What are your favorite article directories? Why?

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I've been reading a lot about people asking about article directories. I thought i would share my favorites and a little blurb why i like them. I use all of them and use them for different reasons.
  • Ezinearticles.com - Most popular IMO, lots of a traffic and google seems to eat it up and is constantly crawling the site.
  • Rysite.com- SEO friendly, automatically tweets your articles to a targeted following. I normally see double the traffic from not only the article but also from twitter.
  • Articlealley.com- another popular site for article directories. Has a high Page Rank and all of my articles refer traffic to my site.
  • Articledashboard.com- Another site that seems to be very popular and is constantly crawled by google. Also has a decent Page Rank and SEO friendly structure
Anyone else have some that they can add? What are your favorites and why?
#search engine optimization #article #directories #favorite
  • eZineArticles and ArticlesBase.
    Both send a lot of direct traffic.
    In addition to this, eZineArticles has dofollow links.
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  • ezinearticles, buzzle and articlecity.
    traffic, traffic, traffic...
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    • Ezine articles has seemed to outperform all the other article directories combined for me as far as generating traffic goes.

      However, I diversify my article directory submissions to also get back backlinks for ranking purposes.

      Hope this helps.
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  • Thanks JRod for this site, as it seems like it could REALLY help us get more targeted TWITTER traffic to our articles!
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    • Your welcome! I've noticed a lot of my articles getting tons of traffic because of Rysite.com's twitter automation. Especially with my articles that have a more catchy title, the twitter followers seem to love it and I can see their referrals in my analytics.
  • I prefer enizarticle and article base is the best
  • Buzzle is my favorite if I'm looking to build PR and organic traffic to a page. My articles seem to attain a PR 2-3 there after only 3 months or so as opposed to a full year on Ezine.
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    • Thanks for Buzzle, forgot about that one.
  • http://www.zchand.com bcz I dont have to wait for days to get my articles approved!
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    • Great point. the www.rysite.com site also is the same way. I had a few articles get approved about 20 minutes after i submitted them once!
  • rysite appears to be no follow. How do you get link juice from it?
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    • I just checked and the source code of the links in the articles does not have no follow in it. Where did you see that it is no follow?
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    • I just double checked Rysite and it is indeed DoFollow. Which are the type of links that you want pointing to your site.
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  • ezinearticles is the best 4 direct traffic...
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  • EZA first, then GoArticles, which has instant automatic approval and allows up to 5 links within the body text.
  • Ezine and articledeshbord is my favorite.
    i get backlinks to these sites
  • EZA.

    The only EZA's drawback is it may takes 5-6 days before your articles get approved.

    About the others, I just don't have time to send my articles over to other directories, which makes me feels like I probably leave out some traffic on the table.
  • As others have mentioned, I also like Articlebase, quick approval and backlinks tend to show up quickly as well.

    Thanks for pointing out Rysite, I just made a few submissions and will report my findings back.
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    • Just wanted to follow up,

      I submitted a bunch of articles today to Rysite.com. Articles were processed and published in a matter of 20 minutes with DoFollow backlinks. They also gave me some SEO pointers along the way to help make sure my articles had even more exposure.
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  • articlesbase.com because they approve all my articles instantly so I can see really fast results.
  • Ezine seems to be the only one I really see traffic from but I have not been using Buzzle and Article City for that long. Not sure of the SEO benefits.

    People who know me call me an impatient SOB, but I cannot understand why people worry so much about a few days or so it takes to get articles on Ezine...

    With a Platinum membership, they are usually up in about 24 hours. If you do not have one and would really like to get your articles up quickly, I would suggest applying with as a new writer. With my first membership, they never upgraded me even after about 40 articles. When I started a new membership, they gave it to me after the first ten articles even though I did not think they were that good.

    Seems to be at least partially the luck of the draw.
  • I like Articlebase because they also approved my article instantly. HOwever, i have a question though. Is it a bad idea to submit the same article to another article site? what do you think?
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    • I do my best to either write multiple articles or spin them very very well so that it is almost hard to tell that it isnt spun.

