TOP 10 Free Article Directories According to Alexa and Google

If you are interested in submitting your quality articles to top article directories, here is a great list for you, together with their page rank and some of their unique submission guidelines:

Ranking as of December 26, 2007 and may be changed from time to time…


1.0 Ezine Articles Alexa Rating: 671; Google Pagerank: 6

1.1 Article must have a minimum of 250 words and no more than 5,000 words. For us, an ideal article size is 400-750 words.
1.2 Example of a Bad Keyword TITLE: Top 9 Ways To Acquire Fractional Jet Ownership
1.3 Example of a Good Keyword TITLE: Fractional Jet Ownership - 9 Strategies to Help You Acquire Your Private Jet
1.4 Example of an invalid URL: Your-Company-Name.com, www.your-company-name.com
1.5 Example of a valid URL: http://Your-Company-Name.com/


2.0 GO Articles Alexa Rating: 7,717, Google Pagerank: 3

2.1 Submit your article to one category only.
2.2 Submissions that are less than 100 words will be removed from the database.
2.3 Article Title: maximum 150 characters.
2.4 Article: maximum of 15,000 characters or roughly 2,500 words.


3.0 Web Pro News Alexa Rating: 8,031, Google Pagerank: 6

Sorry, no restrictions and FAQ found. But this site is all about BIG NEWS about the blogging industry and I think this is not for simple bloogers like me, not yet. This is a good site to visit though.


4.0 Search Warp Alexa Rating: 8,453; Google Pagerank: 3

4.1 Content must be original material that is solely owned by you.
4.2 Articles which have been given to multiple people to distribute are not accepted.
4.3 Articles must be substantially unique. We do not accept articles which have just been rearranged or have had a few words changed here and there.
4.4 Pictures of authors must be actual images of the author. No graphical representations or logos are allowed.
4.5 Author biography Must contain no more than 2 links or website URL’s.


5.0 Buzzle Alexa Rating: 8,959; Google Pagerank: 6

Although they do not have any requirements of their authors per se, you will be expected to submit original, quality articles written by yourself and owned by you. They also expect you to consider your author status a privilege and therefore they expect that you will make a commitment to submit articles with some regularity.


6.0 ACS Publications (American Chemical Society) Alexa Rating: 9,321, Google Pagerank: 7

No detailed restriction but you may want to view their Ethical Guidelines.


7.0 Articles Base Alexa Rating: 10,589; Google Pagerank: 4

7.1 Article Title must have a maximum of 150 characters and Minimum of 2 words. But it is highly recommended up to 80 chars for search engines better indexing your articles.
7.2 Article Body must have a minimum of 125 words and a maximum length of 12,000 characters.
7.3 Author information may include up to 3 self serving links only.


8.0 Article Dashboard Alexa Rating 10,589; Google Pagerank: 6

8.1 Articles submitted will not be approved if they contain links in the body belonging to the author, but you can use the resource box to link back to your site.
8.2 Articles containing more than 3 links in the resource box will not be approved.


9.0 I Snare Alexa Rating 16,498; Google Pagerank: 3

9.1 Do not use your domain or site name as your article's pen name or author name.
9.2 Articles must have at least 500 words and at most 2000 words.
9.3 Only 5 articles a day for normal members and 7 articles a day for Platinum members. Platinum members are members who paid the platinum membership fee of $59.95/month.


10.0 Amazines Alexa Rating 18,433; Google Pagerank: 3

No unique guidelines but the usual ones like posting your original articles.

Since I only name a few of their guidelines, I am strongly advising you to read their FAQ or Submission Guidelines carefully before submitting; so you do not get upset if your articles will be disapproved.

Article Source: Humane Blogging Tips