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Top 10 Article Directories

by agm1984
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what are the top article directories out there?

im looking to submit a couple articles ive wrote, but i dont know where to submit them.
what are the best sites for submitting articles?

any information will be helpful, thanks in advance.
#article #directories #top
  • Profile picture of the author Martin Lee Jr
    Really I don't know if there is even 10

    But here are 5 I commonly use:

    1. Ezine Articles
    2. Go Articles
    3. Article Dashboard
    4. Article Base
    5. Idea Marketers

    I guess it also depends on what niche you are in - b/c there are certain directories that are great for certain niches

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    • Profile picture of the author agm1984
      cool thx martin. now at least i can start somewhere
      i will look into some niche related ones too appreciate that tip.

      anyone think highly of any other submission places?
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  • Profile picture of the author stevet563
    Top 10 FREE Directories:

    1: DMOZ
    2: Virtual Library
    3: Web World Directory
    4: BUBL
    5: MasterMOZ
    6: SoMuch
    7: ExactSeek
    8: Dmegs
    9: Index King
    10: Jayde

    Top 10 PAID Directories:

    1: Yahoo! Directory
    2: BOTW Directory
    3: Business.com
    4: Dirbull
    5: Directory Journal
    6: Webotopia
    7: JoeAnt
    8: Aviva Web Directory
    9: CueDirectory
    10: Kwika.org


    TOP Article Directories List

    * 1 EzineArticles
    * 2 GoArticles
    * 3 Articlesbase
    * 4 Buzzle
    * 5 Article Dashboard
    * 6 Helium
    * 7 ArticleSnatch
    * 8 Article Alley
    * 9 Amazines
    * 10 SearchWarp
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  • Profile picture of the author Owen Lee
    Just google "top article directories" and the first result will show you the top 50 with PR.
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  • Profile picture of the author YasirYar
    Ezine
    SearchWarp
    GoArticles
    Article Dashboard
    Articlesbase
    ArticleSnatch
    Idea Marketers
    Helium

    They all do the job. I guess you mean places where you can submit for free, right?
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  • Profile picture of the author goldenbold
    I think as best article directories is:

    EzineArticles
    Articlesbase
    Go Article
    Buzzle
    SearchWarp
    Article Alley
    GoArticles
    Web-Source.net
    Articleset.com
    WebProNews
    Amazines
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  • Profile picture of the author adwordvouchers015
    Thanks to every one who posted lists of directories. It was useful for me as well as other members of WarriorForum
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  • Profile picture of the author jt808
    Here are some of the better ones:

    amazines.com
    articlealley.com
    articleblast.com
    articlecell.com
    articlecity.com
    articleclick.com
    articlecompilation.com
    articlecube.com
    articledashboard.com $
    articlemotron.com
    articlerich.com
    articlesbase.com
    articlesfactory.com
    articleslash.net
    articlesnatch.com
    articletrader.com
    associatedcontent.com
    biggerpockets.com/articles
    brighthub.com
    bukisa.com
    buzzle.com
    ehow.com
    EvanCarmichael.com
    examiner.com
    ezinearticles.com
    ezinemark.com
    gather.com
    goarticles.com
    helium.com
    hubpages.com
    ideamarketers.com
    infobarrel.com
    isnare.com
    knol.google.com
    pubarticles.com
    selfseo.com
    site-reference.com
    sooperarticles.com
    squidoo.com
    submityourarticle.com/articles/ $
    suite101.com
    thefreelibrary.com
    thewhir.com/find/articlecentral
    triond.com
    ultimatearticledirectory.com
    upublish.info
    web-source.net

    They are mostly pr4 and higher, just make sure you follow their guidelines before posting.

    Cheers,
    Joshua
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  • Profile picture of the author newtrend19
    Originally Posted by agm1984 View Post

    what are the top article directories out there?

    im looking to submit a couple articles ive wrote, but i dont know where to submit them.
    what are the best sites for submitting articles?

    any information will be helpful, thanks in advance.
    Buzzle and Ezine Article site is best because all other website is affected panda updates
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    • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
      Originally Posted by mlj2577 View Post

      Really I don't know if there is even 10

      But here are 5 I commonly use:

      1. Ezine Articles
      2. Go Articles
      3. Article Dashboard
      4. Article Base
      5. Idea Marketers

      I guess it also depends on what niche you are in - b/c there are certain directories that are great for certain niches

      - Martin
      There are thousands of these directories now, but if SOPA goes through there will be none! http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...stop-sopa.html

      Originally Posted by newtrend19 View Post

      Buzzle and Ezine Article site is best because all other website is affected panda updates
      Ezine was highly effected by the Panda update and that is why they changed their entire site. They still have not gained their rankings back and probably never will.

