ArticlesBase.com is an often overlooked article directory. A great feature of ArticlesBase.com is that after about 10 articles you are pretty much free to have your articles instantly published. Even though it's links are no-follow, this article directory will get your article out on the web, sometimes in less than an hour. The record for me was 17 minutes after I hit the publish button.

But the feature that I like the best is the detailed analytics that are available. Not only will you get a graph of the daily hits your article receives, but you will get all of the keywords that lead people to your article, where they came from and what search engine they used. This makes ArticlesBase.com a great place to get real time feedback about your keywords and this feedback is fast and free. It is often surprising to see how people got to your website and I have mined several great keywords just by checking my ArticlesBase.com article's analytics.

Even as a newbie user your articles publish in 72 hours or less and, as I stated before, after about 10 articles they will publish instantly. Suddenly, getting your article on to page one of Google becomes possible, especially if there are fewer then 5000 articles on the web with that exact keyword. I have over 17 articles with ArticlesBase that appear on the first page of Google under their target keywords.