Best article directories for backlinks

Thanks for the info, never done anything with guest blogging so couple of questions

How do you go about finding a relevant guest blog and once you find one, do you then write a relevant post to submit to it?

Rather than using article directories, it is better to post the articles on free blogging sites by creating our own blogs and to get some exposure for the articles, you can just promote them on social networking sites and if the content you have updated is informative and interesting, people will surely re share the post and may even refer to your post on their blogs. This will help in building backlinks naturally and help in increasing the authority of your post page.

I checked it out.

It's total nonsense.

Loads of them aren't even article directories at all. Honestly, that's how nonsensical it is: only two or three of the top ten so-called "article directories" listed there actually are article directories! And of course that's hugely significant regarding what you can submit there, and why.

The page-ranks are all nonsense, too. Those are just the ranks of those sites own home pages. If you can find a way of getting your article published on their own home pages, then they might help you somehow. But otherwise, not so much! :rolleyes:

The entire conversation is pretty misguided. There's no point in trying to use article directories for their own backlinks anyway. That was true even in 2009/10 before the Panda updates decimated the SEO potential of article directories.

These (post-Penguin) days multiple article directory submission is far more likely to damage your business than to help it.

Most of the conversation here is based on a fundamental misundstanding of how article directories work, and what benefits you can (and can't) get from them, and why. This thread will help anyone who wants to learn about that: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

Sorry, but this is also very poor advice.

It makes no sense at all - compared with the easier and better alternatives - to submit previously unpublished content to an article directory. This is explained in some detail in various posts of this thread (worth a careful read-through): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

It's interesting that the "article marketing" threads in the Main Marketing Forum are so much more accurate, beneficial and helpful to people than some of their equivalents in the SEO Forum, here. I always guess that that's because the people who are making our livings from article marketing (and there are many of us here, nowadays) are the ones who appreciate how very little it has to do with SEO, and that mass article directory submission has no real benefits at all, and especially no SEO benefits.