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15 Article Directories Worth Submitting To
March 3rd, 2008 | 74 commentsMany of my “Article Marketing Domination” customers have asked me to publish a list of my favorite article directories.
I never added this to the ebook because it changes from time to time depending on the results I get with each. However, this is a list of the top 15 that very rarely drop off the list.
1: EzineArticles.com
2: Buzzle.com
3: ArticleDashboard.com
4: Amazines.com
5: IdeaMarketers.com
6: ArticlesBase.com
7: ArticleAlley.com
8: EasyArticles.com
9: GoArticles.com
10: ArticleCube.com
10: WebProNews.com (Internet Marketing Topics Only)
11: SearchWarp.com
12: SelfSEO.com (Webmaster related topics only)
13: AfroArticles.com
14: ArticlesFactory.com
15: ArticleBiz.com
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3rd March, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Hey Josh,
I was wondering. Do you list these articles w/o any changes or do you manually spin them a little. Just curious.
MM
3rd March, 2008 at 5:56 pm
hiya Josh,
2 questions …
1) You don’t submit to iSnare?
2) Do you do manual submissions or auto mass submissions to the 15 sites above? And if auto, what software are you using?
Cheers mate!
3rd March, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Hey Josh,
do you get any direct traffic from articledashboard.com i have never received any from them despite numerous articles submitted? It seems noting is like ezinearticles as far as traffic is concerned.
3rd March, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Hey Josh,
Great list there and most of them I use. Just a quick question, do you submit to them all yourself and do you submit unique (changed and different) articles, or the same article to multiple directories?
3rd March, 2008 at 6:03 pm
@ Michael - I’ve never been a big fan of article spinners/spoolers for the simple fact that software can’t write an interesting article.
With that being said; I use the same version for each site. I submit half of my articles to the top 5 article directories and the other half to the top 30 or so (that changes frequently.) I’ll occasionally rotate the titles, but that’s it.
@ Internet (odd name)
1: I have in the past with minuscule results.
2: Semi-auto
I use Article Post Robot, but in manual mode so I can assure they land in the appropriate category. This makes it alot quicker that doing it manual, as all fields are inserted for you.
@ Wisconsin - I do receive a good amount of traffic with ArticleDashboard. EzineArticles and Buzzle outperform them all, but articledashboard does very well for me.
@ Nick - I use Article Post Robot and submit the same article to each directory.
3rd March, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Thanks Josh for sharing your list, you have given me 2 new directories to use for articles..
3rd March, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Josh,
Those are the ones that I like also. I have a question for you. What do you think about Unique Article Wizard. I am having some really great success with this. Kind of like a spinner except each article reads right and perfect and all of the submissions are are all unique. I have over 2000 pages related to one of my articles in less than a week and 100 yahoo links in that same week. I find it amazing. Please let me know what you think? I would be interested in hearing your comments. They don’t submit to all of the directories you mention, but you can get a unique article to post at those that you do mention. Unique content means many, many more links is the way that I understand it. Here is a link if you don’t mind me posting it. I hope you let me leave that link for others to check out. Thanks for all that you do.
Unique Article Wizard
3rd March, 2008 at 6:12 pm
@ John - No problem at all. Glad I could help!
@ Anxiety - Please read my comment policy in regards to affiliate links and anchor text, thanks.
I’ve never tried unique article wizard. I’m not a big fan of article spinners/spoolers. But, if they can produce multiple versions of the article article and it still makes sense and provides value then I don’t see anything wrong with it. I can’t imagine any software being able to do that though.
3rd March, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Nice list Josh.
Would like to say as well that I got your Ebook after receiving an email from Jon Leger. I think after a month of using it I’ve more than got my money back, and it definitely has got me back into writing more articles.
Thanks.
Jason
3rd March, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Hi Jason,
That’s great to hear! I’m glad “AMD” helped get you back on track with article marketing; it’s an excellent promotion tool!
3rd March, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Thanks for this valuable information.
I used some of these article sites before as per your Ebook http://www.articlemarketingdomination.com/ and I’ve seen a boost in the number of visitors to my site.
3rd March, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Hi Josh,
Great post as always.
In your reply to Michael am I correct in my understanding that you submit the exact article to the same 5 directories?
If this is the case then you must submit to ezinearticles first - is this correct?
thanks for your time.
Daithi
3rd March, 2008 at 6:50 pm
@ Daithi - Thanks, you are correct. I just submit them in the order in which I have them in Article Post Robot. EzineArticles isn’t necessarily first.
