The Unlikely Mixture of Social Media and Article Directory Attracts a Staggering 4.4 Million Monthly Visitors Perhaps the first in our Best Article Directories Analysis Series, Gather.com is an article directory that also doubles as a social networking site. This is not one of a kind concept as one would think it is since there

Articlesnatch Has Very Little Crowd Pleasing Elements. Heck, It Doesn’t Even Try. So What Is The Reason Behind Its Enduring Success? Although a plethora of websites trump Articlesnatch in SEO stats, the website somehow manages to win our respect. The site, true to its motto, is simple, free, fast. It eschews pandering to a generic

With loads of pleasing elements and special emphasis on authorship, Articlebase seems to offer something for everyone Established in 2005, Articlebase presents itself as a site which aims to please. From actively offering gateways to social media to dynamically highlighting its contributors, Articlebase seems to reach out to a wide audience. The site since its

A stalwart among article directories, Suite101 may not head the pack but has a following that just won’t quit Started in 1996, Suite101 would seem like the grand-old daddy of article directories. The site took almost a decade to hit it big and through slow perseverance, has amassed a wide and expansive following amongst web

While Not Considered In the Top Ten Article Directories, Ezinemark Is Well On Its Way There We, at the WordsManShip, have been doing SWOT analyses of article directories for unique article writers with this being the ninth edition of the ongoing series. In the previous edition, we did a review of Buzzle.com, an article directory that

Once there was a coveted land of plenty, now there is nothing but ashes and dust Are there any web copy writers on the internet who have not heard of the name Buzzle? Can any of you claim to be more than 15 and below 60 and not know of Buzzle? Highly unlikely. We, at the WordsManShip,

In spite of limited geographical reach, the site has become one of the fastest growing websites in the world Launched all the way back in 1994 and re-launched in 2008 Examiner.com has come a long way. After its quick makeover, it immediately became an internet goliath. The site has a memorable and catchy domain name

Ornate and easy to use, HubPages reaches out to the general masses HubPages, along with Squidoo.com helped popularize the concept of revenue sharing in websites. Squidoo may have brought it to wide attention, but it wasn’t until HubPages came along that revenue sharing became an internet rage. While Squidoo was the innovator who introduced the

There Is a Lot of Potential with Technorati But Also Many Difficulties Now, you might think what is a blog search engine doing in our on-going SWOT analysis series of great article directories, but the fact is that one of the world’s foremost blog search engines automatically becomes a coveted platform for posting content for

Despite suggestions that panda and penguin updates stomped all over ezinearticles, the article directory is still doing well In the previous instalment of this series, we made a study of eHow.com in terms of its usefulness to an online entrepreneur. Now, we will look to do a SWOT analysis on another one of the stalwarts