5 Popular Blog Directories for Quick Blog Rankings

There are a number of things you can do to boost your blog rankings. Besides other stuff like pinging your blogs on search engines, joining forums and etc., what you can do is blog directory submissions. This is an effective way to build backlinks to your blog and build your blog rankings.

Here's 5 popular blog directories that you should keep in mind (not in any particular order)

• Blogged.com - Very popular, has a feed-type of layout and you can follow each other which is great for networking
• OnTopList.com - Very popular directory that reviews your blog for free. It's human-edited which is always preferred by search engines and can help your blog rank better faster.
• Bloggepedia - Very popular. Perfect for newbie-bloggers who are trying to pick a topic/niche to blog about because they show popular tags used by readers.
• BlogCatalog - Very popular. Can easily be used to build free targeted web traffic and blog rankings. A perfect networking tool to socialize with other bloggers.
• Technorati - Very effective and popular. A great way to 'claim' your blog. Very easy to use and uses the 'voting' system that could help you build your ranking easily. The more your articles get 'dugg'  the the more popular you get, which gives you a better ranking as you post more quality content.

Why it's effective?
Besides the obvious reason (it is a blog directory after all), blog directory submissions helps promote your blog to other existing bloggers and at the same time get to know other bloggers and make it easier for other bloggers to get to know you too. Blog directory submissions is a great way to make yourself known to other bloggers. I repeat, other bloggers. Beats having to search in Google or Yahoo for other bloggers. Blog directories are in other words 'Bloggers' Central'. It's the place to meet, and build relationships with bloggers of the same interest/niche/business as you.

Other than that, it's a great way to create backlinks, do as much needed networking, makes commenting on other blogs easier and also gets free targeted web traffic to you blog. All these combined, boosts your blog rankings easily. What else is there to say. You should try it out and see the results for yourself. :)