Are article directories still work?

Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by yordanov

I am wondering if submitting an article in free or paid article directories is good for SEO?

SEO questions belong here: Search Engine Optimization

No - article directories are absolutely useless for SEO (and backlinks from too many different directories can eventually get you penalized by Google's Penguin updates). But that isn't what authors/marketers are using them for.

Article directories were never intended to be for SEO. They're great for their originally intended use, but hopeless for "their own backlinks" and "their own traffic": http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

Originally Posted by schttrj

Forget article directories FOREVER!

PLEASE keep this ill-informed, prejudiced, opinionated nonsense to yourself, Ron.

It helps nobody.

Countless full-time, professional article marketers here (including myself) are benefitting regularly by the passive syndication achieved from submitting our articles to Ezine Articles (which is, of course, what it's there for).

One way and another, you've been misinforming people here about articles since 2010, and I can't tell you how dismayed I am to find that you're still doing it now.

What you're saying was nonsense then, and it's nonsense now.

Reading the thread linked to above would really help you a lot.

Who knows - you might even end up knowing how to use an article directory correctly and benefit from it!

Originally Posted by yordanov

Are article directories still work?

Yes. They can still work (especially Ezine Articles, to which I submit an article most days). But not for SEO or for direct traffic. That isn't their purpose.

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James1212

10 years ago

I think if you submit to article websites, it can't hurt you. But for SEO I would not count on it. I think all forms of marketing are good in one way or another. I say just work all of the areas. Now your target market or find them on google trends.
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Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by James1212

I think if you submit to article websites, it can't hurt you.

Well ... it can, actually, if you submit to too many: Google's Penguin updates are specifically designed to identify and penalize "spammy backlinks", and people have had penalities from mass article-directory submission (and in some cases Google has told them expressly that that was the reason).

More to the point, perhaps, is that once your article is in Ezine Articles, you won't benefit any further by havving it in additional article directories, too.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872
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JonesMurray

10 years ago

The benefits in having links in the article directories is that you still have people occasionally reading articles that they find through the search results and it could result in people clicking over to your site.

If Article Submission is dead or not having worth so why
ehow with PR 7 ? ezinearticles with PR 6 ? squidoo with PR7 ? hubpages with PR 6 and high Alexa Rankings?

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Alexa Smith

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by JonesMurray

If Article Submission is dead or not having worth so why ehow with PR 7 ? ezinearticles with PR 6 ? squidoo with PR7 ? hubpages with PR 6

The page ranks of those directories' own home pages have nothing to do with it (unless and until you find a way to get your articles published on their own home pages - but until then, your articles, just like everyone else's, will go on their own newly-formed PR-0 pages, whatever directory you submit them to).

Originally Posted by JonesMurray

and high Alexa Rankings?

That's because they're frequented by internet marketers who have the Alexa Toolbar installed in their browsers - nobody else uses the thing, or would want to, so its so-called traffic-figure rankings are a complete joke.

Since you ask ...

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rdimabuyu

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

The page ranks of those directories' own home pages have nothing to do with it (unless and until you find a way to get your articles published on their own home pages - but until then, your articles, just like everyone else's, will go on their own newly-formed PR-0 pages, whatever directory you submit them to).

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Very well said..

Well on my point, article directory submission may still have a chance. A small chance rather, because you are not the only one submitting on this directory site. Your post might just be buried by other articles from other authors with high reputation. Going back to the quoted message, if you will be able to make your article on the home page of the website then you'll get a positive result. If you're planning to get visitors through posting on article directories, there's a chance but very low percentage.

In terms of SERP the competition is still there, if you want to rank on a highly competitive keyword or topic it wouldn't be that easy.

And i'm not against posting on article directory websites.

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SEO Power

10 years ago

I don't bother submitting my articles to article directories anymore as they are pretty much useless in my experience. I'd rather submit my articles to related sites as guest posts than use article directories.

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Tim P

10 years ago

I think it brings more traffic to your website.

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Angshuman Dutta

10 years ago

From what I've seen, they are good in bringing you traffic, especially if you have a bunch of articles linking back to you, but don't give you an SEO boost...I mean rankings. But, you should give it a try and see for yourself.

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godoveryou

10 years ago

Use article directories as a hub to distribute your content that is aimed at a direct conversion point (whether that's monetization, optin, ppl, etc).

Alexa understands this, but it seems lost on everyone else.

