Article directory

An article directory is a website where every internet user can write articles (ie text posts), may contain hyperlinks of his choice. The motivation of the text authors is to improve in the context of search engine optimization by setting back links to their websites, the order in the search engine results lists. Article directories are similar to web directories sorted by topic.

Formation

There are many conflicting sources and statements about the origin and the idea of ​​the article directories. It is clear, however, that article directories that already exist for many years, have received 2.0 new impetus and spread awareness through the development of the Web. Article directories are 2.0 movement is nothing but another way to any Internet user to participate from the perspective of the Web in the creation of new content.

Guidelines and Criteria

  • The copyright must be even with the publicists.
  • Some article directories require that the submitted articles are written exclusively for you.
  • The item must have a minimum length (specified in words or characters).
  • The author can put hyperlinks to websites of their choice, at least one at least. Most more links are allowed if the author on a site supported by him, in turn, sets, or to submit a particularly long text is ready a backlink to the article directory.
  • Many article directories allow the self-representation of companies and products, unless the item is sufficient factual and represents an added value to the reader.
  • Denied, however, usually the authors free seeing adult texts or texts with serious deterioration (spelling )

Motivations

The owner of the article directory earns money through advertisements on the one hand, he turned on there. Therefore, he is keen to get products with high quality content, which in turn are of interest to many readers as possible. On the other hand, he can sell links if he leads a good valued article directory.

The author of an article may describe products and links to the website of his company. It can also match the text and the linked words he uses keywords, which can have a beneficial effect for placement in search engines. Often the pages in question are primarily used to advertise and search engine optimization for your own website. A further reason for authors to write articles that possibility is to make money, which offers a number of portals. Depending on the provider must either specify its AdSense Pub ID, insert an AdSense code snippets or a share of the revenue from the advertising of the item directory.

The reader can find there useful content, such as tips on the operation of technical equipment or suggestions for leisure activities for them possibly.

Criticism

Many of the article directories are primarily created for collecting backlinks and placed less emphasis on the quality of the contributions. Also, there are users who only copy press articles on current topics and present on the item page in a new guise, rather than writing their own articles. The pages are also used to refer to hyperlinks from which reliable imaging products page at paid sites. From search engine spammers deliberately created article directories of questionable quality it possible, for example on Google AdSense to generate significant revenue.

It is advantageous for the spammers here is that the backlink texts may contain arbitrary words and may also be referred to with the help of deep links to sub-pages of a website. Books that deal with the topic of free advertising offer in the notes even lists of backlinks for the most suitable article directories on the Internet. This makes it clear that many authors of articles in directories mainly as a way to the to be found on the product pages hyperlinks improve the ranking of their sites in a search engine. Thus, the technical input in an article directory will help " increase the PageRank of [ own ] webpage. Its content should of course go to topics that are of interest for their own target group. " It is even warned when using multiple directories " every time you use the same text, because otherwise obtained under circumstances the harmful effect that the page is devalued by the search engines. "

Article directories are thus generally not press releases more than a collection of advertising copy and / or published by companies.

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