What are your top 10 article Directories?

No article marketer who understands how article directories work submits to more than Ezine Articles and a maximum of a couple of others.

Anything more than that is based on a misunderstanding about what benefits it's possible to get from article directory submission (typically, it's based on the misunderstanding that you can gain either potential customers/subscribers or SEO rankings by using multiple article directories - neither is true).

The reality is here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

And here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

There's a huge difference between "article marketing" and "article directory marketing". The days of multiple article directory submission are long gone (and no: it wasn't all the Panda updates of 2011 that finished that off - it happened well before those - they were only the last nail in the coffin-lid of article directory marketing).

By the way "Buzzle" isn't even an article directory any more. It changed its business model about a year and a half ago. No external links are allowed there, not even in a resource box, so that one has no possible use for article marketing.

There's also other out-of-date "information" above, including other sites which are not article directories.

Be careful whose advice you take, on this subject. Google has announced openly that they will penalize sites for mass article directory submission, and large numbers of Warriors have already experienced that.

Then you'd be wrong.

Fact - not opinion. For a start, some of those are not even article directories at all.

Just a suggestion, Chiwawa, but sometimes it helps to read threads before you reply to them. Part of the misinformation you offered (i.e. relating to "Buzzle") has already been mistakenly offered, and corrected, above.

If you want to learn something about this subject, this thread's a good starting-place for understanding what article directories are, and what purpose they serve: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

But listed incorrectly, I'm afraid, Stephen. Some of those are not even article directories at all!

Just a suggestion, but sometimes it helps to read threads before you reply to them. Part of the misinformation you offered (i.e. relating to "Buzzle") has already been mistakenly offered, and corrected, above. Repeatedly.

Stephen, no article marketer, for all the reason explained in such detail in this thread, wants to get his potential customer traffic coming to his site from an article directory. Those aren't the people for whom article directory articles are submitted at all.

And article directory backlinks are close-to-worthless (regardless of the PR of the article directory's own home page, because our articles are not published on their own home pages. That's also not the purpose of using article directories! There are literally hundreds of WF threads clarifying this.

Stephen, if you want to learn something about this subject, rather than repeating already-corrected misinformation, then this thread's a good starting-place for understanding what article directories are, and what purpose they serve: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

Please excuse my sounding so churlish, but it's nearly an afternoon's work, here, just correcting factual misinformation.

There aren't, as it happens, but this isn't really the point.

• The point is that there's no value in submitting to more than Ezine Articles and maybe one other if you want a belt-and-braces approach (maybe GoArticles or ArticlesBase? I've used both, but without benefit from either)
• The point is that article directories exist solely as a depository of content available for syndcation, and publishers (of relevant ezines, relevant newsletters, relevant websites, relevant blogs and relevant whatever else) who are seeking content to syndicate go to Ezine Articles first because of their perception that it's well-established and (comparatively) authoritative and has (slightly) higher quality control (or at least "an editorial process") than other directories
• The point is that the relevance of the site (not the page!) to your site is mostly what determines whether the backlink is worth anything to you
• The point is that there's nothing to gain by submitting to article directories "for the backlink" (the Panda updates made sure of that, although even before that, there was very little value)
• The point is that Google has now announced openly that, following the "Penguin update", they will penalize sites for overoptimization if they suspect mass article directory submission, and some Warriors have already experienced this, and been told openly by Google that that was the reason
• The point is that for all the reasons explained in this post, no successful article marketer would want to get potential customer traffic going from an article directory to their own site (we all lose most of that traffic, and it's entirely unneccesary to do so)

No, not at all.

Squidoo and HubPages aren't article directories at all, and their content can't be syndicated, and syndicated content can't even be published there. Some people apparently believe that they're still worth using "for their backlinks", but anyone actually making a living from article marketing will tell you the opposite.

PR has very, very little to do with it.

Articles submitted to web 2.0 sites and article directories are published on PR-0 pages. The PR of those websites' own home pages doesn't help, because articles aren't published on those pages.

You can use a Squidoo lens and get it up to PR-3 or whatever, if you want, but it makes far more sense to do the same with a page on a site that you own and control yourself, instead. And, contrary to what some people seem to believe (especially the ones with Squidoo-related services promoted in their sig-files and/or WSO's), it isn't any more difficult, either.

What's needed is to have your articles re-published as widely as possible in front of the highly targeted traffic you want to attract to your own site. Not in places where you can submit it yourself! (Ezine Articles is well worth using as a stepping stone - and that's what an article directory is - to being re-published as widely as possible in front of the highly targeted traffic you want to attract to your own site). That's how article marketing works: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

This is how article directories work: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

The first two of those four are not article directories at all.

They serve completely different purposes and functions, and you can't necessarily submit to them what article directories will publish, either.

Just a suggestion, but sometimes it helps to read threads before you reply to them. Part of the misinformation you offered above has already been mistakenly offered, and corrected, above. Repeatedly. If you want to learn something about this subject, then this thread's a good starting-place for understanding what article directories are, and what purpose they serve: How do Article Directories work?

A lot of the ones people posted are useless pretty much. Best ones are Ezines, GoArticles, ArticlesBase, and ArticlesDashboard!:rolleyes: