Your blog isn’t much if you don’t have readers. Sure, you can post, ping and all that, but it can be more difficult than that to get traffic.

Submitting your site to a blog directory is one idea. Most don’t get or send a lot of traffic. Even so, you want to submit to a good directory, if you do indeed submit to them at all. The Alive blog directory is a new addition to the toolbar PR6 Alive directory. While it doesn’t have any PR itself yet, it appears the owners will be promoting it, so it could provide good links in the future.

Only you can decide if it’s worth the annual or one time fee for a listing in a paid directory such as this one, or if the free ones are the only ones that are the right price for you.