Best article submission directories

[mervyngoh]

Hi

Anyone like to share which do u think is the best article submission directory?

My recommendation are ezinearticle, go article, article base.

Care to share? Will thank u for your input

[NiallR]

Howdy,

Well most people won't get article directories very much time these days since the Google Panda update made submitting to many of them pointless. The day of getting thousands of links from junk directories is done - they were never much use in the first place.

BUT I do still use article marketing and it's still an effective way to increase your traffic if you do it properly i.e. write high quality articles of more than say 500 words that are actually worth reading. Poorly spun junk written for $1 a pop isn't going to cut it.

And my favourite article directories (where articles can actually get indexed) are:

Ezinearticles
Articlesbase
Easyarticles.com
ArticleAlley.com
A1Articles.com
articletrader.com
articlefeeder.com
articlesnatch.com

Hope that helps :-)

Niall

[BenJackson]

Originally Posted by mervyngoh

Hi

Anyone like to share which do u think is the best article submission directory?

This is too vague, the best for what? The best article directory for getting your content syndicated is probably Ezine, and that's the primary goal of article marketing. The best directory for backlinks, all of them will give you PR 0 links that aren't that powerful. However, mass submission to hundreds of directories can give you results. I like to break article marketing down into 2 parts -> distribution & syndication. More distribution = more links & greater syndication. Also, better content = better syndication.

[usta]

check Articles By Directory4u.org it has very good statistics.

[thebitbotdotcom]

articlemsthemes.thebitbot.com
spindication.thebitbot.com
free-article-directory.thebitbot.com
thebitbot.com/articles
thebitbot.com/unique-articles

I'll get your links indexed, friend.

That's one of my main goals...

[mervyngoh]

A big thanks for all of you to share all these information. Cheers

[MingJong]

Really depends on your purpose of article marketing, solely for SEO or direct traffic?

SEO: You need to syndicate to as many high PR directories as possible with spun article. Doing it manually will only strain yourself...So, you can try out article submission bot (such as article marketing robot) or content syndication service such as SEO link vine, etc...

Direct Traffic: You can also get direct traffic from the article if your article contains great contain with excellent call to action. You need to target article directories with high alexa:

EzineArticles.com
AssociatedContent.com
ArticlesBase.com
ArticleAlley.com
ArticleDashBoard.com
IdeaMarketers.com

SearchWarp.com
bukisa.com
buzzle.com
goarticles.com


These article directories have high alexa rank and you will definitely get lots of direct traffic with good quality articles.


Cheers,
MingJong

[ahefner33]

Originally Posted by MingJong

EzineArticles.com
AssociatedContent.com
ArticlesBase.com
ArticleAlley.com
ArticleDashBoard.com
IdeaMarketers.com
SearchWarp.com
bukisa.com
buzzle.com
goarticles.com

Cheers,
MingJong

I wouldn't submit to Buzzle anymore. 1 they don't allow external links anymore and two they will delete all your articles if they change the rules later on down the road.

from Buzzle.com Guidelines

External Link Link to any external website is not allowed.

Important: Article will not get published if it contains any active external link (linked using HTML) or inactive external link (non-linked URL of a website).

Email addresses are not allowed in articles.

[SteveSam]

Originally Posted by MingJong

Really depends on your purpose of article marketing, solely for SEO or direct traffic?

SEO: You need to syndicate to as many high PR directories as possible with spun article. Doing it manually will only strain yourself...So, you can try out article submission bot (such as article marketing robot) or content syndication service such as SEO link vine, etc...

Direct Traffic: You can also get direct traffic from the article if your article contains great contain with excellent call to action. You need to target article directories with high alexa:

EzineArticles.com
AssociatedContent.com
ArticlesBase.com
ArticleAlley.com
ArticleDashBoard.com
IdeaMarketers.com

SearchWarp.com
bukisa.com
buzzle.com
goarticles.com


These article directories have high alexa rank and you will definitely get lots of direct traffic with good quality articles.


Cheers,
MingJong

Hey mate, ArticleDashBoard.com - Does still work for you? I could not submit articles to that directory, I had an account there over year and now it says password invalid and I contacted them, still on process...... So, I wonder whether it was working for you, one of my other mate said that, they have gone to "payment membership" - so, these issues exists for already reg. members, Isn't? any thoughts?

[sujata]

EzineArticles.com
AssociatedContent.com
ArticlesBase.com
ArticleAlley.com
ArticleDashBoard.com
bukisa.com
goarticles.com

These gives me best result .

[alxvallejo]

Originally Posted by MingJong

Really depends on your purpose of article marketing, solely for SEO or direct traffic?

SEO: You need to syndicate to as many high PR directories as possible with spun article. Doing it manually will only strain yourself...So, you can try out article submission bot (such as article marketing robot) or content syndication service such as SEO link vine, etc...

Direct Traffic: You can also get direct traffic from the article if your article contains great contain with excellent call to action. You need to target article directories with high alexa:

EzineArticles.com
AssociatedContent.com
ArticlesBase.com
ArticleAlley.com
ArticleDashBoard.com
IdeaMarketers.com

SearchWarp.com
bukisa.com
buzzle.com
goarticles.com


These article directories have high alexa rank and you will definitely get lots of direct traffic with good quality articles.


Cheers,
MingJong

I thought the search engines penalized articles that were spun by automatic programs. I don't even know how those work really but I wouldn't want my high quality content to go through them.

Also, when we talk about article marketing, we should really be clear as to if we are supplying an informative article that doesn't promote your business vs. a press release that does (with the call to action that you mentioned).

After researching this whole traffic building tactic for weeks I'm still not clear as to how to go about distributing content. I'm stuck at blog posts, blog commenting, and announcing the blog post via Twitter. I don't see the value in submitting the same article to all these sites and I'm afraid of submitting the same content to more than one.

Anyone want to help me shape my viewpoint on this?>

[ToneUK]

I would say:

ezinearticles.com if you don't mind waiting a week.
goarticles.com for speed of indexing.
articlebase.com if you don't mind nofollow links.

And there is always zeusarticles.com (the one in my sig) if you would like to help out a fellow warrior

[strategic seo services]

These 3 directories are my personal favorites:
Ezinearticles
Articlesbase
Easyarticles.com

[MingJong]

Originally Posted by SteveSam

Hey mate, ArticleDashBoard.com - Does still work for you? I could not submit articles to that directory, I had an account there over year and now it says password invalid and I contacted them, still on process...... So, I wonder whether it was working for you, one of my other mate said that, they have gone to "payment membership" - so, these issues exists for already reg. members, Isn't? any thoughts?

Good day mate! ArticleDashBoard recently changes to paid membership (one-time membership fee of $47). They no longer accept free article submission

[MingJong]

Originally Posted by alxvallejo

I thought the search engines penalized articles that were spun by automatic programs. I don't even know how those work really but I wouldn't want my high quality content to go through them.

Also, when we talk about article marketing, we should really be clear as to if we are supplying an informative article that doesn't promote your business vs. a press release that does (with the call to action that you mentioned).

After researching this whole traffic building tactic for weeks I'm still not clear as to how to go about distributing content. I'm stuck at blog posts, blog commenting, and announcing the blog post via Twitter. I don't see the value in submitting the same article to all these sites and I'm afraid of submitting the same content to more than one.

Anyone want to help me shape my viewpoint on this?>

Hi there,

I understand where you come from. There are certainly lots of myth around about the punishment of duplicate article, etc...1 thing you should be clear is that duplicate content is the "the same content occur twice in your website", i.e. you accidentally publish twice in your blog.

While for spun articles, the idea is to make it as unique as possible so that they will be indexed by Google and your backlinks will be counted. There are no penalty from google when they detect similar content (i.e. spun articles). What they will do is to put your page into their supplementary index system. This is not a penalty!

Think of press release, do you think the reporter will completely write a fresh news to report the same news? Those news are syndicated to news agency, PR sites, etc...

Content syndication is different from duplicate content. You can obviously submit all your articles without doing any rewriting. But be aware that not all your articles will be indexed by Google in their main index system.

However, when you do spun articles, you need to be aware of the guidelines of the article directories too. Some of them will not accept spun article.

The point to submit to the high alexa articles directories is to gain direct traffic from the sites, not so much about getting SEO traffic, provided your article is worth a read.


Cheers,
MingJong

[michalsemen]

Ezinearticle is one of the best directories to publish quality articles...

[samual james]

Their are lots of article directory site, where we can post our article and getting genuine traffic. According to me you can submit your article to article base, article dashboard, ezine article

[alxvallejo]

SO....spinning articles is like inventing Go-Gurt and claiming it's different than yogurt?

[georgefuller]

there's a lot of Article Submission sites around.. vmoptions.com, directorycritic.com etc.. I always choose the top 20 sites only.

[alxvallejo]

Changing only 2% of the content to "spin" it. Is that enough?

[Grade1]

i prefer article submission after the spinning to avoid duplicate content.thanks for article sites this will help me to submit my new site content here.

[WilliamBLee]

I am using Ezine, Go Article, A1 Articles, these are great site and they index asap in google as well.

[ahefner33]

Just a response on the Buzzle thing I posted earlier.

"Reply from: Admin 6/30/2011 12:45:50 PM With Google's recent Panda update we had no choice but to carry out clean up of Buzzle.com. We took 4 months to review articles and 3 rounds of editorials checks. As you can clearly see from the link above, things have changed. We finally elected to delete marketing articles and we believe anyone in the same position would have made the same decision.

We sincerely apologize for the problems this may have caused you. It was a great relationship but now at least on Buzzle, article marketing has come to an end."

[melltonroper]

Hands down to ezinearticles...

[faysal969]

I have searched in Google for best article directories list and found this page List Of Top 50 Article Directories By Traffic, PageRank. Here you will get a list of 50 article directories. Hope it may help some one.

[robfricks]

I only use ezinearticle, goarticles, and article dashboard for my articles.

[indoarticle]

Articlebase is nofollow right..? Goarticles..Somoetimes we have to fill in the captcha to open the articles..And it's not good for SEO..SO..I think ezinearticles is the best for link building..

[alxvallejo]

Weren't all of these article-based websites severely hurt by the Google Panda updates? EZine was hurt as well because of all the poor content quality but they (and maybe others) are struggling to get back in the fight for quality content.

[olamilekan2]

You can get a good List of Top Quality Article Directories, Web 2.0 properties, social networking sites, and many backlink protional Sites from this site http://targethut.com, the good thinkg is , you also have access to alot of other useful information like index time, PR, etc about the site,

good luck

[hireseowriters]

Originally Posted by NiallR

Howdy,

Well most people won't get article directories very much time these days since the Google Panda update made submitting to many of them pointless. The day of getting thousands of links from junk directories is done - they were never much use in the first place.

BUT I do still use article marketing and it's still an effective way to increase your traffic if you do it properly i.e. write high quality articles of more than say 500 words that are actually worth reading. Poorly spun junk written for $1 a pop isn't going to cut it.

And my favourite article directories (where articles can actually get indexed) are:

Ezinearticles
Articlesbase
Easyarticles.com
ArticleAlley.com
A1Articles.com
articletrader.com
articlefeeder.com
articlesnatch.com

Hope that helps :-)

Niall

I agree with Niall here. Junk content will leave in the middle of nowhere. If you need links, you need quality content with a minimum of 500 words. After the Google Panda blow, my client is complaining that his Articlesbase account is not working well. He says Ezine and Go articles generate more traffic and the traffic from Articlesbase is close to none.

[MIRENGE]

Ezine is the best but i have had some difficulties submitting to it. Out of the articles i submitted only one of them was approved.

[hireseowriters]

Originally Posted by MIRENGE

Ezine is the best but i have had some difficulties submitting to it. Out of the articles i submitted only one of them was approved.

Though Ezine is not explicitly suggesting it anywhere, I noticed that longer articles 550-650 words are getting approved in record time from my Platinum account. They go live in 24 hours in some instances the latest being 48 hours. However, 400-450 word articles are taking much longer, even with my platinum status. The rejection rate can be frustrating.

[J3thro M]

Very nice informations.... so is article directory submissions a strong way in building backlinks to make your site go to the top in search results?

[hireseowriters]

Hello Newjet,

Yes it is. It may not be as effective as it used to be but article marketing still got great potential. To really crack it, you need to have a good number of articles on ezinearticles.com. There are other good directories but in my experience, you can't afford to miss Ezine. Though articlesbase used to be a great directory, the clickrate is extremely low these days. After Ezine Articles, I prefer Goarticles.com and Amazines.com

[J3thro M]

Thanks for the reply hireseowriters, I appreciate it. Now I can be confidently concentrating in doing article submissions for backlinks. So is it better for a website to have many backlinks in ezinearticles rather than having 1 backlink to each top article directory? or the other way around?

[Valera]

If you are looking for article directories for backlinking reasons, in my opinion you are wasting your time.

Article directory link is not worth much, and most article directories such as articlesbase.com are actually no follow anyways.

In my opinion, there is a lot better use for your unique content elsewhere, like on your own site for example lol

[hireseowriters]

Hello Newjet,

Ezine has a crazy rejection rate. Believe me, it's a real pain to resubmit them. I suggest you to submit your articles first to Ezine and whatever gets rejected can be submitted to Go Articles.com or other directories.

As I mentioned earlier, Articles Base is no longer good but there are good article directories. It's not a bad idea to setup your own word press blog and update it with constant content. Hosting and domains are really cheap these days.It's totally up to you to decide!

[daweelmac]

Thanks to all who shared their favorite article directories. I'm trying some of them now.

[J3thro M]

@Valera. So what backlink strategy you suggest that works best, mate?
@hireseowriter. Yeah I did submit 2 articles to ezinearticles. 1 got approved and 1 got rejected . So the rejected article is now a content on my site. Sigh, making miniwebsites is fun especially when are able to find low competition kewords with good search volumes but making backlinks is giving me headache.
Yeah thanks to all who shared.

[francischan]

Yes Ezine is great but how long does the moderation process usually take? Or how long do they approve the article you have submitted. Thanks guys.

[dagaul101]

The best are the likes of Ezinearticles, Goarticles, and Yahoo Contributors

[J3thro M]

@francischan.. it took 8days for them too approve the article I've submitted. July 4 at night the articles submitted, then july 12 at night the article was approved and live. The good thing is that the article was being used by another site. And that article got a link going to my site. I'm getting some traffic from the site that used my article.

[simonbuzz]

I use these 4 only

Ezinearticles.com
Articlesbase.com
Easyarticles.com
Goarticles.com

[mvt82969]

Has ne 1 tried to reg to A1Articles.com lately? I have tried 4 times and each time it says account already exists. That cant be because it requires you email address. I even created a brand new email and still samething. then i tried the forgot password and when it send it it is blank. I have used there cont us page 3 times, but no one responds......

[imthebest]

Originally Posted by simonbuzz

I use these 4 only

Ezinearticles.com
Articlesbase.com
Easyarticles.com
Goarticles.com

These four article directory sites are great and I want to add three other sites that performing well according to my experience!
ehow.com
buzzle.com
webpronews.com