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With Ezine No-Follow Now, What Are The Top 5 Do-Follow Article Directories??

by sportsfan54
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I was thinking about this today and I was wondering what some peoples here thoughts are.
#article #directories #dofollow #ezine #nofollow #top
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    EZA is not no-follow.

    Personally, I'd be very happy if they had decided to change that, when they thought about and discussed it last week (and it wouldn't have made the slightest difference to my using EZA), but they actually decided the opposite.
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    • Profile picture of the author alexdigital
      Here's the ones I use:

      Submit articles or find free articles
      Article Directory - Free Expert Article Directory - GoArticles.com
      Article Dashboard Directory | Submit Articles | Search Find Free Content | Author Submission
      Buzzle Web Portal: Intelligent Life on the Web
      Suite101.com: Online Magazine and Writers' Network

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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      EZA is not no-follow.

      Personally, I'd be very happy if they had decided to change that, when they thought about last week (and it wouldn't have made the slightest difference to my using EZA), but they actually decided the opposite.
      My thoughts exactly.

      I heard this may be happening quite a few days ago but since that it wasn't at all.

      So with the thread title now slightly different, is this another "What are the top article directories" thread?
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by Richard Van View Post

        is this another "What are the top article directories" thread?
        Any minute now, someone's going to post a list of them, including of course their page-ranks, giving someone a cue to point out (a) that sites don't "have page-rank": only pages have page-rank and directory articles go on PR-0 pages ... and (b) half the ones on the list aren't actually article directories anyway ... oops, got it in in advance this time, sorry.

        Originally Posted by CraigRC View Post

        Being NOFOLLOW didn't spare, or help, Articlesbase whatsoever during the latest purge, but it still would have been a splashy move for EZA regardless.
        Absolutely! Agree completely!
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    • Profile picture of the author CraigRC
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      EZA is not no-follow.

      Personally, I'd be very happy if they had decided to change that, when they thought about last week (and it wouldn't have made the slightest difference to my using EZA), but they actually decided the opposite.
      Agree, they missed an oppurtunity here.

      Being NOFOLLOW didn't spare, or help, Articlesbase whatsoever during the latest purge, but it still would have been a splashy move for EZA regardless.
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      • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        Any minute now, someone's going to post a list of them, including of course their page-ranks, giving someone a cue to point out (a) that sites don't "have page-rank": only pages have page-rank and directory articles go on PR-0 pages ... and (b) half the ones on the list aren't actually article directories anyway ... oops, got it in in advance this time, sorry.
        Originally Posted by CraigRC View Post

        Agree, they missed an oppurtunity here.

        Being NOFOLLOW didn't spare, or help, Articlesbase whatsoever during the latest purge, but it still would have been a splashy move for EZA regardless.
        LOL, Alexa. That was funny.

        And to add to Craig's comment, unique content didn't help either - i.e. Buzzle and HubPages.

        Hmmm - now the "hit list" theorists will start talking. LOL
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        • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
          Don't you just love when the OP's original statement of fact is wrong?

          These threads just gotta make you laugh your ass off.
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          • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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            Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

            Don't you just love when the OP's original statement of fact is wrong?
            It's a blessing, in a sense, when it's as obvious as this one, really: few of them are quite as blatant as a factual error in the title.

            All too often it's an invitation for answers to a question which has arisen only as a result of some fundamental misunderstanding which isn't itself even expressly stated in the OP, and sometimes entire threads can go by without anyone noticing it.
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  • Profile picture of the author brightgravity
    Just found this thread.

    If PR doesn't matter then why does everyone think EZA is the best article site for marketing? Surely people have seen good results.

    Also, I just looked at my latest article - the link in the body is no follow (was linked to my squidoo) and the one in the footer is do follow. Is this the way they do things now?

    I guess I will just check out the links that have been provided.
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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
      Originally Posted by brightgravity View Post

      Just found this thread.

      If PR doesn't matter then why does everyone think EZA is the best article site for marketing? Surely people have seen good results.
      Ok. You don't seem to have read what Alexa has said above so I'll give you a little real life experiment to do.

      Google: "PR checker", then put the EZA homepage URL in there. You'll see it is PR 6 (or whatever), then, go and find the page one of your articles is on and put that URL into the PR checker - It's PR 0. PR does matter but that doesn't mean when you submit an article to a high PR directory you have a high PR backlink.

      The reason people say EZA is the best directory is because it's the most famous, most well known and there are a ton of misguided courses telling people they can get quality backlinks from them. Just because "most" people say something, doesn't mean "most" people have a clue what they're talking about.

      The other reason people, that do article marketing successfully, tell people it's the best place, is because of all the directories it's probably the most likely place to have your article syndicated on sites with interested readers, hence this snippet from EZA's very own terms of service...

      The primary reason for submitting your article to our directory is for the chance to be picked up by ezine publishers or webmasters to be reprinted to their respective audiences.
      Also I'd have a look at EZA's TOS before you put self serving links in the body of your articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarketItAll
    You sure their no follow now? I'm on my phone so I can't check - but I know they changed to no follow and so many people complained in a blog comment that they changed it back within 24 hours. They changes it back to no follow since then?

    I don't really use them either way but just wondering.
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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
      Originally Posted by MarketItAll View Post

      You sure their no follow now? I'm on my phone so I can't check - but I know they changed to no follow and so many people complained in a blog comment that they changed it back within 24 hours. They changes it back to no follow since then?

      I don't really use them either way but just wondering.
      They are not no follow.

      You're a bit late I think

      The thread sort of gives it away really.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by MarketItAll View Post

      I know they changed to no follow and so many people complained in a blog comment that they changed it back within 24 hours.
      That is not what happened.

      You are misinformed.

      What happened was that they raised the possibility, for 24 hours or so, that they might do, and then promptly announced that - having given it some thought - they weren't going to.

      Originally Posted by MarketItAll View Post

      They changes it back to no follow since then?
      They have never "changed" it. At all. At any time.

      Do you ever read the thread before replying? Just a question ... :confused:
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