Submitting Blogs to Directories

Directories can be a great way to get vital links to your Blog but the problem is actually getting your site listed.

Take for example Blogwise.com today they have 71067 blogs listed and a queue of 48335 blogs waiting to be approved. There current rate of approval is a mere 25 sites in the last 7 days. Clearly they cannot cope with the boom in Blogging.

The reason for this slow approval rate is that every site is manually reviewed by volunteer editors. This outdated approach is bad for the  blogosphere and  creates frustration with webmasters, just like with the old dinosaur DMOZ (open directory). In these days of high speed internet, the mechanics of these incredibly slow search aids should be re-thought.

My suggestion is that all submissions should be instantly added to the database with the assumption that most will be honestly submitted to the correct category and contain inoffensive content. Automatic spam filters could be used to hold suspicious sites in a queue for manual checking. This way the approval queue would be much reduced in size.

Sites in the index could then be subject to user voting to adjust their ranking in the directory rather than it being an alphabetical list that attracts spam names such as 1aardvark.com

Also, there could be a “report this site button” where people can send feedback to the editorial team.

Submitting to directories should be made quick, free and easy. Please comment…