Introduction
Anyone who has spent any time in the Wealthy Affiliate community will most likely be familiar with Street Articles. Its high profile in the WA community can perhaps be explained by that fact that it was also founded by Kyle and Carson – the two very people who founded WA several years ago.
Upon hearing about Street Articles, I was immediately sceptical as to its purported claims as one of the “best†article directories on the web. After all, it was the new kid on the block, and hadn’t had much time to develop into the service it was purported to be.
Well, now several months after its initial inception, Street Articles is a thriving article directory, and one that is making a name for itself on the web, one article at a time.
After publishing numerous articles on SA myself, I have experienced firsthand the many benefits of using this article directory for my online campaigns. It provides you with an effective medium to build backlinks, generate traffic, and most importantly, establish a solid reputation (or brand) for yourself online. If you have discounted the power of SA as an effective article directory, then think again.
If used effectively, SA articles can be an effective resource to build your online business.
@urn357: I understand where you're coming and you do raise some legitimate concerns. I'm not claiming these techniques will work for everyone, but I have certainly noticed a higher CTR on most of the articles I submit using these strategies. I'll upload some screenshots when I have a chance, but it's not uncommon for me to get CTR around 20 - 30% on my SA articles.
Part of a high CTR also has to do with the article topic and the quality of the article. Some topics are just not going to give you a high CTR for various reasons (e.g. not something people are passionate/emotional about).
In response to SA not coming up in webmaster tools, I have noticed a similar thing as you sometimes. However, webmaster also doesn't show ALL of the links going to your website. Just because it doesn't come up in webmaster doesn't mean Google doesn't recognize it. And no, SA has not changed their links to NF.
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And I've said this before in the forum. Google webmaster tools no longer recognizes my links from SA. They used to about 6-10 months ago, but nope not anymore. So if you are looking for Google to recognize your links from SA, then good luck on that. Yeah, your article may rank high in their search engine, but I think SA changed their links to NF or something. I will think this way until they clarify and show me I'm wrong anyway.
And I've said this before in the forum. Google webmaster tools no longer recognizes my links from SA. They used to about 6-10 months ago, but nope not anymore. So if you are looking for Google to recognize your links from SA, then good luck on that. Yeah, your article may rank high in their search engine, but I think SA changed their links to NF or something. I will think this way until they clarify and show me I'm wrong anyway.