3rd March, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Your selection pretty much mirrors mine Josh. It seems that the top directories are pretty well defined.
Regards
Charlie
3rd March, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Josh,
Thanks for the site list. I am using the techniques you discussed in your AMD book with good results. I’m going to start submitting my articles to more directories and continue to boost my traffic.
Thanks,
Steve
3rd March, 2008 at 6:54 pm
@ Charlie - I’d say so, yes
One site I no longer submit to though is articlecity.com they’ve had some major acceptance issues in the past, where they go months at a time to moderate articles.
@ Steve - Great, good luck with it!
3rd March, 2008 at 7:15 pm
I’ve used all of those sites in the past, although I tend not to bother with Articles Base & Searchwarp so much now as they both stick nofollows onto live links.
3rd March, 2008 at 7:20 pm
@ Doc - I hadn’t realized that, but it looks like you’re absolutely right. Thanks for the heads-up.
3rd March, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Josh,
How about artcilesnatch? I works for me pretty good, I would say second to ezinearticles. And no, I’m not affiliated with them in any way
Misha
3rd March, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Hi Misha,
ArticleSnatch was on my list a year or so ago, but wasn’t doing me much good. However, I just recently started submitting to them again. We’ll see how it turns out.
3rd March, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I noticed that you are not a fan of iSnare. What issue do you have with that site?
3rd March, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I’m not a fan of their mass submission service (or any other mass submission service) and they’ve just never converted well for me.
3rd March, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Hi Josh
Nice List. Thanks for that. I have been using SubmitYOURArticle with regular success. Have you used them and to what effect? I’m a big fan of Virtual Article Submitter have you tried other submission softs besides the one you mention and to what effect?
All The Best
Paul
3rd March, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Hi Paul - I used submityourarticle a few years back as well as articlemarketer. I don’t like any mass submission service. Back then you couldn’t even use anchor text in the signature with submityourarticle. That and the fact that their submitting your articles to loads of low-quality sites are enough to push me away.
I’ve toyed with a few other submission programs (not even sure which ones) and I can’t imagine anything being better than APR. That’s not to say the others are worthless.
3rd March, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Josh
Excellent list. Thank you for taking the time to provide it for us.
3rd March, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Josh,
Why are you not a fan of mass submission sites? I was thinking about using one of them, but now I’m not so sure.
Thanks!
3rd March, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Thanks. I picked up some new ones I’ll have to try. Appreciate you sharing your article list.
3rd March, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Josh, I find submitting to just five article directories works well for me. All five are listed in your top fifteen list, by the way
3rd March, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Josh
Thanks for the list. A couple on there that I haven’t used. Will try them out and see how it goes.
On the subject of article spinning, I have just started experimenting with some software that enables you to control the creation of “cloned” articles by specifying the alternative words. Example:
The sentence “The man bought a boat” would be written by me using the software as “{The|A} {man|women|guy} {bought|purchased} a {boat|yacht}. The software can then use the alternative words inside the {} to produce (if my maths is correct) 24 unique sentences for submission to article directories. When used for the text of a complete article it can produce a large number of different ones which should all read correctly.
I wouldn’t use this to submit duplicate content to the same article directory, just to try and make sure that submissions to different directories aren’t found out by the duplicate content filter.
Do you have experience/opinion on this? It is too soon for me to say whether it is working.
3rd March, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Hey Josh!
Great list, and thanks for the resources. I have been beating my head in trying to figure out which ones are best.
As for the content that you submit, since these are article directories, I assume that the duplicate content doesn’t matter at this point since you are just working on backlinks and traffic, right?
3rd March, 2008 at 10:22 pm
I’m afraid I haven’t had much success with articles. But I haven’t read your e-book about it, so I may be doing it all wrong.
3rd March, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Hi Josh… Good stuff… I use a submitter and have tried some of the spinners and bulk submit software and sites.
Sorry to say, but I just like to submit with the submitter on manual. I have control and that seems more important than spamming my articles out there. Something else with the bulk submit service I don’t like is the link they attach to the end of my resource box…
Author Joe Roman submitted with xxxxxxxx
I hate that…
I post the articles on my site and this allows me to not worry about duplicate content as I am the author.
Any way good stuff and keep it up.
Joe
3rd March, 2008 at 11:37 pm
@ Ambrose -No problem at all; glad to help.
