After having a rough idea of what kind of article directory you want (or you opt for general article directory) it is now to get started. Please bear in mind, some basic skills such as PHP, HTML and javascript may needed in order to mod the this script to make them look better or add on the new features. W3schools is a good place to get started about all this stuff

Article Dashboard
Frankly speaking, i have never try article directory script other than article dashboard. I’m not sure how i came across this script, but for me Article Dashboard is quite awesome. Recommending you using this script solely because it was offered free of charge is not really cool. Do find out yourself here . To get more out of it, visit official forum which allow members to discuss almost everything about Article Dashboard

Pro – FREE, a lot of features such as RSS, tell a friend script
Cons – Encoded with ioncube, less modification, no formal support except from the forum

Article Friendly
Article Friendly was developed by one of the original Article Dashboard strong back ender. Like Article Dashboard, it do have a lot of feature with 2 different things. The script is not free, it cost you USD49 to get the it, but the good thing, is that, it does not encoded. Members are free to modify whatever they want. I have plan to build another article directory using this script soon

Pro :Modifiable, a lot of features and add on, not encoded
Cons : Not free

Article MS
Another free article directory script form Article Trader I have no idea how it’s look like, but if you’re interested, you can view featured article directory such as Article Devil

ArticleLive NX
A product of Interspire You can view the script in action at cyblogger

There are thousands of article directory scripts out there to choose from. You can simply get million’s name by searching from Google or Yahoo. This is some of the script that i found from Digital Forum that i think might worth to be tried. As a newbie, to get started, you might try Article Dashboard before moving on to the paid script.

This would be my third article of my series about earning an income from article directories and articles generally. Read my previous articles in this series to get more information

Topics

Before getting started to build your own article directory, you should have an idea of the type of article directory that you want. You can decide if you want to build a general topic article directory or focus specifically on certain niche topic.

I’m not very good in doing research, but i can point you where you can get some good articles and ebooks for reference

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After spending the last 2 days doing some promotion on my new blog, it is time again to again about what i did when i first ventured into internet marketing. I’m not sure if this topic will gain interest from reader, but do not underestimate the power of article directory.

Monetary benefit
This would be the first thing that come out on our mind before doing something. Though article directory is not promising you a lot of income, but with the right strategy, it’s worth to be try. I know that this is not a decent income for everyone, but i have never imagined that i will earn this much from internet before. I started to get serious in my project around 2 months ago (after I had completed probation period on my company)

I humbly list down potential income based on my experience

1. google adsense – USD 200-300
2. Kontera – USD 30
3. Referral product – USD 10-15
3. Auction ads – USD 10 (just started)

This would be an additional income around USD250-350 (RM 912.5 – RM1277.5 based on USD1 = RM3.65) per month. This is quite a lot for me who earn in RM. Enough to cover my mortgage and car loan. This few hundred increase in your monthly income will have few advantage to yourself. Who will give you this if you’re not the one who go for it. None.

The good thing about article directory is it run in semi-auto pilot mode. It doesn’t mean that you don’t have to check it everyday, but it needs less time and effort. This is completely different with blog where you have to post at least 1 article per day to make the visitor stick with your blog, do research on up-to-date and interesting topic

Knowledge is power
Other than monetary benefit, you will gain a lot of knowledge from there. When i first started in this internet marketing, i did read my own article directory quite often. It is like one stop center for everything which cover a lot of topics such as business, travel, blogging, dating, arts and many more. To make your reading experience better, you do have choices such as subscribing the article through RSS or newsletter. Talking about the content, not all article directory content are crap or created specifically for promoting product or website, it does have quality content which is worth to be read

Fully use your article directory
Having popular article directory means a lot of opportunity to you. You will get email request for link exchange (also spamming email) . Use this opportunity properly. Set you own web directory on top of your article directory. By using web directory, you can keep track of the link exchange as and at the same time let your visitors submit new websites or visit websites available in there. Set up your own blog there to put up announcements, promotions, tips for visitor.The more you interact with them, the more your visitors will spend their time inside

Maximize your content
Although this part is not really recommended, but it does have potential income for you. Using content from article directory on your own blog is 2 strategies in 1. First of all, you have steady source of content from your own article directory. Secondly, each article has it’s own ‘resource box’ which can’t be removed whereby one of the contents of ‘resource box’ is the link to your directory

I do hope with my poor English, my message can be interpreted by everyone. To end this part 2, i would like to summarize what i have mentioned above

1. Earn income in semi auto pilot mode
2. Gain knowledge from your own directory
3. Include add on function on your article directory such as web directory, blog and picture gallery
4. Maximize your content