Comments on: Article Directories for Article Marketing

By: gruu

gruu — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:18:57 +0000

Please add some more new :::

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:03:04 +0000

Caroline, thanks for the list. please append to you list free health articles directory pr3 to your list , fast approved(24 Hours)

By: Joey Logano Fan

Joey Logano Fan — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:40:16 +0000

Caroline, Great List of Article Directories, I have been going threw your archives, and I am reading up on some of the strategies (may leave some comments on other posts when I get the chance), but for now I am definitely going to dive into Article marketing =D

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:21:57 +0000

@Rayman, fluctuations in PR are normal as Google is constantly adjusting the rankings of sites. This is precisely why I prefer to use a submission service because then I can just hit them all and not worry about trying to find the ones with high PR.

By: Rayman

Rayman — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:18:05 +0000

Hi Caroline!

I prefer submitting to article directories one by one (instead of using some automatic submission service)

I have a list of about 100 “top” article directories with high PageRank.

However, when i check again the PR a few weeks later, it really suprised me that many (more than 20%) of the site’s PR have change erratically sometime from PR 5 to PR 2 for a few days… and then back to PR 5 again. A pattern which I dont understand.

I think there must be a better way of “ranking” these sites other than PR. Hence I start a website (officeray.com) and start building a database of article directories with ranking based on Alexa, Pagerank and most importantly “US Visitors” per month.

If you spent some time checking most of the article directories, you will be shocked that a large majority of them (over 95%) have visitors demographic so “unbalanced” with India has the highest percentage of the visitors.

It usually goes like this, India visitors 65%, US visitors 15%, UK visitors 2%, and the rest belong to other part of the world.

Hence even if a website has a high PR, IMHO if it is so skew towards India, it might not as useful as we think it is.

Hence I also based my ranking on “Monthly visitors from US”

I will be posting more of my experience compiling this list some day…

By: Mikael @ RetireRichRoadmap

Mikael @ RetireRichRoadmap — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:43:50 +0000

Terry, I'm not sure I'm following you. Did you click my link? All the first ten hits are utter crap (judging from the title and the description). Everything from "sexy indian mms" to "register code for magic dvd ripper". Whether or not the site receives traffic I don't know. I can just see the indexed pages and that doesn't look good. Mikael @ RetireRichRoadmaps last blog post..How to Make Money from Adsense

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:10:21 +0000

Hm. I dont think that is the case. It doesn’t look to be one more website looking for hits. The site is not receiving traffic from that crap quite simply because all the articles hosted on it are of high quality. In fact there is not a single undesirable article.

By: Mikael @ RetireRichRoadmap

Mikael @ RetireRichRoadmap — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:44:46 +0000

Terry, I think it is because they are considered “a bad neighborhood” and therefore things look a little strange. If you do a site search in Google you’ll see the crap that the site is made up of:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Flink-building.firm.in%2Farticle_directory%2F&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

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By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:19:40 +0000

Hmm. There are a few that I have seen and a few that I haven't. Somebody was commenting about zero traffic. It is important to remember that it depends on your chosen area. Take a look at this article directory. It doesn't look to be indexed yet but still receives a modest amount of traffic.

By: rufman

rufman — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:01:48 +0000

I ran across another list that you posted that may have been more updated. I took your advice and started using them, thanks!

By: Learned Fool

Learned Fool — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:30:04 +0000

Thanks for the useful list. I see many new ones appear using WordPress as a backbone.

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By: EWK

EWK — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:12:05 +0000

Thanks for putting this together. I really think the next big thing will be content-aggregators.

By: Arshad

Arshad — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:43:41 +0000

great list thank you caroline.But actually i spending a lot less time nowadays on such directories.but this will be useful for niche blogs. Arshads last blog post..how to add a stumbleupon button to my blogger blog ?

By: carl

carl — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:50:20 +0000

Great compilation. I knew 2 of those sites and has heard about maybe 3 more before but never checked them out. It’s great to have it all in one place.

By: Jason T

Jason T — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:03:00 +0000

Thank you so much Caroline. The list is awesome and a lot of writers will really benefit from this one. Will definitely subscribe to your updates. I’m thankful I dont have to spend so much time indexing these directories.
Great job!

By: Mikael

Mikael — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:06:45 +0000

Am I the only one that has a hard time getting articles accepted at Buzzle? I think their "requirements" are a bit over the top... Mikaels last blog post..Cheap Leads for Contractors

By: anand

anand — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:27:53 +0000

Hi caroline please also include my article directory http://www.bestoogle.com

By: Tony Horton

Tony Horton — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:10:33 +0000

Nice list! As the admin for an article directory website, I'd like to remind your readers to read the website's rules before submitting their article. I have to reject a lot of articles because they don't follow the rules and they aren't appropriate for my article directory. Keep up the good work Caroline! Tony Hortons last blog post..How to Submit Your Articles to the OnlineArticleSource.com Article Directory

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:19:47 +0000

Great article about article marketing. Bills last blog post..What is a biz website?

By: Tara

Tara — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:42:44 +0000

This is a great list! I particularly like the additional insight provided by Calvin Loh.

By: Harvey

Harvey — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:58:09 +0000

Thanks for the good list Caroline! I only knew a few of them already.

By: Nicole Price

Nicole Price — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:20:30 +0000

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By: Dean Saliba

Dean Saliba — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:55:43 +0000

Thanks for the great list Caroline.

