ABC Article Directory Blog

Yes, it’s true. I have started a new, free, article directory topsites list, as an additional service at the ABC Article Directory. Anyone that has an article directory or article directories, can have their sites monitored and compared to other similar sites in terms of traffic and position.

The new script can be seen at,  http://www.abcarticledirectory.com/top-article-directory/ , and, if you happen to have an article directory of your own, I will be more than  happy to have you on board.

If you are an author wanting to know where to place your articles, it might be a good idea to see how much traffic some article directories are generating. After all, what’s the use of submitting articles to every directory on the planet if most of them get little or no visitors. You want your articles to be seen and read.

If you happen to let Google or Yahoo influence your choice of article directories to submit to, you may be sadly disappointed. do a search for”article directory”and you will find a lot of the top sites are listed in the first few pages, however, quite a few of these sites get very little traffic. The ABC Article Directory, is rightly well placed, high among the top sites  by the major search engines and also gets good daily traffic as well.

Since this toplist is new, it will take some time before it is noticed and article directories start to submit their sites. Slowly but surely, the list will grow to the current specified number of 25 top sites. Depending on the demand, I may increase the number of sites monitored to a higher number. My server may also have something to say about how many sites I can add.

I am using the Aardvark Topsites PHP 5.2.0 script and is licensed under the GNU General Public License, which appears to be fairly stable and is widely used for this type of monitoring. A topsites list ranks a group of related sites by popularity. Webmasters join the topsites list and are given a button to put on their site and link back to the topsites list.

The script counts pageviews, hits in, and hits out as well as keeping vital stats for individual members and overall stats for the entire list. As for security, there is built-in anti-cheating safety in the form of a security question, CAPTCHA and other protection from spamming, cheating and abuse.  

I sincerely hope this top site list of article directories becomes an important and useful resource for authors, webmasters, publishers and the general public.