Hello ! I am new to article marketing, and want to start using it. As far as I read, I would overall need unique articles. Also read that, even if my article is unique, i wont to much good if I submit it to 50-100 article directories. So I am planing to create my unique articles and submit each one to top 5 article directories. Can you refer the top 5 article directories where I am allowed to use anchor text as well in my article ? in signature? best Regads.
The only one who has traffic worth speaking of is Ezine, so if that is your short term goal then stick to ezine. The other goal you want from article marketing is backlinks.. NOT JUST FROM ARTICLE SITES. Much better is if people copy your article to their site and include your link. I think that will look really good for google because you have many related sites have your link instead of just article sites. Ezines is not always best for this because so many people write there. So choose if you want traffic or backlinks and focus on that.
5 good article directories that I use to promote my link are ezinearticles.com goarticles.com articlebase.com articlealley.com articlecity.com All have decent PR and allow you to place a link in your article. I get quality backlinks from all of them, but the only traffic I have recieved was from ezine article. I hope this helps.
Yes, I agree.. Submitting articles seems to be better for backlinks and not the traffic from people reading the articles as few will click through to your site. Unless it's a great article that gets read thousands of times.
These are list of the article directories that you will be allowed to use anchor text as well in your article, in your signature. thewhir.com, buzzle.com a1articles.com populararticles.com ezinearticles.com goarticles.com articlebase.com articledashboard.com articlealley.com articlecity.com amazines.com One of these above lists, I like ezinearticles.com best
i see multiple mention of Buzzle being a top article directory. while it is a known established article directory, often they are so unpredictable that you keep wondering when your article there will be approved. sometimes it may take few days and sometimes you may wait for weeks wondering why your article is still at pending state. i have never seen this kind of irregularities with any other directories i submit to. also noticed one thing which is, if you submit multiple articles on same topic or category, after couple of articles, buzzle will not approve the rest. i submitted 3 articles under same category and 2 got approved with the 3rd one being in pending state for ever. they don't send out any email saying whether anything wrong with the article, whether it needs to be edited, or why it is not being approved. they just keep the article pending. to test the theory that they dont accept more than multiple articles under same category form same author regardless of unique title/topic/content, i submitted another article form a totally different niche which got approved but the previous article is still pending. in my honest view, buzzle sux big time and i dont have time to keep checking as to whether my uniquely written article that i myself spent so much time on writing got approved or not. i completely lost my interest on them
ezine, goarticles, and articlebase then use some niche article directories. I have used others but they end up being a waste of time.