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Article Directory:
A
website
which lists and supplies articles
sorted in different categories. The articles are written by
various authors who only need to register for free with the
Article Directory site and then as members can submit their
texts. Most Directories reserve their right to get the
submissions checked for quality and then either approved and
included into the listings or turned
down.
Article Directories can serve an internet marketer in two ways:
They can search for articles which they can put on their website as content if the author and Directory regulations allow it and
they can
submit their own articles
including
link
s to their website.
If accepted they will have placed a one-way-link on
another site and hopefully improved
their link
popularity and
search
engine
ranking.
Unfortunately this way of promoting a website was
misused by so called article spammers
who turned out high numbers of auto generated
very low quality articles and auto submitted them to as
many Article Directories as possible. The Directories
as well as search engines had to react on this kind of
spamming. Directories heightened their standards for
accepting articles and hired editors to keep up these
standards. Some which either couldn’t or wouldn’t hire
editors discontinued their service. Search engines
reacted by lowering the value assigned to links from
Article Directories thereby making this method of
website promotion less effective for Internet
marketers. Correctly done, however, it is still a way
to generate traffic.
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The homepage of one of the most popular Article Directories EzineArticles.com. The articles are sorted in separate categories for easier navigation. The most recently included articles are displayed, too.
[Article comes from Latin articulus as diminutive of artus = joint, meaning that separate written parts of join together to form a whole document such as separate clauses form a legal contract. Later extended to a literary composition as separate parts of a journal or magazine;
Directory comes from deregere, directus = to align, straighten, guide; a directory serving to guide it’s users directly to what they are trying to find]
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Recommended Resources: Here a short and of course incomplete list of some well known article directories:
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