Anyone Still Use Article Directories?

[qlkasdjfw]

Thinking of phasing this out. Too many spammy links in these.

Does anyone still use article websites for 'white hat' SEO? E.g. create a high-quality article, then post it using 'branded' anchor text, e.g. link is the name of the business or URL.

[Francisco_Meza]

if you are talking about article spinning, it can still work. In fact, I have a friend who did it and rankings haven't gone down in 10 months. But the website I am talking about is an authority website and has been around for many years with a good link profile.

If your site is new, I would forget about it and use the money to buy credibility with a company like the BBB.

Watch Matt Cutts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5xP-pTmlpY

[MoosaHemani]

I agree with Francisco, if you are an authority website and then you are playing a little bit with article spinning then this might help you boosting your ranking in a short run… but as I am witnessing Google’s eye on low level link building I would highly recommend avoiding it…

If you are talking about writing 1 article for 1 article directory website then I have personally used this and results are kind of positive but to be honest this is not going to give you a BIG boost so I would prefer if you can use your same time and effort in something more valuable…then you should consider that!

[AgentsofValue]

I really don't see too much value in article marketing at this point.  If you made a really high quality article, why would you want to waste it, by posting it into a place where no one would ever read it!

I consider guest blogging to be a stronger strategy overall.  It takes some more work from you up front, but in the long run, it will pay bigger dividends.

Search out a list of 20 to 30 blogs that write good articles in your industry.  Reach out to them (either a contact form, or Twitter, or LinkedIn ,etc), and see if they accept guest blog submissions.

If they do, send them your article for review.

If it gets posted, you'll have a link from a respectable site, that people actually read, and will send you some traffic over time as well.  It can be a good way to make connections with people that have similar interests as well.

[DavidKonigsberg]

yes -its called guest posting now

(we no longer see the value of article directories)