Greetings, I have been running a paid / manual verification / niche directory for about two years now and had the thought this weekend to add article submissions. While I am charging for submissions to the site, I will do the article submission for free as long as it is within my niche topic. Has anyone else had success adding in articles to their regular phpLD directory? That leads me to my next question, right now phpLD allows me to add article submissions, but I was wondering if it would be best to seek out specific article directory software? I noticed that there is also a phpldarticle that I could install as well. Thanks for any and all help. Regards, 13013
What you have available with phpld will probably suffice if you just want the basics. You should be careful though in what you allow to be added. Most submitters of articles submit those articles to multiple places. That means those articles you get will more than likely be duplicates found elsewhere on the net. If you look around most consider that a bad thing. A suggestion if you want articles related to your niche on your directory would be to write them yourself or hire writers to write some good quality unique articles to use for additional content.
If you are allowing on a particular niche the article directory can do well. I know www.webhealtharticles.com seems to be doing pretty good in serps.