My new theory on blogging is that whenever I can’t find a particular piece of information on Google I should just create it myself. What’s the point of all this easy-to-use publishing technology if you don’t publish stuff, right?
Well, I recently created a new blog, MyLabIsOnFire.com and wanted to find a quick checklist of all the blog and rss search engines so I could submit the site and reap the tons of free traffic which would inevitably result. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a really comprehensive source. The best I found was this page which a) I found somewhat confusing; and b) did not address the ability to submit your blog to the engines. Update: It’s really not that confusing.
Thus, the Big List of Blog Search Engines.
Following are all the blog search engines, directories, and web-based RSS aggregators I could find, along with brief instructions on getting your site listed. I’m sure I missed something so use the ‘comments’ for any updates.
New: Big List of International Blog Search Engines
In alphabetic order:
Name: 2RSS
URL: http://www.2rss.com/
Description:RSS Feed Directory
Add your blog here: On front page
Note: Requires RSS Feed
Name: Bligz
URL: http://www.blizg.com/
Description:Focus on “Metadata”
Add your blog here: On front page
Note: Two step-process where you have to “Ping” site once listed
Name: Blogarama
URL: http://www.blogarama.com/
Description:Small search engine
Add your blog here: http://www.blogarama.com/index.php?show=add
Name: Blogdex
URL: http://www.blogdex.net/
Description: Hot topics listing and search engine
Add your blog here: http://blogdex.net/add.asp
Note: Requires email confirmation
Name: Blogdigger
URL: http://www.blogdigger.com/
Description: Small search engine
Add your blog here: http://www.blogdigger.com/addFeedForm.jsp
Note: Need RSS feed
Name: Bloghop
URL: http://www.bloghop.com/search.htm
Description: Small search engine
Add your blog here: http://www.bloghop.com/addblog.htm
Name: Bloglines
URL: http://www.bloglines.com/
Description: Search and aggregate RSS feeds
Add your blog here: No submission process, users add feeds they wish to track
Name: Blogmatrix
URL: http://www.blogmatrix.com/
Description: Blog tool provider, offers search as well
Add your blog here: http://www.blogmatrix.com/join
Name: Blogrunner
URL: http://www.blogrunner.com/
Description: Hot topics listing and search engine
Add your blog here: http://www.blogrunner.com/docs/partners-register.html
Note: Some sore of revenue share program going on
Name: Blogsearchengine
URL: http://www.blogsearchengine.com/
Description: Blog search engine
Add your blog here: http://www.blogsearchengine.com/add_link.html
Name: Blogstreet
URL: http://www.blogstreet.com/search.html
Description: Metasearch
Add your blog here: http://www.blogstreet.com/bin/add.cgi
Name: Blogtastic
URL: http://www.blogstreet.com/search.html
Description: Metasearch
Add your blog here: http://www.blogstreet.com/bin/add.cgi
Name: Blogvision
URL: http://www.blogvision.com/
Description: Small search engine
Add your blog here: Doesn’t appear to be any way to add a site
Name: Blogwise
URL: http://www.blogwise.com/
Description: Categorized Blog search
Add your blog here: http://www.blogwise.com/submit
Name: Bloogz
URL: http://www.bloogz.com/
Description: Blog search engine
Add your blog here: http://www.bloogz.com/man_en/add_your_url.php
UPDATED! Name: Boogieplay
URL: http://www.boogieplay.com/
Description: Blog search engine with audio and video content
Add your blog here: Doesn’t appear to be any way to add a blog.
Name: Daypop
URL: http://www.daypop.com/
Description: News oriented search
Add your blog here: http://www.daypop.com/info/submit.htm
Note: Requires your site to be “frequently updated”
Name: Eatonweb
URL: http://portal.eatonweb.com/
Description: Blog search engine
Add your blog here: http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php
Name: Fastbuzz
URL: http://www.fastbuzz.com/
Description: Search and aggregate RSS feeds
Add your blog here: http://www.fastbuzz.com/channels/insert_public.jsp
Name: Feedster
URL: http://www.feedster.com/
Description: Blog search engine using RSS feeds
Add your blog here: http://www.feedster.com/add.php
Note: Need RSS feed
Name: Get Linked
URL: http://fried-spaghetti.com/links/
Description: Small search engine
Add your blog here: http://fried-spaghetti.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
Name: Globeofblogs
URL: http://www.globeofblogs.com/
Description: Blog search engine
Add your blog here: Click “Register” in upper-right corner of front page
Note: Strange site, requires extensive classification of blogs
Name: LocalFeeds.com/GeoURL
URL: http://www.localfeeds.com/ , http://www.geourl.org/
Description: Blogs and headlines by geographic region. GeoURL is by lat/longitude while LocalFeeds is by ZIP or country.
