Top 10 Article Banks

An article bank is a web site where people can post articles for webmasters, ezine publishers, newsletter editors and offline publications to find and reprint. The writer's "payment" for having his or her article used is that the writer's byline, resource box and link will be included with the article.
In essence, it's free advertising for the writer and helps build link popularity to his or her web site. Since starting IdeaMarketers.com as an article submission site in December 1998, the number of article banks has mushroomed.

There are literally hundreds of them. But every article directory isn't of the same value to you as a submitter. Some receive little traffic. With the 1,000's of articles in these databases, your article is bound to get lost. A good way to decide which article banks to submit your articles to is to go to http://www.alexa.com and look up their traffic. A site with an Alexa ranking of 500,000 or less is receiving a decent clip of traffic.

The lower the Alexa ranking number, the more Alexa users visit that site. It's not a hard and fast determination of traffic because not everyone has Alexa's toolbar installed on their browser. But, it will give you a good general idea.

Here are ten of the most popular article banks on the internet, in alphabetical order:

www.amazines.com
www.articlealley.com
www.articlecity.com
www.articledashboard.com
www.articledepot.co.uk
www.articlefinders.com
www.certificate.net
www.ezinearticles.com
www.freesticky.com