Top 4 Article Directories to Submit Your Content To
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Back in 2007 I wrote a post about article submission being a poor SEO tactic. Since then the article has had about 5,000 visitors that mainly came from Google and it’s still getting good traffic now. Because it has been so popular I just gave it a bit of an update and added information about how to submit to article directories and which ones to use.
Over the years I have been screwed over in various ways by a few directories such as Article Alley, Articles Base and Isnare, the 1st two added nofollow to my author signature links and Isnare took a payment from me for a featured submission and then never published it or got back to me when I emailed.
Anyway, fortunately there are a handful of decent general article directories that you can rely on, here are my top 4:
1/ Ezine Articles is the best article directory on the web, it has good standards, a PageRank 6/10 and currently, according to Alexa it’s the 185th most popular site on the web. The site is very easy to use, just click onto submit articles and follow instructions to get started.
2/ My 2nd favourite article directory is Buzzle, I have been an author there for over a year now, my articles are usually published within 24 hours and indexed by Google in no time. The site has a PageRank score of 5/10 and it’s Alexa rank is in the top 2,000. You have to apply to get accepted as an author at Buzzle and it can take a few weeks, but IMO it’s worth the wait.
3/ Another great article site is Go Articles, it’s ran by the Jayde Online Network, it has a Google PageRank of 6/10 and its Alexa score is inside the top 3,500. Submitting is a piece of cake, click on submit articles and then fill in the register as a new member form to get started. Articles are published fast, usually in less then a week.
4/ Article Dashboard is a mother of an article directory with, according to siteexplorer nearly 4,000,000 links that have come from other article directories using their script. The site has a Google PageRank score of 4/10 and its Alexa traffic rank is about 5,000. Click on the sign up link in the top right hand corner, follow instructions and start submitting your content.
Make sure you read our article submission blog post before you start using these sites, if done correctly and in moderation article submission can be a good small part of your link building and SEO strategy.
FYI: I think the UK needs a really good article directory so I have just registered OriginalArticles.co.uk and I plan to launch that in the next month or so.
Posted in Link Building News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
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July 26th, 2009 116 Comments
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July 27th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Are these article directories ‘good’ for the number of visits you get from them or for seo?
July 27th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
@Barry A little bit of both I would say, I have tried most of the big general article sites and these were the ones I found to be best for SEO and traffic.
July 27th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I have great success with ArticlesBase.com. EzineArticles.com and ArticlesBase.com consistently get my articles to page one of Google Search Results.
One word of warning, post to EzineArticles.com first and wait until the article is approved there before you to go ArticlesBase.com. ArticlesBase.com approves articles so quickly, spammers cut&paste them and then EzineArticles.com could reject you for duplicate content.
July 28th, 2009 at 6:35 am
@Barry Normally, a decent amount of traffic usually brings a high PR. As high PR is good for SEO, those four article directories are great for both traffic and SEO.
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:21 pm
You will only need to invest some of your time to write a nice article and a little more time to submit it to article directories.
August 4th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
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August 12th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Hi,
Please list my article directory website in this list,
site name is http://articleresource.org
Thanks
August 12th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Hello,
here is another article directory to submit articles to:
http://www.linknami.com/articles
(general article directory with over 1500 categories)
August 15th, 2009 at 8:24 am
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August 18th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Thanks for the list you provided. Let me use this for my link promotion.
August 25th, 2009 at 11:39 am
These are really good articles to submit our content.I too prefer this sites.
September 1st, 2009 at 2:31 pm
These are best article directories but Buzzel ( Very good one ) accept only unique content ,http://www.articlesbase.com/ also deserve a place but one got less traffic from articles .
September 4th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Yes ,is true.I have acc in Enzine and working good.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Nice list.Thanks for sharing.
September 11th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Nice Read, this article is very useful for who intially start Article submissions thanks sharing.
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:45 pm
David, I just checked OriginalArticles.co.uk and found that it’s not live yet… are you still planning on building the site?
Ben
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:14 pm
@ Ben, yes it’s still coming, I was in hospital for a while and that has held me back. http://www.koshcreative.co.uk are designing it for me and it is looking very slick.
September 27th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Nice list and always good to read what others recommend as there are so many article directories out there nowadays that too limit submissions to the best ones that make a difference seems a better option than just using them as cannon fodder.
September 30th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Nice article submission list. Thanks for sharing this to all of us.
