can anybody here tell me what is the purpose of blog directories? how can i generate traffic from blog directories?
Generally, blog directories are very populated, you can achieve a good position in search engines by submitting your blog in these directories. It will also bring lots of heavy traffic.
Of all the directory types, I believe that blog directories have one of the best chances to bring you quality traffic. People may use a directory to find a blog from a specific subject. I have done it myself when I could not find the info I wanted from Google.
Certain popular directories are of nofollow, while non-popular blog directories are follow. The popular blog directories (ie,Technoranti and others) could very well give you lots of traffic but that all depends on what type of blogs you have, you must think before you submit to the popular blog directories as I find out this month that since I also put the rss syndication for my blog I notice when I search for my blog they often come up on the first page results, but also noticing that my link to their directory is a nofollow, which means that the search engine will stop and read the contents from the blog directory and wont even bother to explore my site because it is instructed to not follow. Unless I'm getting traffic from them I really see no benefit to submitting to them unless it's a SEO friendly. when you submit your content to them your actually giving them free contents. So think before you submit to the popular blog directories, make sure you get something from it and not feed it, because there's a lot of those Social sites that "steals contents" from the user submitters, off course it's not stealing when your feeding them, but most do not realize that until later when they search for the positioning of their sites in SE that they realized they been had.
Although, this was Google's original intention, it is widely believed that nofollow links are now followed by Google. Noone is sure what type of PR weight (if any) is given to nofollow links.
Blog directories help spread links unless they are nofollow. It seems that they are not as practical anymore for actually finding blogs anymore because of Google BlogSearch.
may i ask, what is nofollow really mean? i have tried to look for the definition on google search, but i don't really get it and one more thing, i have being submitting my blog to several top blog directories, but it is seems like nothang happen. still my traffic is low
blog directories are like any other directories, some (backlink power and almost no traffic) or (nofollow and some low traffic)