      Additionally, you might not have a choice when it comes down to a single article appearing on multiple directories. Lots of article directories either scrape or pull articles from other sites and post it on theirs. You might see some dups whether you did it or not.
  • Just posted a few more articles that were approved within the hour. nice!
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    • Thanks for this recommendation. My articles I submitted the other day were approved extremely quickly, and indexed in a matter of 24 hours. My backlinks have also began to show.

      Do you have any other recommendations for article directories?
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  • Do you guys submit manually to all these article directories or is there some submitter you guys use??? Ive seen a few but I dont want to spend a monthly fee for it.
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    • If you are just submiting to no more than 10 article directories, doing it manually is fine.
      If you are mass submitting them, use some kind of automatic submission service. However, do it always manually to the more republe directories (EZN, articlebase, goarticles).
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  • Great points Frankstoys. I would definitely stay clear of auto submitting.
  • I just read another post about EZA versus ArticleBase. This is another great discussion for me, a relative newbie, about article directories.

    I have only been posting to EZA but now realize that I need to submit to others as well.

    Thanks for the list of different article directories.

    - Rick
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    • You're welcome! Hope they help.
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  • EZA and buzzie are great places to start...
  • Go Articles, Amazines, Article Snatch, Idea Marketers all work well for me, but you might see different results. I started by submitting articles to a bunch of different directories and waited to see who gave me the best results. I've since narrowed it down to 6 or 7 that I submit to on a regular basis.
  • I like Ezinearticles and GoArticles. I usually use these sites. Of course, Ezinearticles drives more traffic.
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    • I found ArticleDashboard.com be fairly easy to use.GoArticles is really my great himself. EzineArticles has been difficult with me lately, but it motivates me to write better things. Thank you for the link, I'll definitely check.I could use some new shippers.
    • Articlesbase have approved an article of mine in under an hour. Most impressive. I've insufficient of differing traffic flows from different directories...
  • with these directories, are you using them for seo purposes, traffic or both? i've used many article directories, but found that only some of them show up as backlinks for the sites i link them to.........
  • goarticles.com for me is the best, followed by articledashboard. Goarticles have 24 hour turnaround, and you can have links in the content of the article as well as the resource section. Gets good traffic and have good PR.

    Articledashboard and articletrader are also pretty good as well.
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    • ezinearticles.com
      and of cos submityourarticle.com which is able to help your sumbit your articles to thousands of artice directories.
    • ezinearticles, goarticles and articlebase are the favorite article directories according to me.
    • I like ezinearticles here lately. It
      is the only one I'm working with.

      I'm in testing mode.
    • Ezine articles is definitely top dogg but not the only game in town.

      Go Articles works well and you get instant submission. On just needs to pick the right keywords for their title to get ranked.
  • Definitely, my favorite is ezinearticles, after that goarticles and articledashboard. They are dofollow directories
  • EzineArticles is amazing, It can be a massive benefit to your busines because it helps you to decrease advertising expenses while increasing sales.
  • I only love articlesbase, because they approve very very fast, and really love their service.
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    • Beside EzinArticles, I would like to mention eHow.com, HubPages.com and UKpressReleases.co.uk. All the articles that I placed in those got indexed in under a 7 day, with a minimum input from me. Quick indexing is always a sign that G. respects a site.

      In contrast to the above, it took two articles that I published on Squidoo.com more than 50 days to get indexed, in spite to a heavy back linking, soc. bookmarking etc. I would stay away from Squidoo.com.
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  • Articlesbase is another great one, had good success with it...

    How about Buzzle? That's another great directory to add to the list of strongs...

    Go Articles is definitely another prominent one..

    The trick is to perhaps work it in tandem and miz it up a little bit so that Google will see different sources of traffic and hence love your links and site...

