By Donna Knight
If you’re looking for a high quality article directory to post your articles to and you don’t have time to post to 200+ article directories. The best article directory is EzineArticles.com. The reason I rate this as one of the best article directories is that they have very, very strict article submission guidelines. This means that articles by spammers and people who don’t have a clue about writing decent articles will be rejected. This also means you really have to read their guidelines before posting and you must be up on your article writing game.
My only complaint is their Premium article membership is very expensive at $97 per month, so it is pretty much out of reach for individual article writers unless they are making lots of money from their articles. Premium membership puts your articles near the top of the approval queue. Therefore it speeds up the approval process; however, it does not guarantee your articles will be approved.
They have three author types: Basic, Basic Plus and Platinum. Everyone starts out with Basic membership. After you submit 10 articles, they will consider upgrading you to Basic Plus membership. This allows you to submit 25 articles. If your articles meet have been excellent at meeting their guidelines you may then be eligible for Platinum membership. By the way, premium paid membership does not buy you an upgrade to Basic Plus or Platinum membership. You have to earn the trust of this directory to earn Platinum membership.
My only complaint about upgraded memberships is that some Platinum members have only submitted two articles. This makes me wonder how someone who has submitted two articles has earned Platinum membership. I would think you need to have submitted more samples than this to earn such high level of trust. The only reason I can see for this upgrade in these cases is because the author has a high position in a company. I’m not completely sure how this makes one a trusted author because I have worked with executives whose writing skills left a lot to be desired. This makes me suspicious of elitism or nepotism or something similar, which I am not a fan of.
While I do believe writers who are leaders in their field deserve respect, I think they should at least be required to submit at least the 10 articles that all Basic members are allowed. Only then, would there be enough of a sample of the author’s writing that clearly demonstrates excellent writing skills.
Other than this hint of aristocracy, I do recommend that you join EzineArticles.com if you want your articles to be exposed to a high traffic highly respected article site that is not full of garbage. You can join for free at http://www.ezinearticles.com.