Blog directories - how much is too much ?

[Bloggeries]

At first I thought if I used different anchors I'd not rank well.

YOU CAN use similar anchors just change the description an if you want to be hardcore like I was change the anchors as well. Search Blog forum or any derivative... We're around

[PaulR]

Good point. But when submitting to dirs are you relying on your keywords for ranking or the strength of the category your submitting to?

[freediver]

Based on my experience, blog (web) directories are a thing of a past. In my experiment so far I received negligible amount of traffic from them all together compared to social media sites which are a thing of the future. The blog dirs that I used can be found on the footer of the site.

More on I have a website listed in DMOZ since 1999, and it never sends any traffic whatsoever. It might have helped the site rank a little bit (PR3) and this could be the only purpose of the web dirs today (getting free links).

[PaulR]

I definitely agree on the power of social bookmarking sites. Netscape is becoming one of my favorites.

[Bloggeries]

According to Search Engine Journal .com

20 Essential Blog Directories to Submit Your Blog To

[veikoh]

I would recommend to ping your blog after each article rather than listing it in directories. One free ping service is Blog and ping | Pingoat for example.

[Ferox]

The thing I don't like about directories with recipricols is that all the buttons are slightly different sizes, and all different colours, so I can't chose them to match my blog.

I have had a few visitors from them, probably about 3 from bloggeries so far, and am planning to go through another round of directory adding sometime, as I need to add corollax to a bunch too.

[Bloggeries]

Directories aren't typically known for traffic as much as they relevant backlinks. I've yet to find a directory that serves me lot's of traffic.

I'm in DMOZ and I get ~7 uniques a month woohooo