I just use textbrokers or one of the freelance boards. I've found it is difficult to find good writers that don't make excuses all the time.
You need to actively promote your article directory in forums, blogs, and other websites. That way, you increase your article directory's page rank, making it appealing to other people to contribute articles on your directory. An empty article directory is not appealing of course so check Odesk, Freelancer.com and elance.com for writers to contribute to your directory.
you should search article writer for your website on LinkedIn. There you can find a lot of article writers profiles
Send your article to multiple directories such as marketing existing GoArticles, Buzzle and many others.
If you want premium articles and unique content, you can hire a freelancer or there is a site that you can buy a premium articles.
Yea, you don't have to go searching for writers. Like AYoungMillionaire siad just promote your article directory and they will start coming to you. Just make sure you use places that cater to writers. Another thing to consider is a lot of online business owners don't use writers, because they do the article marketing themselves with spinning software or manually. So a lot of internet marketing strategy sites will be beneficial as well. We're opening an article directory in August and have already started getting the word out...slowly. Good luck!
If your serious about good content, then you'll have to pay $20 per article. otherwise there are loads of freelancers out there that will spin you loads of crap for $2...
Made a few directories and offer like free-link services and update the topic. People will post in return for sure. Good luck.
Get a hold of the guy that owns article marketing robot and have him enter it into his product and you'll get a lot of articles. I'll ask my partner to add it into our service as well as we produce about 450,000 articles a month for our clients.
Freelancers is the best option for you or you can check the other article directories where people are submitting and follow and approach the regular syndicalists. Then you can invite them for submission on your directory by the way what the name of your directory,
Judging by your site and how many article submissions you have in various categories, you are doing fairly good so far. I would definitely get in contact with other article directories and maybe do some type of JV where you are able to advertise your directory on their site for a fee or maybe in exchange for an ad swap of some kind. Get involved with social media and work on building your backlinks up to drive more quality, targeted traffic to your site. Remember, an article directory is only good, and viable if it carries weight in the search engines. You currently have an Alexa ranking of 1.8 million, which means you have a lot more work to do to get yourself in front of the hundreds of thousands of eyeballs all over the internet. Good luck!
Well, there are two ways, 1. either hire a full time person at your office. 2. or get it through posting your project on freelance sites.