11 Most Popular Dofollow Article Directories
As you may already know, dofollow article directories are essential for getting backlinks and traffic to your sites and blogs. In fact, many affiliate marketers solely rely on just article marketing alone as their main source of traffic. I recommend using as many methods as possible for SEO (search engine optimization) purposes and exposure, but, article directories is definitely one of the more important and powerful ways for helping in seo for your website.
There are a ton of great article directories out there, some are dofollow and some are nofollow. But find and experiment with as many as possible and track the results and traffic from each source. You need to figure out which ones are the most powerful or bring in the most targeted traffic, how well they rank and etc….
This is what I do. I usually only use a small handful of the article directories below. I submit only high quality, valuable and original content to couple of the most powerful directories for example Ezinearticles and a few others. I put one link to my site and another to a different article, lp or mini site in the resource box. Now, I may spin that article or rewrite it myself and then I submit those to weaker or less popular article directories. These articles will have links back to my original and high quality articles.
I don’t like submitting the same exact content anywhere, search engines dislike duplicate content and their links won’t have much potency for helping your sites anyways.
You’ll find that your high quality and original articles in the right directories, like ezines and isnare will rank easily and be on the front page of google for some impressive keywords even with a decent amount of competition. You can also do other things to increase those high quality articles ranking even more, like bookmarking them and submitting them to other directories. Don’t waste your time with the spun articles or less impressive articles. A few backlinks to them and they should be good.
I advise before joining any article directory to read their policies and tos before writing your first article. Every place may have different rules and guidelines. If not followed properly it may lead to getting banned or your articles not getting approved.
Another thing, it’s recommended you also submit quality articles to some of the nofollow article directories but the high traffic and powerful ones like “article base”, “search warp” and “article alley”. They may not give you pr juice but they will give some nice authority and targeted traffic. They also rank well in the search engines.
Here’s my list of 11 Dofollow Article Directories: they are not listed in any particular order.
- Ezinearticles.com
- www.goarticles.com
- www.articlepool.com
- www.articledashboard.com
- www.easyarticles.com
- www.amazines.com
- www.articleteller.com
- www.articleonramp.com
- www.isnare.com
- www.articlecity.com
- www.articleblast.com
There you have it, a TRUE Dofollow article directory list, at least for now. A few of the good one’s like “article base” went nofollow and others seem to be following that trend. One other tip would be, if you write valuable and high quality content then others will be more likely to publish your articles or send traffic and links to them which will greatly improve traffic and pr juice to your sites.
Top 9 Ways of Getting Powerful Backlinks
I have made a list of the 9 Ways to get the Most Powerful Backlinks or one way links to your site or blog. One of the most important parts of SEO is getting backlinks to your site, that’s if you want to be on the front page of the search engine results pages (serps) and get higher PR. The trick is gaining one way links to your site naturally for seo purposes especially for Google.
Adding no more than 50 a day, getting high quality links that are relevant, what anchor text you use and getting links from places with high authority are also very important. The higher quality and more relevant your backlink is the more PR juice and authority your site will get from it. You need to make sure that you are placing links on “DoFollow” sites – search engines will give you link juice back to yours or they won’t count for getting better PageRank (PR).
Make sure you checkout the Great Websites I listed below every dofollow backlink method for Incredible lists of great places for you to use.
1. Do Follow Forums – This is one of the easiest ways of getting FREE Backlinks. There are 1000’s of forums on the net and more popping up daily. Most good forums are do follow and allow you to leave a link to your site in your signature at the bottom of each post you make. Just make sure you find relevant forums to your site and it is a do follow forum. This is also an easy way to get many links back to your site because the more posts made by you the more one way links. Even if you add a new site to your signature and you have 1000 posts then you automatically just added a 1000 links to that url.
Here are some great sites that have listed DoFollow forums with their PR as well.
- http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/11/do-follow-forums/
- http://www.peiprofit.com/traffic-secrets/list-of-dofollow-forums
2. Blog Commenting – Leaving a comment on Do Follow blogs is a very easy and FREE method people have been using for years. Just make sure you are commenting on relevant blogs and don’t spam. Add value with your comments and add your opinion to the subject. Don’t forget about using trackbacks!
Here’s a few great sites with a huge list of Dofollow blogs and their PR.
