When I first plan to have my own article directory, I always ask my self, how do i get tonnes of traffic to my directory? Who will submit the articles to my directory? Are there any people out there interested in reading my article directory? And not forgetting how to monetizing my article directory (even in very early stage of planning, I already thinking about money). There are so many ‘what’, ‘who’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ keep flashing on my mind? 6 months ago, I’m totally absolute newbie with zero information about internet marketing, but I’m a little bit proud now with what I had achieved, even though there are a lot of holes that i still need to cover up

Articles Source
Ok, back to this topic, to get tonnes of articles to our articles directory is not as hard as what you imagine before. To get started, let’s go to some of best content providers that I ever know

ArticleMarketer.com
This is the first article source that i know. The main concept of article marketer is they will accept articles submitted by authours (you must register and pay small amount of money to have full functionality) verify and approve the articles before distributed it to thousand article directory out there. To receive articles, you must first register (free of charge) before choosing topics that you’re focus on. If you’re using Article Directory or Article Live script, you will be able to receive the articles using script provided by your article directory provider. Otherwise you have to receive the articles by email which I think require more effort and time. Read back my article title ‘Choosing your article directory script‘

iSnare.com
This is my secondary source of articles. Like Article Marketer, iSnare also provide articles to be publish to article directory owner. Registration is free. Again, for Article Directory owner, you will have slight advantage because there is a script provided to automate the process

ArticleTrader.com
I never use their service before. But some of you might interested to give it try

Pay attention on this
ArticleMarketer.com and iSnare.com are services that I’m currently use. So far it works pretty well, but there are some important point that you need to pay attention about automated content receiving process

1. Since the process of receiving content was automated, there are possibilities to receive duplicate content. If you’re using Article Dashboard, it has menu on admin panel to list down and delete the duplicate contents
2. Using automated receiving content will easily increase the number of articles and authors on your directory. But keep in mind, not all articles has quality on it
3. Do housekeeping on your article directory at least once in a month. Even though your content’s provider has taken necessary steps to filter out those spamming articles such as porn and scam, some of them still reach us. Browsing your article directory from time to time will give you an idea what’s going on inside
4. The more articles that you have means the more disk drive needed and more powerful server to handle all those operations and visitors. Keep loading time as low as possible is highly recommended to attract visitors staying longer in your directory and possibly comeback again in future

The importance of manual article submission.
Although I’m not denying the importance of automated article submission especially for new directory, having actual author registering and submitting articles is more important in a long run. You will get loyal visitor who will come visiting your directory from time to time. In my opinion having this visitor is more important than visitor who came to your directory via search engine. I can bet that none of authors submitted by your content provider will ever reach your directory if not referred by search engines.