When you're starting out these three article directories and maybe a few more will sustain you. You'll have no need for anymore, but I need more. When I'm building an authority site I need to have access to a lot of different sites that I can get a solid back link from and I need that links to come from various IP#s. I can't have the same sites linking to all my pages because that stops providing results after so many.
So what I do is branch out to other directories that are smaller and less known. I think it is great to find these directories because there are a lot of untapped sites out there. One of them could very well become a major player, so it is a good idea.
Yesterday and today I was going through a lot of old directories only to realize that a lot of them are marginalized. This is a term I came up with, so don't Google it or anything. I define this concept as when your site is essentially marginalized. You're deindexed, or anything. You're just never rank for anything and you're lucky if you get 10 hits a month from the big G. It's a real pain in the butt when you try to make cash online as a beginner.
Anyway article directories like this don't index pages. I used to be a bum marketer and I submitted to 100+ small and minor article directories as a trial (or test). I had all of them saved in my favorites and they were there for some time. I had my regular folder that contained the main article directories I submit too and I had a trial directory with over 100 sites in it.
They've been sitting in their for over a year untouched, but out of all days, yesterday I decided I was going to go through them all. I viewed each site with SEOQuake on to get a load of the site stats. What I noticed was that there were were a few monster sites (Yippie!), but the vast majority were useless. There were quite a few directories I couldn't get into my account for because I either didn't remember my password (yeah right) or they deleted it. I'd go to an article directory and the directory would claim to have 25,000 articles and SEOQuake would show 300 indexed pages in Google. This is a prime example of what I mean by marginalized. Submitting an article here is useless because your article will never be indexed.
This process wouldn't of annoyed me so much if I hadn't touched these directories on a minor basis. Sometimes when I have an article to submit I'll go into my trial folder and grab a site that looks promising to submit too. One of these sites I did it for lately wouldn't index my articles. In fact, I sent additional links to the article itself and it still hasn't indexed. *WASTE*. Another directory I submitted too, I found was BANNED from Google. It was not indexed in Google.
I had to go back and correct everything that I done of late, but anything that was old wasn't corrected. I guess this comes down to my own carelessness. You really need to keep track of the article directories that you should be submitting too and know that they're performing. And a big part of performing is indexing your articles.
I wanted to show you how to choose article directories to submit to because you might run into the problem I have. It's frustrating and a waste of time when you have to go back to fetch articles. Trust me on the spreadsheet. It will keep you inline for making cash online and as long as you keep it updated you'll be fine.
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