    Good Luck!
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  • ezinearticles, hubpages, ehow and articlesbase are my favourite.
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    • I haven't worked with eHow? Do they pay or is it only an article directory? Is there an editorial process?
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  • I like the idea of hubpages, but I think that with the recent Mayday update, that Google might be cracking down on web 2.0 sites. Thoughts?
  • My list goes here:-

    1- EzineArticles
    2- Suite101
    3- ArticleBase
    4- GoArticles
    5- Buzzle
    6- WebProNews
  • My links on Articlebase.com show as "no follow". Is this true for everyone?
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    • I also had the idea ArticleBase was no follow yet they seem to get a lot of votes in this thread. Why is everyone so keen on ArticleBase??
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  • Just submitted a few to GoArticles and they were instantly live. Keep in mind though that GoArticles doesn't accept free emails like Gmail.
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  • For me, articlebase, go article and ezinesarticle are the best.
  • Wanted to add my few cents after doing a bunch of blasts.

    Rysite.com is one of my new favorites. I've had a lot of my articles approved in a matter of minutes. Not bad for a human reviewed article directory. Fast fast indexing and backlinks show up quickly in Yahoo.

    ArticleSnatch has instant approval, although many of my earlier submissions have yet to be indexed (and I've sent some links to them)

    Buzzle - I'm sorry, I just can't find the fascination with this one. Too much work and not very scalable.

    Ezine - As long as it's not garbage you are submitting, you should be golden. Still a favorite.
  • Great points frank. I also am a little hesitant on the article directories that auto submit.
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    • Do you happen to have a list of those directories that allow auto submit? I'd like to try and avoid those directories as much as possible. Thanks in advance.
  • I'm attempting to try Buzzle again but have really had some trouble with getting approved.

    WTF?!? Anyone else have any ideas? I'm about to cross this one off my list forever.
  • 1. SelfGrowth.com
    2. Ezine Articles
    3. Go Articles
    4. Buzzle
    5. Article Base
    6. Bukisa
    7. Saching
    8. Article Alley
    9. Amazines
    10. Article City
    11. Idea Marketers
    12. iSnare
    13. Article Snatch
    14. AffSphere
    15. Helium
    16. Bharat Bhasha
    17. Article Biz
    18. Article Blast
    19. The Free Library
    20. Search-Warp
    21. Sooper Articles
    22. Rysite
    23. ZChand
    24. synArticles
    25. ArticleRich
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    • Great list! A few I don't recognize on that list, I'll have to check them out.
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  • A few notes about the list that SubSe7en gave us a little while ago.

    Saching - NO HTML, therefore no backlinks. I'd avoid this one
    ArticleCity - No anchor text, you can only use absolute URLs. Also submission approval states that it takes 15-30 days to review
    ArticleBiz - Requires NO signup, which is nice
    ArticleBlast - AVOID - Requires account approval!
    Zchand - Instant approval which is nice, but it's based off of wordpress which isn't my favorite for an article directory

    Thought this may help a few people
  • Ezine without a doubt. They may turn away articles from time to time, but in the long run they cannot be beat.
  • im trying thefreelibrary. they got high PR but the approval seems to be taking long. sorry cant post links yet but do a search for thefreelibrary in google.
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    • Wow great share! I'll have to check this out.
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  • A few of my personal favorites are GoArticles.com, Ezinearticles.com
  • articledashboard and ezine article sites are my fav i got back links from there. articlebase is best for genrate traffic.
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    • Thanks for the heads up, I'll have to check that out.

      ongkal, I too am having trouble with that site. I'd suggest Ezine over that.
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  • I like Ezine Articles and use them the most. But I also do submit to Go Articles, Article Alley, Article Dashboard and Buzzle. I am going to try out your suggestions Nicole and see how they work for me. Thanks.
  • For now I like articlebase because it approves my article faster than other article directories. Also, my articles are getting viewed as what I've seen in their statics record.
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    • Thanks for all the great info! I'm relatively new to article submissions, and SEO in general. But, have been using EzineArticles and Goarticles.