Add your blog here: http://www.geourl.org/add.html (for both)
Note: Complex instructions, you must edit your blog’s meta tags prior to submission.
NEW! Name: Memigo
URL: http://www.memigo.com/
Description: Customized news portal
Add your blog here: http://www.memigo.com/feed
Name: NewsIsFree
URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/
Description: Search for RSS feeds
Add your blog here: http://www.newsisfree.com/contact.php
Name: Pepys
URL: http://pepys.akacooties.com/
Description: Geographically categorized blogs
Add your blog here: http://pepys.akacooties.com/cgi-bin/links2/add.cgi
Name: Popdex
URL: http://www.popdex.com/
Description: Hot topics listing and search engine
Add your blog here: http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
Note: “Fast Track” if you link to Popdex
Name: RDF Ticker
URL: http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/findchannels.php
Description: Search and aggregate RSS feeds
Add your blog here: http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php
Name: Read A Blog
URL: http://www.readablog.com/
Description: Blog Search Engine
Add your blog here: http://www.readablog.com/AddFeed.aspx
Name: Rootblog
URL: http://www.rootblog.com/
Description: RSS Aggregator
Add your blog here: http://http://www.rootblog.com/Ping/
Note: Can also be pinged automatically with every post.
Name: RSSFeedsDirectory
URL: http://rss-feeds-directory.com/directory/
Description: RSS Directory
Add your blog here: Not clear
Name: Search4Blogs
URL: http://www.search4blogs.com/
Description: Blog Directory
Add your blog here: WIthin each category
Note: A lot of adult blogs.
Name: Search4RSS
URL: http://www.search4rss.com/
Description: RSS Search Engine
Add your blog here: Not available, must be added by site owners.
Name: Sindic8
URL: http://www.syndic8.com/
Description: Search and aggregate RSS feeds
Add your blog here: http://www.syndic8.com/suggest.php?Mode=data
Note: Need RSS feed
Name: Technorati
URL: http://www.technorati.com/
Description: Index of links between millions of blogs
Add your blog here: http://www.technorati.com/ping.html
Note: Programmatic interface available as well.
NEW! Name: Waypath
URL: http://www.waypath.com/
Description: Keyword searches and “find similar” searches
Add your blog here: Automatically adds blogs through a spidering process.
NEW! Name: Zopto
URL: http://www.zopto.com/
Description: Index of links between millions of blogs
Add your blog here: No submission process, Zopto indexes all pings to blo.gs into a search engine.
Updates:
1/1/04 – Technorati does have a submit page
1/2/04 – Added GeoURL/LocalFeeds
1/6/04 – Added Zopto, Memigo, Rootblog and separate international list.
1/9/04 – Added Boogieblog
1/22/04 – Added 2RSS December 31, 2003 3:42 PM
Comments from Old Blog
Hi.
I’m sorry you found my website somewhat confusing. Suggestions welcome π
As to b), you got me there. My site was created for people wearing a blog reader’s hat, not a blog writer’s.
Very nice list you’ve made, btw. Keeping it updated will be the challenge.
Posted by: Michael Fagan on January 1, 2004 3:17 AM
Nice list, and a good resource for new bloggers who want to promote their sites. Feedster also has a “Feedsterbot” that searches for new RSS files to index, but adding your own may get it into our database faster.
Posted by: Betsy Devine on January 2, 2004 10:34 AM
Technorati has a High Priority Indexing Queue – you go to http://www.technorati.com/ping.html to let it know to index your blog/site.
We also have an XML-RPC interface, for programmatic access. More details here:
Dave
Posted by: David Sifry on January 2, 2004 6:55 PM
Nice job, but in Spain we have “http://www.weblogabout.com/”.