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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by Benjamin Ehinger View Post

        Ezine was highly effected by the Panda update and that is why they changed their entire site. They still have not gained their rankings back and probably never will.
        To those of us using Ezine Articles every day for the reason for which article directories exist, that's a good thing, not a bad thing, of course.

        It means we can submit copies of our articles there for publishers and webmasters to find and syndicate, without the risk that our potential customer traffic will find our articles there rather than on our own sites (we all lose most of that traffic).

        That's among the ways that Google's Panda updates have done so many successful, professional article marketers a big favour, as so many of us have been commenting here for so many months.

        By the way - for all the people listing "Buzzle" above: your information is nearly a year out of date, there. "Buzzle" has changed its entire business model, is no longer an article directory for the purposes listed here, and accepts no external links at all (not even in a resource box).

        There are also other sites listed above as "article directories" which are not article directories. :rolleyes:

        Inevitably, forum "information" on this subject tends to leave a little to be desired.

        There's no real point in submitting anything to an article directory for its own backlinks and/or for its own traffic. That's not what article directories are there for. And it's not what they work for, either.

        Originally Posted by jt808 View Post

        They are mostly pr4 and higher
        Those are the page ranks of their home pages, Joshua. That has almost nothing to do with anything. Our articles are not published on their home pages!!

        Websites don't "have page rank". Pages have page rank.

        And articles published in article directories go on their own newly-formed, non-context-relevant, PR-0 pages.

        Originally Posted by newtrend19 View Post

        Buzzle and Ezine Article site is best because all other website is affected panda updates
        This is an "interesting" statement.

        First, Buzzle isn't an article directory anyway, as explained above.

        Secondly, if all the other article directories had been affected by the Panda updates and those two not, that wouldn't be a reason for using those two anyway.

        Thirdly, it was because Buzzle was affected so much by the first of the Panda updates that it completely changed its business model.

        And fourthly, it isn't even true that all other websites were affected by the Panda updates anyway.

        But apart from that, well done ...

        This little thread will help those who are willing to read it (rather than simply repeating all this misinformation which just reinforces everyone's misunderstandings): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ries-work.html
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        • Profile picture of the author donhx
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          This little thread will help those who are willing to read it (rather than simply repeating all this misinformation which just reinforces everyone's misunderstandings): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ries-work.html
          Alexa, I admire your unflagging efforts to promote this link, which is the finest of its kind on this topic. It explains everything a person needs to know to benefit from article marketing.

          I have come to believe that people ignore the link (or don't search for it) because the information is free. Perhaps if you turned it into a $47 PDF people would swarm to it and grasp the wisdom you offer. The information is so good it would be cheap at thrice the price. Just a thought.
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    • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
      Originally Posted by newtrend19 View Post

      Buzzle and Ezine Article site is best because all other website is affected panda updates
      Both of those were affected but not all of the directories were affected, some actually benefited from the updates
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  • Profile picture of the author thebitbotdotcom
    Most of your articles, if you submit them even to the top ten, will just sit there dead.

    Post Panda requires more. You have to think more in terms of traditional advertising now.
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  • Profile picture of the author meltingwaves
    Hola,

    Ahh I am so excited to dive back into article marketing. Haven't done it in so long because I've been so busy balancing college with running a business but I will definitely start writing articles again for my freelance sites and also my lifestyle design sites, which I am the most excited about when it comes to submitting articles. There's just going to be so much to write about!

    Remember, if you ever get writers block while writing your articles go meditate for a while and take your mind off of it completely. That's when the block breaks and your best ideas flow in!

