I have prepared some unique articles about my sites and want to submit them only to the top article directories which has high-enough acceptance rate. (i dont want to waste my time too). Can you list your top quality article directories you submit? With "top quality" i mean both value for SEO and possibly returning visitors. Thanks.
Not a big list, but here are some of my favorites: www.goarticles.com www.ezinearticles.com www.articlebiz.com www.articlecity.com www.easyarticles.com www.articledashboard.com
I agree, sometimes you only need to submit to those that are popular. The inactive ones will not get indexed by the bots anyway
I'm also interested in submitting my articles. To avoid duplicate content I know I should only submit to a few articles directories and not hundreds. How many (maximum) article directories do you suggest I submit each articles ?
??? THe whole idea of submitting to the article directory sites is so that it gets picked up by other sites. So duplicate content is pretty much the reason to submit. Even though the article may not get in the serps more than once you still get a link once very time it is indexed. It is best not to use the same article on your own site. If you do, change it enough so that it isn't considered a duplicate.
Do these places charge to submit the articles? Have you guys had success using article submission for backlinks and traffic? Thanks Jason
I normally pay the two dollars to have isnare submit to a bunch of them. Save me the effort. However most are free. And, Yes, i get traffic from a some of my articles. not a lot, but every little bit helps. A couple of my articles are on PR 7 pages on the article sites, so I would assume they are helping my pages rank.
Try this list of article directories at http://www.homebiztools.com/article-dir.htm...it is subdivided into popular, high traffic, established and new article directories...