Article Websites: MOST are a WASTE of time

[DinoCagney]

I wrote over 150 good quality articles the last few months to gain backlinks for my real estate blog, and I found out that mostly all Article websites out there are CRAP

Here is my review:


GOOD ARTICLE SITES:


1) Ezinearticles

- This is by far the best Article site. It takes a while sometimes to get approved, but its well worth it once its approved. Also, it has given my blog some traffic.

2) Goarticles

- I'd put this #2.... But be careful of this one... I put up around 30 articles on this site over the months.... then I notice none are coming up on my backlink checker. I go log into my Goarticles account.... and all of my articles have been deleted. I emailed them to find out why, turns out all were under 250 words. Heck, it was so easy to post articles on this site since they go live a minute later... I was posting 3 sentence articles. All have been deleted. If you post on this one, make sure its 250+ words.


BAD ATICLE SITES:

1) Articlesbase.com - BAD BAD BAD.... WATCH OUT FOR THIS ONE..... ANCHOR LINKS ARE NO-FOLLOW.... it says it in its guidelines, but who would have known....... I posted over 20 articles on this damn site, all for nothing (yeah i know it can give you traffic, but I could have put this on dofollow sites)

2) ArticlesFactory.... I want to post on this damn site, but they make you put a photo of yourself on there to post.... when I tried uploading a photo, it said it was too big and will delay my approval of signing up... I played around with the photo, still got this message......... in other words: THIS SITE SUCKS, AND I HIGHLY DO NOT RECOMMEND IT.

3) Articledashboard... not sure what the hell is going on with them, but I have 10 articles on there, and NONE are showing up as backlinks.... They have nofollow tags all over their coding, and Im not sure, this might be no-follow too...... 2 THUMBS DOWN

4) Isnare: 2 THUMBS DOWN.... they make you pay for anchor links... bastards






If you guys know any other good article sites that you've used --- post them on here

Also, any other good / bad reviews of these sites post them on here as well!!

[johnchow]

Can you provide more good article directories?

[kentuckyslone]

I would say that Ezine Articles are the best. I have tried lots (and I do mean lots) of article directories and I never see them in my stats for traffic, but I do get a lot of visitors from EA

[Rituja]

Buzzle.com is the best articles site.............

[alohanema]

ezinearticles.com is the best. If you watch its ads, you can see ezinearticles is a partner.
articlesbase will include your links with nofollow :D so it is dam.

[xfairguy]

I like goarticles.com, ezinearticles was to complicated a wayback when I tried to submit so I avoid them.


My article directory is not a top articles directory as i can not compete with this big guys, but as far as it is not spam everyting is approved and links are seo friendly, so please submit.

PR4 article directory www.theegarage.com zero pending articles

[seoscout]

While I can't say for certain that this is a good site as I've just started to use them - but I have seen their links appearing when researching competitor sites:
ontopicarticles.com

And a new one that is on my list to checkout is
www.wordcat.co.uk/articles - which is a free, easy submission site that uses Wordpress

Thanks for the useful thread -

[cashing_in]

Ezinearticles are by far the best, then there are ideamarketeers, goarticles..etc.

[Mr.Dee]

Thanks for sharing your experiences and setting up this poll. I especially appreciate you telling us who to avoid. Like most people, my time is at a premium so thank you for helping us not waste it.

[ebno]

i hate articlesbase.com and their "nofollow" tags.

just wanted to share that.

[jasonb25]

ezinearticles is by far the best but to gain maximum backlink exposure you must use a lot of not so good directories.

[gasyoun]

Doen't make sure its 250+ words. Make it's 500 words to be sure.

[Vyliss]

hmm weird, I get more traffic from articlesbase than ezinearticles, most of the time it's way easier for me to get on first page of SE with articlesbase article than with ezinearticles, i don't know why.

Personally I think everyone should take what the OP has said with a grain of salt. Test it out YOURSELF first!
And it's kind of dumb not to post your articles on a certain directory just because it's nofollow, you still get traffic and I would think that's the most important thing.

[Yantra]

I agree with you

[blueside]

I agree ezinearticles is the way to go to submit ur articles. For me, i manually submit to ezinearticles & isnare & used articlemarketer distribution service. About 60% of my traffic are from ezinearticles & rest from SE. However, isnare is getting s-l-o-w in their approval recently. Anybody experienced this ? Few days ago, i recv their mail informing me that my article was approved which i submitted 1 year ago! :confused:

[wboster]

ezine is the best in my opinion, but buzzle.com is good as well. You get accepted instantly at buzzle.

