Finding Article Directories
One of the ways of making money online is by obtaining a good placement in the search engines for your chosen keywords to attract lots of organic search traffic which is more likely to convert clicks into cash. But getting that good placement is 90 percent of the battle. There are two schools of thought on how best to do this, with one side saying that you should write lots of good content and the links will come, the other saying get backlinks yourself and that will get you high in the SERPs.
Both ideas have their merits, although the content route is a far longer term strategy which will win out in the end. But how long have you got to wait? Months? Years? Quite possibly years if the niche you are targeting is pretty competitive. The reason for this is that while you are patiently writing great content and waiting for the content lovers to show up and then link to your site, your competition is busy getting their own links and outranking you today!
So if you already have a good job and can afford to wait around for like forever for those readers to start showing up and your site to rise, then fine. But chances are you are doing this because you need the money now. Then you have little choice but to try and match or beat what your competitors are doing and that means you have to be getting your own links too. You can still write great content because it is still the best way of growing the authority of your site, but while you’re doing that, you also should be getting links.
Recent changes to the algo at Google has meant that many of the traditional ways of getting backlinks to your website. One of those ways was to blast articles out to article directories in the hundreds, thus increasing the inbound links to your site pretty quickly. Of course, if you went too quick, you’d get a penalty and your site would drop like a stone for a while before resurfacing stronger than before. The trick was to balance the rate of inbound link getting so that you got enough to keep up with your competitors, but not too many that you risked a penalty.
But as I said, that avenue of link getting has been severely devalued with recent algo changes. Devalued but not completely dead.
There is still some good reasons for checking out a good article directory list and using those directories to blast articles across. Its not so much to get good keyword anchored backlinks, but to mask the links you are getting from those sources that are still viable with crappy links and anchors. You do this to help diversify that link profile you are building. Here’s what I mean.
The best links come from relevant websites to your niche that are inside relevant posts or articles. These are the links that you should be anchoring with your main keywords that you wish to rank highly for. Then to give those links more value, you should backlink the articles/posts that contain your links. One great way to do that is to use article directories to blast many links that contain diverse anchors. You can also use the directories to send many links to your main site but not to the homepage. Send the links to deep pages with anchors that are related to but different from the keywords you want to rank for. This creates a large, divers collection of inbound links to your site as well as strengthening the links that are coming into your site from authority sources.
So while the link value of links coming from article directories may be greatly devalued, they still have some uses and if you are using automation to sens out the articles, then you should be using it smartly to make the most of the resources that are out there to use.
