Article Directories

I am very new to IMing so I have only been using Ezine articles for the time being. I have found them to be great, very professional and helpful.
I would also like to hear other directories that ahve good recommendation as I would like to expand.

I have had great experiences with EzineArticles, and mediocre/average experiences with GoArticles and ArticlesBase.

I would reccommend ezinearticles.com go-articles.con and isnare.com as good places to start

Many here use EZA.

Ezinearticles.com

GoArticles.com

ArticleBase.com

ArticleDashboard.com

Luis,

There is a basic problem with your question. There are multiple theories of using Article Directories for marketing.

Method 1 - Create volume of average articles for the purpose of backlinks to improve SEO performance of primary domain.

Method 2 - Create a volume of average articles to drive traffic directly from articles to a domain or directly to an offer.

Method 3 - Create a low number of outstanding articles to create syndication opportunities so your articles spread naturally.

There is probably dozens of other methods I'm leaving out. Each of these methods have value and can work to varying degrees. Each of them will use article directories in different ways.

For Method 1 using a high number of article directories is preferred. Many directories of "questionable value" will not help your rankings.

For Method 2 the sites which generate traffic directly are most commonly EzineArticles and ArticlesBase. Results will vary wildly. Traffic increases if you promote your own articles by getting backlinks resulting in higher SEO rankings for the article.

For Method 3 EzineArticles is the current champion. Articlesbase and GoArticles are good added alternatives.

In all of these cases, please make sure you post to your own properties first, be it a blog or a website. Give yourself the chance to rank highest, not an article directory.

Barry

Good post Barry,

I do questions EZA and ABase's value for method 2 and 3 nowadays though.

I think the way forward for Article Directories is to serve the Marketers better rather than to hoard articles to increase Adsense earnings.

Wanted to do a quick mention of our directory we relaunched BETA recently - ArticleGold. It has the authority and has been top of the major search engines for terms like 'articles directory' , 'article directory' , etc for years now.

Our plan for it is quite interesting but that I will post on WF later when we are nearing the stage release.

Newly approved Articles are generally indexed within 24 hours and we relaunched with a clean slate so there is less than 1,000 articles on the site atm, Great Time to get your articles in (Good Qual Uniques only atm though)

Try this one: List Of Top 50 Article Directories By Traffic, PageRank

My faves are EZA, ArticlesBase, EasyArticles and GoArticles . I also use ArticleNexus, ArticleSnatch, SearchWarp, Jabberdi, Amazines, and ArticleBiz, though I don't think some of these get as much traffic (could be wrong, though).