An article directory is an online platform that mainly hosts a collection of editorial articles. Users can submit articles they have written themselves via a web form, often in text form. Similar to Wikipedia, article directories enable websites to improve their ranking in the search results of search engines<\/a> such as Google<\/a> through backlinks. <\/p>\n\n Article directories offer a variety of articles and contributions on different topics, which are usually 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 from an editorial team before they are published. Article directories can be paid or free, with many based on the free submission model. Operators receive free content<\/a> and get one or two backlinks in return, while the server costs are financed by placed advertising. <\/p>\n\n In the late 1990s, as the internet became more accessible to private users, searching for relevant information on specific topics proved challenging. Search engines were comparatively inefficient, and the emergence of article directories made it possible to provide targeted answers to user questions. Good rankings in search results made article directories increasingly interesting for advertisers, especially in the area of search engine optimization (SEO)<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n Article directories were used in the past as a simple method for building backlinks. Submitting articles allowed backlinks to point to the original website<\/a>, improving its visibility. However, with Google’s 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 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":3,"href":"https:\/\/seo-marketing.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45238,"href":"https:\/\/seo-marketing.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions\/45238"}],"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