Best Article Sites?

A agree 100% with Alexa about posting to your own site. This is highly important and must be done first.

Only in the sig box with EZA.

I really like using articlerich.com and most of the others that have been listed here.

Benjamin Ehinger

Perhaps you misread what I said, Deborah?

I said that article directories do NOT require previously unpublished content.

And they don't.

That is incorrect.

There are many article submission sites refusing to accept previously published content, but they're not article directories.

It would make very little sense at all for an article directory to require previously unpublished content: that would fundamentally conflict with their role as directories. Ezine Articles (very briefly!) considered this, in something of a state of shock, right after Google's so-called "Panda update", and indeed had a public consultation process with their authors about it, on their blog, mentioning that they were considering it for the first time ever ... but that lasted about a day and a half, as I remember. They rapidly realised - of course - that it was a completely illogical non-starter, and announced very clearly and firmly that they had no such intentions at all. Clearly, it would just make no sense at all.

As has been discussed here in 100 other threads, the only former "article directory" which anyone knew of which required previously unpublished content was the rather strange one called "Buzzle". But things have now changed, there: it's no longer an "article directory", per se, for article marketing purposes. After Google's famous "Panda update", finding that its bizarre and quite unaccountable policy of accepting only articles not previously published elsewhere had given it absolutely no protection at all from the "Google article directory hammer", it changed its business model entirely. It now no longer any allows any external backlinks at all - not even in a resource-box. So for any article marketing purposes, it really isn't an article directory at all.