There was an old song that I find to be appropriate for this particular situation. It went something like this, “Its crying time again, because your leaving… And I see that far away look in your eyes.” That is what comes to mind when I think of the current state of article marketing. It was good while it lasted and now those days are behind us.

Should You Stop Article Marketing?

According to Google’s Matt Cutts (I am paraphrasing) Google looks at the majority of article directories as being low quality sites. You placing your content on those sites just to get backlinks places you in what is known is the SEO realm as a bad neighborhood. To put it another way the links to those sites are worthless, and a waste of time. They will carry very little to know value.

What Do We Do About Backlinks Now?

Some great person somewhere in history once said, “History has a way of repeating its self.” This is the case here and now. Back in the old days of Internet Marketing, building link directories, and submitting your site to other link directories was the way to go. Well guess what??? Its back, like it or not.

My friend we are back to reciprocal link exchanges and one way link building strategies. If done correctly, this technique will build your site as being an authority in your particular niche, and give you excellent rankings in Google as well.

Are All Article Directories Bad?

Here is the catch (according to my personal testing), you have to submit unique content to the RIGHT article directories. Before you fall out of your chair allow me to solve a few problems for you such as which directories should you use, and how do you create a large number of unique articles for each directory. Lets deal with the first issue – which directories do you submit your content to.

Before I simply fork over my golden list of directories that will help you dominate the search engines let me explain something to you. YOU DO NOT WANT TO ALWAYS SUBMIT TO HIGH PR RANKING SITES. If Google sees that you are receiving a huge number of links from PR 6 sites at one time a red flag will go up and you stand a chance of being de-indexed. To avoid this it is better to build your backlinks organically and mixed the PR rankings of the links.

According to my testing you can safely build 300 links to your site a month without having any problems what-so-ever from Google. Although a PR 6 backlink is better than a PR 2 or 1 backlink Google is smart enough to know that NO SITE is going to get 100 PR 6 backlinks to it all at one time.

