subject: The 27 Best Article Directories To Get Free Traffic And Back Links From [print this page] To increase your site's ranking, you want as many of the top, high ranking websites out there to be featuring links to your site.
So which of the internet marketing strategies do you use to get these top ranking sites to link to your website to give your page some high-quality "link juice?"
Well, this brings us back to article marketing. As mentioned above, you do want to submit your articles to article directories. But you may be wasting your time if you're simply submitting your articles to article directories that are ranked in the high millions. In fact, if those pages are ranked lower than your site, you potentially may even be lowering your ranking, which completely defeats the purpose of what you're trying to accomplish. You want to attract more traffic and get ranked higher in the search engine rankings. So what I suggest you do is only submit your content to the highest ranking article directories to maximize your efforts and results.
Below are the Top 27 highest ranking article directories. Notice EzineArticles is by far the highest ranking directory so you definitely want to make sure you are submitting your articles there.
Top Article Directories
No. - Article Directory - Google PageRank - Alexa Ranking
www.EzineArticles.com - 6 - 104
www.ArticlesBase.com - 6 - 341
www.ArticleSnatch.com - 5 - 1,888
www.ArticleAlley.com - 2 - 1,141
www.ArticleDashBoard.com - 5 - 3,703
www.IdeaMarketers.com - 5 - 3,925
www.ArticleCity.com - 5 - 5,494
www.SearchWarp.com - 5 - 5,689
www.GoArticles.com - 4 - 1,640
www.ArticleClick.com - 4 - 6,369
www.ABCArticleDirectory.com - 4 - 9,822
www.uPublish.info - 4 - 12,069
www.CarolinaArticles.com - 4 - 12,127
www.ArticlesJust4You.com - 4 16,333
www.ArtiPot.com - 4 - 19,559
www.ArticleSphere.com - 4 - 20,400
www.ArticlesMagazine.com - 4 - 21,184
www.AmaZines.com - 3 - 5,036
www.ArticleRich.com - 3 - 6,745
www.AffSphere.com - 3 - 14,065
www.SearchArticles.net - 3 - 25,903
www.ArticleManual.com - 3 - 26,373
www.ArticlesInAClick.com - 3 - 84,076
www.ArticleStars.com - 2 - 9,020
www.ArticlePros.com - 2 - 12,802
www.TSS-Articles.com - 2 - 24,869
www.TipBus.com - 2 - 70,309
Submitting your content to these directories will save you time - especially if you're manually trying to submit your articles to hundreds of different article directories.
So then comes the next hurdle: submitting original content to each directory to avoid the Google penalty for duplicated content. You need to "spin" your articles, or create similar but different versions of each article to submit to each directory so that the same exact article is not showing up on the web in two places. If it does, Google will see that and basically only count those two identical articles as one.
