It’s another link building resource for you. There are 294 Blog Directories in this list now. Some are free and some are not, some of them have high requirements and some of them are “nofollow”. This list might not be as good as the list to 1000 web directories but you can add it to your “SEO To-Do List” and it helps a lot.

If you are submitting your blog to 10 web directories everyday, submit your blog to 3 blog directories. You’ll be finishing the list after 3 months. Another note for you is, “nofollow” links help you in rankingand it makes your backlinks look more natural. So, don’t give up on them!

1. Technorati
2. boingboing.net
3. boingboing.net
4. globeofblogs.com
5. icerocket.com
6. Blogged.com
7. LSBlogs.com
8. BlogHop.com
9. blogcatalog.com
10. WeBlogALot.com
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Have your blog or site been into Google Sandbox before?

Google Sandbox is basically a way Google penalize websites who try to manipulate search results by putting the site into a ‘Jail’ so that site won’t get any search engine traffic. This usually happens when the site owner build links too aggressively, unnaturally or whatever reasons.

Once your blog is ‘jailed’, it takes you 5-6 months to get it back on the search engine.

When this happens to you, what should you do?

These are my suggestions:

1. Continue Building Natural Links

When your blog is penalized, you can’t do anything much about it. Google own the search engine and you didn’t pay anything to Google to rank. There used to be a businessman who loses all his search engine traffic overnight. He has a company with a bunch of products waiting to sell in his warehouse. That’s the risk of relying on search engine traffic.

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