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One good way of building credibility and to gain more visitors (and sometimes even buyers if you sell something) is to write articles and submit them to article directories. By writing and submitting articles your article get included in search engines so visitors can find them and later the visitors even find your site.

Another positive thing with writing articles is that you get some link juice too from the directories you submit your articles to.

But how do you know if a directory is worth submitting your articles to? The answer is that you need to check how many visitors each directory you want to submit articles to and that can be an time consuming thing. You may also have to update your list of directories each month with new visitors statistics, so it's unfortunately not a one time task you need to do.

There are several lists available with article directories that also list how many visitors they got, but most of these lists are static which means that they are almost never updated with new statistics. Another downside is that mostly you can't sort the list or search for specific types of article directories either

This is why we've created an article directory list which collects traffic data on a monthly bases and updates the list each month. You can of course re-sort the list in various ways and you can search for sites accepting both free and paid article submissions. At the moment there's only one article directory in our list offering a premium (paid) service with guaranteed inclusion in the directory.

In the list we've also tried to figure out which sites require registration and which sites you can submit your articles without having to sign up for an account. Most sites do require registration, but the good thing is that you have already signed up the next time you submit articles

With a little bit of luck we should also be able to add a rating system where you can rate the directories based on how good you think they are. That way you can figure out which directories got both much traffic and a good rating. But this is a future task for us, so at the moment you have to settle for just traffic statistics.

If you know of an article directory not included in the list you can of course suggest it to us and we'll review if the directory is worth mentioning on the list. The whole idea with this list is that old, non-working directories will be removed and new good directories will be added as time goes by to make this service valuable to our users

Check out the list and let us know what you think of it!

About the author
Andreas co-founded Xavier Media® in 1996 and has since been involved in all kinds of development, marketing and making money online.