More on Article Directories

As I probably mentioned, EzineArticles, Buzzle, SearchWarp, and GoArticles are the four most popular Article Directories as judged by traffic ratings. But they are all different and each have their own advantages and disadvantages.

EzineArticles, has an extremely long approval process and the strictest posting requirements. Your articles may get denied a few times until you can manage to comply with their relatively strict guidelines. But it undeniably has the most traffic by far and many people swear by it for getting the most traffic to their articles.

AssociatedContent, a very little known directory with little competition in the Internet Marketing niche. This is a good thing for us, because the traffic coming through this directory is second only to EzineArticles.

Buzzle, has less traffic, but their approval is 2 days at most, sometimes next day. Personally I get more traffic to my articles from Buzzle than EzineArticles, probably because the traffic to competition ratio is better on Buzzle than EzineArticles. I highly recommend Buzzle as the primary article directory.

SearchWarp. Its alright, what can I say, the reason its on this list is because it has the 3rd most traffic per month. Worth submitting to.

GoArticles. This is good not only because it has good traffic, but there is little to no approval process. This has the fastest approval of any of the top directories.

Hopefully this helps enlighten you to the advantages and disadvantages of each.

It is important to have good writing and spelling practices when you write your own articles, but if you have some money to spare you can pay someone a little money to write one for you. But be careful, don't pay anyone more than $5, its not worth it, standard price is probably $4. And even that won't be worth it if the article is not properly SEO'd, so you should ask about that as well. And even that won't help you if your page it links to isn't converting at an average or better rate. So be careful if you consider that method. The safest way is to develop your own article marketing tactics and write your own articles, but if money is no object, go for it.

Once you have compelling affiliate programs that you really believe people will want to buy/register for, you may want to consider that method because it will return your investment on average. If you want to try getting somebody else to write your articles, I recommend going to the Warrior Forum, and talking to this guy. Request that the article be no less than 400 words and no more than 600 words. Most experienced people will tell you that 400 to 600 word articles that get straight to the point and tell the reader exactly what they want to know from the start, are the best converting articles with the highest click through rates (CTR).