What are your favorite article directories? Why?

Thanks for pointing this out,I forgot to clear this up. I am not submitting the same article. If I am writing about "cars," I'll either write a different article for each directory or I will spin my best article.

Don't worry about duplicate content. It is a myth. Google only penalize duplicate content across one site, not across the internet.

Hello Jose,

I primarily submit articles on EzinesArticles.com... occasionally on GoArticles.com.

The keys to using articles submissions to promote your site and minimize the affects of duplicate content IMO are as follows:

1) Write a blog post or article for your own site. This should be a detailed discussion of whatever topic you're wanting to rank for. My blog posts are usually around 1500-2500 words for any given topic. Post this on your site.

2) Write from scratch a totally separate article to be submitted to ezinearticles.com about the same topic as the one your posted on your site. While this article may have the same basic outline (subsections) as the one on your site, do NOT even look at the post/article on your site when writing this second article. You want it to be totally unique. Make this article less detailed while covering the same topic. My submitted articles are typically 700-1200 words in length. Submit this article to ONLY one submission site. In the author bio box (where the links are actually followed) I link to the article on my site with something like "Learn more about <insert targeted keyword phrase> by visiting example.com." This will get click-thrus if the visitor wants more details on the topic which can only be found on your site.

3) If you want to submit to multiple submission sites then repeate step 2 above writing a totally unique article about the same topic for EACH site you plan to submit to.


By following the above steps... you ensure that there is only ONE copy of the post/article that exists on your site. NEVER EVER submit the same post/article that you put on your site to an article submission site.

By using a totally different (and less detailed) article for each submission site, that submitted article is not a duplicate of the one that exists on your site. Multiple sites may republish your submitted article, but who cares... The content they are duplicating is the content from the article submission site... not the content from your site.

Don't worry, Google doesn't like duplicate content on the same domain. Distribute your articles to as many article directories as you like.
Best of luck!

I did the same thing, but there are only a few links that are no follow. The important ones are follow.

Hey Ernie,

I like to submit them manually, it does take time but it assures me that it is done properly and that backlinks are built at my own pace. I think this appears more natural too, not to mention the fact that they are submitted to only the higher quality directories. No sense in autosubmitting to 1000 spammed to death directories.

Remember diversity! Submit 100 spread out through all the directories in this thread, don't just submit 100 to one then 100 to another as it won't benefit you.

Yes.. However, make sure each article is spinned. And always submit to ezine first.

By the way, I love scribd. They can bring a lot traffic as well.

Same question from me. There seems to be a difference in opinion based on whether the article is written to draw visitors or increase PR.

I'm trying to increase PR so nofollow links won't work for me. Does anyone have some recommendations for dofollow article sites? I'm trying to create a pyramid like this: http://senuke.com/bubblus_RandURL.jpg

im getting frustrated with thefreelibrary. my articles still havent been viewed by an editor. im thinking of submitting these articles to ezine instead.

Yeah, I wrote it elsewhere on this thrread but I was so impressed with it let's say it again: Articlesbase. They don't hang around unnecessarily.

I tested many directories and consistently found that ezinearticles.com delivers the best targeted traffic

Sam

Hey Irnes,

Thanks for the link, although I'd say that you should probably go through and update the list. Most of those article directories are either very slow for approval, or make you jump through some pretty crazy hoops to get you to have a live article on their sites.

Just my $0.02, I also originally used a very similar list when first starting out with article submissions and only a few of those are still on my "must do" list.