Indignation on a Saturday morning

July 23, 2005

Indignation on a Saturday morning

Anyone want to join my (currently one-woman) campaign to get Yahoo! Directory to list gardening blogs as a category in its directory of weblogs? It seems odd that birding, wine and 30-somethings get separate listings while us garden bloggers don't.

If you'd like to join my campaign, add your support in the comments below and let Yahoo! know about your gardening blog.

23 Jul 2005 09:58:35

6 Comments

There are certainly enough gardening blogs to go around. I keep a list at http://www.coldclimategardening.com/garden-blog-directory/, and Moosey's keeps a better list at http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-news/gardening-newsdesk.html. If they have a category for birding, they should certainly have one for gardening. But they do have personal gardening pages in the Home and Garden section, and anyone who has an RSS feed can add it to their My Yahoo page, in which case it will be added to Yahoo's database and available to all. But it does seem skewed--I know I submitted my site over a year ago (to Regional Gardening) and it never got added.

Posted by: Kathy | July 23, 2005 at 07:53 PM

Happy to join the campaign.

Posted by: lau | July 23, 2005 at 09:09 PM

There are quite a lot of us allotment and gardening bloggers around!
I too keep a list of UK diaries on my site, and Gavin at http://www.keirg.freeserve.co.uk/diary/diary.htm does too via http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Recreation_and_Sports/Home_and_Garden/Gardening/Gardens/Allotments/
If I can help lean on Yahoo then I'll give it a go...

hope this helps!

moonbells

Posted by: moonbells | July 27, 2005 at 12:50 PM

Definitely. Anyone who writes a gardening blog wants to find other gardening blogs - it makes perfect sense!

Posted by: caldini | July 27, 2005 at 11:25 PM

Jane,

Got my vote. Gardening Blogs are some of the richest and most personal blogs out there. Once gardeners start blogging there's no stopping them...

It's frustrating that directories like Yahoo and DMOZ are so slow to react to change and so poor at responding to requests, especially with the search engines so full of shopping carts and spam.

I think Yahoo need to strike a better balance between free and paid directory listings. Yahoo is fast becoming the 'Look Who pays us $300 US each year' directory.

Posted by: eggy | July 31, 2005 at 03:50 PM

Jane: Count me in. Absolutely Yahoo needs to add a list of garden blogs - there's a huge amount out there that are well worth the read.

Posted by: Nancy | August 07, 2005 at 11:32 PM

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