Article Directory:

A  website  which lists and supplies articles  sorted in different categories. The articles are written by various authors who only need to register for free with the Article Directory site and then as members can submit their texts. Most Directories reserve their right to get the submissions checked for quality and then either approved and included into the listings or turned down.

Article Directories can serve an internet marketer in two ways:

• They can search for articles which they can put on their website as content  if the author and Directory regulations allow it and

• they can submit their own articles including  link  s to their website. If accepted they will have placed a one-way-link on another site and hopefully improved their link popularity and  search engine  ranking.
  Unfortunately this way of promoting a website was misused by so called article spammers  who turned out high numbers of auto generated very low quality articles and auto submitted them to as many Article Directories as possible. The Directories as well as search engines had to react on this kind of spamming. Directories heightened their standards for accepting articles and hired editors to keep up these standards. Some which either couldn’t or wouldn’t hire editors discontinued their service. Search engines reacted by lowering the value assigned to links from Article Directories thereby making this method of website promotion less effective for Internet marketers. Correctly done, however, it is still a way to generate traffic.
  
  

The homepage of one of the most popular Article Directories EzineArticles.com. The articles are sorted in separate categories for easier navigation. The most recently included articles are displayed, too.

[Article comes from Latin articulus as diminutive of artus = joint, meaning that separate written parts of join together to form a whole document such as separate clauses form a legal contract. Later extended to a literary composition as separate parts of a journal or magazine;

Directory comes from deregere, directus = to align, straighten, guide; a directory serving to guide it’s users directly to what they are trying to find]

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