Aside from owning several article directories, I am also an end user of it as I see it as one powerful and affordable technique for promoting your site. I have compiled several reasons on why you should submit to an article directory:

• Article Directories Are Free. Almost 99% of article directories are free, only a small percentage asks for payment mostly those with specific niche.

Most of webmasters today use social bookmarking as a tool for getting traffic and building backlinks for their site, and yes it is really effective.

I am talking about this after reading Gary Baybayan’s “My Game Plan That Conquered The Marhgil Macuha SEO Contest In Google.”

He won that seo contest by Marhgil Macuha taking the top spot a day before the contest end outranking Jehzlau’s entry which used to rank for a long time. I also joined that contest and placed 3rd (I only did social bookmarking for my entry, no other link building strategies).

After the speculations few days back, Marc Macalua of SEO Philippines finally declares the winners of the Paradise Philippines seo contest first checkpoint which was supposedly given last November 30. And I didn’t win coz I already gave up a month ago due to a lot of projects lined up.

Here’s the list of winners:

1. Mito Pontillas
2. Elmer Claveria
3. Jon Edward Santillan
4. Leoneil Maranan
5. Eligio Tapiador Jr.