Hope everyone is doing well! Quick question... I have heard a lot about article directories and what they can do to increase rankings, traffic, etc. My question is about the other side of the spectrum. How much are the owners of these directories making on adsense, advertising, etc? Does anybody have any feedback? Surely the bigger directories are making some money...
I placed adsense in my article directory but get very less from it. Althugh i placed hostgator affiliate link and got 2 referrals from it
The bigger directories are surely making a lot of money. However you must realise that most article directories have the same content and everyday dozens of new ones are coming up. It is difficult to get search engine traffic for a new directory with all those duplicate articles. Maybe after a year or so and some hardwork , you can expect a decent side income, but I dont think anyone can rely on article directories as their main source of income. Approving articles is a time consuming process (unless you auto approve everything; including the junk that comes along with the good articles). For source of income , you will have to look at other affilaite programs and link selling (site-wide links can fetch you some good money if you have a lot of articles.)
They take time to get recognized...as Sachin said, may be a year so be patient But let's be practical, don't expect too much organic traffic from those articles which are submitted to many sites had are on weight loss