There are literally hundreds of article directories online that you can submit your content to. These directories help generate exposure, website traffic, and most importantly help give you backlinks for your website which helps from an SEO point of view. Although links from article directories are not considered the highest quality of links to your website, they are still good backlinks.
An often overlooked point about article directories is that they really help you increase your online exposure, credibility and traffic. Further the best article directories are scoured by other website owners as they look for content to post on their website. If they post your content they should attribute the article to you and should provide you a link back to your website. This link will be on a website that can give you more of a backlink benefit.
When writing your articles it is important to make good use of keywords in the title of the article. This will help your article come up in the search engines and will also increase the relevancy of the link to your website in the signature which will help give you a minor search engine link boost as well. Further the better you “optimize” the article the more traffic it will get. Just don’t focus your attention on optimizing the article, but focus on providing good, solid content to be safe.
So I have put together below a list of the 12 article directories you need to be using to drive traffic and to build backlinks for your business. I have ranked them based on Alexa Ranking and also by getting an idea of where they stand in the eyes of Google as far as their search engine rankings are concerned. The higher they rank in the search engines for article directory the higher they scored in my book because it showed their authority.
SEOCounts.com Top 12 Article Directories List
1. EzineArticles.com
2. ArticlesBase.com
3. GoArticles.com
4. ArticleAlley.com
5. Buzzle.com
6. ArticleDashBoard.com
7. IdeaMarketers.com
8. ArticleSnatch.com
9. Amazines.com
10. ISnare.com
11. Article99.com
12. ArticleGold.com
These sources will greatly help increase your Internet exposure.
