If you don’t know Tim Ferriss, he’s the real deal. Super successful and full of a lot of interesting ideas on blogging and life in general. The video is a bit long but well worth a watch. Titled “How to Blog and Not Kill Yourself”

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For new blogs especially, picking up a few links from blog directories can help get the search engines to notice your site. But knowing which blogs are best to submit to can be tricky. Here’s our favorites:

Best Free Blog Directories

Blogged.com - Nice, easy to use site. Free listings and a decent place to find other bloggers.

Spill Bean - Like this one a lot especially since it took the blod step to not have ‘blog’ in its name. Bravo SpillBean.

Bloggapedia - Not a lot of blogs listed, which could be a good or a bad thing, but its worth a try.

Blog Catalog - Make sure your blog has a bunch of content before you submit, but once it does Blog Catalog is well worth submitting to.

Blogging Fusion - The header reads “Total blogs approved this week: ( 2 )” and its Thursday currently, so although its free I’m not sure many sites get let in.

Best Paid Blog Directories

Best of the Web Blogs - If you pay for any blog directories, this is the one to pay for.

Eaton Web - Probably the next best paid blog directory out there. $34.99 to list but its unfortunately an annual fee.

Bloggeries.com - $39.99 seems a bit steep for a mediocre site, but it is a one time only fee which is nice and would be a nice link to snag.

Worst Blog Directories - Avoid These

BiggerBlogger.com - Total waste of time. You have to register just to find out it costs $1/month to be on the site.

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We just moved over from Blogger to Wordpress and in the process had a chance to give Wordpress’ new(ish) built-in Blogger Import a try and well it doesn’t work all that well out of the box, at least on Wordpress 2.7.1 it doesn’t.

A few changes needed to be made for it to work, hopefully these save someone some hassle:

1. If you’re using a custom domain in Blogger, then you need to turn that off first. To do so login to Blogger, click on Settings and then Publishing and then “Switch to: blogspot.com (Blogger’s free hosting service)”.
2. Next a small piece of code is incorrect in the tool and needs to be fixed (serious pain in the butt that Wordpress developers didn’t test this, but oh well). To fix the problem FTP to your server and in your wordpress install go to /wp-admin/import/ in there you’ll find a file named blogger.php. Open that up and then find the line that reads:
   $parser = xml_parser_create_ns();
   and change it to $parser = xml_parser_create();
   Save it.
3. Now go back into Wordpress and try the Blogger Import again. For me that fixed everything and here we are today.

Hopefully this helped for you as well…

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Setting up SEO optimized titles in Wordpress can be the difference between a little organic traffic and a lot more organic traffic. To set optimized titles up though you have a few different options:

1. Use a commonly available Wordpress plugin such as SEO Title Tag or All In One SEO Pack. Both give you full control of your Wordpress titles and allow you to SEO optimize them as you see fit.
2. A lazy man’s approach is to update your header.php file and replace the with following:
   <title><?php wp_title(””); ?><?php if(wp_title(””, false)) { echo ‘ :: ‘; } ?><?php bloginfo(’name’); if(is_home()) { echo ‘ :: ‘; bloginfo(’description’); } ?></title>

   Doing this puts “Blog Name :: Description” on the hompage and “Title :: Blog Name” on all other pages which for me is close enough to perfect and then I don’t need to worry about setting up any plugins and keeping the plugin updated.

Any other tips on SEO optimized titles? Share them below…

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Darren Rowse and crew over at ProBlogger put together this video that offers up some solid tips on building your RSS subscribership (is that even a word?).

Give some of these ideas a shot, they’re sure to help…

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If you own a Wordpress blog then be sure to check out the WP Greet Box plugin. This thing could seriously drive up your RSS subscribers and makes every visit to your blog a bit more personal.

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