Hello frds What's remember before submit directory and articles, how can determine which article & directory site are good or bad.
Well if you submit articles to the big boys and it gets accepted it should get circulated , smaller publishers maybe not.. Dont forget to add your links , one main and two deeper. With directories its a numbers game..Submit to loads ( esp in your own niche if available ) and hope for the best. There are thousands of directories and some have tens of thousands on links awaiting for approval. The higher the PR the more likley it is to be on top of the submissions ( although not always ) and the more likley they are to be crawled.. Either do it your self ( yawn ) or pay and get it done for you.. Last thing , never use your proper email address when submitting to directories , use a secondary/disposable one as you will get tons of junk..
You could tell by there page rank, there traffic or check the backlinks to the site.............the more backlinks it has the more powerful that directory is!!!
I dont agree with 'text links' about getting junk mails, well at least this wasn't the case in my experience. With directories and article directories, you should submit to as many as possible. Dont worry about the content being duplicated. Penalties for duplicated content is a myth. Certain articles may be ranked better by google in certain directories, hence the reason why you should submit to as many as possible.
There are 2 kinds of articles which is popular: 1. the hot topic. That means, some disputable topic people talk about is more popular. You can write in your angle. 2. some classical topic. such as love tips, some experience sharing and more helpful topics.
For directories, there're some standards for you to judge whether it is good. 1. Number of sites listed on the directory; 2. Number of backlinks the directory site has; 3. PR of the directory site; and 4. The age of the directory. Any further question you can ask Bpovia for consultant.
Most important thing to check in directories and article directories is whether they are google indexable or not? There is no need to submit your site to a directory which is no follow and google has not indexed it. Link from no follow directory and article site won't count since it is non index able.