@ Carolyn - I don’t like them because they just aren’t effective. There’s nothing good that comes from your articles being spread across hundreds of low quality sites.
@ Vitally - Great
@ Hair - I submit half of my articles to the top 5 and the other half to the top 30-50. The submissions to the top 5 bring in more direct traffic, while the submissions to the top 30 or so bring in more links.
@ Neil - It all comes down to whether or not the different version make sense and provide value. If they do then I’d say you’ve found something valuable.
@ Elliott - My views on duplicate content have changed lately, but article marketing is still primarily about the direct traffic.
The extra links are nice, but it’s not all about those links. It’s about teaching others something and getting them to click on your link.
However, I don’t even think about duplicate content anymore. If the article directories you submit to have any authority in the SE’s your article will be indexed and you’ll receive traffic from it. The problem is that 99% of the article directories out there are worthless.
@ Evan - I’ve brought many different websites to the front page of google and receive thousands of unique visitors every day just through my articles. It works, you just have to write alot of quality articles, write a good call to action in your resource box and submit to the best article directories.
@ Joe - I do the same with APR (manual.) It still speeds up the process quite a bit and I have total control.
Thanks for the compliments!
4th March, 2008 at 1:27 am
This is a fantastic list - thanks for sharing.
You said you submit half your articles to the top 5.
Other than Ezinearticles, which are the others are in the top 5 based on your experience?
BTW, thanks for the tip on using APR in manual mode.
Thanks.
4th March, 2008 at 5:49 am
Argh, I didn’t know about any of these besides EzineArticles. Definately gonna be checking these out. Thanks alot.
4th March, 2008 at 9:36 am
Hi Josh,
I see you keep mentioning ArticlePostRobot. I am a bit sceptical when it comes to submitters because I have tried out several of them - including Article Announcer, which was a waste of money in my opinion. It couldn’t even remember which article had been sent to which directory (only the last time a directory had been submitted to with some article).
All the submitters I have tried out made so many errors and failed to recognize the directory specific rules&features (each one is a little different) that I had to spend more time fixing their semi-automated submissions than submitting manually by just cut and paste from a text editor.
So my question is: Can APR recognize features that are specific to article directories (number of links allowed, links in body or only resource box) and can I tell it which form field means what and it will remember it?
Sorry for the long post
Stefan
4th March, 2008 at 1:50 pm
thanks for this list! i hope to try some of these soon.
a question: how do you come up with topics for your articles? i mean, it feels like there’s already an article about every single thing, know what i mean?
4th March, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Hi Josh, thank you for sharing the list! I am doing article marketing but i just submitted to few site! Now i am going to submit to all the article’s directories you listed!
4th March, 2008 at 3:11 pm
You rock Josh! Thank you for this great list!
Rhonda
4th March, 2008 at 4:27 pm
@ Joanne - The first 5 listed above are my top 5
Glad you enjoyed it.
@ Stefan - APR lets you save submission reports and store them, so you won’t have that problem. I’ve never had an issue with form fields. It knows them all and I didn’t have to tell it. Not sure if it remembers directory specific rules or not. I just have my own standard. 3 links max, so self-promotion in the body and I’m always good to go. There are a couple that only accept 500 minimum (word-count) and only 2 links in the sig, but they are few and far between and easy to remember.
@ Lexi - It’s just like blogging. If you’re a SME in your niche you can think of something. If you’re promoting niche sites of which you aren’t necessarily an SME, just do some keyword research and you’ll find alot of topics to write on.
@ Free - Great
@ Rhonda - haha no, you rock
5th March, 2008 at 6:35 am
To follow up on your comments about the problems with article spinning, I found a copy of one of my articles that someone had obviously put through some automatic software, here is an extract:
“Many companies marketplace fractional schemes, on the other hand how can you confess if they are de facto fractional ownership? In this article the responsibilities and benefits of divers types of fractional schemes are compared.
Definition of Fractional Ownership - What’s in a Word
If you envisage approximately it, the definition of fractional ownership is mere simple: Fractional resources that the asset (whether homely or yacht or car) is split into fractions for the purposes of expenses, use, etc. Ownership way decent what it says - the individuals who calm articulation constituent of this fractional scheme indeed own an attention in the asset and can account (or lose out) from changes in the asset’s value.”
Total garbage! The really sad thing is that the site owner has kept my name/links on the article so there are now people who think I write this kind of rubbish!
