When it comes to archiving text links to your website, one of the easiest methods would be to submit articles to article directories. You might think this is both time consuming and worthless, but you will find a number of techniques to ease the process of submitting your content to article directories. It’s good to know that article directory websites can supply not just a bunch of links, but some high quality links, that’ll get you towards the top of search engine outcomes rapidly.
Why would Article Directory Websites allow me to include a link in my article?
To answer that question, think about what the goal of an article directory is. Their goal is like many other websites’ out there – to make money. The method they will make money is through advertising programs, mostly through text link ads embedded within the articles that people submit to their website. These sites want as many articles as they can get. Many of the article directories won’t be ranking for the high competition key phrases, but they will very much traffic from long tail key phrases. A portion of this traffic will click on text ads in the articles.
Now, in return for the free content that they get from people who add unique content articles, they will allow the authors to put a couple of text links in the articles to whatever website they want, with whatever anchor text they want. This is a win-win situation for both parties. You will get your text links to your website, and they’ll get the free unique content. So, it’s only the webmaster’s job to submit as many articles to the numerous article directories to get the most text links they can.
What Is A Quality Backlink?
A quality backlink is any kind of link from a website similar to your own, that is relevant to yours. The page rank is just the amount of quality backlinks a website has within the search engines. Search engines will provide a page rank of 0 to 10, 10 being the highest page rank a website can get, and just a few websites have a page rank 10. A really good link for you to get would be one with page rank 4 or higher. There are some other issues involved when determining what a quality backlink is. However, Page Rank is not as important as it used to be, so you’d better focus on the quality of what you write than dreaming of high Page Ranks.
Page rank is one factor but the link is also great if it contains an anchored keyword. If you get a link from a website with page rank 4, but the link says “click here”, that won’t be as helpful as a link that is anchored in the key phrases you are trying to rank for. For example, if you are searching to rank for “car insurance”, the link should contain “car insurance”. This tells the search engines that not just your website is essential, but it tells them that your website is about “car insurance” and should be ranked greater for this keyword.
One more thing about a quality backlink: the link should be contained within the article itself, not within the sidebar or within the footer of the website. A link in the content of the site provides better authority to your website than a sidebar or footer link would. So what’s the best backlink you can get? Well one that:
- Is from a high page rank website, of a similar industry as yours
- Is correctly anchored with your key words
- Is inside the content of the website, not in the sidebar or footer
To sum it up, article directory wesites can provide quality text links, if you respect a few simple steps.
Kyle M. Ferguson is moderator at http://www.articleinput.com/ which is an article directory where people can submit their articles for free.



