Article directories is a great way to drive free traffic to whatever site you run. Submission to article directories is a powerful and effective way to generate free traffic to your website or blog. However, be aware that it’s a long term strategy and the results will not be tomorrow. Never the less this should absolutely be a part of your overall internet marketing strategy. And the best part of it: it’s free (i recommend the free ones atm). Once you get ranked good with Goggle, you are likely to stay there for a long time and it means free traffic on your keywords for a long time to come.

Below you’ll find a few of the top article directories I’m using when submitting to free directories. This list includes the best FREE article directories, but if you like to submit to more than these ones, just do a Google search for “Ezines” or “Article Submission” and click on Similar Pages under top listings.

EzineArticles
Go Articles
Article Circle
Article City
Article Click
Article Dashboard
Articles Base

The two most important (in my opinion) are EzineArticles and Go Articles, but the rest are worth spend some time wit also. I have tried using these automated Article Submitters, but my our opinion they are just extremely time consuming and does not give the outcome I looked for. It’s basically been a waist of time in my case.

Make sure you put some effort into creating your profile at the different article directories, because this is actually where you will get your traffic from. Often you can include 3 links, so chose carefully which links to include as well.

As said above I can’t talk about free traffic without talking about posting on forums. Together with Article marketing forum marketing is one of the most powerful free traffic out there. When you find your niche, make sure it has online magazines: And if they do you bet they have a lot of forums in that niche as well. It will simply tell you that the demand is HUGE fin your niche. Then just do Goggle search on your niche to see what you can find. If you find what you are looking for, start posting there with your signature (where you put your link). And if you are really creative, start your own thread.