Have You ever wander why there are so many article directories? It's because of EzineArticles success and other similar sites. But in these days there is a problem creating a directory that people will like to add articles. Let's see why? You're starting, you got no PageRank, No backlinks and no traffic. Why people would like to add articles. They usually add for backlinks and traffic. Good backlink i placed on high PageRank site. So it looks like you've lost at the beginning. And this happens to the 99,9% of new article directories.