Alternatives to Article Directories

Although submitting articles to article directories can get you a lot of targeted traffic, there are many online other resources online that you can use to increase the traffic to your site. Here are 10 of them:

1. Yahoo Answer

This is the place where people pays to get answers to their problems. If you find a question related to your niche, post a useful but incomplete answer. This entices the readers to follow your link to your website or blog for the full scoop.

2. DIGG.com

This site is ranked number 124 in Alexa as of this writing. Which means it has very a lot of traffic. If you post a article and it land on the first page of DIGG, your server can crash from the tidal wave of traffic.

3. Squidoo.com

Having your article on the first page of Squidoo has two positive effects. You get lots of traffic. And you get a boost in your Adsense income because Squidoo shares its revenue with its publishers. Don’t miss this one.

4. Wordpress.com
5. Blogger.com

Both Wordpress.com and Blogger.com have been around for a long time. Both sites received a lot of visitors each day and thus it makes sense to post some useful there. Don’t put affiliate links in your Wordpress.com post as they are not allowed. Just make sure your profile in Wordpress.com contain a link back to your site.

6. Myspace.com
7. Facebook.com

These are two of the largest social networking sites online. Even you just focus your attention on one of them, you can get tons of traffic to your site. Make sure to set up a good profile that links back to your site. Users of MySpace and Facebooks frowned upon promotional materials and so post only useful content and let your profile do the work of driving them to your site.

8. Traffic exchanges

Few traffic exchange online are really worth the effort actually. But there are still a few that works very well. One of them is of course TrafficSwarm. In fact, I only use this one at this point in time. Users of traffic exchange tends to have shorter attention span, so break up your articles into two parts. Post part 1, which should be shorter of the two, in the traffic exchange and provide a link to part 2. Alternatively, provide an opt-in form to get their name and email address before sending them the link to part 2.

9. Hubpages

This is another site that host a lot of useful content. Similarly, if your article lands on the first page, you will get server-melting traffic.

10. Ezine publishers.

Thre are many ezine publishers that are looking for good and unique content. Search ‘ezine directory’ in Google and you can find many sites that list the ezine publishers looking for content.

Many of these publishers are looking for exclusive content. So you have to shortlist a few of them first. Then submit your article to the first one and if rejected, move on to the next. Do not submit the same article to other ezine publishers unless you have modified it. You can build very responsive list using this method as well as create a list of potential JV partners.