An article directory is an online platform that primarily hosts a collection of editorial articles. Users can submit articles they have written themselves via a web form; these are often in text format. Similar to Wikipedia, article directories use backlinks to help improve a website\u2019s ranking in search results on search engines<\/a> like Google<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n Article directories offer a wide variety of articles and posts on various topics, which are typically organized by category. These platforms are designed to provide users with relevant information on specific topics. Articles are usually submitted via a web form and often require approval by an editorial team before they are published. Article directories can be free or paid, though many operate on a free-submission model. Operators thus receive free content<\/a> and, in return, one or two backlinks, while server costs are covered by advertising. <\/p>\n\n In the late 1990s, as the Internet became more accessible to home users, finding relevant information on specific topics proved to be a challenge. Search engines were relatively inefficient, and the emergence of article directories made it possible to provide targeted answers to users\u2019 questions. Thanks to their high rankings in search results, article directories became increasingly attractive to advertisers, particularly in the field of search engine optimization (SEO)<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n In the past, article directories were used as a simple method for building backlinks. Submitting articles created backlinks that pointed to the original website<\/a>, thereby improving its visibility. However, with Google\u2019s Penguin update in 2012, many backlinks from article directories were devalued, and some directories were removed from the index. As a result, article directories lost their importance for link building<\/a> and are rarely used today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An article directory is an online platform for the submission of editorial articles to increase the visibility of websites through backlinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lexicon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seo-marketing.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seo-marketing.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seo-marketing.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seo-marketing.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seo-marketing.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8465"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/seo-marketing.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45837,"href":"https:\/\/seo-marketing.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions\/45837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seo-marketing.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seo-marketing.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seo-marketing.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seo-marketing.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Use of article directories<\/h3>\n\n
Historical context of the article directories<\/h3>\n\n
Importance for search engine optimization<\/h3>\n\n