Recently here at StartRankingNow we have been running a test to see what exactly are the best article directories to submit articles to. There are many sites that will provide a list of the top 10 article directories to submit articles to based on Page Rank, but just because a site has a PR of 4 on their home page, does not mean that it will be valuable or profitable for you to submit your articles there. As we literally submit hundreds of articles per month to the article directories, we have run a test to find out which article directories get indexed by Google the fastest without having to do any external link building.Â
What we did:
We submitted 100 articles to each of the article directories over a 3 month period. Within 30 days of submitting the articles and the articles being published, we checked all of the submissions to determine if the urls generated by the article submissions were indexed in Google. We gathered the data and determined what percentage of the urls were indexed.
Here are the results:
- Ezinearticles.com 100%
- Buzzle.com 100%
- Goarticles.com 89%
- Articlebase.com 91%
- A1articles.com 100%
- Articleblast.com 90%
- Â Articlefeeder.com 96%
- Articlerich.com 83%
- Thefreelibrary.com 89%
- Amazines.com 32%
- Articlemonkey.com 30%
- Articlecube.com 35%
- Articlesfreedirectory.com 5%
- Articlesnatch.com 35%
- Articlepool.com 0%
- Ideamarketers 22%
- Ehow.com 40%
- Associatedcontent.com 40%
- Helium.com 40%
- Isnare.com 21%
Always remember to TEST your SEO activities and be sure it works. If your SEO company is submitting to hundreds of article directories but your articles are not getting indexed, then those links don’t count!Â
Do you know of another article directory we can test? Please let us know!
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Cool test Nicole. I have used it to expand on my article marketing efforts outside of ezine and buzzle. Some other helpful information is whether you can use HTML and anchor text (articlebase and isnare free submissions can’t) as well as the number of links allowed (buzzle is 1) in both the body and the author bio.
Now see this is exactly the kind of hard core SEO information people would pay for, and here you go giving it away for free!
Well done Nicole!
Thanks for sharing!
Don Scott
1AutomationWiz.com
Great! info, far better and useful than the usual PR ranking. Our directory is small and for now we only accept articles which are submitted directly and not through submission sites or software. We would be happy if you would run your tests on http://www.freearticlesinc.com this can only serve to help us improve our site. Thank You
Thanks Richard! Will have to check your site out!
Awesome Colin! We pretty much use SubmitYourArticle exclusively but find we get less errors submitting to ezinearticles manually still.
Fantastic study, Nicole. It is great to know which sites are virtually guaranteed to result in an indexed article. Thanks for sharing your efforts.
Awesome and quite timely since article marketing is on the agenda for this week! Thanks Nicole!
You are welcome Renee! We are having great results with guest blog posting lately also!