Which article directory is the best?

13 years ago

Don't take this the wrong way.

If you do a search, you will find this has been discussed a huge amount of times here.

That's probably the fastest way to find everyones opinions.

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ekxstores 13 years ago

thanks Richard...i did a search and nothing like that came up but i'll try again
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- Richard Van 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ekxstores
  
  thanks Richard...i did a search and nothing like that came up but i'll try again
  
  Hey, no problem.
  
  I wasn't being rude, some threads come up over and over again and it's best to just find those threads first, becasuse you can learn so much from them.
  
  Have a look for article marketing threads too, if that's what you want to find out about.
  
  EZA is generally respected as the #1 article directory though that won't be to everyone's flavour. Google "top directories" as well.
  
  Just remember, if it's backlinks you're after, just because a site is PR6, that doesn't mean your article is sending a PR 6 backlink to your site. Pagerank means exactly that, The "home" page rank.
  
  It's the PR of the home page, not the rest of the site. If the whole site had the same PR, it'd probably be called Siterank.
  
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Vicbowling

13 years ago

Ezine articles is my favorite top article site too. You can find a ton of good ones listed if you just do a Google search though.

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Charlotte Jay

13 years ago

Don't forget also, that here at the Warrior Forum there's a new articles section. It can be an excellent way to get your articles seen.

But other than that, EZA has my vote. I don't publish on there a lot, but when I do it's a very easy process.

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JonAlfredsson

13 years ago

EZA also has my vote when it comes to internet marketing. The common problem people experience on this site though is long approvals for some articles.

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officer_iron

13 years ago

I like ArticlesBase a lot. I've never had any problems getting articles approved there.

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PaulV 13 years ago

Ezine Articles seems to be the best.

But Article Base is great and so can be GoArticles.

The nice thing about those 2 are that you can but your anchor text links in the body of the article to direct viewers to your links early on in the article.
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tobyR

13 years ago

ezine articles definately - I've got over 90 articles on there - their stats prove that your articles on there get viewed, rated and downloaded more. But i use others as well but always post to Ezine 1st

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TomBuck

13 years ago

It has to be ezine but I would say submit to:

1.) EZA
2.) Articlebase
3.) 212articless
4.) Articlecat
5.) Articlecity.

Simple spin then submit to them

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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by ekxstores

Which article directory is the best?

I think EZA comes close, but I'm not sure there really is one that's "the best".

It depends on what you're using it for: intended syndication, traffic or backlinks, or a combination, and in which proportions/with what priorities.

Most article directory backlinks provide so little link-juice (being typically non-context-relevant, PR-0 pages) that I don't know there's much to choose between them, actually, on that criterion.

I submit to a small handful of directories. I write for syndication, so that I can get far better targeted traffic and more valuable backlinks, and 99% of the syndication I achieve comes from a combination of privately arranged syndication and EZA. (And many of the privately arranged ones stem from relationships which have originally started off via syndication from EZA).

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FriendlyRob 13 years ago

I just do whatever Alexa does
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- Richard Van 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by FriendlyRob
  
  I just do whatever Alexa does
  
  That my friend, is a very sensible thing to do, especially when anything regarding article marketing is mentioned.
  
  I don't say that lightly either.
  
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schttrj

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I think EZA comes close, but I'm not sure there really is one that's "the best".

It depends on what you're using it for: intended syndication, traffic or backlinks, or a combination, and in which proportions/with what priorities.

Most article directory backlinks provide so little link-juice (being typically non-context-relevant, PR-0 pages) that I don't know there's much to choose between them, actually, on that criterion.

I submit to a small handful of directories. I write for syndication, so that I can get far better targeted traffic and more valuable backlinks, and 99% of the syndication I achieve comes from a combination of privately arranged syndication and EZA. (And many of the privately arrranged ones stem from relationships which have originally started off via syndication from EZA).

Nice point! And ArticlesBase is NO-FOLLOW! So no PR juice even!

And Alexa, I like your signature...very trendy, catchy!

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Richard Van

13 years ago

Originally Posted by schttrj

Nice point! And ArticlesBase is NO-FOLLOW! So no PR juice even!

You're unlikely to see any PR juice from any of them. I also know Alexa cares little for whether a link is do or no follow.

EZA has a PR of 6. That is the homepage, your article won't be on the homepage. This is why Alexa says...

being typically non-context-relevant, PR-0 pages

Page rank is exactly that, the page rank of the home page. If the whole site was PR6, they would probably have called it siterank (SR)

So in reality the links you get from your articles on any directory, are non relevant low PR links.

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schttrj

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

You're unlikely to see any PR juice from any of them. I also know Alexa cares little for whether a link is do or no follow.

EZA has a PR of 6. That is the homepage, your article won't be on the homepage. This is why Alexa says...

Page rank is exactly that, the page rank of the home page. If the whole site was PR6, they would probably have called it siterank (SR)

So in reality the links you get from your articles on any directory, are non relevant low PR links.

Yes, that's true!

