i see lots of people installing wp article directory plugin and other people submit articles to their site. i wonder if the traffic to those sites is high and come only because of the content and dont need massive link building? so is the traffic to those directories can make me money as a directory owner? thanks!
Yes you can place adsense and other cpm ads on it and also you can sell featured links when you got some high PR you can start premium submission system
Also you could think to some widgets for the webmasters, premium widgets. Article directory are many but you need to give your user something extra in order to monetize your directory in this way.
The traffic is usually high for article sites from all the article spammers that submit hundreds of spun crap. I would guess most of the traffic is from them and not actual surfers.
Yes,high traffic are from those article submit-er,not actual visitor so you can get money from thoses.
Yes I agree with you traffic from article directory is high. But it is better to use original content because duplicate content generally occupy low ranking as comparison to original content.
yes - the site would have to get to a place where the articles actually get ranked in the search engines - because as the other posters knowingly pointed out, all the traffic at these sites is from submitters. One idea with these type of sites is to do internal link sculpting to a few pages or orginal content for page one rankings - then you might get real visitors.
Article directory actually works well. More and more people choose it as a way to promote the website. Each article is posted to directory with back link with the website. I am sure it gives users better result
You hit it on the nail. There is a lot of junk being submitted daily. I used to own an article site myself. The alexa ranking was at around 150,000 mark, but traffic still wasn't worth much. Even with adsense on it I only made a few bucks. It's possible, but you really need to be unique and maybe drill down to having a niche market.
I don't think the submitters even visit the sites anymore. They use article submitter bots for the most part. So how do you make money on traffic that doesn't even visit your site with a browser? Can't do emails because the bots handle all that so they never see it.
Yes, In SEO we get more traffic from article directory. If article directory is of high Page rank and also top 10 in SERP and directory get more visitor every day then you can make money easily.
Submitters like me, know about which articles directory or sites can bring traffic eg: examiner.com, suite101.com, buzzle.com. associated content and ezinearticles.com I believe to post unique content on unique website
there's very different directory sites, but i think this niche is already filled. try to create something new
yes its so profitable for you. if your site will come in well rank traffic will increase but you have to must be careful about quality and unique content. other wise all will in vain.