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Article Directory Website?

by lirikh
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Hi, I'm creating an article directory website, and would like to hear your input.

I hate writing articles, but I love managing websites, and I thought this would be perfect for me. Do you think it'll be hard to start pulling traffic onto my website considering the other major article directories?

I'm willing to put time and effort into it, but if there's absolutely no hope for me, I would prefer to abandon the idea now rather than spending time and money.

Thanks,
Kiril.
#article #directory #website
  • Profile picture of the author FranksToys
    It really depends, article directories have become rather saturated. Today you need to really separate yourselves from the others. Things like PageRank and Alexa ranking are crucial to the success of your directory. I'd really say try something else, it can take a lot of time and I've seen a lot of directories get lost as a result of poor management and using a lot of cookie cutter directory scripts.

    In fact I've even seen many that have lost PR altogether as a result of using a cookie cutter theme and accepting poor quality articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author kposs
    You could also make the article directory unique by putting effort into making sure your site is indexed regularly. That would take backlinking the article directory (the articles will take care of the updated content). If you could show the articles in your directory get indexed quickly, that would be a huge benefit.
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    • Profile picture of the author lirikh
      So the two things that could separate me from the other directories are:

      - Unique Theme
      - Getting articles indexed fast

      Hmmm I might give it a shot.
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    • Profile picture of the author shaggard
      Originally Posted by kposs View Post

      You could also make the article directory unique by putting effort into making sure your site is indexed regularly. That would take backlinking the article directory (the articles will take care of the updated content). If you could show the articles in your directory get indexed quickly, that would be a huge benefit.
      I totally agree with this. Since I do article marketing almost exclusively, I would put my articles on your site in a heartbeat if they go indexed quickly. If your site had good PR, I would not even blink an eye at putting it up.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    I created an article directory based on the prefix, "Why do ..?" I got an EMD with it and that is the U.S.P. ... it is going well and the future looks good but that is what is needed. Find a way to separate yourself. Ask, "Why would someone want to use my site as opposed to the other high PR sites that are already out there?"
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  • Profile picture of the author NicoleBeckett
    Absolutely. Good IM'ers should always be on the lookout for new article directories. (I know I'm always looking for new places) If you offer something of value (only quality content accepted, indexed quickly, etc.), people will use it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    A few other tips:

    1. Build up the PR and Alexa ranking as it is popular with a lot of article marketers (PR I understand but I do not as far as Alexa is concerned as it is so easily manipulated IMO).

    2. Start to write your own articles (backlink them too) that are going after VERY low hanging fruit as the more 1st page article placements you have the more you will be noticed and as a result, have articles submitted to your directory.
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    • Profile picture of the author connorbringas
      Well you pretty much need to do what you do with every other website you own. Market it, SEO, get backlinks etc. Make people think your article website is the best and it will be. I would put my articles up on your site asap if it had a good pr and approved submission fast. Its annoying when you have to wait
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      • Profile picture of the author lirikh
        But fast submission is hard. If i want quality articles, I'll have to approve them manually, and depending on the amount of articles pending, it'll be long to read them all. But I guess in the beginning the submission will be fast.
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        • Profile picture of the author connorbringas
          Yeah It does take some time..maybe after you get enough traffic and make some dough you can higher people to read them and approve. Or make the first 10 really hard to approve like ezine but after that the rest be easier to approve for users
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike129
      Originally Posted by Marhelper View Post

      A few other tips:

      1. Build up the PR and Alexa ranking as it is popular with a lot of article marketers (PR I understand but I do not as far as Alexa is concerned as it is so easily manipulated IMO).

