DoFollow 001Letting the link love flow

There are loads of article directories out there but many of the key ones now use nofollow. Considering that they are editorially approved then this is pretty lame on their part really.

However, I do appreciate that monitoring links is extra work and that these type of sites are inundated with submissions, many of which are poorly written and need of revision (or binning).

Below are 10 article directories that still allow "dofollow" links.

I would recommend that you read their author guidelines before you submit an item. Make sure too that you take your full quote of allowed links but as a word of advice don't create multiple links to the same page; spread them across multiple pages.

Do these sites provide any link juice value? Perhaps they do but a site like Ezine has millions of published articles. Everybody uses them now.

I have a pattern of submitting to Ezine first and then submitting the same articles to Isnare and Article Dashboard. I never or rarely submit to any others. Google is very good at detecting duplicate content and I could change the title and text for every different article directory but I really don't have the time or the patience.

I've examined these article directories as so: The year the site was created; the exact number of pages indexed in Google; the number of backlinks to the domain as recorded by Yahoo; the Google PageRank of the homepage; Quantcast data, if any; Alexa rank and submission rules.

EzineArticles

Year Site Created: 1999
Indexed Pages in Google: 4,340,000
Backlinks in Yahoo: 2,609,458
PageRank: 6
Quantcast Ranking: 49
Alexa Ranking: 187
Submission rules: Extensive editorial guidelines here Use keywords with caution as they are very sensitive to them. You are allowed two outgoing links including in the article body itself.

Isnare

Year Site Created: 2004
Indexed Pages in Google: 118,000
Backlinks in Yahoo: 294,820
PageRank: 6
Quantcast Ranking: 13,203
Alexa Ranking: 11,640
Submission rules: Article submission guidelines are here This is free to submit to if you don't want to include a HTML link otherwise there is a minimal fee.

ArticleDashboard.com

Year Site Created: 2005
Indexed Pages in Google: 110,000
Backlinks in Yahoo: 3,629,631
PageRank: 5
Quantcast Ranking: 11,209
Alexa Ranking: 5,070
Submission rules: Submission rules here

GoArticles

Year Site Created:
Indexed Pages in Google: 245,000
Backlinks in Yahoo: 535,541
PageRank: 6
Quantcast Ranking: 14,670
Alexa Ranking: 2,721
Submission rules: Author guidelines here
I personally don't like GoArticles as submissions are not editorially approved before publication. Admittedly they have lots of "report as spam" buttons on the site where users can flag a dodgy item, but I would prefer to be associated with an article directory that had tough guidelines - and enforced them. Also GoArticles is a part of Jayde Online, Inc so you'll probably be spammed to death with their newsletter once they get their hands on your email address.

Article Pool

Year Site Created: 2008
Indexed Pages in Google: 7,720
Backlinks in Yahoo: 46,775
PageRank: 5
Quantcast Ranking: 222,723
Alexa Ranking: 28,725
Submission rules: Editorial guidelines here Up to three links are allowed in the body of the article and three in the author bio section. It may well be worth $18 per month to have them distribute your submitted article around their network.

EasyArticles

Year Site Created: 2004
Indexed Pages in Google: 35,300
Backlinks in Yahoo: 19,976
PageRank: 4
Quantcast Ranking: No data
Alexa Ranking: 14,864
Submission rules: There are some brief guidelines here. All articles are editorially approved before publication.

Amazines.com

Year Site Created: 2001
Indexed Pages in Google: 376,000
Backlinks in Yahoo: 54,414
PageRank: 2
Quantcast Ranking: 7,072
Alexa Ranking: 6,295
Submission rules: Basic submission guidelines here. Authors can place links in the body of an article.

Article City

Year Site Created: 2001
Indexed Pages in Google: 41,900
Backlinks in Yahoo: 55,890
PageRank: 5
Quantcast Ranking: 134,604
Alexa Ranking: 13,541
Submission rules: There is only the option of putting one link at the bottom of the article and without using keywords.

Article Blast

Year Site Created: 2005
Indexed Pages in Google: 29,400
Backlinks in Yahoo: 31,187
PageRank: 4
Quantcast Ranking: 159,436
Alexa Ranking: 19,224
Submission rules: You can place as many links as you like in the article. This is another site that doesn't require editorial approval before publication.

Article Rich

Year Site Created: 2005
Indexed Pages in Google: 75,300
Backlinks in Yahoo: 57,782
PageRank: 3
Quantcast Ranking: 292,406
Alexa Ranking: 17,447
Submission rules: Guidelines here

Also read:

Complete List of Blog Directories - Part One
Complete List of Blog Directories - Part Two
Complete List of Blog Directories - Part Three
Complete List of Blog Directories - Part Four
Complete List of Blog Directories - Part Five
A Complete List of RSS Directories

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