Several weeks ago I spent a great few hours finding blog directories with decent traffic to submit my blog to. Now it is measure to see what sort of results there has been in terms of visitors from these directories.

I have submitted http://www.blogtonomy.com/ and http://newsniche.com/ to a handful of blog dig directories. These are directories that list the blogs themselves rather than their RSS feeds. The aim of the exercise is to see if this generates any visitors back to these sites.

The source of referrals that have been used to track the results are from log analysers looking at my raw logs and a third party page tracking accomadation . This should give a more balanced view of actual traffic. The reason for this is that different software seems to report different results, these difference in these result can sometimes be quite startling.

Now for the results. So far only two directories have contributed any traffic back to my page . In both cases I think the visitors was generated from the new listings areas of the directories. The numbers of referrals are few, I do not expect much more traffic to be generated in the future as my sites are no longer listed in the new listings section.

Most of the directories do not do direct links and instead use redirects, this is usually because link tracking is in place. Unusually LSblogs links directly to the sites it lists which I believe will count towards your back links unlike redirects.

Besides LSblogs that I have just mentioned the other directory that generated some visitors was Blogarama