Importance of Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization is a method of increasing the amount of visitors and the awareness of a website by ranking high in the search engines. The higher the rank of a website in the result of the search engines the better the chance the website will be visited [...]

PageRank Explained
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the [...]

he below list contains 160+ article directories and arranged them according to PageRank.
PR 6
http://www.articlebiz.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.easyarticles.com/
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.goarticles.com/
PR 5
http://www.excellentguide.com/article/
http://www.anyarticles.com/
http://www.articlealley.com/
http://www.articlemotron.com/
http://www.articlesexpress.com/
http://www.articleson.com/
http://www.bigarticles.com/
http://www.earticlesonline.com/
http://www.ezinefinder.com/
http://www.iarticlebeach.com/
http://www.isnare.com/
http://www.a1articles.com/
http://www.article-mania.com/
http://www.ideamarketers.com/
PR 4
http://www.dailytopstories.com/
http://www.instantcashflow.org/free-article-directory/
http://www.aadpro.com/
http://www.activeauthors.com/
http://www.amazines.com/
http://www.answer-site.com/
http://www.articlebeam.com/
http://www.articlebin.com/
http://www.articlebar.com/
http://www.articlecube.com/
http://www.articledepot.co.uk/
http://www.articlefever.com/
http://www.articlefusion.com/
http://www.articlehub.com/
http://www.articleintelligence.com/
http://www.articlekarma.com/
http://www.articlemap.com/
http://www.articlemarketer.com/
http://www.articlerich.com/
http://www.articles4free.com/
http://www.articlesbeyondbetter.com/
http://www.articlesoup.com/
http://www.articlesphere.com/
http://www.articles-submit.com/
http://www.articlewarehouse.com/
http://www.content-articles.com/
http://www.contentdesk.com/
http://www.contentmasterworld.com/
http://www.ezinecrow.com/
http://www.free-articles-zone.com/
http://www.freecontentzone.com/
http://freeinternetarticles.com/
http://www.freewebsitearticles.com/
http://www.freezine-articles.com/
http://www.goarticles.net/
http://www.infonexus.org/
http://www.articlewarehouse.net/
http://www.allaroundsuccess.com/
http://www.articleblotter.com/
http://www.articlecat.com/
http://www.articles4cash.com/
http://www.articlesaz.com/
http://www.articles-online.biz/
http://www.articleteller.com/
http://www.articlewheel.com/
http://www.featured-articles.com/
http://www.freeinternetarticles.com/
http://www.propertymagnate.com/articles/
http://www.articlemaster.com/
http://www.contenttycoon.com/
http://www.point-articles.com/
http://www.articleshouse.com/
PR 3
http://www.101articles.com/
http://www.wisearticles.com/
http://www.acearticles.com/
http://www.acmearticles.com/
http://www.addarticle-submitfree.com/
http://www.ababba.com/
http://www.activearticles.com/
http://www.articleaccess.com/
http://www.articleavenue.com/
http://www.articleboutique.com/ - nice collection of articles but no submission.
http://www.article-blogs.info/
http://www.articlebliss.com/
http://www.articleblender.com/
http://www.articleboy.com/
http://www.articlebunch.com/
http://www.articlecapital.com/
http://www.articlecircuit.com/
http://www.articlecrazy.com/
http://www.article-database.com/
http://www.articledestination.com/
http://www.article-domain.com/
http://www.articlefair.com/
http://www.articlefarm.com/
http://www.articlefocus.com/
http://www.articlegarden.com/
http://www.articlegroup.com/
http://www.articlehopper.com/
http://www.articlelookup.com/
http://www.articlemailbox.com/
http://www.articleonlinedirectory.com/
http://www.articlepot.com/
http://www.articlerampage.com/
http://www.articles365.com/
http://www.articles24.com/
http://www.articles4reprint.com/
http://www.articles-4-free.com/
http://www.articlesandauthors.com/
http://www.articlesbase.com
http://www.articleselections.com/
http://www.articles-galore.com/
http://www.articleshelf.com/
http://www.articles-hub.com/
http://www.articles-keyword-rich.com/
http://www.articleskingdom.com/
http://www.articlesmagazine.com/
http://www.articlesnetwork.com/
http://www.articlestack.com/
http://www.articlestash.com/
http://www.bigarticledirectory.com/
http://www.cajun101.com/
http://www.content-corral.com/
http://www.contentfueled.com/
http://www.content-edge.com/
http://www.everydayarticles.com/
http://www.ezinearticles.biz/
http://www.ezine-writer.com.au/
http://www.ezineplug.com/
http://www.findandpostarticles.com/
http://www.free-articles-search.com/
http://www.freebie-articles.com/
http://www.free-content-resource.com/
http://www.freezinesite.com/
http://www.getyourarticles.com/
http://www.geminipublishing.com/
http://ireprint.info/
http://www.superarchives.com/
http://www.technoarti.net
http://www.articlewiz.com
http://www.afroarticles.com/
http://www.articlepile.com/
http://www.article-hangout.com/
http://www.articlenews.us/
http://www.articles411.com/
http://www.articlesbase.com/
http://www.articlescorner.com/
http://www.articlesolutions.com/
http://www.articletogo.com
http://www.articletower.com
http://www.articletrader.com
http://www.article-treasure.com
http://www.articletrunk.com
http://www.article-warehouse.com
http://www.articlewise.com/
http://www.findanarticle.co.uk/
http://www.findandpostarticles.com/
http://www.ideamarketers.com/
http://www.jodee.biz/
http://www.miniseo.com/
http://www.mainarticles.com/
PR 2
http://www.1articleworld.com/
http://www.ablearticles.co.uk/
http://www.allaboutarticles.org/
http://www.articlebag.com/
http://www.articlecorral.com/
http://www.articledaddy.com/
http://www.articlefeeder.com/
http://www.articleforyou.com/
http://www.articleinterchange.com/
http://www.articlejoe.com/
http://www.articlelocker.com/
http://www.articlemax.com/
http://www.articlepeak.com/
http://www.articleportal.com/
http://www.articleprobe.com/
http://www.articlerocket.com/
http://www.articlesearchnet.com/
http://www.articlesindex.com/
http://www.articlesnet.co.uk/
http://www.articlesnatch.com/
http://www.articlesonline.org/
http://www.articlesrightnow.com/
http://www.authorcontent.com/
http://www.bestarticlecity.com/
http://www.goodinfohome.com/
http://www.all-you-need-to-know.com/
http://www.articleaddict.com/
http://www.articlenest.com/
http://www.articles4rss.com/
http://www.articlesrus.net/
http://www.articlewell.com/
http://www.ehealtharticle.com/
PR 1
http://www.a1-articledirectory.com/
http://www.articlefrenzy.com/
http://www.articlejunction.com/
http://www.article-monster.com/
http://www.articleoptimizer.com/
http://www.articlepipeline.com/
http://www.eclipse-articles.com/
http://www.fetcharticles.com/
http://www.free-article-directory.com/
http://www.articlerealm.com/
http://www.articles4content.com/
http://www.article-search-online.com/
http://www.articlesworld.net/
http://www.directarticles.com/
http://www.articlenext.com/

