Article Directory List

Article Directory List is dedicated to bringing you a definitive article directory list of over 250 active article submission directories that are available for you to submit your articles to.

The article directory list here is by no means exhaustive, but with over two hundred article directories and ezines that accept articles, you have a huge choice for submitting your articles to.

Why Submit Articles?

It's becoming fairly common knowledge amongst Internet marketers and webmasters alike that in order to promote your website, blog or online business, a powerful and free way of generating targeted traffic is to submit articles to article directories.

To do this manually can be a slow and painstaking process, but a necessary one if you want the search engines to rank your site as well as deliver that traffic to your site. And not just traffic, but also those all-important inbound links to give your sites the authority they need to compete in the search engine results.

Well, here's a ton of help in that process.

In this article directory list, I've listed over 250 of the main article directories to save you the hassle of finding them all for yourself.

Of course the process of submitting articles will always take some work, but then when you think about it you are doing that work for the good of your online business which will make money for you the more it grows. Article marketing is a big part of that growth in obtaining the all-important backlinks that your money making websites need in order to gain authority and rank in the search engines results.

If you know of any more article directories, please feel free to add them to the plexo below.

What Are The Pitfalls?

11th September 2007 - Terry Didcott

One of the main problems a lot of new marketers run afoul of is that of duplicate submission.

By that I mean writing an article then submitting it to more than one article submission directory. The first one you submit is fine, because its an original - it's unique content that the search engines not only love to see but will give you much more PR love for doing it! But when you go and submit the same article to directory number two, it is not longer unique web content, but a duplicate of the one you just submitted to directory number one.

The search engines hate duplicate content and will penalise you for it. They will also penalise the directory that displays it, so you may find that increasingly, more of the top directories will refuse to accept a duplicate article.

If the search engines dislike just one duplicate copy of an article on the web with your link attached to it, imagine how much damage you'd be doing to your potential PR by submitting that exact same article to 200 directories!

It's a definite no-no!

So you can see, you need to take an article and change it around a fair bit before you submit it to another directory. Just to be on the safe side.

Because after all, you are doing this to gain favour with the search engines, not make them penalise you for it!

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While article marketing is one of the best ways to promote your website, in order to promote your blogs, you can actually use your posts as their own promotion machines.

There are several pligg based websites arounfd where you can submit your blog posts to, such as digg, reddit, bloggingzoom etc. These are the ones most blogger know about and use regularly to boost their posts' indexing times as well as their SERPs authority.

But why just stop there?

To promote a blog post, doesn't it make as much sense to submit it to as many of these pligg driven sites as possible to get the most promotional juice?

So when you hear about a new pligg site comeing online, as a promoition savvy blogger, you're going to take full advantage of the fact aren't you?

Well, here is a blatant and full in your face plug for my very own first step into the pligg arena. My new site, thefb.net is online and accepting blog posts direct from the site. Its already a PR2 and will doubtless improve on that in the next Google PR update as I'm getting plenty of links to it. Which all means that when you submit your blog posts to TheFB, your're improving your blog's SERPes authority with each additional submission.

So where can you finf TheFB? Right here at this link: Fast Bookmarker

Give a try, you'll be glad you did!

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Your Resource Box

14th September 2007 - Terry Didcott

Most, if not all article submission directories allow you to have what is known as a resource box, or bio box.

This is where you can write a little about yourself and your website that you want the article to link back to including an anchor link to your site.

In the anchor link should be text using your main keywords or site title for better SEO and more weight with the search engines.

After all, this is all about getting traffic to your site, for which you need a link to that site and possibly even more importantly a one-way back-link from the article directory to your site, which is why it should be enclosed in "<a> </a>" anchor HTML tags.

This gives you the double benefit of link juice from the article site plus keyword authority to your site, which will help it get a better place in the search engine listings.

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How to Perform Keyword Research

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Keyword research methodologies are some of the most closely guarded secrets by affiliate marketers. Knowing how to mine for low-cost, high revenue keywords is the key to affiliate success for anyone who wants to use any type of search in their marketing.

This article reveals how Brian Edmondson performs his keyword research. This is actually a leaked chapter from a book that he co-authored, "Adsense Arbitrage Voodoo". In this article he shows how he is able to find low-cost, high traffic keywords that no one is bidding on - even in one of the most competitive industries...

...unfortunately, the full article seems to have disappeared into thin air along with the website hosting it! Watch this space - I'll get some articles together on this very subject and provide a live link to them real soon...

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Of course, there are many ways to find good keywords but you'll also need a tool for researching them once you've found them. That's because it's no good having a great sounding keyword that you know you can fill a whole site up with content for if no one searches on it.

Take my main site, The Honest Way. What a disaster that was as far as keyword research. I bought the domain and built the huge website before I knew what I was really doing in terms of SEO and keywords and now I've got a white elephant in monetisation terms because its main keywords are virtually un-searched, meaning low numbers of organic search traffic meaning low clicks on ads.

A much better site is my newer how to make money ways site, which is actually called Money Hints. The keyword "Money" is in the title, so its just a case of manipulating several long tail keywords around "money" and using them in anchor text links as above to send link juice and keyword authority to the site. At the moment, it ranks no.2 in Google for fast make money which is a good long tail keyword with a decent number of monthly searches for not so stiff competition.

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The Definitive List of Article Submission Directories:

We all need some variety in life and when it comes to submitting articles to directories, what better than to spread them around! Here's a great list of them so you can do just that!

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