I don't articles is the best strategy for obtaining links, but you can get some targeted traffic.

[falguni1]

what is buzzle can we reprint those articles.

[Ideastone]

Um, ezine is the best for a lot of reasons, mainly traffic. Then again, if you are grubbing links from just the top 4 sites, you aren't really getting the most bang for your buck.

[Rumpleteazer]

Definately Ezine - does actually seem to help increase traffic.

[webrickco]

Well, you can have a try at http://www.webrickco.com/article.php
Articles will be approved in one day. External links are followed. No Photo required, no minimum words. No ads cutting the article in half. Put all links you want, avoid repetitions. Each article is included in sitemap and treated as a static page. Meta tags are build with your titles, short content and keywords. You can write text/html articles or full HTML articles with images, links to youtube, multimedia files...
Only specific requirement is to be IT related articles...

Take a look, tell me what you think.

[cashing_in]

Webricko...Thats nice we will have more avenues in posting articles.
Lets see how much back link support does it give..

[Lukas]

Your 1st two picks are the best.

However, iSnare can be good too if you have a paid acct whereby articles can be submitted to their publisher network.

articledashboard and articleclick are good for traffic too. forget the backlink count.

targeted traffic for your real estate blog is better than any ol' link.

plus links don't automatically equal traffic.

You've heard of sites that have 50,000 backlinks but not much traffic, while a site with 4,000 backlinks has steady traffic & beats them in ranking.

Forget # of backlinks, focus on quality backlinks versus links that become supplemental, then again who am I, surely not an expert. I am just a fan of the SEO game.

I, personally submit to the top 5 article directories, and a larger SEO company I contract for does the same for great keywords and they have great rankings in a competitive business. Articles serve as a means of traffic and if really written well, yes, it will help with the ranking.

You know what is best for your business. Real Estate uuughh!!..looks like the crash & blown mortgage type blogs are best.

[tdsinfo]

I focus mostly on blog content now, but still get traffic from articles submitted to ezine articles years ago

[primeelite]

Ezinearticles is by far the best right now. Within a few weeks you can rank high for longtail keywords while the other ones never seem to rank anywhere near the top and even sometimes they dont get crawled by google.

[DinoCagney]

I havent heard of Articleckick -- i'll try that one as well

Anyone know any other good ones?

I figure... instead of posting 50 articles on Eznearticles..... 50 different sites would look a lot better!

50 Backlinks... woohoo! I dont mind they are PR0.... i'll gladly add them to my collection

[Populace]

What kind of articles are you posting? Things about your website?

[DinoCagney]

Basically just real estate articles

Im really looking for backlinks.... to get top the top of the SERP's for my local real estate market

[Matsuri]

Ezine.. because every article that I have written get posted in lesser time than others. :D

[sheds]

yes Ezine articles is by far the best right now.

[ncaditya]

I am using ezinerticles, and buzzle. I will try out more article directories.

[lycos]

There's no doubt that ezinearticle is the best so far and it's also a fact that I never bother to submit to other article directories other than this one. The reason why I've said this is because similar like in your case, I used to submit to different directories but when I monitor the traffic, usually ezine comes out top among them all.

[metronome]

I made one article a long time ago at go article and it is actually pretty surprising that I gained 10+ backlinks from that one article only:D.

[gbh1935]

well, there are bigger and better...but

Try AtTheBoard.com Article Submission Site (http://www.attheboard.com), We do not nofollow your bio links and we include all submittions in our sitemaps which are submitted to the big three. Plus, it is FREE

[Skribblez]

ezinearticles by far. :)

[Alevoor]

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If you guys know any other good article sites that you've used --- post them on here
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Check this link http://www.vretoolbar.com/articles/directories.php

[abraxas]

As most of you, voted for EzineArticles.com - the articles there get indexed in no time and depending on the niche and the particular article quality could bring pretty good traffic in addition to the rankings.
Ya, there are many bad, bad, bad article sites which are waste of time, but cannot list them here due to the fact that I've deleted them from my list while submitting last few weeks.. However, every article site that is well and deep indexed is worth for me for some deep links, although there's no traffic or really low such.

[avaleks]

Usefull thread, bookmarked Ezinearticles. Usually i check article directories by google advansed search: site:somearticlesite.com within 7 days. If there are no pages found - forget forever.

[DinoCagney]

Yeah so that's that! -- EzineArticles is definitely the best

Not only that, it seems like dozens (possibly 100's) of sites repliaxted EzineArticles!

[anteck]

Subject line says it all, as OP says, don't bother with others, just write quality content to ezine and you'll get a nice PR6 backlink.