Blog Catalog is the premiere social blog directory on the internet. Whether you’re looking to promote your own blog or find blogs on various topics.

I use Blog Catalog widget to be able to know the visitors on my blog.

TIP: It is always nice to pay a blog visit to someone who has visited yours.

Steps on installing the widget:

• Register to Blog Catalog, or if you already have an account, sign in.
• Go to Manage Blogs. Add a blog if you haven’t added a blog that you want to put the widget.
• Build a custom widget for __the blog you wanted to put the widget__.
• Edit the widget color or features according to your liking. Be sure that the width fits the width of your sidebar.
• Copy the code given and paste it to the area on your sidebar where you want it to be seen.
• DONE

One thing you need to know once you are an SEO is where to get your directory list. Info Vilesilencer is my first source of directory list. This has an updated list of directories.

Website: http://info.vilesilencer.com/

They are also on the top list on Google when you search for “SEO Friendly Directory.”

Their list is in a form of a spreadsheet that have fields for you to fill up, tabs of different categories and PR of the directory. On the fields I often use it to write the Date Submitted and Date Approved, this way you would know what site approves the fastest or does not approve at all.

TIPS:

• It would be best if you choose to submit only to the directories that is for free and does not require a reciprocal link.
• Before doing the submissions, it is also best if you would create an email to track those submissions alone, because you would surely receive a lot of emails.
• Try to list all the info needed in submission, such as name, email, site name, site url and site description. So that you don’t have to write over and over again, all you need to do is copy the info and paste it to the input box.

I added WordPress on the title, because honestly I do not know how to put or create a sitemap on my own. A sitemap is a tool which helps search engine crawl your site easily. This is best for SEO.

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I just installed Google Analytics to track my sites statistics. It is the best statistic generator I have encountered so far.

This is easy to install, once you know HTML.

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