Advertising, link selling and other related stuff

I am regularly recieving questions about buying link on this site. Simple answer is no, I am not selling any link position here. The only option I can think about is normal exclusive banner advertising at the top of the site. This banner will be displayed on all directory subpages (but not on the blog). Advertising option is available only for normal children safe no spam sites (no adult, alcohol, gambling, pharmacy etc.). Price is 300 USD/month or 3000 USD/year. Payment is available only by wire or Epassporte. If anyone is interested let me know here in the comments with link to your site and contact information. I want to keep this site clean and valuable for blog submitting webmasters. So it is a reason why I do not want any link schemes and paid links.

Almost same answer is about Site of the moment. It is not paid review, this is just site I noticed during reviewing submitted sites as nice, valuable or just siply I like it and I don't know why :). So there is only one way to have your site in this category, have a great blog and submit it to Blogdirs directory and wait if I like it.

Art By Sarah Pittman

Art By Sarah Pittman

It's another pick as a site of the moment (now it looks like almost Site of the Month :)) and again nice blog about art.

Taken from that blog:

About the Artist

Im a full time, self taught artist based in Cheshire in the UK, and i live with my boyfriend and two adorable little furballs (or cats if you prefer) called Aimee and Luna.

As it says on the site header, im a fairy, fantasy and animal artist, although other subjects do appear from time to time - but i love fairies and animals so i suppose it stands to reason that they feature the most in my artwork.

Most of my artwork is created with coloured pencils, Faber Castell Polychromos being my pencil of choice (love love love them!), but again other things sneak in from time to time…watercolours, acrylics and inks mainly, however i seem to use them less than ever now and tend to stick with my pencils, as theyre what i have the most fun with.

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Enjoy (if you want to take a look only at art, go directly to Gallery)

Artery Gallery

I decided to post here sometimes a site I just accepted and I think that is interesting, nice etc. There will be no review, just simply link to it (And official description), to give it better audience. You decide, if you like "my chosen" blogs too :)


First Site of The Moment (SOM) is .... Applause

Artery Gallery News Blog

Description of the site:

Artery Gallery have gathered the best of Scottish and International talent from students just starting out on their career, to well established names within the art world. What matters most to Artery Gallery, is that we bring these creations forward and make them affordable and accessible to anybody wanting the best of contemporary art. On this blog, you will find our latest Art Gallery News along with Art News from across Scotland.

Contact, link exchange, errors

To reply to some comments that were a bit unrelated with posts (thats why they aren't listed) but may contain some important information.

First of all there is contact :) Contacting me is possible via this blog and link to this blog is everywhere on directory. I don't think that writing comment is harder than writing email and because comments are moderated your private message - if you want keep it private - will be for my eyes only and will not be published. And my email is spam free :)

Link exchange - for now I do not exchange main page links. Link exchange is possible classic via submitting your blog with reciprocal link and as exchange of submit page links of other blog directories if there will be interest. I can consider some linking from blog, but I think it should be related to directories or blogging about blog tools.

Errors - I know that during submission there are sometime some errors but ... I don't know why - hosting, traffic who knows :) This not happen very often and there are different reasons. But there is easy solution, if you see error, wait some time and try resubmit your blog again. For sure form is working because I am still recieving a lot of submissions.

Tools for Bloggers

I decided to create new category called Blogger Tools. This category is not for blogs - blogs with tips and tricks for good blogging or with descriptions of other services for bloggers should go to other category like Internet. It is for all those tools that any blogger can use for making his blog better - like directories (especially blog directories), aggregators, counters, blog hosting, blog toplists and so on.

Rules are same like for other submissions, so reciprocal link is needed, there should be no harming scripts and exploits or popups and your webmaster service should be online for a while on the net (if you just put online new usefull resource don't worry, I will list it after two or three months when I see that your site is still running and not changed to something else). I think that this new category will be successful, because there is a lot of bloggers coming every day to Blogdirs for submiting their site and they can look how make their site better. When Blogger Tools grow I put a direct link on the submit page to them. So if you have some nice tool don't wait and submit it :) And if you run a blog, take a look there, maybe you will find something that you need.

Directory submit page LinkExchange

This is offer for other directory owners, if you have living (et least one year or site with lot of submited blogs) blog directory, we can exchange links to our submit pages (for now not to main page - I will make some resource page or pages in the future and when it will be online, for sure there will be category also for blog directories with possibility of linkexchange). If you place link on your submit page to my submit page, I will place yours submit page on the same place. I am interested only in long term honest exchange, which can be profitable for both sites.

This offer is also for normal directories, that also accept blogs (have a subcategory for them), but those directories should be online for a longer time and have some real value for visitors.

If you are interested, please put link on your site and let me know here in comments where is your submit page of your directory. I will place reciprocal link within few days.

Reciprocal Links

I know, that there are a lot of teories about directories. One very popular is saying, that directory should be free or paid, but no reciprocal. I don't think so. Reciprocal linking is in fact normal link exchange and thanks to the script is automated. There is no need to write emails, wait for reply or acceptance. As long as your site has reciprocal link, it will be accepted (of course if is legal and follows rules). Link to directory is not loss for your site, if you do not want only work for same fake linking schemes to cheat search engines. Any surfer, that click on link to directory probably do not want to click on something else on your site, and giving him a choice to move somewhere else keeps him satisfied. Forcing visitors to rotate between content that he do not need have only one result, this surfers only close your site.

Internet community started on exchanging links and this idea is still living - democratic and anyone have same rights and chances, no matter how big, rich or important he is. For me it is simple, with my link from this directory I help growing linked sites and it's fair if sites listed help growing this directory. Long term profit is for both sides, because honest sites are listed forever. If Blogdirs become bigger, your site become bigger of course too and vice versa.

This is reason, why I manually check all reciprocals. And this is also reason, why I do not accept fake reciprocal links listed on some page, that is not accesible for anyone. It's ok to put link back on some links page, but this links page should be easily available for your visitors. Reason is as written above, if I cannot grow with partnership with your site, I do not see any reason help growing your site. And one simple fact, that shows, that reciprocal link is not "stealing" your visitors. Blogs with hundreds of visitors a day, that have reciprocal link very visible are sending maybe one-two persons a day to directory. But of course if there is listed a lot of good sites (and they become better for every month they are listed here) it also means more visitors for directory - and back to other quality blogs.