5th March, 2008 at 9:22 am
Hi Neil,
Yes, it’s a sad thing that people use these content spinners. As a programmer I can tell you that no software is able to automatically rewrite or translate any type of text so that it will look human. Language is just too complex for that and in order to rewrite something the rewriter has to understand it first - which software can’t.
However, what software can do is detect natural language patterns and tell - up to a certain point - if the content was written by a human or if it is just machine generated random garbage. Google is trying hard to filter this type of content. I recently read that they have a patent on an algorithm that does exatly this. So hopefully noone will ever see this garbage article with your name on it:-)
5th March, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Hi Josh,
You mentioned that for about half of your articles written, you submit to 30 or so directories.
Can you share the other 15 that you submit to currently. And, if they are constantly changing (the other 15) , what criteria do you use to determine which directories you submit to in order to complete your 30?
Thanks again for such valuable info!
5th March, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Hi Josh,
Quick one. When you are submitting articles to that list. You said you are submitting 50% to the top 5 and 50% to the rest. Are you posting the same article to multiple directories ? or are you making one article for each ?
Thank you,
Cristian
6th March, 2008 at 3:42 pm
@ Neil - Yep, that’s a sad reality with article marketing. Unfortunately we will all experience similar copyright infringements and in most cases pursuing it is more trouble than it’s worth.
Fortunately, 99% of these idiots who do it never get anywhere and it normally doesn’t hurt us, as we have the good, original copies.
@ Stefan - I completely agree. Google can’t even translate pages accurately. My my is German and when she wants a good laugh she’ll use Google’s translation feature to translate an English page to German lol
@ Bridget - They are changing quite frequently. I use a FireFox plugin called “Search Status” and I make my decision off of a combination of the sites Google PR, Alexa Traffic ranking and Compete Ranking. None of these rankings alone are very accurate, but together they provide a pretty accurate reading of a sites authority.
@ Cristian - I’m posting the same article to each directory and at normally I’ll change the titles around with a feature within Article Post Robot.
9th March, 2008 at 4:09 pm
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10th March, 2008 at 12:15 am
Thank-You Josh, for sharing your list with everyone, you are appreciated!
Sincerely,
Fonda
11th March, 2008 at 2:48 am
Hi Robert Here.
All I can tell you is that Josh’s methods work and I can prove it, let me show you.
I have an affiliate site promoting commercial van insurance in the UK. My site is van-insurance-britain.co.uk and for the keyword van insurance I’m on the second page on Google thought article marketing and using the techniques used in articlemarketingdomination.com. I work on it every day and III get their soon.
Van insurance is very competitive in the UK and I,m up against tough competition. So all I can say is, if you want to make serious money with your website just do it.
11th March, 2008 at 6:27 am
The list is great thanks for sharing
17th March, 2008 at 1:23 am
I’ve been in the IM biz for a while now, and I’m an expert author on many sites (including my own article directory), but you’ve actually given me some new ideas of places to submit articles to here! Wow!!
Thanks so much for the tips — this isn’t the first time I’ve gotten valuable info from your emails, blog and site….
Melissa
17th March, 2008 at 7:07 am
I’ve been doing article writing & distribution for some time through my online writing business (http://www.write-click.net), but there are a couple of sites on this list I never knew about so I’ll have to check them over!
Thanks for the list, and adding your blog to my favourites now!
17th March, 2008 at 2:43 pm
@ Robert - Great !! Glad to hear your excellent results! Keep up the good work!
@ Melissa - Good deal, glad I could help.
19th March, 2008 at 10:39 am
Hi Josh,
I just wondered how you can tell if an article directory uses a no follow link or not, are you using some kind of tool or can you see it in the code?
Thanks
19th March, 2008 at 1:28 pm
@ Ottawa - I use Search Status http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/ but you can also see it in the code, just more time consuming doing it that way.
19th March, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Hiya Josh,
Wow … this Search Status is a great extension. Appreciate the headsup.
21st March, 2008 at 5:25 pm
[...] Josh Spaulding also gives a list of 15 popular ones in a recent blog post. [...]
24th March, 2008 at 4:07 am
Thanks for the list Josh. I have the book but it’s good to start with the sites that are going to give you the best value for your effort.
