Some of you may have noticed a lot of the ugly blog rater buttons at the button of this blog. They rank blogs in their directory based on traffic. Are having those ugly things on your page worth it? To be honest, I’ve got very little traffic from them. Most of the traffic I did get was from search engine spiders.

However, a lot of webmasters tend to go through these directories. Other bloggers who find my site, may give a link in one of their blog topics, or we may wind up exchanging blogroll links down the road. So the little traffic I do get, is high quality to me and can make up for what little traffic it brings. I no longer use them but when you first start a site it helps get you noticed in the blogosphere.