Here is an exclusive list of Websites, directory and places where you should submit your blog. Most of the sites listed here are free, and if you are creating a new blog/Website or have not submitted your existing Website to these places, you should go ahead and create one.
This also includes many social networking sites and social bookmarking profile. It’s not an extensive list like 1000 sites or something, but I’m creating a list of those sites which are important and will be helpful in either search engine ranking or tracking your site report.
Where to submit your Blog?
Let me start the list with Webmaster tools as it will be first step to get your site on search engines. Submitting you blog to other sites will help in better indexing and crawling of your blog. Especially when you create a new blog, it takes time for search engine bots to find your blog and crawl it, by submitting your site to these Websites which is listed below, it will help in faster indexing. Though if your sole motto is to let your site index in no time, here is a quick guide : How to index your site in 24 hours.
I’m not adding those directories or sites, which asks you to place a link back to verify the site ownership, as it will be considered as two way link exchange. Though, there are few directories which are quite useful and you may consider adding the link for a day or two just for the verification.
Many of these sites like Alltop requires you to have feed on your blog, so I recommend you to burn your feed using Feedburner before you get started.
Google Webmaster tool:
This is an official tool by Google, where you can not only add your Website but also submit your sitemap to Google. This will ensure, Google will quickly crawl all your links and index them. More over, GWT works as free SEO tool for your website. You can apply various SEO techniques using GWT data.
Bing Webmaster tool:
Official Webmaster tool by Bing, and like Google tool, submitting your blog to this place will ensure your site is visible in Bing. Learn how to submit website to bing webmaster tools, and how to use bing webmaster tool.
Facebook:
Facebook could be huge for your blog traffic if you do the marketing right. To submit your Website to Facebook, you need to create a Facebook fan page, and that’s how you start. Simple and easy.
Twitter:
Twitter is one of the famous micro-blogging and social networking site. I already discussed why your Website needs an official Twitter account and having a profile on Twitter for your blog, will help you to get a free link. Though it will no follow, again it’s very useful for blog branding. Learn how to create a Twitter profile.
Google Analytics:
Not a typical place to submit your blog but very useful to keep a track of your site stats and the best part is it’s free stats tool by Google. Highly recommended for a new site to add GA on your blog. Read: What is Google analytics?
Alltop:
Not for new blogs, but if you have a quality blog, make sure you add your blog to Alltop. Very useful for giving good exposure to your site. Requires you to create a free account before submission. Link to submit
Pinterest:
Pinterest is a popular image-based social networking site. When you submit your blog to Pinterest and verify your profile, you earn a free high-quality backlink. More over, it will help in improving your online brand presence. Join Pinterest.
IMT Website submitter:
This is an online tool, which submits your Website to over 3000 places. For example, sites which stores site analytics, site price and so on. Those links might not be very high quality, but it will help in quick indexing, and improving backlink profile of your blog. Link
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This is a quick list for now, and I will keep updating the list with time. For now, I hope this list will be helpful for your new blog to get started online. If you know more Websites, which will be useful for any new blog, and we should submit our blog there, let me know via comments.
Thanks for the great tips, I have used the IMTalk tool as recommended.
I used IMT Submitter as you say.
I am benefited by it.
regards
vinodh
I Won’t Agree With Such Submission…. I dont like putting my sites in so much of directories and auto submissions. and i also urge all others not to do this act… keep your backlinks limited..of good quality… and from Higher PR Sites…. making such cheap links may de-value your site’s reputation…. i practically experienced it with my blogs…May be it worked for you Harsh…
Hi Harsh,
Today I spent more than 2 hours reading posts on your blog.
Though I have question for you. I would appreciate your help. According to this post if I submit my website to web directories then I will get good back links.
Tell me whether this is safe or not. And if I submit will my website be penalised by google or I will be safe.
Harsh, thanks for this info. I want to ask one thing that by posting the blogs with our name is a nice option or not. Will it increase the visibility and traffic. Clarify this doubt
Excellent list of the best websites and directories where can submit blog easy way for increasing visitors. Many blogger are struggling to find the right directories to submit their blog so i think that such type of list will be a great source for them.