    Benjamin Jacques
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    • Profile picture of the author marknel
      I think web2.0 sites are gaining popularity over article directories in regard to dofollow links and without the waiting time for "moderator inspection"
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      • Profile picture of the author agm1984
        thanks all so far. this is very helpful
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  • Profile picture of the author visimedia
    is go article now outranking article base?
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  • Profile picture of the author Expressarticles
    Go articles has done wonders for me lately.
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  • Profile picture of the author Londonista
    What an excellent thread, with excellent replies. Cant work out how to 'thank' people for their posts, but thanks everyone. Especially Stevet563, Trevor & jt808 for giving me a load I havent heard of (& Ive done a LOT of article marketing)
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  • Profile picture of the author Amanda786
    Hi
    I would like to add a few more
    1.selfgrowth.com
    2.sooperarticles.com
    3.articleswrap.com
    4.easyezinearticles.com
    5.yooarticles.com
    6.basearticles.com
    7.2ana.com
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  • Profile picture of the author Anthony J Namata
    I only use iSnare and eZineArticles. The former feeds on to dozens of directories. Takes a while to get approved, but once it's done. It's great!
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  • Profile picture of the author Counter for site
    I have used Ezine,goarticles,isnare,selfgrowth,ideamarketers,a rticlealley,articlebase,buzzle,articlecube,article snatch, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alan Sahu
    StreetArticles.com is working well for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Avy Smith
    Article Marketing has gone a way back where they started from. The truth is most of them would never recover unless and until they change the nature of their origin i-e domain blah blah.

    Take example of ideamarketers. They have changed their fundamental dimension to ignitepoint. They dumped hundreds of thousands articles due to Google algorithm changes, traffic blockage, crap submission (For those that think automated submissions still work).
    For more read this Marnie Pehrson's post What happened to ideamarketers. Most of the folks even have not visited it for months. Be wise at least check the heck out of something before commenting.

    Goarticles

    The following link is about a match a streaming link (That no article directory can afford to allow because Google would not like free streaming, that means (zero traffic). The article ranks third as most viewed lol. Do you think article directories are the only places where people can find streaming links better than any other source?
    http://goarticles.com/article/Finlan...HD-TV/7273755/
    Matt Cutts about Placing heck of ads
    CHECK FORMATTING.
    Several Unicode errors, meaningless characters i-e ’ and 20 ads on each article. The worst part is Google dumping article directories for the reason they put a lot ads around a single article.
    http://goarticles.com/article/Finlan...HD-TV/7273755/.

    iSnare
    This one goes offline for several days. You would get an email reply after a year that the article that you submitted last year has been rejected lol. A very long vacation spree. Check best articles of the day. There are two or three authors that submitted more than 7 or 8 articles each. That means lack of administration and submissions.

    Even article directories like eZine and Articlebase have lost 90% of traffic. Google it(Traffic to articlebase and ezine after Google algorithm update)

    NOW DOES IT MEAN ARTICLE MARKETING IS DEAD?
    No, one needs to be very organized. It is simple write to the administrator of any article directory about their Social Exposure. For example whether they promote the content on social sites or bookmarking sites or follow the sites that can provide you real RETURN on per submission.

    My clients ask me to write and submit articles to Squidoo, ezine, calameo and Sooper Articles. I have a hired team for that just enjoy a fringe benefit of it :p.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeTucker
      Originally Posted by Avy Smith View Post


      Take example of ideamarketers. They have changed their fundamental dimension to ignitepoint. They dumped hundreds of thousands articles due to Google algorithm changes, traffic blockage, crap submission (For those that think automated submissions still work).
      For more read this Marnie Pehrson's post What happened to ideamarketers. Most of the folks even have not visited it for months. Be wise at least check the heck out of something before commenting.
      Superb awesomeness... Going to have to re-consider
      my self-imposed exile from article directories!
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  • Profile picture of the author Isabellas2007
    I have found that article marketing is a good thing to do. However, what I have also noticed is you have to build the back links from these article directories over time. You can no longer blast them like we used to do. I found one of my sites which I used to do this with falling dramatically, but the other ones that I drip fed in over time kept me ranking highly.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    I focus mainly on EzineArticles. If there were another place i would submit to it would be ArticlesBase, but EZA blows them out of the water so much that i just stick with EZA. Fast, easy, and i still get good traffic.
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