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TOP Article Directories Article Marketers Should Focus On First
With article marketing being one of the most popular and
leveragable online marketing practices today one often asks
themselves how they can maximize there articles exposure
once written and ready for publishing.

Article directories are always an article publishers first
resort but today the internet is so saturated with article
directories one often wonders which article directories
they should submit their articles to first to get the most
exposure to them so they can start receiving Traffic and
Sales from their hard work.

I’ve been publishing articles online for a few years now
and religiously submit them to the article directories I
have listed below simply because they are considered the
TOP article directories on the web today and is where I
receive most of my traffic from.

From my experience I recommend anyone just starting out
online with article marketing to submit your ready to
publish article to the article directories listed below
first before searching the web for all the other hundreds
of article directories that only get a fraction of the
traffic these ones get.

So with that said here’s the list I’ve put together with
the article directories Alexa Ranking and Popularity Rank.

And just so you know these numbers may change but as of
this writing this is what they are.

TOP Article Directories:

www.EzineArticles.com (Alexa Ranking – 327 | PR 6)

www.A1Articles.com (Alexa Ranking – 78,153 | PR 4)

www.ArticleAlley.com (Alexa Ranking – 23,377 | PR 5)

www.Amazines.com (Alexa Ranking – 29,699 | PR 4)

www.ArticlesBase.com (Alexa Ranking – 4,007 | PR 5)

www.GoArticles.com (Alexa Ranking – 21,680 | PR 6)

www.IdeaMarketers.com (Alexa Ranking – 42,871 | PR 3)

www.SearchWarp.com (Alexa Ranking – 7,094 | PR 4)

www.ArticleCity.com (Alexa Ranking – 43,159 | PR 5)

These article directories should give you a good start and
as you can see from the numbers above these article
directories get great amounts of traffic and have good page
rank which will also help you out with your Search Engine
Ranking.

I have a few quick tips for you before I wrap this up and
that is make sure your articles are at least 500 words or
more. Article directories are starting to decline articles
that are less then that number. I know this because it
happened to me on a few occasions.

My next tip is try to write your articles around some
keywords that are actually being search for. I recommend
keyword phrases with three or more words in them. The
reason being is these keywords have less competition which
means your article will have a greater chance if ranking
higher in the search engines for that given keyword phrase.

The last one I have for you is about Anchor Text. Most of
the above article directories will allow you to use Anchor
Text within your resource box so make sure you do your
keyword research and find some good low competition
keywords that you can rank for and link to within your
resource box.

Hope this helped and good luck with your article publishing.

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