PR 0
http://www.articlestonurture.com/
http://www.articlequery.com/
http://www.freeliveknowledge.com/
http://www.article-free.net/
http://articles.seo-solution.net/
http://www.articlesalley.com/
http://www.article-store.com/
http://www.contentarticles.com/
http://www.dezinersplace.com/
http://www.freearticlehq.com/
http://www.hotarticles.net/
http://www.internetmagnet.com/
http://www.ad-matrix.net/
http://www.finance-business-law.com
http://www.articleonramp.com/
http://www.ezinesarticle.com/
http://www.articlemanual.com/
http://www.financemanual.com/
http://www.thehealthmanual.com/
http://ezineprime.hubprime.com/
http://www.articlecritic.com/
http://www.articlecritic.net/
http://www.articlem.com/
http://www.articleobsession.com/
http://www.freearticlehq.com/
http://www.actionarticles.com/
The above table displays a list of HTML-Friendly Article Directory Submission Web Sites. In other words, this is every directory I could find that will accept HTML. The list [...]

Here is list of 50 Social Bookmarking Websites . As i mention in my post “10 Steps for Getting Traffic/Hits from Social Bookmarking Sites” that Social Bookmarking Websites are good source for few thousand extra hits for a website.

30daytags
BlinkBits
BlogHop
BlogLot
BlogMarks
BlogMemes
BlogPulse
BmAccess
browsr
Fark
CiteULike
clipclip
clipmarks
Complore
Connectedy
Connotea
de.lirio.us
del.icio.us
digg
diigo
fantacular
Feedmarker
Feed Me Links
Furl
Gibeo
GoKoDo
Google Notebook
IceRocket
Kaboodle
linkaGoGo
linkfilter.net
linkroll
Listible
Lookmarks
ma.gnolia
Netvouz
Newsvine
openBM
RawSugar
reddit
Rojo
Rollyo
Scuttle
Shadows
Simpy
Sitetagger
Smarking
Spurl
StumbleUpon
taghop

Social Bookmarking Sites like Digg.com, Stumbleupon.com and reddit.com etc. are easy way of getting few thousands extra hits to your website. But like everywhere competetion is here too. So post must be at first page of thise social bookmarking website, its not very difficult task but not very easy too. So here are 10 simple  [...]

As such, a web host can not help to improve the rankings. Search Engines will not rank you higher because your site is hosted on a particular web host (means buying hosting from Yahoo does not means your site will rank well in Yahoo) but yes if you choose a web host that remains down [...]

DMOZ (www.dmoz.org) has the ability to frustrate webmasters with its opaque site selection process. Though the guidelines are clear and fair, the actual implementation is not.
The only 3 things you can do to possibly get into DMOZ faster are:
1) Follow all the editorial guidelines
2) Choose the right subcategory
3) Submit a meaningful site.
Despite following all 3 [...]

A linkfarm is any type of website in which there is no real content, service, or purpose, but rather just a load of non-related reciprical links to other places. Generally linkfarms are built to increase search engine rankings and turn a profit, which means they’re also generally littered with advertisements from affiliate programs the site [...]

The best way to get more links to your site is through hard work.
In order to find sites that are relevant to yours and allow you to post a link on, you can perform the following searches:
Replace the keyword with the phrase you are targeting.
keyword “add url”
keyword “add site”
keyword “submit site”
keyword “submit url”
If you perform [...]

One big way in which search engines are granting importance to web pages are based on how many other sites are linking to it.
PageRank is a system implemented by Google that measures web page’s importance with only taking into account the links and links related factors. The other big search engines (Yahoo, MSN) probably have [...]