Hey harsh, thanks for providing this nice list. I am currently using Blogger as my blogging platform and use feed burner for feeds but when i tried to add these feed link in all top it shows me some kind of error. Can you help me to eliminate this problem?
It always says that it doesn’t pass the feed test.
Brother,
I am again on your blog.I read your reply to sandy which i find quite useful.Lists you have suggested are really important? are they cheap to control the cost? it might be out of way question i asked to you so i can consult my SEO for same.
regards,
Harsh,
Only want to know if we are there at all pages than will it be easy to manage or we should go for only few option.What will be more useful among them.Please elaborate.
Regards,
Thank you Harsh, such a helpful list!
I never knew you can do that with Pinterest, I tried it, and worked like a charm and that’s one good backlink, thanks!
I will proceed with the other tools you mentioned that I am not using yet like Ahrefs, Alltop, and IMT Website submitter.
By the way, with IMT Website submitter, I’m assuming they added the feature to limit the number of created pages because getting many backlinks too quickly might appear unnatural (and can get your website penalized). Am I right? Any recommended maximum pages to create or is it safe to just leave it at default? Thanks again!
Many Thanx for this post I was struggling for finding directories to submit my site and here I got my answer, I’m very sad bcoz I did very hard work on myblog my alexa rank is under 2K in India but still have no pagerank and it’s really so much frustrating, I hope submitting on these directories will help me be get Page rank for my blog.
Nice post. How about DMOZ? Is it is good directory for submitting?
@Mainak
DMOZ and Yahoo directory are considered as very trustable one. You can get into Yahoo directory by paying a fee, and Dmoz submission process is pretty slow.
Hi, Harsh
This article really benefit for those who do not know where and how to submit their blog to directories and Websites, the list of directories and websites are mentioned above are really a best one.
Thanks
Hello Harsh,
Thank you! for this handy list..couple of other sites I can think of at the moment
1.If you are an indian blogger.. “IndiBlogger [dot] in” can be a good place..it’s again a blog aggregator like Technorati..
2. “Sulia”..a comparatively new micro-blogging platform…[though i’m not sure about whether the links are “Do Follow”
@Renjiv
Thanks for adding more value to the article. Yes Indianblogger.in is a good addition. Sulia is a complete new name, and thanks for introducing it. Even http://blogadda.com/ is a good place…
Thanks for the quick list, Harsh. I tried to submit my new blog to BlogCataloge, but they declined it. I don’t know what’s the reason.
I’m appreciate your help 🙂
Best, Anup
@Anup
It also happened with one of my new site, and I’m not sure if they are doing it intentionally to promote their premium submission (Paid).
Hi Harsh,
Very nice and useful information for the novice bloggers like me. I will try some of them, which I have not done yet.
Thanks
Pradeep
@Pradeep
Glad it helped.. 🙂
Hi Harsh,
Thanks for the lovely article, apart from the websites you mentioned above there are other directories as well, what do you suggest directory submission is a better way of driving traffic or blog commenting.
Sandy
@Sandy Anytime blog commenting is better than directory submission.
Blog commenting will help in getting backlink from relevant niche, and link are from better quality sites than article directories. More over traffic + branding advantages are there, which you don’t get with directories submission.
It’s true that we get linkbacks from websites of proper niche. There is one problem, though, with blog commenting. You don’t get proper anchor text for a link back by commenting.
What do you think?
hai harsh nice info
http://smallseotools.com/backlink-maker/
have a look at this
@Chaitalya
Thanks for useful addition 🙂
@ Harsh
Is it safe (perspective of google blacklisting) to use this tool for seo?
This is a wonderful addition.. Many Thanks! 57 backlinks created with no fret and within a minute!! And all the sites for which my pages were created were of good google pagerank!
The last site named as IMTalk help is website submission. So, there would be a chance to get poor quality links too ? What to do against that ?
@Saurabh
They might be poor quality links, but they are not bad quality links. Bad quality links are one which comes from spammy sites, and these links are coming from websites which keep index of websites. Hope this clears your doubt.
Hey harsh Thanks for sharing this list,
Submitting to all this site does benefits?
@Sahil
Yes it does.. It will increase the link volume, and will also help in increasing visibility.