BOTW Blog Directory

I don’t normally blog about specific link opportunities, but when I find something that I think is an A+ opportunity I’ll try to give you guys a heads up.

Dear BOTW Members,

We are proud to announce the launch of the BOTW Blog Directory, located at http://blogs.botw.org.  For webmasters and bloggers, submissions are currently Free of charge. Of course, for advertisers who need additional visibility, we offer the 60 Day Free advertising trial.

To submit your blog, please navigate to the most relevant category and click the "Add Blog" link located on the right side of the page.  To ensure that your blog is quickly reviewed, please read the guidelines for inclusion.  All blogs submitted to the BOTW Blog Directory must have a history of 6 (six) months or longer, contain unique and legal content, and be fully operational at all times.

Brian Prince of BOTW  told me that the directory will have tag driven search capability soon that will allow users to perform âpostâ searches (versus site searches) for specific keywords and topics of interest and receive results from only the top blogs in the database, or from only the blogs within a specific category ("think Technorati minus the millions of Splogs"). Cool stuff (hopefully).

Now you may be wondering why I blog on the BOTW Blog Directory, yet haven’t blogged on the other blog directories out there… a few reasons:

• As opposed to many directories out there, the Best of the Web guys are actually trying to list only quality sites (seriously) and make a good resource for web surfers (no, seriously)
• I’m guessing a link from this directory will actually drive good traffic
• BOTW actually reviews all submissions — pretty darn quickly, too, in my experience

Directory owners, you would do well to notice why this directory is blog-mention-worthy… because most of them aren’t!