Posted by: DrAvenarius on January 3, 2004 3:43 AM
Ari, hats for your veru useful list.
We needed it.
Here are my personal additions to your excellent work. With these extra ones you can make your visibility campaign make fruits for years to come.
a) Become a source at Moreover.com
http://w.moreover.com/main_site/aboutus/contact-us.html
mailto:edmanager@moreover.com
b) Newsknowledge – Recommend news sources
http://tinyurl.com/28tav
c) DayPop Submit A Site
http://www.daypop.com/info/submit.htm
(when it works)
d) Suggest an RSS feed to Memigo
http://www.memigo.com/feed
e) YellowBrix – ISyndicate Content Provider Inquiry
http://tinyurl.com/2upg7
f) Add a newsfeed to the Genecast News Service
http://www.genecast.com/news/create.jsp
g) Consider also the potential of creating a simple way for your readers who have other Web sites to easily syndicate your content on their own pages.
Lockergnome has a great example of this at work, though there are other good ones out there. Check out his page at:
http://rss.lockergnome.com/syndicate/
h) Learning and educating your audience in syndicating and easily republishing your headlines or entire articles gives long terms major results while increasing your credibility and authority in the field. Here are some resources to learn more:
How To Get Your Web Site Content Syndicated
http://tinyurl.com/3cbuo
How To Syndicate Web Site News Through RSS Feeds Technology
http://www.masternewmedia.com/issue24/rss.htm
Resources on Syndicating Your RSS Feed
http://tinyurl.com/cd49
i) Tip:
You can also create custom RSS feeds on the spot through GoogleAlerts on specific keyphrases that cover your content and then resubmit them to RSS Web aggregators like Bloglines and Feedster.
http://www.googlealert.com/
j) Also consider the one that is going to outpace them all:
del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us
Simply bookmark what you need to promote and give more visibility and if it rocks the rest will happen by itself. This is the wave of the future. Social bookmarking and knowledge resource discovery tool. Highly recommended.
Robin Good
What Communication Experts Must Know
http://www.masternewmedia.org/
Posted by: Robin Good on January 3, 2004 9:27 AM
Blogwise: There are currently 1242 blog(s) in the queue. Your blog is expected to be added within 27 day(s).
Posted by: justin on January 3, 2004 4:29 PM
Just use google.
… to list your blog
Posted by: mina on January 4, 2004 3:49 PM
Thank you for doing this. Very handy. I stumbled across you via webloghype.com shortly before I stepped barefoot on a 3-prong English power adapter. So, I kind of associate you with pain in my foot, but a very helpful pain nonetheless.
Posted by: Brian on January 4, 2004 5:28 PM
My addition to this list:
No ‘submit url’ functionality – just ping blo.gs and ensure rss autodiscovery works for your blog. π
Posted by: Ben on January 5, 2004 2:44 AM
In Germany there are also some engines/directories π
First there is a new Directory for RSS-Feeds where you can also post your Blog-Feed (it’s international, but german-speaking)
http://www.rss-verzeichnis.de/
You can submit the Feed-URL here
http://www.rss-verzeichnis.de/anmelden.php
Then there is a directory for german-speaking Blogs
http://www.weblogverzeichnis.de/
Submit-Form here
http://www.weblogverzeichnis.de/anmeldung.php
And two weblogs.com-Clones (also for german blogs)
http://www.blogbot.de/
and a commercial one
http://www.blogg.de/
These two you can ping to via xml-rpc or HTTP
Posted by: Thomas on January 6, 2004 8:59 AM
Aaargh. I hate the way you’ve formatted links. I move the cursor over one, and it changes case and size…and if it’s long enough, it rolls over to a new line, which means it’s no longer under the cursor. So it changes format again and moves back under the cursor. And so forth.
It basically means I can’t click on them, and trying to use them triggers a horrible headache inducing oscillation.
Please, please fix this abominable misuse of css.
Posted by: PZ Myers on January 6, 2004 10:32 AM
Here in the Great White North, bloggers can register with our Yahoo-style directory of over 7,000 blogs. http://www.blogscanada.ca/directory
Blogs are categorized by topic and region. Listing is open to bloggers living in Canada and Canadians blogging from elswhere in the world.
