Sunday, November 22, 2009
Article Directories: Which Ones Work Best?
I guess you can tell what my absolute favorite directory is. Seriously though the best directories question is really not a one size fits all kind of answer. In my opinion it really depends on what your goal is. If you are just looking for Marketing purposes then I would guess you would want the directory with the highest page rank.
There are many directories which I absolutely love that have very low page rank. However I am not going to name names here. At least not in this paragraph. There are places you can go that will give you the article directories and their page rank all in a pretty little graph or chart. Then there is software you can buy that will display the page rank at the top of your screen as you pull up the site.
The funny thing is I love Ezine@rticles for the exact same reason everyone else dislikes them. They have a devotion to quality written articles and will not approve of your articles so easily. The fact that they are picky helps me to ensure that the writing I am putting out there is of good quality. Almost acting as an editor or manager of a sorts.
Hey, free proofreading & editing is great. You can bet that if you were to check out some service of some kind it would not be cheap. Plus, knowing that they are not going to really say anything out right gives me cause to overlook and observe my work a little closer. They will almost never give you any outright advice on any one article it simply states whether or not it is approved or not.
Ezine@rticle.com is my favorite for writing articles. I really love SearchWarp.com for artistic writing, things like poetry, pros and getting reviews or helpful criticism from other writers. There are a really huge amount of article directories on the web and unless you try them out it can be difficult to know which ones will be right for your literary project.
As far as, for article Marketing and Making money from your writing through sales; I would simply go through as many of them as I can. Starting with the most powerful in page rank and then just going down the line. Without an article submitter is this tedious? Yes. Is it worth it, absolutely. When I didn't have an article submitter it would take me all day just to get 3 articles done. HA!
You cannot imagine how happy I was when I got my hands on an automated tool that did this work for me. I quickly moved up to ten articles a session instead of the three and still had time to do a little extra research for my next days keywords.
Article directories are a funny thing once you get used to dealing with a lot of them. They can get more and more unpredictable the more you think you know them the more surprised you can get. There are always hidden agenda's and sometimes the way the writers flock to them can make the directories grow & gravitate towards one sympathy or another.
Depending on your experience and the type of business you are intending to grow will mean a lot. If you ask me, whatever article directory you choose its ultimately the writing that makes the difference. The best writing at the worst directory can still get picked up. Needless to say the reverse is true as well. Yet not near as likely as the best directory will not accept the worst writing.
