One way to drive traffic to your blog involves submitting your link to directories. Directories themselves come in many shapes and sizes, much like blogs do and it is recommended that you only submit to quality directories so that you do not harm your blogs appearance in the long run.

An example of one of the most respected directories on the internet would be Aviva Directory. They review each website that is submitted and decide wether or not to accept it into their system. It currently costs $49.95 for your link to displayed for a year which is a relativly small sum of money compared to the $299 Yahoo! charge for a listing in theirs.

As this blog is still very small, spending money isn’t a viable option at the moment. Luckily, there are directories out there that will allow you to submit your link for free. In order to gain backlinks from these directories, you could just go along and make your link appear in every single one of them. Not only will this take a long time, as I mentioned previously, it could harm your website in the future.

Google doesn’t tend to look to kindly to directories, unless they are well established and have a stringent editorial policy, which ensures that websites with low-quality content or ones that are MFA (made for Adsense) are rejected.

I’m going to begin by listing two places where I have submitted this blog so far and then expand onto resources that will list further places for you to submit your blog for free.

http://www.blogged.com/ (Google Page Rank: 5)
http://www.abcblogdirectory.com/ (Google Page Rank: 3)
http://www.ablogin.com/ (Google Page Rank: 4)
http://addmyurl.info/ (Google Page Rank: 3)

I am still waiting for my listings to be approved in the above websites and I am going to continue my submission process and carefully select directories from the following resources based on both their editorial policies and their Google Page Rank (if they have a high Page Rank, they have a better chance of being acknowledged by Google as a quality resource for links).

http://www.adivs.com/
http://info.vilesilencer.com/main.php?rock=niche-blogs.php

If you know of any other quality directories, or directory resources please comment and let me know.