There are website directories, there are article directories.. and guess what. You can submit your RSS feed to RSS directories.

Cool, huh? And this way, every time you publish a new post, those directories are being updated. Most of them… Sometimes you have to update’em manually. But that’s OK, right? Do we want to get some extra traffic and external links? Sure, we do. And this is another way, that needs just some of your time.

It took me about 3-4 hours to submit my RSS feed to the following list of RSS directories. I bet that you’ll do it a lot faster, because all of these RSS directories are quality ones and work 100%. They are also up-to-date by December, 2009 (by January 2010 now). That’s why the topic says “2010″.

So.. check out my top RSS directories 2010 with Google pagerank and Alexa ranking. Notice also that I didn’t include such RSS directories, that demand you to put a backlink or banner for them. Be sure, that the list is perfect for today.

Updated on the 4th Apr. 2010

Scheme of the list: URL – Google Pagerank – Alexa ranking

• publisher.yahoo.com – 6 – 4;
• www.redtram.com – 6 – 1,959;
• www.feedage.com – 6 – 6,786;
• www.feedcat.net – 6 – 19,980;
• www.codango.com – 6 – 23,018;
• www.plazoo.com – 6 – 26,861;
• www.millionrss.com – 5 – 29,514;
• www.rssmountain.com – 5 – 41,532;
• www.feedmil.com – 5 – 60,531;
• www.feedsee.com – 5 – 79,358;
• www.feednuts.com – 5 – 95,226;
• www.blogdirectory001.com – 5 – 102,726;
• www.rss-spider.com – 5 – 117,987;
• www.oobdoo.com – 5 – 124,881;
• www.feedmailer.net – 5 – 156,696;
• www.5z5.com – 4 – 15,124;
• www.feedest.com – 4 – 29,231;
• www.jordomedia.com – 4 – 36,974;
• www.2rss.com – 4 – 38,968 – currently experiencing difficulties with MySQL database;
• www.leighrss.com – 4 – 44,707;
• www.rssmotron.com – 4 – 62,853;
• www.goldenfeed.com – 4 – 62,976;
• www.solarwarp.net – 4 – 92,050;
• www.feedgy.com – 4 – 115,898;
• www.greenprofs.com – 4 – 333,121;
• www.feedmap.net – 3 – 51,381;
• www.blogbunch.com – 3 – 84,338;
• 4guysfromrolla.aspin.com – 3 – 127,378;
• www.feedlisting.com – 3 – 129,001;
• www.newzalert.com – 3 – 191,967;
• www.1800rssfeeds.com – 1 – 175,964;
• www.rssmicro.com – 0 – 35,743;
• www.readablog.com – 0 – 62,785;
• www.automotive-links.mustangv8.com – N/A – 110,707;
• en.newsxs.com – N/A – 226,999;

Updated on the 4th Apr. 2010

I’m going to update the list in several months, so that you can come back and look for updates.

As a bonus, try this free submitter, that submits your RSS feeds to several services at once.

PS. You can check also the resources of my list:

1. 55 Active RSS Directores (Written in 2007 – not updated);
2. 35 Best RSS Directories to Submit Your Blog (Written the 16th Jan., 2009 – not updated);
3. RSS – Blog Directories (List Updated 11-16-09);
4. RSS Submissions (great list, unknown date of update);
5. List of RSS Directories (Posted 06-03-2009 12:59 PM);

This post is a logical continuation of my previous work, where I’ve been talking about top web directories and top social bookmarking sites. This series of posts consists of the most fresh stats and links upon November, 2009.

Today, it’s time to have a look at proffesionals of blogging, that are worth your time.

Warning!

Stop wasting your time on low-rated blogs.. like mine :). Begin commenting and gaining new & fresh traffic from high-rated blogs.
You know what…? That really doesn’t sound quite normal. Because talking about this is kinda “personal” for each of us. But still..
Here’s my list of the best of the best.. with Google pagerank and Alexa of course.

Scheme of the list: URL – Google PageRank – Alexa ranking

• www.readwriteweb.com – 8 – 1,864
• www.seomoz.org – 8 – 1,915
• www.googleblog.blogspot.com – 8 – 2,080
• www.mashable.com – 7 – 344
• www.techcrunch.com – 7 – 367
• www.blog.searchenginewatch.com – 7 – 2,967
• www.mattcutts.com/blog/ – 7 – 4,501
• www.thinkprogress.org – 7 – 10,128
• www.seobook.com/blog/ – 6 – 1,021
• www.problogger.net – 6 – 2,001
• www.copyblogger.com – 6 – 4,126
• www.toprankblog.com – 6 – 8,451
• www.davidnaylor.co.uk/blog/ – 5 – 17,892
• www.seobythesea.com – 5 – 22,165
• www8.getmiro.com/blog/ – N/A – 24,724 – Its PR is 8, but because of “www8″ it’s N/A now

If that’s still not enough, check these out also. Or.. Technorati’s top.. But why I don’t like Technorati’s top is because almost every single blog isn’t suitable for promoting…

My recommendation:

Use only some of my list and focus on what you comment and how you comment. That would save your nerves and attention.

