Get Quick Traffic and Backlinks: 22 Instant Submission RSS Directories

By: Shane On: November 23rd, 2009 —

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The RSS feed is an essential component of every blog and the number of subscribers is often referenced as a measure of a blog’s success. The feed can also be used for blog promotion and backlink building. In this post, I list 22 RSS directories where you can quickly and easily submit your RSS without the need to register or pay a fee.

If you’ve searched for this subject before, you’ve probably encountered much larger lists of RSS directories than the one below. I found hundreds of such directories in all the lists I went through. But instead of just reproducing them all here, I weeded out all of the directories that:

were dead (404, redirected to something else, replaced with Adsense pages,…)
require registration
only list feeds if you pay them
looked too spammy/junky

After going through hundreds of directories, I was left with the 22 listed below. Some (not many) of the directories require a reciprocal link to include your blog in their listings. I figured this isn’t a very big deal and could be worth a free listing in most cases.

RSS Directories

FeedFury – Sometimes throws a CPA survey at you before you’re allowed to submit. The FeedShark may be a way around this.

FeedShark – Multi-Pinger

RSSmicro – Has an interesting feature in that it calculates a “FeedRank” to reflect the quality and popularity of your feed (my FeedRank is, alas, crap).

RSSmotron

Weblogalot

Yahoo RSS Directory – I included this since I figure many readers probably already have a Yahoo account. If not, then this technically breaches the “doesn’t require registration” feature.

Buttons and Stuff

Some of the directories offer buttons that you can place in your posts to let readers visit your directory page and/or vote on the post. Some of them are just fancy backlinks, however.

Here are the buttons and backlinks from all the above directories:

Weblogs Directory

Blog and ping

Evaluation

I don’t actually know whether submissions to RSS directories is a good strategy. You do get exposure for your blog, potentially new readers and backlinks. That’s all good, without a question. What I’m not sure about is whether it’s worth the time. I’ll let you know if i see a significant benefit from this. Until then, I would say go ahead and submit your RSS if you have a spare 40 minutes or so.

All the best,