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What are some quality FAST approving do-follow article directories?

by zannix
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Hello,

So my question is - what do-follow article directories that you use have fast approval time?

I can only think of 2 - Goarticles and Sooperarticles

They're both great, I get decent traffic from them and they're fast-approving.

Does anyone else has any to share?

Thnx!
#approving #article #directories #dofollow #fast #quality
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by zannix View Post

    - what do-follow article directories that you use have fast approval time?
    Ezine Articles.

    Contrary to what many people say, Platinum and Diamond authors in good standing who submit regularly typically get their articles accepted and published within 24 hours: that's fast enough, isn't it?

    I happen to know it is do-follow - not something I'd normally look at, at all - though I admit that has absolutely no relevance to me (and to be honest I'd actually be marginally happier with them if it were no-follow).
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    • Profile picture of the author zannix
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Ezine Articles.
      ...though I admit that has absolutely no relevance to me (and to be honest I'd actually be marginally happier with them if it were no-follow).
      It has relevance to me, I'm trying to rank for a keyword using it in my anchor by submitting content to sites that allow do-follow backlinks
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by zannix View Post

        It has relevance to me, I'm trying to rank for a keyword using it in my anchor by submitting content to sites that allow do-follow backlinks
        I understand that, Zannix.

        I strongly suspect, even so, that you may find it's very much less relevant than you imagine. For several reasons.

        Article directory backlinks are - in backlinking terms - just about the "lowest of the low". They're all non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks. One would typically need between 50,000 and 100,000 of them (no, I'm not exaggerating) to confer the link-juice equivalent to one relevant authority-site backlink. In that context, it makes little difference whether the ones you do get are do-follow or no-follow.

        Many experts explain, additionally, that it's good to have some no-follow backlinks on the grounds that having only do-follow backlinks can look "pretty suspicious" to Google.

        As a professional article marketer, like many others, I long ago stopped looking at whether pages have do-follow or no-follow backlinks.

        (You probably know this already, but just in case: TheFreeLibrary and Associated Content, both mentioned above, are not article directories. They have very different structures, functions, purposes and terms of service.)
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        • Profile picture of the author zannix
          Thank you for your clarification.

          I have been posting articles for a long time now and truthfully haven't experienced much SEO progress.

          But if this is true - than what cost-free options do I have in terms of off-page website optimization?

          a) Forum posting - the posts that I create on a forum, or the posts I reply too will also be mainly "PR 0", so it's not much different from article sites

          b) Blog commenting - This might be a good idea though it's very hard to stumble upon do-follow relevant blogs (for most niches) these days

          c) I can't think of any other that would grab my attention

          Maybe you could enlighten me a bit and re-establish my faith in this whole thing?

          Thank you!
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      • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
        Originally Posted by zannix View Post

        It has relevance to me, I'm trying to rank for a keyword using it in my anchor by submitting content to sites that allow do-follow backlinks
        Fair enough, but you do realise that such backlinks are typically weak as heck, right? And that if backlinks are all you want, your time would probably be far better spent looking for commenting opportunities on relevant, high-PR blog pages, which are worth many (MANY - as in hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands or more) times the strength of backlinks from any article directory? :p

        EDIT: Beggar it. Beaten again by Slinky-fingers Smith. :p
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  • Profile picture of the author calfred
    Hi there zannix,

    A lot of people do not know this.

    But you'd want to post to

    Free News, Magazines, Newspapers, Journals, Reference Articles and Classic Books - Free Online Library

    and

    Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com
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    Please do not use affiliate links in signatures

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