Let me introduce this time the list of top web directories to submit your website or blog to. All of them are free (optionally) and very quality. This list is being updated already during several months, which makes it one of the best for you.

Now, below are 3 basic tips why you need to submit your websites to these directories:

1) Get you first traffic!
- Very common reason. There are lots of opinions about that. Most of them tell us that we need to write more often and more precious content. It’s actually right. But when we begin, we can’t wait. We need the result as faster as possible. I feel the same right now. I really want to see, that my website is being visited. One of the things, that can help it, is adding your website link to high-ranked web directories.

2) Top web directories will raise your PR.
- That’s it. But be careful choosing those web directories. Pick up only quality ones.

3) Mostly it’s all because of traffic.
- Don’t you think that only submissions will do your PR like 5-6 or more, right? So don’t. It’s just another way to bring you some targeted traffic.

List of 22 Web Directories

Updated on the 5th Apr. 2010

Scheme of the list: URL – Google Pagerank – Alexa ranking – note

• www.ipl.org – 9 – 11,279 – ipl2 is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians’ Internet Index (LII);
• www.dmoz.org – 8 – 597
• www.busybits.com – 6 – 35,234 – jumped from PR 3 to PR 6 on the latest Google PageRank Update
• www.gogreece.com – 6 – 131,317 – Greece directory, Alexa is falling down
• www.pegasusdirectory.com – 5 – 11,330
• www.somuch.com – 5 – 16,483
• www.canlinks.net – 5 – 18,118
• www.turnpike.net – 5 – 19,250
• www.tsection.com – 5 – 20,802
• www.cultuurtechnologie.net – 5 – 26,300
• www.businessseek.biz – 5 – 29,216
• (?)www.mavicanet.com – 5 – 35,171
• www.politicalforecast.net – 5 – 98612
• www.2yi.net – 5 – 104,821
• www.jayde.com – 4 – 3,888
• www.info-listings.com – 4 – 21,614
• www.wowdirectory.com – 4 – 56,874
• www.spheri.com – 4 – 133,969
• www.webworldindex.com – 3 – 15,415
• www.allthewebsites.org – 3 – 33,234
• www.freshtv.com – 3 – 46,755
• www.directory.vxbox.com – 3 – 417,158 – Alexa has greatly decreased

Updated on the 5th Apr. 2010

Some of the used resources:

1. Wikipedia’s article: List of Web Directories
2. Top Web Directory List
3. Top 10 Free Directories to Add Your Website to

PS:Don’t waste your time on submitting to thousands of web directories. That’s not worth it.. Focus on some hot web directories and just stop. Want to know why? Then watch Lisa’s video: Are Directory Submissions Worth It?.

The easiest way to get your first (or extra) external links is to submit your pages (links) to social bookmarking websites. But then come several problems. What are the best social bookmarking sites? What’s better: “nofollow” or “dofollow” links? I’ve prepared the answers..

Firstly.. what means “nofollow” and “dofollow”?

1) NoFollow – this means, that Google’s crawlers will not follow and will not index your link. The posted link won’t be counted as an external link.. though it’ll bring you some fresh direct traffic! Cool, huh?

How do they look like?

PS Search engines like Yahoo don’t mind your “nofollow” links. They simply ignore “nofollow” attributes.

2) DoFollow – actually, there is no any “dofollow” meta tag. But that’s how is called a link, when it has no “nofollow” attribute. The good news is that search engine robots will index your “dofollow” links and that will raise your position in search results according to PR of the website, where you’ve submitted your link. Confused about that?
Check out this example.

OK, I hope the above info is clear enough. Now meet my collection of the best social bookmarking sites divided into “no follow” and “do follow” categories.

Updated on the 6th Apr. 2010

Scheme of the list: URL – Google Pagerank – Alexa ranking – note

NoFollow Social Bookmarking Websites:

1. www.reddit.com – 8 – 308 – “dofollow” > what’s hot, top and saved submissions, new and controversial > “nofollow”
2. www.digg.com – 8 – 106
3. www.delicious.org – 8 – 340
4. www.mister-wong.com – 8 – 2,217
5. www.slashdot.org – 7 – 1,245 – author links and all submissions that are not on the front page – “noffolow”
6. www.jumptags.com – 7 – 1,505 – you can also submit your RSS feed
7. www.blinklist.com – 7 – 3,799
8. www.bibsonomy.org – 7 – 5,175 – design is not attractive
9. www.2collab.com – 7 – 44,958 – due to spam attacks registration is closed… already more than 3 months, Alexa is falling;
10. www.diigo.com – 6 – 1,792
11. www.simpy.com – 6 – 9,734 – all of the submissions appear on the front page, though they stay there not too long
12. www.netvouz.com – 6 – 24,101
13. www.bookmarks.com – 6 – 38,365 – not social enough
14. www.faves.com – 5 – 3,639 – friendly looking
15. www.url.org – 5 – 5,374 – spammy
16. www.dropjack.com – 5 – 6,786 – spammy
17. www.clipclip.org – 5 – 17,934
18. www.humsurfer.com – 4 – 1,891 – India, World news, slow page loading;
19. www.getboo.com – 4 – 34,630 – old-looking site
20. – 4 – 58,824 – currently is spammed
21. www.dnhour.com – 4 – 66,592 – domaining
22. www.groxx.com – 4 – 95,709 – different news
23. www.wirefan.com – 3 – 9,714 – jumped from PR 0 to PR 3 on the latest PR update, spammy;
24. www.pr4links.com – 3 – 32,121 – desert-looking

DoFollow Social Bookmarking Websites:

1. buzz.yahoo.com – 8 – 4 – world news
2. www.mixx.com – 8 – 746 – great for social media blogs
3. www.propeller.com – 8 – 1,735 – great, but sometimes too slow, no anchor text in links to your pages
4. www.wikio.com – 8 – 2,198 – you can submit your RSS feed or publish an article, any topics, though tech news rule :)
5. www.slashdot.org – 7 – 1,245 – “dofollow” in posts on the front page;
6. www.folkd.com – 7 – 1,333 – spammy
7. www.metafilter.com – 7 – 2,042 – overlinked pages, world news
8. www.n4g.com – 7 – 2,369 – news for gamers
9. www.current.com – 7 – 3,001 – redirects, cloaking, not sure if it’s “dofollow”
10. news.ycombinator.com – 7 – 3,001 – hacker news
11. www.connotea.org – 7 – 5,364 – convenient, but not social, a simple bookmarker
12. www.dzone.com – 6 – 2,490 – for all kinds of developers
13. www.clipmarks.com – 6 – 3,117 – barely social
14. www.sphinn.com – 6 – 5,918 – SEO, blogging, cruel moderators
15. www.designbump.com – 6 – 10,093 – design, cool one
16. www.tipd.com – 6 – 11,965 – financial topics, barely social, the front page is PR 6, all the rest are PR 4
17. www.kwoff.com – 6 – 15,177 – spammy, problems with the design
18. www.buzzflash.net – 6 – 17,952 – barely social, only the front page is PR 6, all the rest are N/A
19. www.designfloat.com – 5 – 7,404 – design
20. www.mylinkvault.com – 5 – 7,160 – nice
21. www.buddymarks.com – 5 – 7,456 – spammy
22. www.spotback.com – 5 – 8,434 – strange
23. www.kirtsy.com – 5 – 9,233 – only the front page is PR 5, all the rest are N/A
24. blogengage.com – 5 – 12,158 – blogging
25. www.faqpal.com – 5 – 21,048 – blogging
26. scriptandstyle.com – 5 – 24,360 – design, cool
27. fwisp.com – 5 – 31,929 – finance, business
28. www.plugim.com – 5 – 38,412 – seems to be dead
29. www.ngopost.org – 5 – 48,983
30. fleck.com – 5 – 73,111 – small network, for bookmarks
31. www.socialogs.com – 4 – 9,872 – cloaking, not passing link juice
32. www.blurpalicious.com – 4 – 10,081 – spammy
33. www.postonfire.com – 4 – 10,376 – not sure if it’s working
34. www.quadriot.com – 4 – 13,473
35. www.rambhai.com – 4 – 16,678 – India news
36. thewebblend.com – 4 – 19,462 – cool, design
37. www.blogmarks.net – 4 – 20,589
38. www.memfrag.com – 4 – 24,089 – simple bookmarker
39. www.linkatopia.com – 4 – 62,851 – slowly dying
40. www.bloggerden.com – 4 – 70,155 – blogging
41. www.mmosocialnetwork.com – 4 – 70,449 – blogging
42. www.overflowlegal.com – 4 – 104,200
43. www.momshare.net – 4 – 129,119 – barely active, Mom-powered social news and networking
44. www.totalpad.com – 3 – 17,592 – only the front page is PR 6, all the rest are N/A
45. www.stumpedia.com – 3 – 19,210 – submit only URLs, good one
46. www.sturvs.com – 3 – 36,071
47. www.sweepsgoat.com – 3 – 38,261 – spammy, for those who run contests
48. www.xerpi.com – 3 – 41,924 – simple bookmarker
49. www.binarylaw.com – 3 – 241,671 – law and tech submissions, Alexa has greatly decreased
50. pfbuzz.com – 2 – 27,862 – personal finance

Updated on the 6th Apr. 2010

If you’re a real psycho – visit insane list of 700+ social bookmarking sites.