What Article Directories are Worth Using?

13 years ago

Article directories serve internet marketers in 2 ways.
They can either look through different article directories and pick up an article suitable for their site content and publish it on their web site, of course if the article directory and the author of this article permits publishing this article. The second way for marketers, is to submit their own articles in article directories. This article contains link to the author's site. Also if someone republishes this article, in the author info there is link to author's web site. This way, marketers get a really good traffic and back links, which will improve the link popularity and the site PR.

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jvjoe 13 years ago

I basically use 4 of them namely ezinearticle, articlebase, goarticle, and Hubpage.
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WebmasterDeluxe

13 years ago

I use, well...pretty much all of them

Nice backlinks w/ Anchor text and the traffic builds nicely over time.

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backendbuddy

13 years ago

Think you can find a good list of article directories on my signature link. It helps, really. Tested over time.

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DireStraits

13 years ago

Originally Posted by DMWood

Hi,

I was going through the list of article directories I use today for example Ezine Articles, GoArticles.com, ArticlesBase.com, HubPages.com, ArticleSnatch.com, ArticleDashboard.com, ArticleAlley.com and started thinking about what others I maybe should be using instead of/as well.

So what I was wondering is what article directories do you use?

I'm in the business of getting my articles syndicated, and that's my only concern when submitting to article directories. The reality is that most of them aren't well known enough to be on webmasters' lists of "sites from which one can republish free content", therefore it'd be a waste of my time to submit to them. As a rule, the only generic directories I submit to are EzineArticles, ArticlesBase and GoArticles, and unless I can find any other niche-specific directories that might provide my articles with the necessary beneficial exposure, that is the lot.

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Tom Ryan 13 years ago

The main article directories I use are EZA, GoArticles, ArticlesBase, and ArticleDashboard.
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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by jvjoe

I basically use 4 of them namely ezinearticle, articlebase, goarticle, and Hubpage.

Please excuse my appearing pedantic, but HubPages isn't an article directory, and accordingly has completely different uses, functions and (importantly) terms of service.

Originally Posted by DMWood

What Article Directories are Worth Using?

It really depends what you're using them for.

But I think it's fair to assume that these recent, little threads may be of quite some help/interest to you ...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-articles.html

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DMWood 13 years ago

Thanks everyone for the help.
I appriciate it!
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randomsk1tzo

13 years ago

This guy seems to have a decent list of different article directories with their alexa rank. Its on MasonWorld Article Directories. I could try and copy and paste the list in but it has like 500 different sites in that list.

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Benjamin Ehinger

13 years ago

Originally Posted by DMWood

Hi,

I was going through the list of article directories I use today for example Ezine Articles, GoArticles.com, ArticlesBase.com, HubPages.com, ArticleSnatch.com, ArticleDashboard.com, ArticleAlley.com and started thinking about what others I maybe should be using instead of/as well.

So what I was wondering is what article directories do you use?

They are all worth about the same amount now, but if you actually use article syndication with sites like isnare, content crooner, submit your articles, and with lists of ezine publishers you will see better results.

Benjamin Ehinger

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Richard Van

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Benjamin Ehinger

They are all worth about the same amount now, but if you actually use article syndication with sites like isnare, content crooner, submit your articles, and with lists of ezine publishers you will see better results.

Benjamin Ehinger

Yup but even better get those articles syndicated on niche specific sites as well because if I was targeting elephant nappies, most of my potential customers hang around on the world famous "Elephant Nappy Extraordinaire" site and not, as you can guess, on article directories.

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moneyIsHoney

13 years ago

i heard google is not liking article directory that much right at this moment, how far it is true ?

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by moneyIsHoney

i heard google is not liking article directory that much right at this moment, how far it is true ?

Pretty far.

It's not so much "right at this moment", really - though it is probably true that Google likes them less than ever before.