      2. Start to write your own articles (backlink them too) that are going after VERY low hanging fruit as the more 1st page article placements you have the more you will be noticed and as a result, have articles submitted to your directory.
      After you do this advices. Maybe you can get some idea out of this site submityourarticle.com its a massive publicity for your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author lirikh
    And which article directory script would you recommend? I'm not too sure of Wordpress anymore, cause everyone's using it now and from you guys said, cookie cutter scripts get lost.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author socialbookmark
    I know articledashboard.com/download.htm which is free and many websites are using from. And also i know a paid script that you can find it on inoutscripts.com/products/inout_article_base/ but i have not tested it yet.
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    • Profile picture of the author lirikh
      Originally Posted by socialbookmark View Post

      I know articledashboard.com/download.htm which is free and many websites are using from. And also i know a paid script that you can find it on inoutscripts.com/products/inout_article_base/ but i have not tested it yet.
      Yeah I heard about articledashboard too, but I read it was exploitable and could be hacked very easily. As I am building a big long-term article database, I would like it to be secure. I'll go and check out the paid one. But if you have any other suggestions, I'll be happy to read them I want to find out about the best one, if paid I'll be gladly to invest some money, but not too expensive though.
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  • Profile picture of the author lirikh
    Okay thanks but I still haven't found a good article directory script :S
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    • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
      Originally Posted by lirikh View Post

      Okay thanks but I still haven't found a good article directory script :S
      I know a lot of directories go with this set up:

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      Personally, I chose to go with a unique site rather than a template.
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      • Profile picture of the author lirikh
        Originally Posted by Marhelper View Post

        I know a lot of directories go with this set up:

        Find Training Courses - List Your Training School - How To Become

        Personally, I chose to go with a unique site rather than a template.
        Yah but a template has to run behind a script, and I'm looking for a script, for example Wordpress and its article directory plugins, but I heard there's none good. So I'll concentrate on the template after I found a script, but which one?
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        • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
          Originally Posted by lirikh View Post

          Yah but a template has to run behind a script, and I'm looking for a script, for example Wordpress and its article directory plugins, but I heard there's none good. So I'll concentrate on the template after I found a script, but which one?
          Can you create your own?
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          • Profile picture of the author lirikh
            Originally Posted by Marhelper View Post

            Can you create your own?
            It will take way too much time, and I don't have the required skills. I know the basic stuff of html, php and mysql, but I won't be able to create a script from scratch.
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            • Profile picture of the author howinfo
              We did look custom made script at the beginning and we did get few quotes but they where just too expensive and as the directory was more like an experiment anyway then we decided to go for ready made script.

              It was bit difficult to get the directory stared at first and the biggest mistake we did was approving and publishing lot of low quality articles just to get the article count up.

              We have now deleted over 50 % of the articles and do no longer accept any articles from submission services, only direct submission, and we have made our submission guidelines quite strict and it has made very big difference as lot of sites have started to linking in and articles are getting syndicated.

              It might seem at fist that to have general article directory would be easier to get going as there are lot more articles to choose from and you can get your article count up very fast and you can have a site with thousand s of pages or even tens of thousands of pages in few months time but I think that in long run the niche article directory will do better.

              And although the quantity might be very attempting when you start out, it is always better to concentrate on quality.
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              • Profile picture of the author lirikh
                Originally Posted by howinfo View Post

                We did look custom made script at the beginning and we did get few quotes but they where just too expensive and as the directory was more like an experiment anyway then we decided to go for ready made script.

                It was bit difficult to get the directory stared at first and the biggest mistake we did was approving and publishing lot of low quality articles just to get the article count up.

                We have now deleted over 50 % of the articles and do no longer accept any articles from submission services, only direct submission, and we have made our submission guidelines quite strict and it has made very big difference as lot of sites have started to linking in and articles are getting syndicated.

                It might seem at fist that to have general article directory would be easier to get going as there are lot more articles to choose from and you can get your article count up very fast and you can have a site with thousand s of pages or even tens of thousands of pages in few months time but I think that in long run the niche article directory will do better.

                And although the quantity might be very attempting when you start out, it is always better to concentrate on quality.
                Thanks for the informative post, but can i ask what script did you use?
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                • Profile picture of the author howinfo
                  Originally Posted by lirikh View Post

                  Thanks for the informative post, but can i ask what script did you use?
                  We have used Article Friendly Article Publishing Script for our article directory and there is another on that looks quite good: yourarticlesdirectory.com

                  I do not have any personal experience with last one but with Article Friendly script I have been very happy so far.
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  • Profile picture of the author lirikh
    Yeah I already read this review about Article Friendly Article Publishing Script. Will look into it. Thanks.
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