Regards
Nichole
http://www.recoverybull.com
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Dear Sir / Madam
I regularly use your website for SEO tips and also refer many of my clients to your useful pages. I am writing to request that you mention my article directory site, http://www.ArticleOffice.com , in any list you may compile. I aimed to make the site easy for people to use to allow anyone to write article without dedicating hours of their lives to submission, Article categories can be seen on the homepage, the submission page is user only (user menu at the top of site)
Thank you for your time
Joseph Lancros
ArticleOffice.com
October 6th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I had little bit idea about ezine. But i was unaware of last three article directory. Thanks for sharing.
October 7th, 2009 at 2:34 am
Nice list and always good to read what others recommend as there are so many article directories out there nowadays that too limit submissions to the best ones that make a difference seems a better option than just using them as cannon fodder
October 14th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Thanks for your information about this top sites. I am already using Ezine. Hereafter i will use other three sites too.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
With a new site was looking for some ideas on how to increase the reach of the site and the article sites you have mentioned sound like a good and positive idea so will give them a go. Thanks
October 16th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Very Valuable Information. This Top 4 Article Plays Vital role getting inbound links. Thanks sharing.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Thanks for this Valuable information. i have used ezine and go article , will use rest of 2 very soon.
October 26th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
a good list of article submission website directories, i would suggest not forget articlebase.com
November 17th, 2009 at 4:52 am
I use ezine and its one of the best. thanks for the others
November 17th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Good advice, regularly use ezine and articlesbase for my article submissions. It definitely seems worth spending the time on finding the best places to add your articles.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Hi, thanks for the list, it’s been quite frustrating trying to find places to submit articles as so many either charge or never get indexed at all…or both!
November 24th, 2009 at 7:05 am
Thanks for your valuable contents on submission directories. Feel free to visit this site too…
articlescreen.com
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Thanks for your information about this top article sites.This article site have a page rang above 5.Many of people visit this article site and submit your contain.
December 7th, 2009 at 8:11 am
Nice list and always good to read what others recommend as there are so many article directories out there nowadays that too limit submissions to the best ones that make a difference seems a better option than just using them as cannon fodder.
December 10th, 2009 at 10:52 am
This is a new article directory that’s recently been launched, and one which seems to have some potential. There are too many article directories around which are only in it for the adsense revenue and will accept any old rubbish given.
The directory I linked to – http://netpressarticles.com – seems to be a lot more stringent about what it will accept. I’ve tried it with several articles, all of which (deliberately, to test them) failed at least 1 of their guidelines. Every one was thrown out for not meeting guidelines.
Now, it might just be because they’re new and are trying to discourage the spam community, but I think in time if they keep this level of due diligence going then they could rise to the top.
An article directory where only quality articles are published? Who’d have thought it possible!?
December 18th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Hi,
Thanks, really useful and informative. I didn’t realise these sites existed so thanks for sharing with other webmasters since may of the “old” free press release sites etc. are now paid for.
December 20th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Thanks for this list of directories. Was only using one of them.
January 2nd, 2010 at 11:24 pm
I heard one expert say that they completely ignore EzineArticles because they’ve become such a pain. Their advice was to go counterintuitive. For example, watch the herd, then go the other way.
IMHO, I’d say make great content and get a solid reputation on EzineArticles and you won’t get your artcles sent to file 13.
January 13th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Free article submission is one of the best online marketing stradegies if you limit your submissions to the top 15-25 sites. A wisely structured article can become a PR 2-5 page when submitted to the top article directories.
January 24th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
I have used ezine articles for my website http://www.insurance4all.co.uk but being finance and savings based and therefore highly competitive, I don’t really think the effort it takes to write an article has justified the increase in traffic. I think ezine articles would work better for more niche sites.
January 28th, 2010 at 11:10 am
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January 28th, 2010 at 11:52 am
These article websites are most popular on the internet.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Thanks for the list
February 9th, 2010 at 11:05 am
If I Submit 1 unique article to 10 directories, it will be treated as duplicate content by directories. Then, the backlinks would not be effective.
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February 10th, 2010 at 9:37 am
@Atul: i’ve submitted my articles to like 4 different article submission sites, now i know its not a good idea, i guess i’ll have to stick to one or submit 1 for each. thanks
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February 17th, 2010 at 4:46 am
Can anyone know of fast approval directories. I mean to say that the article should be approved within few days.
February 22nd, 2010 at 6:48 pm
There are definitely more article directories out there but thanks for highlighting the four of them. Personally my favorite is still Ezine.
February 25th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
articlesbase seems to publish articles quicker tha other directories I’ve used.
February 26th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Hi
It is really good article submission site and there is an opportunity to promote your article.
March 8th, 2010 at 6:53 am
I have joined te directories but i always get logged out of article base as soon as i start to write an article. i have checked my security settings but it won’t help, any advice?
March 9th, 2010 at 8:32 am
These 4 article is really top article submission sites. this opportunity is really great and thanks for provide me information.
