If you want to manually submit your articles then you need the top 10 article directories to submit to. You will find those listed below.

Let me give you a little bit of advice when it comes to somebody and articles. It makes sense to have your articles in the article directories that get the most traffic. Because this gives you the most opportunities to get traffic.

However, if you have a very targeted niche that your websites in, you don’t want to ignore targeted article directories it can bring you a quality traffic that you want either.

One strategy I have used successfully now for couple of years is submitting my articles to Submit Your Article.com and using their Article Leverage program. This allows me to get thousands of unique article versions into hundreds of article directories every month.

Using this strategy I’ve been able to amass over 15,000 back links to my team Schuman website. If you do not like to write I started a program called Hands Off Article Marketing to write for you and teach you how to use article leverage to your advantage.

One other thing to keep in mind is to spend more time writing and less time submitting. One strategy for this is to write 250 to 300 word articles and submit them only to Ezinearticles.com.

Take the extra time that you would have used to submit to other directories and write more articles for this targeted directory. Since they are the most visited article directory on the Internet this makes sense too.

Here’s the top 10 article directories list if you want to submit to multiple directories manually. I have listed the url and Alexa ranking.

http://www.ezinearticles.com/ 660
http://www.stickyarticle.com/ 1,089
http://www.goarticles.com/ 2,317
http://www.searchwarp.com/ 3,266
http://www.articledashboard.com/ 3,557
http://www.webpronews.com/ 3,628
http://www.buzzle.com/ 5,594
http://www.isnare.com/ 5,841
http://www.contentdesk.com/ 5,856
http://www.articlecity.com/ 5,887

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