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There are a lot of blog directory out there where you could get some exposure and some link back to your blog. Some of it are free and some of it are paid. Although, Google may pay more attention and priority to paid directory, when you are poor/cheapskate, free is always the best way to go. Here are some good way of marketing your blog on the Internet

Website Directory
Website directory is a general directory where by everyone with a website will be allowed to submit themselves into this directory. It will generally accept business website, personal website, commercial website, blogs, and any other website out there when it fits its criteria and categories.

Blog Directory
Blog directory is more specific since there are so many blogs coming up each day. Blog directory is usually categorize according to your blog content and usually there is more than one that fits your blog but you will pick those that are most suitable. You only submit once and wait for their approval.

Feed Directory
Feed directory is slightly different because it only accepts feed and not your blog url. Therefore some people may submit their feedburner or their rss feeds generated by their blog. This is similar to blog directory but it promotes a every new post on your blog rather than your blog url. If your blog is updated, you will get an extra link.

The good news is that blogs could actually submit themselves into this three types of directory. Here is some list of the directories which you could include you blog into.

Dmoz
This is widely use and you will get a huge boost when you get your website approved. But it is hard and I personally never get any website of mine approved after 3 years of trying.

2RSS
2RSS is a feed directory

All Blogs
It accepts all French and English directory, but if you are submitting English blog

Best Blogs Asia
This is one of the famous directory for Asian bloggers.

Blog Catalog
Another famous blog directory

BlogDigger
This is a search engine for blog feed.

I will be attending Fabian Lim’s Internet Marketing Boot Camp next week and I am reader with all needed software installed on my trusty HP Notebook. I will be away from 28th to 30th March, and will be studying at J.W Marriot. I am actually looking forward to learn more about Affiliate Marketing because it is really very new to me and I have little to no success in this field.

Until now, I felt a little down because it took a very long time for them to solve my account problem even though I send them multiples support tickets and until I give success resources a call to resolve the problem.

Also, I really thought that I will be able to get the World Internet Academy account to preview what is inside the program. World Internet Academy (WIA) is suppose to include video and detail guidance for people who likes to learn more about Internet Marketing. But I could not find the steps to signup from World Internet Academy from their member page, I will see if they reply their support ticket this time.

Overall, I am pumped, looking at pictures from the previous boot camp, it seems very packed, I hope that I could get valuable advice from this Internet Marketing Malaysia Boot Camp.

My latest creation for websmaster to promote their new website online. Newly Website is installed using an open source script that I belief most people would know. It is a digg alike script whereby it rank the website base on votes. The more the votes, the higher it goes, but the entry date plays a role as well.

If you have a new website, Newly Website is a great place to promote you site. It has been launch a while now and slowly I am getting some visitor which will be useful to promote your new website.

It is currently on the very first page for the keyword “Latest Websites”.

Advertising space is quite essential for bloggers/webmaster who earn money from advertisements. It is strongly advise not to clutter your content with advertisements because you may lose credibility and loyal reader. Peel Away advertisements script is getting good response because it is basically using up 75 x 75 (some are using 100 x 100 pixel) of the top right/left corner, but a lot of information of commercial graphics could be shown on 500 x 500 pixel (about 1/2 is shown only).

There are a lot of people outside charging from $8 to $32, and the fact is that you could actually get them for practically free. Try it out and have fun.

Download Free Peel Away WordPress Plugin Here

Congratulation to Hinching and Vincent. You have both won 500 entrecard credit to promote your website.

My contest actually failed miserably as there is only an increase of 3 feed subscription via email. The chance of wining this contest is a whooping 2/3 (66.67%). No harm done since I got this Entrecard Credit from Problogger and I got a link with some extra traffic. Overall I think it fails because of few reasons and lack of experience. Also, I have no use for the Entrecard because it is not working well for me. Here are some reason where you may fail contest.

Post Frequency
Out of the 21 days, I manage to write only 13 post. Less post frequency means I have less ping on blog aggregator which will result in less visitor. If you were to launch a contest, ensure that you have time to post at least a post a day. Or write them in advance and use post timestamp.

Promotion
It would be good to have other promotional technique and advertising campaign running at the same time because will much more effective and advertising campaign will come hand in hand with the contest.

Plan, Plan and Plan
Finally, there is a lack of planing and things come out at my work which I have to handle. When you see other contest, it seems pretty easy because they already have the existing reader. Whereelse, I am only trying to gain more reader from a contest.

Overall, from this contest I did spend a little time coming out with my Announcement Add-on for your Blog.