a competitor. 

Even if you are unique in your industry, I'll find an alternative. Barring right clicks is downright offensive. You're saying the only reason to right click is to steal. That's ridiculous. Maybe I want to open a link in a new tab -- so I can stay on your site. Maybe I want to use the many plugins I have with right-click capabilities. Maybe I want to do any of the dozen things you can do with right click that don't involve copy and paste. 

And you know what? Maybe I want to copy/paste a sentence to share. If you prevent me from sharing your content except on your exact terms, then I'm not interested. There are too many sites on the web. I can spend my time in a million different ways. Why would I spend it on your site, if you're treating me like a criminal the moment I visit? 

Conclusion

No matter how much work you put into protecting your work, people and computers will steal it. The internet is a copy machine. That's the nature of the beast. You can only accept it, and then take measures to make it less harmful for your blog and your business.

(Though this should tell you a lot about the nature of business on the internet. If you base your business on things that others can easily copy, you might be in trouble.)

When you're starting out and small, undertake these tasks yourself. Let people know that your content is not free to take. Use free tools to see who has used your content. Install the necessary plugins. 
As you grow, you'll need more power. Sign up for alert services. Or better yet, hire a virtual assistant to take care of that task. You'll need some help anyway -- no one can do it alone. 
Your content is your advantage in business. Don't let others take away your advantage. Stay on top of content theft.

Horrible Mistake That You Make With Your Blog Design

1. Bad Fonts:
Without a shadow of doubt, font is the most important thing by designing point of view because font is something that readers have to constantly look at and keep looking.
Selecting bad fonts make your blog look horrible. Bad fonts include extra large or extra small size font, too much stylish font that is hard to read and too bold fonts etc.

2. Eyes Hurting Background:
For most of niches, simple white background works just fine. But some bloggers try to go over the limit and put some color or even picture as blog background.
This mostly annoys the readers because it splits their mind into looking at many things at the same 
time and readers feel pain in their heads and eyes after staying at such blogs for few minutes only.

3. Inappropriate Logo:

Logo represents you a lot more than you think. Writing the name of your blog in style with combination is not all what a logo needs. Logo needs to be relative to your blog's niche. 
For example, if you are a news blogger, keep your logo's color light while bloggers in gaming niche should make that same logo's color as strong as possible.
Remember: Logo is your identity and the important thing in your blog. Spend some time in designing a cool logo or else hire someone to design it for you.

4. Horrible Font Mixing:

It is suggested that you use more than one font at your blog so it looks as much professional as it can be. Now the crucial point is selection of fonts. This is because those two fonts should not only be different from each other, but they should also look professional and handy when placed together. I see countless bloggers who don't understand this thing and make horrible combination of fonts which really kills a blog's design.

5. Images Size:
Images play a vital role in making any article more interesting and appealing in first look than it actually is. But in order to get most out of images, you need to focus on their quality and not size. 
Better quality will make things better and not higher or lower resolution. So avoid using extra large images and save yourself, your blog and your readers from getting in trouble.
Also, don't copy any other blogs images instead create your own or find some royalty free images from images sites like Depositphotos.

5. Font Color:
Font color is something that is mostly set default, but some bloggers take it to the next level and change the colors of their H1 or H2 headings and that's exactly where they mostly kill everything. 
The best thing that you can do is to let the theme the way it is, but in case you really want to change, ask an expert for suggestions.
Make sure to avoid such mistakes, they can kill your blog reputation and thus losing your visitors when you promote your blog