Enhancing Traffic to Your Blog Through Submissions (and a script that helps)

All the gurus say that a great (and free) way to enhance traffic is to make sure all the various rss search engines know about your site. The problem is finding a place where you can access all of them.

Ari Paparo has created a comprehensive source called the “Big List of Blog Search Engines.” Paparo has posted all the blog search engines, directories, and web-based RSS aggregators he could find.

I took this a step further and have created an AppleScript (sorry Windows users!) that will automatically open all 29 of them in Explorer for the Mac (I am having a heck of a time scripting Firefox and Safari…)

They’ll open in separate windows, and then one can use command ~ (tilde) to flip between the sites. I have tested this on only my own machine, and with just one submission set so far, so I make no guarantees. Please comment if it needs debugging.