In the process of submitting my blog to the blog directories, I came across www.blogcatalog.com which is not just a blog directory.

BlogCatalog is like a large social networking site specially created for bloggers. You can find many other blogs belonging to your niche and see their content. You can also contact any blogger there by sending him (or her) private message or a message in his shoutbox. So, you can request a blogger to have a look at your blog and can get some feedback about your blog’s design and content.

BlogCatalog Home Page

There are also many communities on BlogCatalog. Joining communities related to your blog’s niche or related to new bloggers can help you a lot. You can easily get backlinks by posting on such communities. But don’t spam there, let it be clean forever.

BlogCatalog has a search engine too, which really brings appropriate results. You can get another source of traffic from there. And yes, BlogCatalog gives a Rank to the submitted blogs, which is out of 100. Better blogs will have their rank towards 100, and low quality blogs will have it nearer to zero. There is no authority-like option as in Technorati. So, it prevents tricky link exchanges as found in the blogosphere due to Technorati rank.

The best part of BlogCatalog is its helpfulness to the new blogs. In Technorati, your new blog will have no authority and hence the worst rank. In contrast, BlogCatalog doesn’t give a zero rank to new blogs. One another thing is pinging. You don’t need to ping your blog for BlogCatalog. It automatically does it for us, without any errors as found in Technorati.

As you may know Technorati publishes a list of Top 100 blogs. This is really a killing thing for other new but useful blogs. People love to see most popular things and so, the most popular things become more and more popular. If you love to see only popular ones, you can’t get out of it! I am a big fan of Stumbleupon and now, you should be knowing why (and why I don’t like Digg much).

In conclusion, BlogCatalog seems to be more dedicated to bloggers and readers than Technorati. I would like to see your feeling, so comment on!

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