May 17, 2012

Top 36 Article Directories

Top 36 Article Directories – Backlink Juice for the Article Marketer


Another article from our collection of free affiliate marketing tips.

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 Magic Article Submitter

  • 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.

Article Directory PR Alexa DoFollow?
Squidoo 8 219 Yes
Suite101 7 646 Yes
ArticlesAlley 7 14354 No
EzineArticles 6 117 Yes
HubPages 6 189 No
ArticlesBase 6 337 No
Buzzle 6 662 Yes
Helium 6 1187 Yes
WebProNews 6 1717 No
iSnare 6 5291 Yes
Articlet 6 86851 Yes
ArticleSnatch 5 1854 No
ArticleDashboard 5 3092 Yes
SelfGrowth 5 3417 Yes
Bukisa 5 3819 No
USFreeAds 5 3979 No
IdeaMarketers 5 4186 Yes
SearchWarp 5 5545 No
ArticleCity 5 5702 Yes
SooperArticles 5 6790 Yes
a1Articles 5 8272 No
SiteReference 5 11217 Yes
ArticleSlash 5 11619 Yes
TheWhirl 5 14262 Yes
GoArticles 4 1661 Yes
ArticleAlley 4 2113 No
InfoBarrel 4 6445 Yes
ArticleClick 4 6883 Yes
SubmitYourArticle 4 8716 Yes
ABCArticleDirectory 4 9106 Yes
ArticlesFactory 4 10385 Yes
uPublish 4 11822 Yes
e-Articles 4 12831 Yes
ArticleMonkeys 4 15884 No
ArticlesJust4You 4 17295 Yes


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

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