While getting attention in public can be an easy feat (just a bit of song and dance is usually enough to do the trick), unfortunately, there's no easy online equivalent to get visitors looking your way. So unless you can figure out a way to program computers into hypnotizing their owners in classic supervillain fashion, you're going to have to learn to draw visitors to your site the old-fashioned way: hard work.
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Other than having the advantage of a really adorable robot as their logo, Reddit is also one of the most straightforward of user-directed news sources choices. Once you register, you simply click on the "Submit a Link" button, and then submit the title and URL of your latest post. In addition, you'll have to choose a "subreddit," or the category under which you want your blog title to appear.
Digg also has a very simple submission process. Just like with Reddit, you'll click the "Submit Link" button, but with a few more choices this time. In addition to adding a title and topic, you'll have the option to choose an image and provide a short description of your post.
While Technorati's signup process can be a bit of a pain, in the end, the fact that it updates itself makes it all worthwhile. This directory bases blog popularity on an authority system, tabulating your blog's effectiveness through a number of factors, like outside links and relevant content.
Stumbleupon is probably the friendliest of the directories out there, thanks to it's 'share and share alike' policy. While you can recommend your own content to other users, you'll want to make sure to recommend other interesting sites as well. It's the best way to ensure that other Stumblers will be more inclined to recommend your sites in return. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, and can intimidate a vote out of anyone.
If you haven't really done much with your blog yet, you'll have to wait until you've reached at least ten posts to add your blog to Blogcatalog. It's relatively new, but has a promising community already built up around cutting-edge bloggers.
Do you use a directory that wasn't on this list? Then feel free to spread the word in the comments section below!
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A good way to promote your site or business page through different blog directories is very useful. They can help you advertise your site in that way people can easily catch up on what your business is all about.
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