More learnings of a newbie blogger, following on from 9 Lessons I Learnt Putting Together A New Blog comes a post about blog directories as recommended by Lucy in her post on SEOmoz. Actually, I suppose I am not that new, been doing this several months now! Anyway, I digress… but I now know you get listed if:
- you get reviewed and they accept you, which means only quality blogs/sites get listed: Best of the Web – BOTW
- its been up and running for 3 or 6 or x number of months: Bloggapedia (after 3 months of being “live”)
- you include a specific link in a blog post, I suppose to prove you do really have a blog rather than a fake corporate sales tool or spam producing site: Technorati ask for this link to be included before deBugged gets listed, (here you go then: Technorati Profile).
- There is also Blogged which I can submit to, but the problem is, they have an enormous number of different categories, you name it its there – all except for pest control. So what do I choose?
- Technology – because of the products we develop which are hi-tec and fully researched such as Radar and Luminos?
- Environment – because of our pest control products for professional use as well as our products which are designed to impact the enviroment in a negligible way, e.g. Radar?
- Society – because Pest Control becomes a bigger issue for all of us the less money companies are prepared to spend on it and the more we are limited as to which chemicals we, as pest control professionals, are allowed to use?
- Education – we run pest aware education in the workplace campaigns to ensure business segment staff, e.g. hotel housekeeping, can spot early infestations of bed bugs in bedrooms or cockroaches in storage areas
- Animals – because despite what you may think, many of our technicians do care about the animals they come across on their day to day tasks - insects perhaps not so much.
The mind boggles, I mean there must be any number of blog directories out there deBugged should be listed on too, but what if I have missed out an important one? If I find one, a few or more, I’ll write another blog directories post and let you know.
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I’d be happy to put a link on mine for ‘pests across the pond’ or something like that. I realize this is a corporate blog so you might not be able to do the same but that’s ok. I mentioned your company in an article I wrote, (Invisible pest control at theme parks) on my blog. I only had an article from PCT to work with so I hope I got it right. If you have any further insight I’d be happy to post about that as well.
Keep up the good work–blogging is work as I’m finding out. But you seem to be doing just fine.
Hi Dutch,
We’re constantly surprised by how many people are interested in the subject of pest control, and you’re certainly doing them no disservice on your site – you’ve got some really great articles and commentary, and some fantastic images too (I’d love to know where some of those pictures came from!). We’ve only fairly recently started this blog, and probably much like yourself it’s here so that we can pass on some expertise, tips, and the odd funny story that we’ve gained over many years – in a less formal manner than you might find elsewhere.
If ever we write something that catches your eye (or even something you disagree with) we’d welcome your thoughts. In the near future we’ll be moving deBugged over to our international home so that we can include more articles on pest control in the US, Australia, and the many other countries in which we work all around the world.
Oh – and thanks for the coverage of our Olympic success in your Invisible Pest Control post. I’ll ask Danusia to see if she can get you some more information.