Posted by: Jim Elve on January 6, 2004 12:28 PM
Blogstreet can be added – look at the bottom of the page! This is the link: http://www.blogstreet.com/bin/add.cgi
Posted by: Dick Ettema on January 6, 2004 6:39 PM
Great
Links!
I am not sure how useful this will proved end up…
Posted by: Jozef on January 7, 2004 11:24 PM
Spanish blog searches
Posted by: John A on January 8, 2004 2:58 PM
Here’s another search tool to query weblogs in newspaper view format … hope someone will find it useful … currently in alpha development. π
Posted by: Rene Feliciano on January 9, 2004 10:05 AM
Hello really cool Blogsite! Ralf
Posted by: Kreditkarten on January 10, 2004 7:44 AM
Gee, am I the last to reply in this thread? π
An important mention is Topix.net: Topix scans blogs and online news sources and sorts articles based on location and topic: http://www.topix.net/
It uses creepy AI and a big knowledge base to catch references to streets, towns, jails, schools, rivers, parks, etc. and assigns a latitude/longitude to stories.
In addition, it detects references to sports teams, celebrities, politicians, companies and company officers, products, etc. and produces thousands of subject pages tracking in-depth news categories.
Posted by: Rich Skrenta on January 18, 2004 8:17 AM
Hi there, I was wondering if you would list our Blog SE here under “Big List of Blog Search Engines” Thanks Jennifer
Posted by: Jennifer on January 31, 2004 10:54 PM
Great job,
Thanks
Posted by: Omar RABHI on February 1, 2004 4:43 PM
Hey guys,
Thanks for listing my Blog Directory but it shows http://www.rootblog.com all though the link does go to Search4blogs.com
Just thought you should know… and thanks again.
Posted by: Jennifer on February 13, 2004 4:34 PM
This is NEW!
Posted by: todor on February 20, 2004 5:07 AM
Great list! Thanks.
Two articles you might want to mention are:
Web Blogs Defined, Explained and Understood
http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/article21.html
RSS – The Making of a Feed
http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/article18.html
Posted by: S. Housley on February 21, 2004 4:20 PM
Really interesting Blog!
Posted by: Kontaktlinse on February 24, 2004 10:48 AM
Here is another one:
Posted by: kendeji on March 31, 2004 8:33 PM
Thanks for the list π
Posted by: MaThIbUs on April 19, 2004 2:13 PM
what regions do you cover?
Posted by: martha on April 26, 2004 11:16 PM
Found this new search engine for Blogs and web.
Posted by: Mike on May 13, 2004 6:09 AM
blog consacrΓ© a mylene farmer
mise a jour reguliere….
Posted by: chuck4201 on May 18, 2004 6:24 AM
The entrie site will be moved on MT soon. Submissions are welcome.
Posted by: Human-Culture on July 29, 2004 1:56 AM
New Blogs Directory
Posted by: Leon on July 31, 2004 4:16 PM
Might consider Blogory (http://blogory.com) too. It’s a personalized weblog reader. It aggregates tens of thousands of weblog articles, learns from the articles you read, and helps you discover other interesting weblogs and weblog articles.
If your blog isn’t already listed on Blogory, you can submit a request to add it at http://www.findory.com/cgi-bin/blogory.cgi?blog=1.
Posted by: Greg Linden on August 16, 2004 9:38 PM
Don’t forget BlogPulse.
URL for submitting your blog: http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html
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Posted by: webmaster on August 19, 2004 5:02 AM
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Posted by: webmaster on August 19, 2004 5:03 AM
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Posted by: webmaster on August 19, 2004 5:04 AM
I am looking for a blog search engine with blogalerts (something similar to Google newsalerts). Would you happen to know one? Is Google planning one?
Posted by: sylvain on August 29, 2004 12:42 AM
As someone with a brand new blogs your site is wonderful.Thank you so much for an incredibly helpful resource.Cammi Cane
Posted by: Cammi Cane on August 30, 2004 11:39 PM
Blog about superheroes
Posted by: John on September 21, 2004 3:12 AM
New blog directory for submiting or locating blogs, blog hosts, software, directories etc.
Free submission, you have to choose a category first, then add url will appear when you are in a category you can add in.
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