Andrew Maule

If you're not using articlesbase yet you really should.

I submitted an article literally 15 minutes ago and it was already approved. Oh yeah, I'm also already raking in the #1 spot for my keyword with 86,000 competing pages (they're low SOC though). Very, very good directory Highly recommend using them.

LarryC

I do use them, as well as GoArticles, which instantly approves articles. I can't remember ever getting the kind of results you did. Not sure I ever ranked #1 for an article -that's an impressive feat.

Nickolie0990

Congratulations on the ranking.

JackPowers

ArticleBase>Ezine for your general article. Not as good for publishing but much easier to deal with overall. You can have links in article body, redirect with php and approved instantly after a number of articles are manually approved.

Joe118

Thats cool. Did you do anything to the article (link building, SB, ..) or did it just jump directly to #1 in google only because it was on articlebase?

lioncirth

I do like them

I have only used them a little, simply submitting articles that are in ezine into articlebase.

is it not true that links from ArticleBase are nofollow?

juzanobo

Yep, articlebase is easier to deal with compared to ezine. Gratz

CHeers

John Hixson

Looks that way, just checked. Will stick with GoArticles as my main article directory of choice then!

Taylor French

Wow, talk about biting the hand that feeds you! Seems like these smaller directories would be working towards becoming more user friendly to compete with EZA rather than doing stuff that directly harms the people who give you the content to build your site.

Jay Sullivan

articlesbase is a great directory, aswell as article dashboard. I have the same as you...articlesbase is ranking my keyword rich articles higher than EZA on most occassions too!

farasens1

Articlebase is cool, but EZA rankings/autority is much better.

AllyW

Not meaning to hijack the thread, but I've never understood why some article directories are No Follow. What is the idea behind that?

Taylor French

I'm just guessing, but it's probably one of two things.

1. They're trying to keep out the people who submit solely for backlinks, because they think those people don't submit quality articles compared to people who are looking for direct traffic.

2. They believe some of the sites people are linking to are low quality and might affect the directory's own rankings.

Otherwise, I'm not really sure why they do this. I suspect it's mostly because they feel it keeps submission quality a bit higher.

wolverine1971

Yes they put a 'nofollow' in there but you can still use this directory for huge advantages like ranking page 1 very quickly.

Here are a couple tips for using AB for traffic and getting a good 'do follow link'

#1 Put a long tail anchor link in the first paragraph pertaining to exactly what the reader may have been looking for if they found you in a search - that way you can try to redirect them to your site quicker because more than 50% won't scroll below the fold and you are competing with a lot of Adsense links along the way down that may attract their attention first.

#2 Make sure to write an excellent member profile with good SEO content within and your keyword anchor text because this is where you get your Do Follow links. If you are writing a lot of articles on AB some will rank PR1,PR2,PR3 and the link juice from the article does go to your profile so within a month or two your profile holding your backlinks will be a PR3/4/5

I don't use ArticlesBase for the backlinks but I do use it to optimize knocking competitors out of page 1 on Google by ranking for a couple articles there while building my main site rankings for that keyword. for easy and medium difficulty keywords you can dominate Google top 20 with ArticlesBase and Goarticles

The other tip for ArticlesBase - you have some of the best onsite SEO optimization there for your keyword. You can get the Title, H1 Tag, Description, and typically the title in the URL. This is one reason why AB and Goarticles can outpace and outrank Ezines.

Andrew Maule

Just run of the mill keyword targeted article writing, nothing out of the ordinary, no link building, etc. It was literally #1 in 15 minutes for the keyword (still there by the way).

cybergod

I never used that, will use it from now. Thanks and congrats on your success..

mine1718

ezinearticles is one of the best, if not the best site to submit articles too.

terryd

Is it worth taking all the articles you have on EZA and submitting them to Articlebase?

sashas

create a few backlinks for GoArticles and see the results. GoArticles responds very well to backlinks

geoffcruz

Yes, i do this all the time, i submit to EZA and then submit to AB.

321sitemonitor.com

I think articlebase is not that good as ezine as they allow promotional articles as well and this completely makes a directory as spam or bogus to visit again.

babarapho

For me thumps up to ezinearticles. They are way up above other directories.

John Hixson

Can you use the h1 tags etc on Goarticles? I hadn't tried as I simply thought I 'knew' you couldn't but thinking about it that could well have been an assumption.

Anyone tried this?

newton

One thing I have found with Articlesbase is many of my articles are picked up by blog scraping software and posted to Wordpress blogs. So I get quite a few extra backlinks for no extra effort!

Tony

knowing25

ezinearticles and articlebase is good, but i choose articlebase as the awesome one

J Bold

I wouldn't call them friggin' awesome, but if you are in to article marketing, you should be using them. Email support has been subpar for me, and they did not except a few of my articles for very lazy reasons (claimed they were exactly the same as previous articles with just a few words changed and it wasn't true, they merely had the same keywords and everything else was different).

But I digress. You should use them as well as ezinearticles, goarticles, etc.

Emmanuel ED

Article Base is worth submitting to. Don't Know Much About their rankings but Many Auto-blogging Plugins use Content from Article Base(based on keywords, though) to create posts so If your article matches their criteria you could get some extra exposure.

GoArticles is my Top Article Directory.

-Emmanuel.

Michelle Strait

I also get a fair amount of traffic from Article Base. I was deterred by the no-follow thing, but decided it was worth it to keep using them.

Texjd

You can never know for sure but I would say that the nofollow is because it does keep junk articles for links out and doesn't pass their authority. Searchwarp is the same. But both have some good value even if they are nofollow. It's good to have articles posted in multiple directories. And you can publish first in ezinearticles then post later in the secondary directories.