Look at it this way... Good blogs have audiences. Some of these blogs use content hubs to 'fill a void.' Yes, even great blogs that aren't financially secured by venture capital - and even some of those still use distributed content sources.

The point is you are using that blog's audience to leverage a specific conversion goal. That's it, that's all. Nothing more. I mean maybe some junk blogs reproduction of your article will rank highly in the SERPs thereby defeating the argument that it's only for the audience, but even then capitalizing on a direct conversion point remains the same.

Any fantasy about SEO applications is quite insane and reflects a complete lack of understanding of not just today's SEO climate, but of marketing assets in general and how to deploy them.

Ahh screw it. Yeah, spin the articles to at least 60% uniqueness and pwn-zee-interwebs.

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dkhathras

10 years ago

I think it is Good for SEO and bring more traffic.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by dkhathras

I think it is Good for SEO and bring more traffic.

Sorry, but this is just completely wrong.

It has no SEO benefits at all, and no article marketer who understands how article directories work is trying to use them to attract potential customer traffic to their own site. That just isn't how they work.

This thread will help you (but only if you're willing to read it): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

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Creativologist

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Sorry, but this is just completely wrong.

It has no SEO benefits at all, and no article marketer who understands how article directories work is trying to use them to attract potential customer traffic to their own site. That just isn't how they work.

This thread will help you (but only if you're willing to read it): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

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I have to disagree. I've written many articles for the ezine sites with the intent there to earn affiliate commissions. But I've also take articles and posted them on my blog and started ranking for keywords and generating traffic to those blog pages. So I can see the benefit if you do it right.

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Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Creativologist

I have to disagree. I've written many articles for the ezine sites with the intent there to earn affiliate commissions.

There's no such thing, really, as an "ezine site".

Ezines are not websites. An ezine is an electronic-magazine: it's sent out to its subcribers by email - it isn't a website at all.

I suspect that you're actually confusing "ezines" with "article directories", perhaps imagining that the website called "Ezine Articles" is "an ezine"? It isn't. It's called that because it's a source of articles "for ezines" (and "for websites"): the idea of it is that you put copies of your articles in it, after initially publishing them on your own site, in the hope that publishers of ezines (and/or webmasters of websites) will find it there and re-publish it in their ezines (or on their websites) with your link attached to it, so that they can get some free content and in exchange you get some free traffic that someone else has already targeted. That's what article directories are there for. That's the purpose they serve: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

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Assignmentwriter

10 years ago

Still article directories are working try it you will see good results.

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Jamichael

10 years ago

Some article submission sites work. You'd have to conduct a back link audit on them to see if they're worthy. If they're receiving traffic and links, they're solid for the most part.

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Helena14

10 years ago

Whether you want to believe it or not, Article directories still play a key role in site ranking.

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Mark Davison

10 years ago

I still get traffic from ezinearticles fromarticles i posted years ago so they do work for that. Not sure how they are for link juice these days though.

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Graphics service

10 years ago

It still helps.Some authors/writers i have worked with recently confirmed that.You can give it a trial.

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Africantarps123

10 years ago

Article Directory Submission free/paid are bast choice for SEO,And in increase traffic or back links.

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yordanov

10 years ago

So two opinions till now: works and don`t works...I am totally confused... But I think I will try to put articles only in high pr directories, one time daily. This will be my strategy!

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Adam Methew

10 years ago

Articles directories are still good in Seo and also beneficial.

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UAEW

10 years ago

Article directories will work but dont go over with thounsands of spinned articles in 3 days
make it slowly

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suzyspring

10 years ago

Article directories are really useful for SEO, off-page optimization. The only thing is, it takes months to get in use. And it also depends on, what kind of submission you do.

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promo87

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by yordanov

Hello,
I am wondering if submitting an article in free or paid article directories is good for SEO? Or nowadays it is not needed for optimization?

Well, @yordanov I can understand your concerned after matt cutts stated that posting article over the article directories is spamming, most of the people over here just feel afraid before moving forward with it tell you what actually what people are doing previously is they are posting article over the article directories just to gain backlink and what they are doing they are creating articles targeted over the keywords and its just another bad trick to force the search engine to rank them. So, when Google sees this they have locked it out I would say article directories are still the good thing but like what SEO people are doing is they are overdoing things which is not acceptable. Now I would say you should ask yourself a question why you want to take the help of article directories ? Is it because of the backlinks or you think you can assist users. I am sure you are going to get your answers in a well settle manner.

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Masondavis

10 years ago

I think it brings more traffic to your website.

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