By: Barry Reynolds | July 5, 2010 | no comments

Best Article Directories For SEO

Article directories are a great way to get quality backlinks to your web site. Many article directories allow visitors to copy your article along with a link back to your website from their website. If you write a popular article, you could end up with many backlinks. The added advantage is that articles keep on giving for many months and years, especially if you have written an article that is not time specific.

There are thousands of article directories on the net and is ever increasing. The best choice for your submission can depend on a number of factors. Pagerank is one factor. Also submitting an article to a specific article directory to that is about your business might achieve better results.

Below I have listed the best general article directories. These often change month by month so I will be keeping this list updated and adding further useful information.

Best Article Directories

PR: 7

The Free Library - Thefreelibrary has a faster approval rate and equally good visitor base as ezinearticles. Once the article is approved, which normally takes 24 hours the content is instantly crawled by Google. It accepts links from the body of the article upto 3 lin

PR: 6

Ezine Articles - Ezinearticles is the Industry leader with more visitors and comparatively larger syndication. It accepts 2 links in the resource box and you can embed the links with keywords. If you have an article this is the first place to submit.

PR: 6

Gather - Gather is basically a social networking portal where you can submit your articles. Be sure that the article have some value so that it will be discussed and commented by Gather members. Gather is readily crawled and has a good PageRank.

PR: 6

ArticlesBase - Another good article directory which readily approves articles and have a layout similar to ezinearticles. ArticleBase accepts links in the body of the article as well as the resource box. It accepts both embedded and raw HTML format for links.

PR: 6

Isnare - Isnare is probably the most syndicated article directory as it allows syndication to the 3 major article directory scripts. It helps create content sites for free in no time. So basically submitting in Isnare helps your article to be placed in variou

PR: 5

Article DashBoard - These are the people who did the good and bad to the Article Directory world. While offering a simple yet effective article directory, they gave the article directory script for free. This has had both positive and negative effects. Some of them misu

PR: 4

ArticleClick - A clean and neat directory which accepts links only in the resource box. ArticleClick is crawled frequently and have a good number of indexed pages at Google. Accepts article with only 400 words or more.

PR: 0

Go Articles - Another great resource for submiting articles. GoArticles have more than a million articles and probably one of the biggest and most syndicated article directory. They offer content feed and RSS feed to blogs. GoArticles accept embedded links in the

PR: 0

Self Growth - This is not a general article directory but an excellent resource for articles related to selfgrowth, health, spirituality and life style. They accept 3 links from the resource box and you can have it embedded from the keywords. It’s a great find for

PR: 0

ArticleAlley - ArticleAlley is another great site which is known for the feed syndication. It has a faster approval time and it accepts embedded links from the body of the article. They offer article writing services as well.

PR: 0

Amazines - The layout looks a bit clogged but it is a very effective article directory. It allows unlimited links in the body of the article and have a good approval rate.