My Personal List Of Directories

PR0

http://www.articlesalley.com/

http://www.article-store.com/

http://www.contentarticles.com/

http://www.dezinersplace.com/

http://www.freearticlehq.com/

http://www.hotarticles.net/

http://www.internetmagnet.com/

http://www.outblogger.com/articles

PR1

http://www.a1-articledirectory.com/

http://www.articlefrenzy.com/

http://www.articlejunction.com/

http://www.article-monster.com/

http://www.articleoptimizer.com/

http://www.articlepipeline.com/

http://www.eclipse-articles.com/

http://www.fetcharticles.com/

http://www.free-article-directory.com/

PR2

http://www.1articleworld.com/

http://www.ablearticles.co.uk/

http://www.allaboutarticles.org/

http://www.articlebag.com/

http://www.articlecorral.com/

http://www.articledaddy.com/

http://www.articlefeeder.com/

http://www.articleforyou.com/

http://www.articleinterchange.com/

http://www.articlejoe.com/

http://www.articlelocker.com/

http://www.articlemax.com/

http://www.articlepeak.com/

http://www.articleportal.com/

http://www.articleprobe.com/

http://www.articlerocket.com/

http://www.articlesearchnet.com/

http://www.articlesindex.com/

http://www.articlesnet.co.uk/

http://www.articlesnatch.com/

http://www.articlesonline.org/

http://www.articlesrightnow.com/

http://www.authorcontent.com/

http://www.bestarticlecity.com/

http://www.goodinfohome.com/

PR3

http://www.101articles.com/

http://www.wisearticles.com/

http://www.acearticles.com/

http://www.acmearticles.com/

http://www.addarticle-submitfree.com/

http://www.ababba.com/

http://www.activearticles.com/

http://www.articleaccess.com/

http://www.articleavenue.com/

http://www.article-blogs.info/

http://www.articlebliss.com/

http://www.articleblender.com/

http://www.articleboy.com/

http://www.articlebunch.com/

http://www.articlecapital.com/

http://www.articlecircuit.com/

http://www.articlecrazy.com/

http://www.article-database.com/

http://www.articledestination.com/

http://www.article-domain.com/

http://www.articlefair.com/

http://www.articlefarm.com/

http://www.articlefocus.com/

http://www.articlegarden.com/

http://www.articlegroup.com/

http://www.articlehopper.com/

http://www.articlelookup.com/

http://www.articlemailbox.com/

http://www.articleonlinedirectory.com/

http://www.articlepot.com/

http://www.articlerampage.com/

http://www.articles365.com/

http://www.articles24.com/

http://www.articles4reprint.com/

http://www.articles-4-free.com/

http://www.articlesandauthors.com/

http://www.articlesbase.com

http://www.articleselections.com/

http://www.articles-galore.com/

http://www.articleshelf.com/

http://www.articles-hub.com/

http://www.articles-keyword-rich.com/

http://www.articleskingdom.com/

http://www.articlesmagazine.com/

http://www.articlesnetwork.com/

http://www.articlestack.com/

http://www.articlestash.com/

http://www.bigarticledirectory.com/

http://www.businessbaazee.com/

http://www.cajun101.com/

http://www.content-corral.com/

http://www.contentfueled.com/

http://www.content-edge.com/

http://www.everydayarticles.com/

http://www.ezinearticles.biz/

http://www.ezine-writer.com.au/

http://www.ezineplug.com/

http://www.findandpostarticles.com/

http://www.free-articles-search.com/

http://www.freebie-articles.com/

http://www.free-content-resource.com/

http://www.freezinesite.com/

http://www.getyourarticles.com/

http://www.geminipublishing.com/

http://ireprint.info/

http://www.superarchives.com/

PR4

http://www.activeauthors.com/

http://www.amazines.com/

http://www.answer-site.com/

http://www.articlebeam.com/

http://www.articlebin.com/

http://www.articlebar.com/

http://www.articlecube.com/

http://www.articledepot.co.uk/

http://www.articlefever.com/

http://www.articlefusion.com/

http://www.articlehub.com/

http://www.articleintelligence.com/

http://www.articlekarma.com/

http://www.articlemap.com/

http://www.articlemarketer.com/

http://www.articlerich.com/

http://www.articles4free.com/

http://www.articlesbeyondbetter.com/

http://www.articlesoup.com/

http://www.articlesphere.com/

http://www.articles-submit.com/

http://www.articlewarehouse.com/

http://www.content-articles.com/

http://www.contentdesk.com/

http://www.contentmasterworld.com/

http://www.ezinecrow.com/

http://www.free-articles-zone.com/

http://www.freecontentzone.com/

http://freeinternetarticles.com/

http://www.freewebsitearticles.com/

http://www.freezine-articles.com/

http://www.goarticles.net/

http://www.infonexus.org/

PR5

http://www.excellentguide.com/article/

http://www.anyarticles.com/

http://www.articlealley.com/

http://www.articlemotron.com/

http://www.articlesexpress.com/

http://www.articleson.com/

http://www.bigarticles.com/

http://www.earticlesonline.com/

http://www.ezinefinder.com/

http://www.iarticlebeach.com/

http://www.isnare.com/

http://www.a1articles.com/

http://www.article-mania.com/

http://www.ideamarketers.com/

PR6

http://www.articlebiz.com/

http://www.articlecity.com/

http://www.easyarticles.com/

http://www.ezinearticles.com/

http://www.goarticles.com/

NOTE: This is my actual list of resources that my team uses to promote my personal sites. At the time of this blog post the list was up to date and accurate. However do to the nature of the Internet things are subject to change. I highly recommend that you double check the sources BEFORE you use them. This can be accomplished by checking Google to make sure that the site is still being indexed by Google, and that you can find at least one of their targeted keyword phrases on the front page.

Creating Unique Content At The Speed of Light

I know you have heard me talk about this company on more than one occasion. I am referring to UAW. Let me give it to you straight… I stood by this company 100% and have stats that prove that their services does indeed drive traffic to your site. They also help you to build backlinks although the backlinks are not the best quality that I have seen. They mainly consist of PR 0 to PR 2.

The first thing I do is to prepare my content to submit to UAW and their services will spin my articles into 100% UNIQUE HUMAN LEGIBLE content that I can submit to each of the directories listed above. It takes Lisa (one of my team members) 30 minutes worse case scenario to submit unique content to each of the directories above once the content has been prepared for UAW.

I guess the $67 question is… “Is UAW really worth it?” My answer is hands down… YES!

I have tried outsourcing unique content to the tune of $2.00 per 400 word article. I got exactly what I paid for, MUBLE JUMBO written poorly and took even longer to redo for those that could be salvaged.

Lets do some basic math:

Outsourcing

Unique Content For 150 Directories @ $2.00 each = $300 (articles only submitted once).

Unique Content For 150 Directories @ $67 per month = $67

Total Savings $300 – $67 = $233

Those figures are based on a onetime submission. Lets take a look at some more realistic figures:

150 articles per day for 30 days = 4,500 articles

4,500 articles X $2.00 each = $9,000 a month

Lets use the same number of articles:

4,500 articles @ a monthly fee of $67 = $67

Total Monthly Savings

$9,000 – $67 = $8,933

I am sure that you can see the value in using UAW to create your unique content, and I hope you enjoy the 150+ directory sources.

Go sign up for UAW right now!