I knew about some of them but there were quite a few here that I did not know about.

I shall bookmark this post for the updates. :)

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By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:47:35 +0000

@Agrande, I wouldn’t rely on that – very few directories will allow those links in the body. However that’s not the point because every single one allows you to place your links in the resource box – that is the key!

@Mike, that approach works too, whatever floats your boat really!

By: Kevon Edmonds

Kevon Edmonds — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:47:29 +0000

This is a great list. It's hard to find a good reference for all of the article directories out there, yet they serve as a great way to get extra backlinks to your site. I'll be bookmarking this post! Kevon Edmondss last blog post..Keith Mitchell: After 7's Untold Story

By: Mike Collins

Mike Collins — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:19:59 +0000

Caroline, I think I'm the exact opposite of you when it comes to article marketing. I aim first and foremost to generate traffic and consider the backlinks a bonus. For some of my small niche sites almost all the traffic comes from articles I submitted to EZA and a few other directories. Mike Collinss last blog post..Please Help Save These Poor Animals From An Unfortunate Fate

By: Ben Pei

Ben Pei — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:26:00 +0000

Thanks Carol. I made a similar list as well but its nice to see you sharing with your reader. By the way, you have a good no. of rss subscribers, wonder how you do it! Ben Peis last blog post..Interview With Garry Conn On Google Talk

By: Agrande

Agrande — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:45:52 +0000

Caroline thanks for the list of places to check out. There are so many directories it is great to have a list to start from. If we are looking for back links it is important to check out which ones of these allow do follow links in the body. EA says they don't but if you stick them below the fold and the link is not just a sales pitch it has worked for me. @Calvin-Thanks for the report from the trenches. I have only used EA so I will try the other two you have had luck with. Agrandes last blog post..No Carb Snacks For A Low Carb Diet

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:55:11 +0000

@Calvin, thanks for the feedback, that is very useful.

@Andreas, if you look back through my earlier articles in the series you will see that I am aiming for mass distrubution in order to get backlinks rather than direct traffic. For that strategy, in general the higher the PageRank the better, I don’t worry about the traffic at all.

By: smashill

smashill — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:52:35 +0000

It’s good to update these posts. I have only written for ezine articles so far, but will consider checking out a few others with a solid pagerank.

By: Brandon Walker

Brandon Walker — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:22:38 +0000

Awesome post! I was looking for a list of article directories with pagerank. Thanks so much. I will bookmark this post for future reference. Brandon Walkers last blog post..Zinmag Remedy - Best Dark Wordpress Theme

By: A.G.Bourne

A.G.Bourne — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:45:30 +0000

Great list. Wish it was a bit smaller.

I believe people underestimate the power of article directories.

By: cyza

cyza — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:03:26 +0000

Thanks a lot for sharing this article directories. It is very useful for people like me to start on article marketing.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:37:40 +0000

That was a huge list but it would be good to know which ones are worth bothering with. That is which works for backlinks which works for traffic. And regards to traffic are your experience (Caroline) the same as Calvins? Andreass last blog post..andreasnrb: the splittest plugin seem to be working in live setting

By: Calvin Loh

Calvin Loh — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:53:04 +0000

EZA always sends me a lot of traffic, but it has pretty tough editorial guidelines.

In Jan and Feb 2009, Article Dashboard and Article Alley were my no 2 and no 3 sources of traffic after EZA.

Go Articles and Easy Articles are both better than nothing. Their performance has dropped this year.

Basically, EZA sends me 84% of my traffic, Article Dashboard 7%, Article Alley 4%, Go Articles 2%, Article Click (not on your list) 1%, Easy Articles 0.15%.

Articles Base is not accepting new authors.

Dime-Co just underwent a major site revamp – I tried submitting a few articles, but nothing seems to have happened.

Article Cube – 0 traffic.

Article Depot – 0 traffic.

Search Warp – canceled my account with no reason given. All they were willing to say was that I violated their TOS. Which TOS? They refused to tell me.

By: Make Money Online

Make Money Online — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:31:32 +0000

Thanks for this fine list. I have added a few sites i missed to my own list. Make Money Onlines last blog post..7 Taboo Ways to Make Money Online

By: Hosting Review

Hosting Review — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:06:56 +0000

This is a nice list. I will definitely be using it later on. Thanks Caroline! Hosting Reviews last blog post..ipower.com - Web Hosting and Domain Name

By: Tony Horton

Tony Horton — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:24:27 +0000

This is a good list Caroline–very useful. Please consider adding my article directory website OnlineArticleSource.com to your list. I’m looking to add new authors!

By: Joan Adams

Joan Adams — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:25:50 +0000

Thank you @sheilaatwood for tweeting this great site. I am having such fun exploring and I love the article submission list! Great! Joan Adamss last blog post..Moon Moo and You on Blog Radio

By: Eddie Gear

Eddie Gear — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:08:40 +0000

Hi Caroline, Thanks for the list. It looks like you have done some extensive research on this. Cheers, Eddie Gear Eddie Gears last blog post..Twitter an excellent source to attract web traffic

By: Sheila Atwood

Sheila Atwood — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:09:34 +0000

Wow! what a list. I had no idea! Thanks for all of the work you have put into this list. It really helps me get started. Sheila Sheila Atwoods last blog post..Only The Good Friday