Thank You, Alltop

Getting people to come to your blog can be challenging. Even if you have great SEO recommendations, a fantastic tech guy, and decent if not excellent content, there’s still no guarantee that people will hear about your blog.

You can register on blog sites, and try to get your name into directories, be a self-promoting twitterer who constantly links to your blog (or, in what I believe to be Seth Godin’s case, have a fan so into your work that he or she ninjas your name on twitter, and promotes all your entries independently).

You can tell all your friends and acquaintances, comment on thousands of posts a day, and reach out to people you find interesting at events, via email or on facebook, gather.com, LinkedIn or any other form of social media.

I’m trying to do all these things (except for self-promoting and stalking Seth Godin, who does actually deserve an obsessed fan or two, because his advice is generally top notch) and more. But, the most recent addition to my traffic sources is Guy Kawasaki’s categorized blog directory Alltop.com.

Yes, he’s the guy who recently had 250 women bloggers over to his house for a BlogHer party. (Guy’s photo gallery here.) But he’s also a great innovator, with a curious soul that seeks out (and blogs about) interesting things.

If you’re a blogger, writer, or human being that can read, check out Alltop.com. It’s a great resource for new blogs to read, and most of all, you can share in my nerd joy of being listed.

What are your blog directories of choice, or favorite ways to generate traffic?