March 20th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
i only submit my articles to ezine and articlesbase, i find it too many for 4 submissions. I consider the two to be on top
March 26th, 2010 at 2:31 am
Less is more!
March 26th, 2010 at 11:57 am
Except ezine and go article I also use article base .It is also a good article submission site.
April 10th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Good list
I quess out of these 4, ezinearticles have the hardest criteria to publush an article.
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:34 am
Thanks man i will definately post my content in those article to increase the links
May 3rd, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Thanks for the article. you might want to add hubpages to your site, you get links and you can monetize your traffic as well.
May 17th, 2010 at 4:22 am
I am always prefer this two great article website ArticlesBase.com. EzineArticles.com,I have great success with ArticlesBase.com. EzineArticles.com.
May 18th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Great source, i was just looking for some article directories, Thanks!
May 22nd, 2010 at 5:26 am
Great article. For content driven article syndication, I like to use the likes of ArticleBase.com, EzineArticles.com GoArticles.com and a host of others due to the longer term life-span of the content hosting itself, obviously provided it is high quality and original content to be read by general web surfers on categories of interest. It’s a good strategy to have a mixed profile as we all know. Best of luck all!
May 27th, 2010 at 9:10 am
Hi,
I also agree with your post! these websites are the really top 4 but articlesbase is also a nice website for article submission.
Faith Hill
May 27th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Great article. For content driven article syndication, I like to use the likes of ArticleBase.com, EzineArticles.com GoArticles.com and articlewarriors.com
May 27th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Hi,
I have been using EzineArticles for some time already. Thanks for sharing information of the other 3.
May 27th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Hi,
More article directories are coming up but I still prefer Ezinearticles.
June 1st, 2010 at 11:50 am
yes these are good article sites. Thanks for sharing useful information.
June 1st, 2010 at 4:11 pm
I am using these sites and, so far, so good. I can vouch for you. Really useful info.
June 2nd, 2010 at 5:57 pm
I got a very good response using articlesbase as my favorite article directory my articles are ranking in 1st page of Google .
June 2nd, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Personally my top 3 article directories are Ezinearticles.com, Rysite.com, and GoArticles.com. Those are the ones in which I receive the most traffic, and provide the highest quality backlinks to my site.
June 3rd, 2010 at 1:05 pm
thanks for the quick tip and idea on the article directory , i would say article alley is also good to get backlinks
June 10th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Thanks – useful resource about Article directories – I’ve got a few articles that need publishing for my latest campaign…
June 20th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Good post, i am now using all 4 of these directories with good results.
Just a word of caution to some readers – focus on developing unique content! “Spun” articles are working less and less.. and churning out a lot of unnatural worded articles may get you into some trouble with Google.
For those who are starting out i would recommend what has worked out good for me- start with 20 keyword articles. Like someone said above make sure and post it to ezinearticles.com FIRST before you add them to the others. Ezine has the most weight w/ Google, and they do not use duplicate content.
June 20th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
oh and thought id recommend two more-
articlealley.com
searchwarp.com
July 13th, 2010 at 1:00 am
Hi David,
I see that your own article directory still hasnt launched, any plans on that front?
eZine Articles are becoming more and more facist by the week!
Jamie
July 13th, 2010 at 10:33 am
Hi
Thanks for narrowing down the best article directories. I used to submit to hundreds of directories. I now realise it is better to submit different versions of articles to a few top directories
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:12 am
Thanks dude.I will post content of website into these article to get better rankings in search engines.
July 23rd, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Articles are not only a superb source in terms of their own page rank but they also have value in demonstrating your own expertise in the subject matter you may be making your comments on.
July 23rd, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Looks like i should give this a go
July 26th, 2010 at 11:13 am
Thanks i was looking for a reputable list of article directories
July 30th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
great information about articles submission.Thanks for sharing with us.
July 30th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
I never submit my article to article directory before, but your advice make me want to do it, thanks for share.
August 6th, 2010 at 4:46 am
someone told me that one article should not be published in more than 50 directories. how far this is true?
August 16th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Ezine Articles and Article Dashboard is a good articles sites. I submitted 3 articles to each and in a week my ranking improved.
August 16th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Ezine articles is the best. It is highly monitored by google.
Thanks for the info of other good artcles
August 16th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
I always have a tough time deciding whether to submit my articles to my own site/blog or sending them to an article site.
It becomes increasingly difficult to remain original and non repetitive when approaching similar subjects.
August 18th, 2010 at 9:57 am
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August 19th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Posting an article to GoArticles is not difficult. Your articles get approved easily.
August 21st, 2010 at 6:43 pm
i also use 4 of those and articlebase.com, thank you.
August 24th, 2010 at 5:47 am
The is a great list to get started and I have been using 3 of these (ezine, dashboard and go). I would like to make a top ten list ideally. I like (amazines
and articlesbase) but looking for 4 more sites.
August 24th, 2010 at 8:43 am
Ezine Article is the BEST!…
August 27th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Two article directories amazines and articlesbase are very good sites to submit the useful content.
September 8th, 2010 at 9:47 am
Here,all article site are relevant and have a good PR.You can post your article in sites like ezine and you will get a good result.Such a nice blog for SEO person.
September 15th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
I think that the only successful blogger I’ve known who haven’t used article directories to boost his social proof on the Web is Seth Godin. Yes, these sites can help those who are new in the world of promoting their business, yet, one must think of quality content above anything else. Thanks for sharing the sites though, I guess I’ll give it a try.
September 16th, 2010 at 6:23 am
Ever since, whenever I have a new article I always posted it in article dashboard and ezine articles. They are approving my articles fast. Also I got a good backlinks from here.
September 17th, 2010 at 6:26 am
Yup my favorite is ezine articles too. My selection runs in corelation with yours This is an outstanding resource. Thanks so much for sharing. This is one of the best summaries I’ve seen! Thanks for posting this article directory list. bookmarked!
Best,
Charlie
September 17th, 2010 at 6:27 am
Links from directories may matter somewhat, but the best way to get links is to post unique quality content often. And be sure to post only on high PR sites.
Anyways, thanks for this fantastic list! -Jaiden
September 18th, 2010 at 8:22 am
These are really good articles to submit our content. Yes, these sites can help those who are new in the world of promoting their business, yet, one must think of quality content above anything else. Thanks …….
October 29th, 2010 at 10:49 am
This is a solid list of article directories and I like that you just list 4 quality ones. Most people list like 100 and the reader is left thinking that is too many. But 4 is a good manageable number and if done right, submitting quality articles to these 4 can bring good SEO benefits.
November 9th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
I use buzzle and ezinearticles.com regular basis.
November 17th, 2010 at 11:42 am
Thanks for the definitive list, it’s good to know that there are some directories which prefer unique content and have a good reputation.
November 19th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
These are very good article directories and I always do submissions on these sites, they even give benefits of internet marketing.
November 22nd, 2010 at 5:52 am
Its good to know that there are options for you as to where you can post your articles.
November 22nd, 2010 at 6:19 am
Great information for people looking for web sites where they can publish their articles.
January 11th, 2011 at 7:28 am
Articledashboard is taking a lot of times for approval, however articlebase is quick and approves articles within two days. I agree with buzzle and ezinearticles. Thanks
January 11th, 2011 at 10:59 am
Thanks for the heads up on the best article directories to submit to. With so many directories it is difficult to know which ones will give you the best link backs.
January 28th, 2011 at 11:11 am
Ezinearticles is my first choice. I get a good amount of traffic from ezine and my second preference goes to goarticles, which quickly approves article and the third best article directory is articlebase. Articlebase approves my articles within 12 hours and I get few quick downloads from articlebase.
January 30th, 2011 at 1:51 am
I’m starting my article submission campaign, will see what happens.
February 1st, 2011 at 5:23 pm
I’ve had some success with Article Dashboard, and it’s very quick to approve articles.
February 2nd, 2011 at 3:46 pm
I have used all of the above and can recomend them i have had regular articles entered into Google news from these site.
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February 6th, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Such a nice list of great directories, thanks for sharing
May 2nd, 2011 at 7:15 pm
What it would give pagerank or traffic??
May 4th, 2011 at 11:37 am
I am going to have a go at doing this for my little site so thank very much for your useful information
May 12th, 2011 at 8:34 am
Article submission is one of the good SEO marketing strategies to improve the visitors & business at the same time from the do follow website we have to get many backlinks for our websites. thank you for your great link list.
May 12th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
I totally agree that these are top most valuable article websites in world wide web. But our article Must BE informative and share our unique expertise. Also avoid the promotion of your company or product in the article body. If we submit quality article then chances of publishing would be high.
cheers!!!
December 3rd, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Given the recent Google changes and their desire to get rid of junk and duplicated content, your list of top article submission sites makes even more sense.
Good luck with your UK based directory
December 5th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Thanks for this list. Are you planning on ever taking OriginalArticles.co.uk live? If you do stick my website http://alacarteunique.com in please.
December 6th, 2011 at 5:08 am
Thanks for sharing this great list.. it’s really nice list.. go artcles and amazines is also great site..
December 16th, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Thanks for these, But there are some other good sites also exist. like UK index, Articles alley and so on…..