- http://www.peterleehc.com/blog/work-from-home/the-easiest-way-to-get-backlinks-starts-here
- http://www.thewwwblog.com/top-commentators-blogs-list-october-2008.html
3. Directories – Use them correctly and you will be on the front page of the Serps in no time. Directories are great because you get to leave a small description of your site then it’s placed in a relevant category which gives you a very authoritive link back. Some are FREE and many cost money for a dofollow link but usually worth it. I’ve also noticed many of them are now doing the whole reciprocal link exchange as well if you don’t want to pay.
Here’s a few sites with dofollow directories.
- http://www.onewaytextlink.com/links.php?type=free
- http://www.best-web-directories.com/free-directories.htm
4. Social Bookmarking sites – Okay, I’m sure you’ve heard social bookmarking is a way to get TONS of free traffic, exposure and authority but it’s another great way to get one way links. You get to add a description of the site or post and a link to it.
Now there is always a argument over which bookmarking sites are dofollow but I’ve found some good sites below that pretty much got it right and even if you don’t get any linkjuice then you’ll still get plenty of traffic from them if bookmarked correctly and with valuable content like from Digg, stumbleupon and propeller.
- http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/do-follow-social-bookmarking-sites/
- http://franklinbishop.net/27-dofollow-social-bookmarking-sites/
5. Article Directories – This a very popular method if you are familiar with internet marketing then I’m sure you’ve heard about the power of Ezinearticles.com and all the benefits of using them. Writing and submitting your articles will give you traffic, backlinks, it’s simple and effective. Instead of just a description of your site you can write a whole entire keyword rich article which will help your website or blog out tremendously.
Usually they are FREE and I’ve got some sites that will point you to the right article directories below.
- http://www.vretoolbar.com/articles/directories.php
- http://www.sitepronews.com/article-directories.html
6. Pressrelease – A powerful way of letting the media and consumers know about yourself and your products/services with a document. The more professional and well written the better. Pressreleases need to be more of a journalistic style rather than a marketing style and more informational, not just trying to make a sale or review.
I’ve got an awesome url for you below with a large list of pressrelease sites most are probably nofollow but still use as many as you can.
7. Submitting your RSS Feeds – Many people find your blogs from reading your feeds (small description of your post) they find on different feed directories. Make sure you are careful to make sure you don’t submit the same feed to many times to the same site. Some automatic feed services like pingomatic and pingoat submit to the same sites or search engines. If you need more info on RSS Feeds go here http://www.whatisrss.com/
I would definitely suggest joining a automated feed and post service, then add your feed url to some of the feed directories you’ll find at the site below. Some are dofollow and some are not, experiment but it’s a great list.
8. Buy Backlinks – This is a good way to get very relevant and High PR one way links but will cost money. Definitely worth it. If you are going to have a major website or blog then you’ll eventually have to pay for SEO services and for Powerful back-links or you’re competition will run you over and never look back. You gotta remember accomplished and successful sites will usually always have a team of people who keep their site in the front page of the serp’s.
Make sure you only use LEGIT companies for link service. I would suggest doing research on the person or company first, ask people in internet forums and make sure you see proof of their work and past case studies. Two popular and inexpensive services you may want to checkout are Neurolinker and Linkvana. They are very good services and theirs plenty of good reviews on google that you can read before you join them. I didn’t put any sites for you on this one to refer to only because I didn’t really find any good lists and you’re only going to find biased reviews and lists anyways, best to do your own research for this method.
9. Reciprocal Links – Exchanging links with other relevant sites has always been very popular but not as powerful as it use to be ever since Google cracked down on the Linkjuice from this method a few years ago. It still works great and a must do SEO tactic to out rank your competition with similar niches. The best way I’ve found to find similar websites to do this method is by joining forums, usually they’ll have a section for this or by doing some research in the search engines.
I wanted to add, make sure you also use hubpages and squidoo because they really don’t fall under anything above they are more considered as internet tools, web 2.0 website or community websites. You’ll find they both work very well for your seo needs. The 9 Ways on how to get Powerful Backlinks above are not in any particular order. Oh yeah, I wanted to mention don’t forget about “Link Baiting” (creating content just to receive backlinks) that is seriously a very powerful method as well, and Guest Posting (creating posts for other relevant blogs). If you got something to add then let me know. Make sure you are using a few or all of the methods mentioned above and you will soon be getting more traffic and PR then expected!
