Reason for Downfall of Blogcatalog : What might have happened?

Blogcatalog is one of the most popular and recommended Blog directory and Blogger's Social Network on the internet. What actually made blogcatalog different from other blog directories? It's interactive discussion section with active discussions on both blogging and non-blogging related topics was the reason why people spent plenty of their time in the site and this determined its uniqueness. It mediated as a social site for the bloggers of different parts of the world and different niche.

I used blogcatalog as:

• Social site
• Blog Directory
• Blogging Forum

Reasons for the downfall of Blogcatalog


I know money is important but the blogcatalog team didn't know it would cost this huge. They introduced

List of Blog and Web Directories of Nepal

Submitting blog to important blog/web directories is one of the determinant factors of the search engine visibility i.e. it comes under a way of SEO or Search Engine Optimization. I was obliged to find lots of such directories for Nepalese based websites in internet. But then I realized that most of these online services are outdated i.e. many of them were created but the webmaster hadn't cared to update their sites lately.

Before going through the lists of Nepalese Web directories let me highlight some benefits of web directory submission:

• Assists in quicker indexing of website by the search engines by gaining their attention
• Assists you in improving the SERP of your website/blog
• Gain a non reciprocal (one-way) quality backlinks
• Opportunities for link exchanges with relevant sites

List of Completely Nepal Based Blog and Web Directories: