Encourage your readers to submit to social bookmarking sites like FURL, delicious, and Google Bookmarks. This will increase your overall visibility on the social nets and hopefully get you some additional traffic too.

Notice a trend? Anything you do that helps your blog attract and keep readers, also helps out your EatonWeb score!

EatonWeb calculates the strength of your blog based on a number of factors. To get the most radical improvement in score, start with these three tips:

1. Build links into your individual blog posts. You can do this by participating in blog carnivals, submitting to Digg/Reddit/Netscape, and interacting with other bloggers
2. Update your blog at least once per day. Don’t let you blog sit idle for very long!
3. Increase the number of feed subscribers to your blog. You may need to push your feed harder with a big feed logo or a WordPress plugin.

For the time being, we are not able to consider blogs for our directory unless they are written in English. Part of the process of keeping our directory high quality requires that we read and analyze your blog. Right now, we are not able to analyze non-English sites. However, we are working on a solution to this problem and hope we can provide a great blog directory experience for non-English speakers as well.

EatonWeb has brought together over 20 different factors that we believer are indicators of a blog’s strength and wrapped them all up into a single metric. Factors that we consider include technorati data, Google PageRank, the ratio of links to a site’s homepage as opposed to its deep links (we believe that there is a sweet spot on this ratio to rule out link manipulation), total links, estimated subscribers, Alexa ranking and more.

By combining all these factors, we think we’ve done a pretty good job at differentiating the great sites from the good sits and the good sites from the bad sites. And that’s one of the reasons that EatonWeb matters as a blog directory.