Well written articles get read and the links get clicked on regardless of the link juice. I'm not a fan of spinning, it just adds to the crap out there but I understand why many do it. Sometimes I write a little different version for the other directories but most times I don't. Never had an issue with duplicate content, in fact I've ranked from multiple directories on the same keywords and article on the first page many times.

I don't write as much as I should but I just did my end of year stats and I got over 50,000 visitors from the 5 or 6 article directories I publish to on a regular basis. Haven't really figured out how to trace all the buyers to point of origin yet, sometimes I can tell but not every buyer.

I think that is probably worth more than the link juice I got. I think the quality of the visitor is as high as the search engine visitor too but it depends a lot on the subject matter.

pheonix44

Articlebase is cool because they are quick. If you can do some link building and get those links indexed by google your article can rank pretty easily. I am experimenting with them now and I see that they get results.

wolverine1971

You cannot manually put the tags in yourself but if you write the article a certain way like I do you will pick it up and the other things. I have analyzed over 200 of my Ezines and put dozens on goarticles and Articlesbase and then analyzed what they picked up that Ezine didn't. I then carefully analyzed my articles and the page source of the AB and goarticle to see how this worked.

I'm going to write a quick PDF on this when I have time next week to detail how to pick up all the onsite optimization.

I use this technique to knock old ezines out of their top ranking with a brand new Goarticle or ArticleBase. It can be tough to outrank an older Ezine if it is a really good one with very solid SEO and a few backlinks but I've found that with Goarticles and AB you can beat them with better onsite SEO control- then a few backlinks and see it's sah yah later old Ezine you're off page 1. not fun for someone with over 100K views on their 2-3 year old article but that's the way it goes. an extremely aggressive campaign to rip apart your competitors taking away their top ezine traffic and replacing with your own works.

Wolverine

Lambert Klein

What I don't like about ArticleBase is that they list articles that are just plain ads and direct product promotion.

If you are looking for an article there then you have to dig more.

Guess you don't need a bio box with them. LOL

Lambert

Emmanuel Betinis

Andrew, about this article you submitted to ArticlesBase...

1.) Was it a unique article that had never
been submitted to any other directory
prior to submitting it to ArticlesBase?

or

2.) Was it an article that you had previously submitted
to other directories prior to submitting to ArticlesBase?

interplay

I've primarily used EZA and GoArticles but have just recently began using Articlesbase. I like them as well even though I haven't had the ranking success that you have (yet). I plan to be submitting to AB heavily in the coming weeks.

kerron.a

I use Ezine as my primary article directory, but when it comes to ranking in record time in google, AB delivers results quickly.

Yesterday I submitted and article for an average enough searched term to AB, and within 6 hrs I was ranking #8 on page 1 for that keyword phrase.

Article Base may have a "no follow" tag, but the click throughs i got to my website were worth it none the less.

Kerron

GeorgR.

articlesbase uses NOFOLLOW - so i have my doubts whether it does anything. I just discovered this.

mine1718

I just tried article base now and i have to say it is very easy and user friendly. Two thumbs up for this site

Emmanuel Betinis

Whether what does anything? ArticlesBase or the NOFOLLOW tag?

Liam Hamer

The speed at which their articles get indexed is fantastic - right up there with EZA I'm also ranking nicely for a few keyword terms with my Articlesbase articles too. Their analytics feature is also very cool indeed.

Edit: I don't understand why people get so hung up on the nofollow tag You're not going to submit to a FREE directory, with lots of traffic, and with excellent SEO because of a nofollow tag? I pay no attention to it myself, and I've never been entirely convinced that nofollow = no link juice

Nichedigger

Yes! The articlesbase worth regardless nofollow tags. These days using article directories as link source is waste of time and resources.

Bruce NewMedia

Agree Articlesbase is excellent at getting your article indexed super -fast!....and assuming its a decent article, you can rank pretty well. I've added them to my list of keepers which includes EzineArticles and GoArticles.
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Bruce

rednow1

i have used article base for some time now, and they are very fast, but only after i had used it for a few weeks did i find out they were nofollow. and i didnt seem to get good traffic from the articles either, i guess i will take another look at my articles or have them outsorced from now on! any other sites as good and quick as article base that wasnt mentioned in this thread?

KHonline

I've been looking for more article directories besides ezinearticles. I had no idea ArticlesBase was no follow though.

Justin Lewis

Congrats on the ranking, this is a great success I love articlebase because the website is so easily ranked on google. Also another one I really liked was Goarticles, along with these multiple article sources, you can own the competition quick.

eddieteo

What about the other article directories besides those mentioned? Not worth submitting to?

jcmarin

EzineArticles takes a week for your articles to show (if they happen to like them). They have become so rigid that the average person becomes frustrated with the process. ArticleBase is far better because they allow you to promote yourself or other offers.

ArticleBase is used by a number of automated tools like WPRobot so your article can be published (along with your links) in hundreds of blogs and websites in just a few hours.

You guys are right, article quality doesn't improve by being anal about how the authors promote themselves. Selfless writting may be passionate but that doesn't mean that its usefull.

goginoo

Congratulations

Vishal Mahadik

In my opinion, Articlesbase.com articles do rank high in search engines for keywords with medium competition and if you do proper backlinking to those articles then they sure can outrank Ezinearticles in case of few backlinks to existing EZA ranking articles in Google.

I think you can better promote CPA offers through Articlesbase rather than clickbank offers. They tend to rank higher because of less competition to CPA offers.

geoffcruz

We will be waiting for this Wolverine, dont let us down

Rickmci

Yea. I like articlebase also, but never ranked a article #1 for any keyword either. That is very impressive for sure.....