Listing your site in a directory is a good way to help raise your page rank, alexa, and visitor base. Directories usually break their listings into categories which helps the person looking for a site to find exactly what they’re looking for. Sometimes these directories will be free to list your site, with a link back, and sometimes they will require payment.

Alive Directory, one of the most popular directories, has a section created just for blogs. Their blog directory lists many different kinds of blogs, from business to politics. You can be assured that no matter what your blog topic, they have a category for you. And if they don’t, they’ll add it. They don’t have a large list of blogs yet, which gives you the upper hand. You’ll have less trouble getting noticed when there aren’t other sites around to clutter it up.

You can see this directory is going to be great, they have a wonderful design. They’ve chosen to use the same design as the main site, but substitute the blue for green. Conformity is a great idea when branching off your site, but at the same time you want something to set it apart. They did a wonderful job with this.

Regular listings with Alive start at $29.95 per year, with a link back. Someone feel up to buying me one? And the featured links, which will be shown above all the ‘regulars’ start at $59.95 per year. Alive has put out a lot of effort to make sure their directory is wildly promoted, therefore raising the promotion of your site. It’s a really great idea, one of those where I think “Why didn’t I think of that?”