This blog is about blogging and technology and I consider myself rapidly growing into a successful blog. I try new and different methods of increasing my blog’s reach and popularity and that includes doing unpaid and paid submission of my site to online directories. I have experimented with a few paid ones over the last few months and I am about to try Directory Maximizer.

Directory Maximizer allows you to submit your site to directories, over one thousand directories which is more than virtually any other pay directory service. Unlike other directory services they slowly submit to various links over a period of 5 weeks to prevent the common Google trap where you get dinged if your site shows up on X # of links in one day. They also can submit your site to specific targeted PageRank directories and sites.

One of the great options is you can keep it as ongoing maintenence, if your blog brings in steady income you can have the service setup to submit your site to 100 directories every month for 12 months, and the site has great reporting to avoid duplicates for future orders.

As you know, you want to submit a unique blog page for each submission, don’t submit your homepage over and over, it is better to submit your most popular and well written posts to directories. Your homepage should come first, and then individual “golden” posts should be done to help keep your blog gaining popularity and influence.

I decided to register an account which only took a moment:

And I am going to be adding my blog today. I will write a follow up in a few weeks to let you know if my links increased and if my PR is affected by using this service. I think everything is worth a try especially if you are using your blog income to help fund your blog promotion and advertising.

-Dragon Blogger

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So I have been tagged by KellyK
and decided to play the game and share 7 things about myself and tag some fellow bloggers who I follow and would like to learn more about.

First, these are the rules:
1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blog.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

So here are the 7 things about Dragon Blogger

1. My Real Name is Justin Robert Germino
2. I have lived in Arizona 13 years this month but was born and raised in New York City (Queens)
3. I’ve been told I am a hopeless romantic, my favorite movies include (The Princess Bride, Stardust and What Dreams May Come)
4. I have a very analytical job (I work with Web Site Security Software), but I am a very creative person. I channel this through my poetry blog Wanderer Thoughts
5. I have two beautiful boys ages 5 and 2 years old
6. I have only started blogging in the last 60 days and am addicted to it, also addicted to twitter now too
7. I have made more decent people from blogging and twitter in the last two months than I have found in 12 years.

That’s my 7 items for this tagging

So I tag the following 7 people whose blogs I follow and I would like to know 7 more things about:

The Lady Programmer

Cheryl from DailyBlonde

Aronil

Damien Riley

Dani

Chorva

Nicole Humphrey

-Dragon Blogger

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