Search Engine Optimization India

Are article submissions worth the time? When doing manual submissions it takes me 10 to 15 minutes in average to login, format and submit an article to an article directory. I have to make at least 10 submissions to get a feasible exposure for my articles. So this process can take more than two hours a day! To make the most of my time I have to make sure that the article directories I am submitting to, are able to bring me as many visitors and backlinks as possible. I can name top five directories: EzineArticles.com, Buzzle.com, GoArticles.com, ArticlesFactory.com and WebProNews.com. Submitting to these is a must! EzineArticles.com and Buzzle.com can bring you a lot of traffic, GoArticles.com brings you backlinks, and ArticlesFactory.com – PageRank (my profile page there now is PR5 – with only 12 submitted articles).

But five top directories are not enough. As I said above, I usually do at least 10 manual submissions, so I have to choose my directories wisely. The only two ratings easily available to web users to judge the quality of websites and webpages are Alexa Rating and Google PageRank. Both are flawed and often do not reflect the real authority or traffic of a page. But since there is nothing better I have to stick to these two when deciding if a directory is worth submitting to. Of course, one must not forget the power of themed sites. Whenever I have a choice between a general directory and a directory focusing on my topic – I choose the latter.

To make the choosing process easier I have obtained a list of article directories, their names and URLs. Yesterday, I downloaded Eclipse and wrote a simple Java application that queries Alexa Web Service for rating data, and makes PageRank lookups. I’ve run this application on my list this morning and here are the top results with Alexa rating < 100,000 sorted ascending:

Directory NameURLAlexa Rating      PageRankEzine Articles.comhttp://www.ezinearticles.com4506GoArticleshttp://www.goarticles.com24656Web Pro Newshttp://www.webpronews.com29037Site Referencehttp://site-reference.com36520ADhttp://www.articledashboard.com43606Free Articleshttp://www.topica.com/lists/free_articles51400Articles Base Directoryhttp://www.articlesbase.com63195Articles.Web.Comhttp://www.articles.web.com85064Gobala Krishnanhttp://articles.easywordpress.com147942DirectoryGold Article Directoryhttp://articles.directorygold.com253574Afro Articles – Article Marketing Directoryhttp://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/349004InfoWizards Free Content Articleshttp://content.infowizards.com391583Article Friendlyhttp://www.articlefriendly.com416603Article Submissionhttp://www.articlewheel.com/430455Top-Affiliate.comhttp://www.top-affiliate.com/articles469324Free Articles for Reprinthttp://www.articles-hub.com490356Article Ardvaarkhttp://nero.byethost15.com499670Submit Your New Articlehttp://www.submityournewarticle.com522154ArticleRich.comhttp://www.articlerich.com536044ArticleCafe.nethttp://www.articlecafe.net581063Your Free SAtellitehttp://www.your-free-satellite.com/index-2.html633740The Add Articles Directoryhttp://www.add-articles.com678404Article Blotterhttp://www.articleblotter.com6805431Article Worldhttp://www.1articleworld.com683953ABC Article Directoryhttp://www.abcarticledirectory.com/741530eArticlesOnline.comhttp://www.earticlesonline.com840514eArticlesOnline.comhttp://www.earticlesonline.com840514dk-articlehttp://www.article.com845131ArticleSnatch – The Best Place to Grab Articleshttp://www.articlesnatch.com881234Talkin Mince Article Directoryhttp://www.talkinmince.com896894Just Articleshttp://www.JustArticles.com/936555Article-Buzz – Free Article Directoryhttp://www.article-buzz.com/943474Free Ezine Articles Sitehttp://freezinesite.com945294Tips Tricks Resource Portalhttp://www.tips.com.my957875