People often wrongly attribute all of this to the so-called "Panda update", earlier this year. The reality is that it's been a gradual process over the last two, maybe two and a half years, during which Google's liked article directories less and less. The Panda update itself, though, was undeniably a further measurable step in the same direction.

Even well before the Panda update, the authors of standard SEO textbooks were saying really clearly that article directory backlinks are only non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks, and that typically one would need more than 50,000 of them to confer the same link-juice as that from one backlink on a page of a relevant authority-site.

Many people are either completely unaware of this, or just somehow choose "not quite to believe it", but it was completely true.

And of course since the Panda update, it's even more true.

There's very little point in trying to use article directories like EZA for their own backlinks. That's not what they're there for, at all. Their purpose is to make your content available for syndication to ezines (hence their name, of course!

), and to relevant sites whose Webmasters want content.

Trying to advance your site's SEO from article directory backlinks alone is like banging your head against a brick wall: eventually you might knock the wall down, if it's feeble enough, but you can kill yourself in the process. This isn't what "article marketing" is about.

People claiming that you should submit to as many article directories as possible because "they're all extra backlinks" just don't know what they're talking about, and for sure they're not making their living that way. (Either that, or they're "promoting a service" from which they make a profit!). Most of the people here who are truly making a living from article marketing and building up their businesses that way have been through stages of mass-submission and long since abandoned it. Yes, there are people selling "submission services" here, and they'll tell you that they've had hundreds of top rankings for their clients, from it.

Well, they will say this, won't they?

That's a "backlinking service" - it has nothing to do with article marketing, really. Article marketing is about getting well-written content in front of highly targeted traffic.

People wanting to syndicate content routinely and instinctively go to Ezine Articles for it (and maybe a small proportion, in some niches, look at GoArticles and ArticleBase as well).

There's almost no benefit at all from submitting to 1,000 other article directories, which is exactly why so many of us who do this for a living don't do that any more.

Be careful whose advice you take, on this subject: it's really easy to waste huge amounts of time on activities which bring virtually no benefits at all to your business.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-articles.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-articles.html

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autumnsmith

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Pretty far.

It's not so much "right at this moment", really - though it is probably true that Google likes them less than ever before.

People often wrongly attribute all of this to the so-called "Panda update", earlier this year. The reality is that it's been a gradual process over the last two, maybe two and a half years, during which Google's liked article directories less and less. The Panda update itself, though, was undeniably a further measurable step in the same direction.

Even well before the Panda update, the authors of standard SEO textbooks were saying really clearly that article directory backlinks are only non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks, and that typically one would need more than 50,000 of them to confer the same link-juice as that from one backlink on a page of a relevant authority-site.

Many people are either completely unaware of this, or just somehow choose "not quite to believe it", but it was completely true.

And of course since the Panda update, it's even more true.

There's very little point in trying to use article directories like EZA for their own backlinks. That's not what they're there for, at all. Their purpose is to make your content available for syndication to ezines (hence their name, of course!

), and to relevant sites whose Webmasters want content.

Trying to advance your site's SEO from article directory backlinks alone is like banging your head against a brick wall: eventually you might knock the wall down, if it's feeble enough, but you can kill yourself in the process. This isn't what "article marketing" is about.

People claiming that you should submit to as many article directories as possible because "they're all extra backlinks" just don't know what they're talking about, and for sure they're not making their living that way. (Either that, or they're "promoting a service" from which they make a profit!). Most of the people here who are truly making a living from article marketing and building up their businesses that way have been through stages of mass-submission and long since abandoned it. Yes, there are people selling "submission services" here, and they'll tell you that they've had hundreds of top rankings for their clients, from it.

Well, they will say this, won't they?

That's a "backlinking service" - it has nothing to do with article marketing, really. Article marketing is about getting well-written content in front of highly targeted traffic.

People wanting to syndicate content routinely and instinctively go to Ezine Articles for it (and maybe a small proportion, in some niches, look at GoArticles and ArticleBase as well).