27th March, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Hi Josh,
I guess sometimes less is more when submitting to directories. A few quality directories are better than hundreds of poor ones? Brad Callen just posted a WSO at the warrior forum and is selling his $67 Article Submitter Gold for only $5. This seems like a no brainer, but it posts to 400 directories. Do you think this kind of software would be helpful or detrimental? Does a person have to join all of these directories to post to them? If your method of fewer directories is more effective, it seems a lot less tedious than trying to post to hundreds. What are your thoughts?
27th March, 2008 at 9:03 pm
@ Increase- Yep, I use it everyday…love it. Glad you like it as well.
@ Tony - No problem, glad you found the list useful.
@ Victor - I haven’t used his software, so I can’t comment on it’s effectiveness, but I can say that posting to trash article directories is not going to help and can possibly hurt you.
If you can control which sites your articles are submitted to then I’d say it’s very much worth it.
1st April, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Josh,
Thanks, for adding the list of sites that you are currently using. This helps me a lot.
It does seem that different marketers like different sites, but the top 3 - 5 sites usually have the usual suspects. It’s the rest of them that are a little different.
Kitwana
5th April, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Josh,
A quick question about submitting articles. When you submit them, do you have your links pointing to the main URL or to the specific URL that the article is related to?
7th April, 2008 at 2:38 am
@ Elliott - Most article directories allow 3 links in the sig. I point 2 of those links to the homepage (one with anchor text and one without) and the third to a related internal page.
For example: To learn exactly how I conquer every niche I touch with Article Marketing (<–linked to home page) visit http://www.articlemarketingdomination.com (<–straight link) where I provide my exact blueprint for article submission (<–linked to internal page) and much more.
9th April, 2008 at 4:31 am
Josh,
I read that blogspot.com and wordpress.com had “no follow” turned on by default.
Yet, when I used “Search Status” and also viewed the source code manually of some of the pages of free blogs that I personally created with those two, it does not appear to be true.
Do you have any thoughts on this?
Thanks.
9th April, 2008 at 4:35 am
@ Breast - hmm “breast success” isn’t really relevant to this post, nor is blogging platforms.
As far as I know both wordpress and blogspot do utilize nofollow by default.
10th April, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Hi josh can you please explain why is these 15 articles directories worth submitting to?
10th April, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Hi Cold,
Because they send traffic to your site, why else?
11th April, 2008 at 3:02 am
Josh,
When you use APR to submit do you only check the directories that have good pr?
Also do you register with all directories or just do ones that don’t require passwords?
Deb
22nd April, 2008 at 10:25 pm
I just downloaded the trial for Article Post Robot since you said you use it.
I don’t see some of these article sites in the top 15 in Article Post Robot. Can you add them or have they been taken out for some reason?
22nd April, 2008 at 11:06 pm
@ Deb - I decide with a mixture of Alexa and Google PR. I don’t submit to the default article directories in APR. I add my own.
@ Brian - I’ve never messed with the trial version, so I’m not sure how it works. But with the full version I just delete the sites I don’t want in there and add the ones I do
23rd April, 2008 at 6:44 pm
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25th April, 2008 at 4:44 am
Why the nofollow just for Ezine Articles?
25th April, 2008 at 2:34 pm
@ Brent - They don’t need my help
Christopher Knight once stated that he was considering using nofollow on external links in resources boxes.
Of course all kinds of people went off and let him know that would be a big mistake. He eventually decided against it, but he said something like “it shouldn’t be about the links, it’s about the free exposure you get.”
So, since those are his thoughts I will never give EzineArticles a followed link again because “it’s all about the free exposure I’m giving them, not the links”
25th April, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Funny. I don’t blame you. Didn’t you have an “account” problem with them a few months ago? I think I remember seeing that over at WF.
I think some of the Article Directory owners are trying to prove their relevance to Google since the recent “paid link” issues that have come up.
I was pretty intrigued by a discussion over at WF where Allen G. was trying to convince everyone that authors that submit to his directory don’t do so for the back links. I don’t think one single person agreed with him, but he still held firm in his position.
At some point, it was clear he wasn’t trying to convince the readers, I think he wanted to convince Google
25th April, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Yeah, it was suspended for a day because of a headline I used for a WSO The title was “Start the Next EzineArticles” or something similar. It was a little product I released showing how to set up a and promote an article directory. I changed the title and they reinstated my account. An email would have worked, but some people like to use their position as authoritative site owners as a leveraging tool. Wouldn’t surprise me if my account is suspended for this
There’s no reason for Google to penalize any article directory that accepts only quality articles. There is no money being exchanged and they are legitimate links, but some article directory owners simply don’t realize that.