I have been considering this alot lately, and I believe these both can bring alot of new members. I want to hear your incite on this. I own the domain forumsdirectory.net so I would redirect that to the directory onsite, and that should bring us a nice amount of traffic organically after some SEO. As for the blog I think it would be another good idea having more pages getting indexed in Google, linking to quality blog posts. I just want to hear the opinions of the members on this. I think I am going to do the directory for sure, but I am still iffy on the blog. As a blog would take much upkeep since posts are really needed consistently.