      After reading this thread, I decided to try Rysite. Does that site take a little longer to be indexed by Google than the others I mentioned? I just noticed I couldn't find my article through a google search, while with the other 2 sites, I could very quickly. Just wondered if this was the norm.
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  • HI, article base is best because they approved my all articles and i see gud results.
  • you can also post your articles within this sites:-articleblast.com, goarticles.com, a1articles.com and many more articles sites you can find from here:- directorycritic.com
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    • Nice list on DirectoryCritic. I've noticed that A1Articles seems to post on other sites as well. Kinda a nice bonus (although it is dupe content).

      Articlebase.com & Rysite.com & Ezinearticles.com seem to be those that have resulted in the most value so far in terms of SERPs.
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  • Goarticles is a good one. Ezinearticles is a classic. I also like Squidoo a lot.
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    • Squidoo is more like a site for pages. Have you been uploading articles as individual pages or multiple articles on each lens?
  • Ezinearticles:- Massive Amounts of Qualified Traffic.
    GoArticle:- Content is updated daily
    ArticleBased:- Fast Approval
  • For me, ezine articles and articlebase works great and I get great number of visitors from here.
  • never heard of rysite.com thanks for the info ill post my experience when i use it
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  • EZA hands down for article submission and Squidoo for easy site creation for backlinking purposes.
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    • Do you send links to your squidoo account? What is your method for using squidoo?
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  • ive had issues with ezine..plus they take too long.. i think i'll try rysite..
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    • Another question while on the topic of article directories.

      How many article directories do you post to? Let's say you're promoting a money page, isn't it better to promote them to as many "respected" directories as possible?

      Or do you still use just 2 or 3?
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  • According to my experience, Articlebase is the best. I avail many benefits from it.
  • I am fan of
  • GoArticles is good for building links, whereas EZine is good for traffic
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  • Buzzle is my favorite, if I'm looking to build their public relations and traffic to a page. My articles seem to get a PR 2-3 after only three months or less compared with a full year in the electronic edition.
  • If you use an article submitter presumably that submits the same article to lots of different sites. Several people seem to be saying that you submit to ezine first and then to other sites. Can this be done with an article submitter??

    Also some people are saying to spin the article before submitting it to differnt article sites. This all seems very confusing - is there a rule of thumb that is easy to follow regarding whether or not you can submit the same article to multiple sites???
  • Thanks for this great post. I have several of these article sites bookmarked now. To be honest, I only knew about Ezine.

    So here's a total newb question...do you link back to yourself in the article with your desired keyword or in the sig box?
  • You dont need a lot of article directories for your article marketing. Maintaining 2 or 3 directories is enough. There is no point sending an article to thousands of article directories. Most of these directories are useless, in addition to the fact that you would be creating duplicate content sending your articles to all of them
  • As much as I want to like Article Dashboard, they always take super long to approve my articles (unique), from 2 to 4 weeks.
  • Ezine Articles #1 for me and then Article Base - but will have to check out that Rysite - the tweeting bonus looks good as they claim to targeted twitter accounts.
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  • Articlebase is my favorite article directory as this directory has the instant publishing option. Also articles on this directory are get indexed very quickly in the google and it helsp to get more benefits for my website.
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  • Thanks for the list. I appreciate it. Oh, one more thing. Don't forget about Inforbarrel

    And in case people did not mention it already Hubpapges and Squiddo are also good.
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    What are your favorite article directories? Why?

    I've been reading a lot about people asking about article directories. I thought i would share my favorites and a little blurb why i like them. I use all of them and use them for different reasons. Ezinearticles.com - Most popular IMO, lots of a traffic and google seems to eat it up and is constantly crawling the site. Rysite.com- SEO friendly, automatically tweets your articles to a targeted following. I normally see double the traffic from not only the article but also from twitter. Articlealley.com- another popular site for article directories. Has a high Page Rank and all of my articles refer traffic to my site. Articledashboard.com- Another site that seems to be very popular and is constantly crawled by google. Also has a decent Page Rank and SEO friendly structure Anyone else have some that they can add? What are your favorites and why?