Search engine optimization (SEO) has started turning article submission to directories and articles to its advantage. Google has implemented LSI and has already started shunting out link farms, and pointless paid links. For any SEO webmaster, the most worthwhile way forward is articles & other web content. Submitting your site to Article Sites is very popular amongst SEO experts, as it not only gives you one way links from relevant sites but also increases traffic.
Article directories can earn revenue from Google ads placed on their site as part of the Google AdSense program
This has stimulated the growth of thousands of look-alike article sites that receive very little traffic. Others are niche sites that carry articles in particular vertical categories.
Websites can be promoted effectively through articles. A link to the author’s website contained in each free article serves to:
- bring targeted traffic through a well-designed, intriguing “signature” or author bio at the bottom of the article and
- raise Google PageRank by creating more incoming links to a website. These links point to the author’s website from the article’s presence both on the article sites and on the websites that use the free articles.
Moreover, article submission tools make article spamming extremely easy. Hold on, it’s not that simple. Submitting your article to hundreds or thousands of article sites can actually hurt you, since Google spiders are finely tuned to spot spam in its many flavors. You’re much better off to submit your article to five of your favorite article sites and a couple of niche sites, and resist the temptation to blast your article to every pathetic article site on the planet.
To help you see which sites you might consider submitting to, here is the list below the top 50 article directory sites by their Google PageRank (10 being high) and Alexa Traffic Rank (1 being high).
NF! – this site uses nofollow tag in author’s resource box.
