Before submitting, consider the following: (1) Is your 'blog regularly updated, or was it regularly updated for a sustained period of time? (2) Could the level of writing on your 'blog be considered "professional"? (3) Are you offering unique content, beyond an echo of think-tank talking points or trite clichés and sentiments?

If the answer to any of those three questions is "no", hold off on submitting to the Open Directory until your 'blog has developed in quality.

If your 'blog is of mere regional interest, i.e. covering a single U.S. state or similar subdivision of the UK, Canada, Australia, or India (etc), or is an English-language 'blog covering a non-Anglophone European country, consider submitting it to the appropriate Regional/ category instead.

Moreover, if your 'blog is about the "New World Order", Trilateral Commissions, fluoride in the water, lizard men, or something the same, it's a tin-foil-hat conspiracy theory 'blog, not a libertarian 'blog; choose a different category.

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