But even if your article page at EZA is PR0, you might expect to gain some value from it...rather than from the one in ArticlesBase that has PR1...

1 Do-follow link = around 100s of no-follow link

That's the point. But anyway, Alexa rank of ArticlesBase is very good, within 200 I guess. So if you want traffic to your articles, that's a good directory.

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Richard Van

13 years ago

But even if your article page at EZA is PR0, you might expect to gain some value from it

Oh yes, it's certainly better than no backlink, I just see so many people specifically targetting EZA for example, thinking they're getting a PR6 backlink.

1 Do-follow link = around 100s of no-follow link

I'm not sure where or how you've tested this to get those results but I'll let you disagree with Alexa on that one.

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schttrj

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

Oh yes, it's certainly better than no backlink, I just see so many people specifically targetting EZA for example, thinking they're getting a PR6 backlink.

I'm not sure where or how you've tested this to get those results but I'll let you disagree with Alexa on that one.

I am NOT saying no-follow links don't count at all...but just that one do-follow stands much higher than a few no-follow links.

And that was just to show an approx relation between the two!

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shmeeko69 13 years ago

The one with the highest alexa ranking is Ezine and google love this site, as all their articles are approved by real people and Google value their content. If you only ever submit an article to one directory then, make Ezine your first port of call.

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TimG

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I think EZA comes close, but I'm not sure there really is one that's "the best".

It depends on what you're using it for: intended syndication, traffic or backlinks, or a combination, and in which proportions/with what priorities.

Most article directory backlinks provide so little link-juice (being typically non-context-relevant, PR-0 pages) that I don't know there's much to choose between them, actually, on that criterion.

I submit to a small handful of directories. I write for syndication, so that I can get far better targeted traffic and more valuable backlinks, and 99% of the syndication I achieve comes from a combination of privately arranged syndication and EZA. (And many of the privately arrranged ones stem from relationships which have originally started off via syndication from EZA).

Well said Alexa............the only other item I woudl add is the common sense approach.

Essentially, whatever article directory provides you the most benefits based on your niche topic is the best directory at that moment in time.

Some directories actually beat EZA for specific niches but unless you track the results form your submissions you can't be sure which directories they are.

Respectfully,
Tim

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stanislavlem

13 years ago

1. Ezinearticles
2. Goarticles

If you really want to know a lot about this stuff - check out webinar on Ofervault.com.

It's free! Just register and go to Webinars section - you'll find a lot of stuff. There is one webinar about article marketing I like - the guy shares BEST ARTICLE DIRECTORIES and even more...

I think this is what you're looking for...

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gdwebs

13 years ago

I've always found that Ezine has been good for driving traffic, so tend to stick to that

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singhavn

13 years ago

With no doubt it's Ezine articles followed by articlebase, associated content, go article

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monsur

13 years ago

I think- EZA

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chennaibeatz

13 years ago

Ezine & articlesbase is good ones for me

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Wiggy0618

13 years ago

Alexa makes very good points, though, just for discussion purposes, I would say that most folks wouldn't know which directories are better for what, nor how to even go about determining it.

I have a handful of articles directories I submit to, and have found a few that have resulted in my articles getting syndicated, which is cool. EZA is of course the 800-lb gorilla in the market, followed up by Go Articles, ArticlesBase, Article Pool, Buzzle, and others.

One thing to make note of (again, depending on the reasoning for you posting the article) is that some directories such as EZA take a few days to a week to publish your articles. Others such as Go Articles publish your articles immediately. (This can mean a difference if part of the reason you publish articles is indexing.)

As far as no-follow vs do-follow...I'm sure there is a difference as far as google goes, though that wouldn't (necessarily) apply to yahoo, bing, etc. As far as a do-follow link being worth XXX no-follow links...maybe, but who knows. I've seen the same discussion in the realm of PR (i.e. - one thing I saw said a PR3 backlink = 500+ PR0 backlinks).

I'm not saying that do-follow isn't better than no-follow, just like the higher the PR backlink the better, but I do think that the 'worth' gets greatly exaggerated and / or has erroneous info floating around out there.

*shrug*

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PCRoger

13 years ago

Depends on what you want out of your articles.

If you want SALES, then EzineArticles and ArticlesBase top my list. GoArticles is cleaning up their act to become a better directory, but I think I have only ever gotten 1 sale from them.

I use both Top Level Domain Redirects and articles that point to my WordPress blog.

I track sales based on where the visitor (buyer) originally came from - either Article Directory (exact article in many cases) or search engine (including the keywords used to search) using CBSaleTracker.

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PCRoger.

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K_tir

13 years ago

Ezine articles is the best!

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wiseworks 13 years ago

I really like Ezine Articles, GoArticles and SelfGrowth.

Out of those three, Ezine gives me the most traffic.
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- ekxstores 13 years ago
  
  great replies thanks everyone
  
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wandysue34

13 years ago

Ezines works well for me also delivers more traffic and hits to my sites. Go Ezines.
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