^{My review of 10 great article directories}

One f the best ways to create some free backlinks is by submitting articles to article directories. These sites get lot of traffic and are very popular and the best thing, they are free. Only thing you need is some quality articles. You can either write them yourself or hire dirt cheap freelancer writers to write them for you. But since there are hundreds of article directories on the web, choosing where to submit your articles can be crucial. I’ve done more than my fair share of article submissions in my days, so here is my review of 10 great article directories I would recommend to everyone.

Ezinearticles.com

First is of course ezinearticles. One of the most, if not the most popular article directory offers you to place two links in a resource box just under your article. And you can use articles already published elsewhere, as long as they are under the same author’s name.

Buzzle.com

Unlike ezinearticles, buzzle allows you to post unlimited links with your articles. This alone would put it on my Top 10 list. Add huge amount of traffic and excellent page rank and you’ll see why it made it to number two.

Articlesbase.com

Another site with great page rank. The trouble with Articlesbase.com is that it adds nofollow tags to every link you post. This is somewhat alleviated by their huge amount of traffic, hence their inclusion on my list

WebProNews.com

You have to pass submission in order to be accepted as an author on WebProNews, but it’s worth the trouble. This is one of the oldest and most respected article directories on the web.

Thefreelibrary.com

The Free Library has a page rank of 7. It allows up to three links in the body of an article. Published articles are instantly crawled by Google. What more can you ask?

Gather.com

Gather is not article directory per se. It is more of a social site where users can submit their articles. Great thing about this is that if you write excellent article, you will receive instant traffic.

GoArticles.com

Go Articles claim they are the largest article directory on the web. While technically this may not be correct, as there are other pretty big sites out there, they still hold over million articles in their database. With impressive numbers comes impressive traffic.

Selfgrowth.com

Not only article directory, but also an excellent resource for anything related to health, spirituality and general life style. If this is related to your niche, you won’t find anything better.

Suite101.com

Suite 101 is a bit different, as it offers you possibility to earn some money directly from your articles. It gets lots of traffic and great page rank, but with a downside of not allowing links anywhere in the article. Only place you can put them is in your author page. Take what you can, I say.

Helium.com

Pretty much the same deal as with suite101. If someone likes your article on Helium, they can buy it, allowing you to make some extra cash. If you publish an article there, you can’t use it anywhere else for a year.