Three Popular Article Directories

Article marketing has become a powerful tool to drive traffic to websites and blogs over the last few years. There's well over 500 active article directories online waiting to accept and publish the articles you've written on almost any subject you can think of. Let's look at three directories that are very popular online, Ezine Articles, Go Articles and Associated Content.

EzineArticles.com :

• This site has steadily built its reputation as a premier, #1 article directory for over nine years. They built a very high standard of quality, one article at a time, and that is the backbone of their popularity with both authors and those looking for new content for their blogs, websites, ezines and newsletters. They proudly advertise "hundreds of thousands" visitors everyday.

• They allow all new accounts to submit 10 articles that have to meet or exceed their editorial guidelines. If your articles meet their strict editorial guidelines, you will be upgraded to their Platinum membership level. Meeting their submission guidelines is not a joke. Their in-house editorial team reviews every article submitted for publication.

• EzineArticles only accepts original articles and, in order to open an account, you will have to certify that you, as the author, have exclusive rights to the content. When you meet their criteria, you can display a badge of honor on your blogs and websites...Expert Author. Plus any articles you submit from then on get approved quicker.

GoArticles.com :

• This site is more than just an article directory. It is also a search engine with more than 1,000,000 indexed articles. They are very proud of their more than 135,000 authors and over 12,000 article submissions every week. Their published intention is to become the best and largest free article database on the Web.

• GoArticles indexes new articles submitted for publication once a day, which means that your article submissions will be available and searchable within 24 hours of your submission. If you are a member of GoArticles and have submitted at least one article, you can purchase a premium position at the top of any category or sub-category.

• When you make your article selections with the radio button below each article, GoArticles will email them to you immediately.

AssociatedContent.com :

• If you are an author submitting to AssociatedContent.com, this can benefit you in three ways. You can get paid for your articles and have your articles published and delivered on their partner sites.

• After you open an account, you will be able to submit articles on any topic or choose an assignment that someone needs written. You can submit articles, video, audio or images. The audience for your submissions will be millions of monthly visitors. You can also post directly to Face book and Twitter or your own blog.

• When you submit articles, you can earn money in two ways, payment up-front or a performance bonus based on the traffic to your articles. The up-front payment is generally small, in the $4 to $5 range. They pay up-front for a wide range of articles: product reviews, how-to-articles, guides of all sorts, and holiday articles, to name a few.

Out of over 500 articles directories online at any time, the three directories mentioned here are class acts. As with any quality business, you will have to provide good content in order to take advantage of the positive benefit to your reputation as a credible author.