Why Article Directories Are Great For SEO
January 19, 2010 by Daniel Lovertson
Filed under Internet Marketing
So you decide that you want to make money online. So the first thing that you do is you search for ways that you can do this. Mostly the best way there is to make money online is through affiliate marketing, for the beginner anyway.
You are now searching around how to get your site ranked in the search engines, and everyone says the same thing. You must have back links pointing to your site. There are many ways that you can do this, some are a lot harder than others though.
One of the most simple ways to get links pointing back to your site is to write articles. Yes, you will have to write, this is what many webmasters do not want to do. They want to save all of that good content for their own blog or their own mini site.
If you have a blog or a website you are going to want to get traffic to it, by writing and submitting your articles to directories, you will get back links to your site along with traffic. All article directories are different, some will let you leave a anchor text with a do follow tag while others will not.
Besides getting the links and the traffic, you could also use an article directory to promote an affiliate product. You could write a review on it and point out all of the pros and cons of the product, increasing the chances of you making a sale.
Some of the popular ones that will get you traffic, along with getting you some authority for a keyword are Ezine articles, article dashboard, Go Articles along with a couple of others. You can tell if an article directory has authority by its page rank, which is only referred to by google.
If you are submitting to a major article directory like ezine articles, you want to make sure that you are submitting original content. All submissions there are manually reviewed, and you will have to submit 10 quality articles, they will decide if you can submit more or not.
So as you can see submitting your articles to directories can be very valuable. The more articles you write the more back links your site will get, meaning the more traffic and exposure. Just remember the links can take anywhere from a day to a year to show up, so be patient they will show eventually.
A lot of marketers may ask them self where can I find the best article directory, well there are many out there, if you want to get started you can submit your articles to article directory with do follow









