What article directories are still relevant?

by daver99

Posted: 11 years ago 7 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

With all the low grade and google slapped article directories out there I am wondering which ones are still relevant?

#article #directories #relevant

Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago

Ezine Articles is still relevant (as long as you use it for its intended purpose, rather than trying to use it for its own backlinks and/or its own traffic: even EZA is a waste of time for those "aspirations").

Once your articles are in Ezine Articles it seems very unlikely to me that there's any significant benefit at all from being in any other article directories additionally. Only my own opinion and perspective, of course, but based on a lot of experience.

These threads might interest you ...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7815680
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7801282

If you know of a niche-specific article directory that's both reasonably well-known and limited to content about the subject-matter of your particular niche, that would be a good additional one to try.
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AlmightyGreg 11 years ago

It depends what you want out of the directory. For the most part goarticles, ezine, squidoo and hubpages. But there are plenty more, it just depends what you are looking to get out of them. If you want high pr backlinks the ones I mentioned are your best shots I guess
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- Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by greg fields
  
  For the most part goarticles, ezine, squidoo and hubpages. But there are plenty more
  
  Neither Squidoo nor HubPages is - in any sense at all - an article directory, Greg.
  
  I'm not mentioning that just to be pedantic: it's hugely significant to the content you can publish there, the purposes you can use them for and what benefits you can get from them.
  
  Originally Posted by greg fields
  
  If you want high pr backlinks the ones I mentioned are your best shots I guess
  
  No, again, I'm afraid not. All articles published in article directories go on newly-formed PR-0 pages. (The page ranks of the directories' own home pages don't help us, because our article aren't published on their own home pages.)
  
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daver99 11 years ago

Thanks Alexa, really just trying to get a little link diversity in some good neighborhoods. A lot of the automated submission services send out to spammy sites so looking for a couple more good spots to do high quality manual submissions for the sake of variety. Ezinearticles is top tier... what would be next?
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- Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by daver99
  
  Thanks Alexa, really just trying to get a little link diversity in some good neighborhoods.
  
  Article directories are not a way to do that. At all. Not by any stretch of the imagination, I'm afraid.
  
  Article directory backlinks are worthless, Dave. All you can ever get from an article directory on the backlink front is a non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlink. Even before the Panda updates decimated the SEO potential of article directories, something between 50,000 and 100,000 of those backlinks were typically equivalent in linkjuice to one backlink from a quality, relevant site (as SEO textbook authors rightly said at the time). Now they're worth even less than that, if you can imagine something so small; furthermore too many of them will get your main site penalized by the Penguin update (as has happened to so many Warriors over the last year or so). Trying to use article directories for their own backlinks is honestly completely pointless - sorry.
  
  You don't get anything extra for "diversity" (however much people selling backlinking services would like their potential customers to imagine that you do!). We can all see this for ourselves from how solidly, highly and immoveably websites with smallish numbers of only highly relevant backlinks can rank in Google's SERP's, and how sites with overwhelmingly larger numbers of "more diverse" links are typically way below them, if their links are from less relevant sites.
  
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  daver99 11 years ago
  
  Alexa,
  
  Thanks for your opinion. I agree with you overall although I am not trying to equate link juice and an SEO boost with diversity. Two different things. And by diversity I don't mean thousands of junky links.
  
  From your perspective ezinarticles is the only game in town, which answers my question.
  
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clever7 11 years ago

I agree that only ezinearticles is the best article directory. My websites are still getting traffic from my articles because I have already written many articles and I keep writing, even though not as much as before the dramatic changes.

My Squidoo lenses are also helping me drive traffic to my websites and the visitors coming from these lenses remain longer at my websites and my blog. You should create a few lenses too, with original content, and post there links to your articles.
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