The article directory is a phenomenon that is worth gold for anyone who wish to improve their online marketing. The hype about article directories is huge at the moment, and it is a great way to gain lots of referrals to your homepage. Furthermore the linkjuice value of links in a article you submit on an article directory is somewhat amazing.
Previously everyone used link directories to get their link out on the world wide web in order to get some value and rankings in the search engine’s. Lately this has become a very common method and the gained value has been decreasing compared the the spended effort.
People have searched new ways and blogging has appeared to be a very powerful way to get great links to your homepage. An article directory is not that much different from a blog. The structure of the homepage is quite similar and a article directory will hopefully share more usefull info than a blog since there are more writers to supply with articles. Getting relevant links in an article directory is therefore an amazing opportunity to surpass the old link directories and get a lead on your competitors during your linkbuilding.
So why are these links so important? Simply because Google continuesly search for information about all homepages in order to be able to present the users of their search engine to the best possible and informative result on the search term they provide. Google has no chance of knowing if all visitors will find a website useful simply from reading the content alone. But by reading ingoing links to that homepage Google can see every link as a vote of trust from the homepage that provides the link. The internet is as such a huge spiderweb, and the more path’s that lead to a certain node point the more quality Google expects it to have and hence the better rankings it recieves.
