Article Marketing: 7 Things to Consider Before Submitting Your Articles to Article Directories

Article directories are websites that accept and publish articles from the public. Submitting articles to these directories has many advantages. You can use them as sources of traffic and links back to your site. In this article, we’ll take a look at 7 things to consider or do before submitting your article to an article directory.

1. Make good use of the resource box

Articles submitted to article directories often have a resource box at the end of the article. The resource box is where the writer can promote their business and link to their website. The number of words allowed in the resource box is usually limited, so you should make good use of it.

Always use your resource box to make a strong call to action. The most effective call to action is to offer a free report, free eBook, or any free material. The free stuff you offer should be related to the topic of the article. For example, if you write an article about making money online with affiliate marketing, you can offer your reader a free affiliate marketing training eBook if they visit your site and sign up.

How well you make use of the resource box is what determines whether readers will click through to your website or not.

2. Number of links in the resource box

Most article directories don’t usually allow links in the body of the article. Where they will normally allow you to place your links is in the resource box (also called the signature box). The body of the article is your donation, while the resource box is your take. Some will allow you to place up to 3 links in this place, while others will only allow two. Also, most of the article directory will not allow you to link to a particular page more than once (ie no duplicate links allowed). Ignoring any of these rules may lead to rejection of your article.

3. Editorial Guidelines

This is probably the first page you should read when visiting an article directory. It contains all the guidelines that you must follow before submitting an article.

If you don’t want your articles rejected or your account terminated, be sure to read and understand the editorial guidelines of all article directories you sign up for. The editorial guideline contains information ranging from the type of topics that will not be accepted, the number of links allowed in the resource box, and many other important information.

4. Can you publish your article on other websites?

Most article directories will allow you to republish your articles on other sites. This is called content syndication and there is nothing wrong with it. However, you just need to make sure that you are the sole copyright owner of the article and that it does not contain plagiarized content.

5.PageRank

This is an important factor to consider when submitting your articles to article directories. Page Rank is a way that Google uses to measure the quality of a website and the value ranges from 1 to 10. The higher the Page Rank value of a site, the higher the quality of the site. To award page rank to different websites, Google uses various criteria, such as the number and page rank of the websites that link to the website in question. So the page rank of a website is determined by the number of sites linking to it and the page rank of those sites.

To improve the effectiveness of your article marketing campaign, always submit your articles to directories that have a high page rank of around 3 or more.

6. Dofollow vs nofollow links

First, let me explain what are nofollow links and what are dofollow links. Nofollow links are links that have the nofollow attribute embedded in the html code of the link. That is, the link code contains something like this: rel=”nofollow” or external rel=”nofollow”. When search engines like Google come across such links, they won’t recognize it as a link, which means the site the link points to won’t get any page rank value from the link. On the other hand, dofollow links are just the opposite of nofollow links. They are just normal links without the nofollow attribute and Google considers them as an added value to the site they point to.

From the explanation so far, you will see that it is better to submit your articles to directories that give you dofollow links. This is because writing articles is not that easy, so you have to make sure that you get the most out of every article you write.

Most article directories will offer you dofollow links in the resource box. Only a few article directories like the article base will offer nofollow backlinks in the resource box. Articlebase will offer you 3 nofollow links in the article body and 3 nofollow links in the resource box.

7. Alexa Rating

The Alexa rating is a popular way to estimate how much traffic a website is receiving. A low Alexa rating for a website indicates high traffic and vice versa. So, in your article marketing campaign, you may decide to submit your articles to high-traffic directories for a chance to drive visitors to your site. To check the Alexa rating of any site, go to alexa.com and type in the site’s URL.

Below are examples of high page ranked article directories:

1.Brighthub PR6

2.Selfseo.com PR5

3. Ideamarketers PR5

4. Sooperitems PR5

5. City of article PR5

6. PR5 Item Trader

7. Articleblast PR5

8. Articleslash.net Pr5

9. Evancarmichael PR5

10. Esnare PR5

11. Item Board PR5

12.Infobarrel PR4

13. Announcements PR4

14. Ezinemark PR4

15. This is independent PR3

16. Articles PR3

After evaluating all the points mentioned above, you will be able to know the best directories to submit your article for maximum traffic.