An Article directory is a website devoted to listing and categorising articles; these articles are usually written by people who sign up to the site and wish to submit their original content.

Sometimes article directories are just a collection of articles written by one author or one company. Some article directories are simply a way to promote other sites by submitting relevant articles containing linkbacks to the site or products and services.

An Article directory is a website devoted to listing and categorizing articles. These articles are usually written by people who sign up to the site and submit their original content. The articles are then usually made available for free to all internet users. Further, the articles are normally allowed by the authors to be reprinted in other websites, e-zines, and newsletters for as long as the articles are reprinted in full and proper attribution is given to the original authors and the article directory sites.

The big advantage of online article directories over traditional books is that most of the articles in the article directory sites are very fresh ideas. They get published in the online directories even before they see print in books.

In almost all instances, the authors submitting articles in these directories don’t get paid for doing so. Their biggest motivation for submitting an article is that the directory sites provide them with an author resource box at the end of the article where they could advertise their product and put in their URL links. The effect of this is that if the reader of an article likes the article, he/she is likely going to click on the URL link of the author’s website where the author can do a sales pitch of whatever product or service he/she is promoting.

Some of the more popular article directory sites at the moment are the following:

http://www.ezinearticles.com – very popular, with wide ranging topics covered, from Arts to Women’s Interests

http://www.articlecity.com – quite popular, with wide ranging topics covered, from Autos to Writing.

http://www.isnare.com – quite popular, but with much fewer article categories, from Advice to Writing

http://www.bestmanagementarticles.com – quite popular among businessmen and executives. Features only business and management articles, from Advertising to Workforce Management.

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