20 Top Articles Directories or The Eskimo Secret of Article Marketing
Have you read my article “Word for Snow or the Eskimo Secret of Getting Conversions“? If so, a thought could have cross your mind that the same principle is also applicable to many other things. It is.
Let’s consider article marketing. The idea is simple: you write an article; you submit it to an article directory; webmasters come and publish it on their sites; you get the links. Period.
Gurus on article marketing usually recommend to concentrate on the article directories with the top Alexa rank. By the way, here are the top 20 with Alexa rank, in case you are interested.
| URL | Alexa rank | US | India | Other |
| ezinearticles.com | 185 | 45% | 17% | 38% |
| ehow.com | 236 | 57% | 10% | 33% |
| ArticlesBase.com | 830 | 33% | 28% | 39% |
| buzzle.com | 1,688 | 39% | 25% | 36% |
| goarticles.com | 2,638 | 30% | 33% | 37% |
| webpronews.com | 2,664 | 34% | 29% | 37% |
| helium.com | 2,665 | 55% | 11% | 34% |
| articlesnatch.com | 4,459 | 17% | 41% | 42% |
| articledashboard.com | 4,994 | 42% | 26% | 32% |
| articlealley.com | 4,995 | 39% | 26% | 35% |
| searchwarp.com | 5,395 | 34% | 34% | 32% |
| amazines.com | 6,276 | 20% | 53% | 27% |
| ideamarketers.com | 8,896 | 19% | 53% | 28% |
| isnare.com | 11,409 | 33% | 28% | 39% |
| articlecity.com | 13,285 | 21% | 43% | 36% |
| articlecube.com | 14,486 | 13% | 62% | 25% |
| a1articles.com | 14,816 | 12% | 61% | 27% |
| submityourarticle.com | 16,216 | 17% | 41% | 42% |
| articlerich.com | 17,199 | 9% | 66% | 25% |
| free-articles-zone.com | 19,189 | 9% | 69% | 22% |
Sites with heavy US traffic
Sites with significant US traffic
Sites with significant Indian traffiic
Sites with heavy Indian traffic
You see, there is more to say about an article directory than Alexa rank. For example, here, I picked up the proportion of the traffic coming from the United States as opposed to the traffic coming from India. So, if you want teh US traffic, gurus are right, the higher Alexa rank, the more traffic comes from the United States. Still, if you consider position 5, 6 and, 7, the seventh contender – Helium – would give you almost twice more US traffic than the 5th one – GoArticles.com. Interesting, isn’t it?
And if for some reason you want an Indian traffic, then you may want to consider a completely opposite approach, picking the bottom of this list. You may wonder, why would you want any Indian traffic in the first place?
First, there could be many reasons, especially, if Indian traffic comes much cheaper or with much less effort. I’ll discuss one idea later in a separate article, but consider two facts:
- I published this article on ViralMarketingEtc.com, not on InternetMarketingPaterns.com. Why?
- Check my article “What kind of viral network are you in?”
Think, is the network of people, who’d buy your products, is the same as network of people, who would spread your viral report?
That’s just one idea how to use Indian Internet traffic. I’ll explain it in another article if you did not catch it. Anyway, there are more.
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