There's almost no benefit at all from submitting to 1,000 other article directories, which is exactly why so many of us who do this for a living don't do that any more.

Be careful whose advice you take, on this subject: it's really easy to waste huge amounts of time on activities which bring virtually no benefits at all to your business.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-articles.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-articles.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-articles.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-articles.html

I'm glad you bring this topic out Alexa. But, should we be worried about the big decline of traffic of top article sites? Hope you can give your inputs.

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by autumnsmith

I'm glad you bring this topic out Alexa. But, should we be worried about the big decline of traffic of top article sites?

No, we should be pleased about it.

Because, for all the reasons explained so fully in those threads linked to above, we're not using article directories to attract potential customer traffic: those are the people we want coming to our own sites. Article directories are only depositories of available content for syndication - this is why they exist (and why they're called "directories": the idea is that people go there are look things up, to find content - that's the need they serve).

This is why Google's "Panda update" has helped us out so much: by taking all those article directory copies off the front page of Google's SERP's, it's become much easier for us to rank our own sites and get the customer traffic where we want it, rather than where the article directories wanted it.

When someone finds one of your articles by putting one of its keywords into a search engine, that person's a potential customer, so the last thing you want him finding is an article directory copy: we all lose most of that traffic. The words "I have a 30% click-through rate from EZA" are just another way of saying "I lose 70% of my potential customers at EZA".

The less traffic the article directories can attract, the better. Google thinks so, and so do professional article marketers.

My articles are in EZA to be found by people (ezine publishers and webmasters) searching in EZA, i.e. using it as a directory, not by people searching in Google.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-articles.html

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http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-articles.html
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DavidWincent

13 years ago

It is good to use as much as you can. They provide you with backlinks. So submit your articles to as many websites as possible. There is nothing specific about these sites.

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Mizzy Princess

13 years ago

Actually, I used most of them. The more, the merrier!

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Abby Gibbs

13 years ago

I used three (3) namely, Articlebase, Articlealley and EzineArticles.

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footbag_man

13 years ago

i like ezinearticles most because you will find everything according to your requirements.

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Richard Van

13 years ago

Originally Posted by eliotmab

checkout article directories if traffic is high or have a good page rank.High page rank directories provide very good support.

Good page rank means you get good support? First time I ever heard there was a correlation between PR and customer service.

I assume you mean you go for article directories with high PR? Well I'm afraid that means you need to do a bit of learning about what PR actually is. You see, when you submit an article to a high PR site, what you fail to realise is the PR is for the homepage, hence the expression page rank and not site rank. Your article sits on a nice shiny brand new PR0 page.

Assuming the SEO company in your signature belongs to you, I find your opinions on page rank enormously surprising.

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ahefner33

13 years ago

What sites other than Ezinearticles do any of you that are experienced in getting your articles syndicated use? I have done article marketing for most my IM life of 5 years. With posting to most the major top sites, I have taken away that Ezine submissions get most of the syndications. Very little from the others. Now with Ezine constantly denying articles in my niche just due to the fact that I have already written so much on the niche, I don't know where else to look that gets my articles out there.

I have gone the route of asking websites owners in my niche to ask for guest posts but have never found it that owners actually want someone else to write articles for them and allow a link back to someone that is competing. Most the time is no response and then other times its them asking me "why would I want to allow you to post content on my site to have them go to your site?"

Again thanks for any shares. When I say other sites I use that dont get many syndications, I meant articlesbase, ideamarketers, buzzle(dont allow link backs anymore), go, isnare, sooper, associatedcontent. SOrry didnt mention that earlier

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by eliotmab

checkout article directories if traffic is high or have a good page rank.High page rank directories provide very good support.

This is utter nonsense.

No article marketer would want to get their potential-customer traffic via an article directory, anyway. That isn't what article directories are there for at all. (The words "I have a 30% click-through rate from EZA" are just another way of saying "I lose 70% of my potential customers at EZA").

