Are The Major Article Directories Dying A Slow Death?

Once upon a time it was prudent to advise marketers to send their articles to the major article directories. However, this is now and now is different. A lot different. First of all, major article directories such as Ezinearticles can be really particular about the approval process for the content. It is easy to spend too much time trying to get an article approved. The process is even slower for free members. But hey, who is going to pay to send one article to one site in order to get it approved more quickly? Duh? Also, when it comes to getting backlinks from your articles submitted to "EZA" you're only getting backlinks from one IP address so after a while the backlinks obtained from your published articles are becoming less and less effective. "EZA" also seems to have different policies for different level members when it comes to adding hyperlinks in your resource boxes, which is unfair because it causes a lot of grief for my students who are just starting out with using their service.

When WordPress became the default content management system and publishing platform for new sites, there was also a lot of ways this "new" technology could be used to syndicate articles easily.  With WordPress you can create a user account with the ability to only publish articles.  With that user account in hand you now have the ability to receive free articles and publish them on your site if you want.

If you're going to be receiving free articles there has to be people writing the articles you'll be receiving and that's where services like Unique Article Wizard come into play.  These services allow you a lot of freedom with your article syndication and some even allow you to put your affiliate links in the articles.  With this type of freedom you can write good articles and make money whenever anyone reads them and buys a product via your affiliate link embedded in the article.

Many article directories including "EZA" you are not permitted to put your affiliate link in the article . In addition, "EZA"  does not really assist you with syndicating your articles.  I have noticed that the common practice among webmasters who are republishing your articles is to leave out your links, in spite of the fact that is against the policies. No one is stopping them from doing it unless you get involved. That is discouraging and unethical. 

The major article directories are dying a slow death because they're not offering much value in the way of syndicating your articles, and that's the main reason why they're becoming less of a trusted and valuable tool to use. However, since these major article directories have been around so long and their content approval procedures are so strict, they do really well in the search engines of ranking your articles well.

With article syndication allows you to obtain backlinks from hundred or thousands of IP addresses, not just a single site. Some article syndication services like isnare are a bit less effective, since what they do is post duplicate content to a many places.  Posting duplicate content to many places simultaneously can get those links discredited.  Often, due to the sheer volume of duplicate content only a few of your content articles will be indexed and a minority of those links will actually be applied to your sites.

 To get effective backlinks you need to get different sites linking to you and they need to be quality sites. Services such as Linkvana provide you with hundreds of powerful backlinks and you don’t even need to write long articles and wait for articles to get approved. The game has changed drastically when it comes to getting backlinks and soon the major directories will be playing less of an important role. It is time for them to take notice.

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