Did you know there are more than 150 blog directories? Yep, and some of them specialize in blogs just like yours. But you can’t know this, or even begin to do the labor-intensive manual submission process unless you’ve got the list. Quite frankly, I wouldn’t spend my time doing this.
But it must be done, so that you start getting indexed by the search engine spiders. So here’s Marketing Tip #4:
4. Submit your blog to the 150+ blog directories. You can do this manually (10-12 hours of time), or there is a service that will do it for you for $95: http://snipurl.com/Blog_Directory.
Yes, that’s the Blog Squad’s own submission service, and yes, we can do a little self-promotion from time to time, especially when it has BIG benefits for you. No, we don’t actually do this work ourselves; we outsource to off-season elves in Santa’s workshop.