Search for free high pr directories

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

The articles you need for this purpose involve skilled writing. They're difficult to learn how to do. It's not automated. It involves work and talent. If you buy them, they're expensive. You can't outsource it as easily.

So although article marketing is NOT intrinsically about SEO, by getting your articles syndicated to relevant sites, you can actually get some top rankings, too.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

With articles, there are two different ways.

(i) You can mass-submit all your articles to 1,000+ article directories using automated submission software.

(Don't "spin"/"rewrite" them - that doesn't affect the value of the backlink at all. The link-juice is identical whether they're spun or not: the value of a backlink has never been affected by whether the content to which it's attached has been spun, nor by whether Google indexes it in the main index or the supplemental index. They're all equal backlinks, spun or unspun).

It's automated. It's easy. It's pretty mindless. It requires no real skill at all. You can outsource it cheaply.

It litters the internet with multiple copies of (usually) poor-quality, badly-written nonsense, of course. And that gets us all a bad name - understandably - as "spammers". But the people who do this cr@p don't usually care about that.

Out of every 1,000 submissions like this, you'll typically get around 100 - 150 backlinks (the rest don't get published, or they don't get indexed).

All those backlinks are non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks of negligible value.

They're about as close-to-worthless as you can get.

But by the time you have enough of those backlinks (let's say 100,000 of them, from 1,000 mass-submitted articles prodcuing 100 backlinks each by automated mass-submission), your link-juice total might equal the link-juice you'd get from one good backlink from a relevant authority site (no, I'm not exaggerating).

That's why, if you look at 100+ threads here with titles like "Article Marketing Is Dead", you'll see that that's exactly what most of their authors were doing. For them, article marketing is dead. Because what they're doing isn't article marketing. It's just article directory marketing. It's trying to use article directories for their own backlinks.

It's silly. It's ill-informed. It's unwise. It's misguided. It's a waste of time.

It doesn't work.

But don't panic: there's another way ...

(ii) You can write high-quality articles designed to be re-published by people who own relevant websites in the niche and relevant ezines.

The articles need to be [snip so I can post]specifically written for syndication[/URL] (read the whole thread carefully).

Then you put them on your own website and wait until they're indexed. Then you send them with a suitable email to the owners of every niche site/blog you can find in your niche. Relevant ones only. Especially all the ones that don't belong to other marketers. And you offer them the article for their site (with your backlink).

Then you contact ezine publishers and do the same thing, to get floods of highly targeted traffic without needing Google at all.

Then after that, you dump a copy of the article in Ezine Articles as your last step. (And in one other directory, if you want). That gets it re-published some more by the publishers and webmasters who go to EZA looking for content to re-publish. That's what article directories are there for, you know?

This gets you enormously valuable relevant backlinks - exactly the ones those nice people at Google love so much. And eventually they get you some really high rankings, too.

But there's a "catch".

The articles you need for this purpose involve skilled writing. They're difficult to learn how to do. It's not automated. It involves work and talent. If you buy them, they're expensive. You can't outsource it as easily/cheaply.

So although article marketing is NOT intrinsically about SEO, by getting your articles syndicated to relevant sites, you can actually get some top rankings, too.

But whatever you do, stop thinking about using article directories for their own backlinks.

That's not what they're there for.

It isn't how they work.

You won't make a living doing that.

You need to decide for yourself whether you want to make money by attracting highly targeted traffic to your site, or to aim specifically for high rankings in Google, and end up with a business that's totally dependent on search engines for all its primary traffic. Bear in mind, if you do that (which you won't manage anyway with article directories), that as so many Warriors have found to their great cost this year, your entire business will only ever be one algorithm change away from a complete disaster, and you won't be in control of it.



If you know that, Marco, then why are you still making plans involving "high PR directories"?



Either you understand that there's no such thing as a "high-PR directory", or you don't. :confused: