What held me back for so long? Well, if the truth be told I'm really not much of a tech and putting together a database, the mysql, email responders, finding the authors to submit articles to my article directory and that's just a small part of what's needed. I would need to approve articles for publication on my article directory site, after I find them. Don't forget the web hosting, web design, all the search engine friendly stuff. Monitize the article directory with any products I may have and become an affiliate of other products that may be of interest to the crowd I am drawing to my article directory.
Traffic? If I don't find a way to drive traffic then it's all for nothing. It won't matter how great an article directory site I have and it won't matter that I have fantastic offers at unheard of prices, because those unheard of prices will still be unheard of. So, I hear I need to have my article directory listed with the search engines. I need to have plenty of back links from other sites that point back to my article directory, writing articles like this one and publishing it to other article directories is one great way to do this. It especially helps when an article directory has a high Google page rank. Then there are the reciprocal back links, where I find sites that are willing to put my link on their site and I put their link on my article directory, again, if they have a high page rank it really helps.
Oh yeah, they also tell me that the article directory article needs a keyword density of 3% - 5%. That means I need the keyword Article Directory in this article one more time, there it is.
Anyway, It all boiled down to this.
1-It's a lot of work.
2-I need a great article directory program.
3-I needed help.
4-I needed some good instructions.
5-I needed to ask questions and get answers.
6-I needed to see and at least half way understand what others have done before me.
The first article directory program I used, I spent some time with and was struggling. Then my wife asked how I was doing and I said not well, that's when she told me she got an email from an Internet marketer that offered a free article directory program called Article Dashboard. I downloaded it and to my surprise, everything I needed was there and then some.
FIRST let me tell you that the Article Dashboard article directory program itself is a 12 on a scale of 1-10.
SECOND there's a Article Dashboard Forum. The people in there are the best and the moderators are even better, very friendly and very knowledgeable.
THIRD there's even a Article Dashboard University that will take you through many courses on many article directory subjects.
What more could I ask for. I checked out the University and then went to the forum with a couple questions. I got a quick response and struggled a little and a very kind moderator lady helped me with my problem and I was up and running in no time. I'm still customizing, monitizing and starting to drive traffic to my article directory. There's no way I could have done this with out the Article Dashboard program, university, forum and especially the people.
If you ever thought about starting an Article Directory, I highly recommend Article Dashboard. You can find a free download of it on my site. Tell a friend.