There's no such thing as a "high page rank directory". Article directories are websites, and websites don't "have page rank", believe it or not: pages have page rank. You're referring to the page rank of the directories' own home pages. Good luck to you if you imagine you can get your articles published on those pages. :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by ahefner33

I have taken away that Ezine submissions get most of the syndications.

This is undoubtedly right.

I've lost track of how many "syndicated copies" of articles I have floating around now, but it's well into 5 figures, and I think 99.8% of the passive syndication has come through EZA.

Originally Posted by ahefner33

Now with Ezine constantly denying articles in my niche just due to the fact that I have already written so much on the niche, I don't know where else to look that gets my articles out there.

This is a curious one.

What do they actually say, when they decline your articles? Surely not "you've already written so much on this niche and we don't want any more from you"?! :confused:

Are they actually declining because of lack of "original content"?

If this is the case, the solution isn't to submit elsewhere hoping to achieve syndication (that would really be pretty forlorn, though I dare say it isn't impossible from GoArticles and/or ArticlesBase): it's to find new, original ways of covering the same material previously covered in different vocabulary so that EZA has no duplicate content concerns about it.

Originally Posted by ahefner33

I have gone the route of asking websites owners in my niche to ask for guest posts but have never found it that owners actually want someone else to write articles for them and allow a link back to someone that is competing.

No, indeed ... few people are going to give backlinks to a direct competitor. But not all websites belong to marketers.

Originally Posted by ahefner33

other times its them asking me "why would I want to allow you to post content on my site to have them go to your site?"

Yes, they do sound like competitors. (Other people are typically entirely unconcerned about that - and understandably so).

I appreciate that people don't like disclosing their niches in public (and nobody can blame you for that - I don't, either), but it sounds that you must be in a very tiny, precisely defined, narrowly selected niche in which all or nearly all of the other sites belong to direct competitors? Unusual indeed ...

What about ezines? Syndication to those can produce floods of highly targeted traffic. (But again, possibly not in your perhaps minuscule niche, I'm sensing even as I say it?)

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ahefner33

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

This is a curious one.

What do they actually say, when they decline your articles? Surely not "you've already written so much on this niche and we don't want any more from you"?! :confused:

Are they actually declining because of lack of "original content"?

If this is the case, the solution isn't to submit elsewhere hoping to achieve syndication (that would really be pretty forlorn, though I dare say it isn't impossible from GoArticles and/or ArticlesBase): it's to find new, original ways of covering the same material previously covered in different vocabulary so that EZA has no duplicate content concerns about it.

"1h. Must Not Contain Rehashed Content, or Material Overly Similar to your Prior Submissions."

And trust me I have been back and forth with Penny over there. As you said several of my niches are pin point targeted. There is a broader niche that relates to them but would not benefit the cause of my actual sites. Think... Debt ------> Debt for Fat Cows

I appreciate that people don't like disclosing their niches in public (and nobody can blame you for that - I don't, either), but it sounds that you must be in a very tiny, precisely defined, narrowly selected niche in which all or nearly all of the other sites belong to direct competitors? Unusual indeed ...

Correct. I assume most are targeting these specific areas as the top sites contents are targeted toward the niches. Now I can find easily blogs that will use guest post on 3rd or 4th pages from seeing they scrape content anyways with link backs. But again this would do no good for me as it isn't getting in front of my pursuing audiences.

What about ezines? Syndication to those can produce floods of highly targeted traffic. (But again, possibly not in your perhaps minuscule niche, I'm sensing even as I say it?)

Yeah probably. I just can go by the experience (and not all of my experience comes from these niches I'm concerned with) that with my article submissions, it has always been Ezinearticles that would get my articles syndicated and the others just maybe a few.

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AnniePot 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Synastute

I have used most of them but there are even more websites for article submissions. You can search on Google.

Did you read a single word of Alexa's response???? :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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