Top 36 Article Directories – Backlink Juice for the Article Marketer

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Affiliate marketing does not have to be expensive.  Many people take advantage of article marketing which can be done without the building of a website or blog.

Affiliate Marketing through the use of articles is a very popular means of gaining traffic to your affiliate website or a landing page built on a free site such as HubPages or Squidoo.

If you have landing pages it will not only afford you traffic but backlinks that will raise the ranking and visibility of that page as well.

All backlinks are valuable.  However, some are more so than others.  What determines the value of the backlinks placed in an article?

First off, you want the backlink text, the anchor text or the link, to be the
keyword(s) used in your campaign.

Then the strength of that properly constructed and worded anchor link is determined by:

• The Page Rank of the site the article is published to
  
• The Alexa Rating (indicating traffic) of that site
  
• Sites that are .edu or .gov have more authority
  
• Is the site you publish the article to a DoFollow or a NoFollow?

DoFollow means that Google or other search engines will count the link in your article as a backlink, strengthening your targeted landing page.

A NoFollowlink will not necessarily give you backlink “juice” but can still generate good traffic and exposure of your landing page.

So you cannot really lose by using a nofollow source to publish your article to.

That being said, I generally try to use primarily DoFollow directories and Blogs to publish to so I can take advantage of both traffic and backlink power.

There are an enormous amount of both blogs and article directories to publish to.

I spent a good deal of time going over lists of article directories and with the help of two plug-ins for FireFox (SEOQuake and NoFollowDoFollow) I was able to compile a list of article directories sorted first by page rank of the directly and second by the Alexa Ranking.  I also made note of the DoFollow and NoFollow aspects of each.

Below is the listing I came up with.  I am sure there are some I may have overlooked.

I made a minimum requirement to make the list of a page rank of 4 or better.

Here is the list of 36 Article directories that made the grade.  I will try and periodically update this list as rankings do change over time.

And the 36th is a late addition, World Village PR5 Alexa 20567 and it is DoFollow

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