Submitting to Blogging Directories?

Does submitting my blog to sites like Blogcatalog and MyBlogLog help build up more traffic through backlinks, etc? Or is it just a waste of time?

 

Yes you do I feel that both of them give me traffic.

 

I just don't find any use of such directories...although I use MBL daily to check my stats..but that is only what I use MBL for...

blogging directories were helpful till Google used to count those links. Now as it will penalize for such links (I hope I am not wrong) so I think it is always suggested to stay away from these links..

 

I didn't realize Google penalizes sites for links on these directories. That's not good.

 

I am receiving a fair amount of traffic from both.

I have also used FuelMyBlog... but it didn't work quite as well as the MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog.

Jens

 

So they do work well? I'm confused now.

 

I am satisfied with both MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog as I am getting both targeted traffic and new contacts every single day.

I am not sure about Google, but it works for me.

Jens

 

Okay I may still give them a shot, along with some other web blog directories. Thanks for the info.

 

I've never had anything from BlogCatalog but MyBlogLog is quite a good service.

 

it definetly gets you crawled more often

 

I have stopped wasting my time submitting to directories.

 

Google doesn't penalize for this, only for "link farms", i.e. people/websites who don't care for quality control and just want money.

 

If you want traffic, I would skip submitting to those sites (yes, I think it's a waste of time, or at least for my projects) and stick to wordpress where posts are automatically pinged (for traffic, even though it is very little).

 

However, "those sites" are good for PR.

 

try it and analyse ur results