article directory

collocation in English

meaningsofarticleanddirectory

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article
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɑː.tɪ.kəl/us
/ˈɑːr.t̬ɪ.kəl/
a piece of writing on a particular subject in a newspaper or magazine, or on ...
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directory
noun[C]
uk
/dɪˈrek.tər.i/us
/dɪˈrek.tɚ.i/
a book that gives a list of names, addresses, or ...
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(Definition ofarticleanddirectoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofarticle directory

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The social media website doubles as anarticledirectory, permitting users to add full articles as well as blog posts to their account.
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The article database is organized into anarticledirectorythat covers a wide variety of subjects.
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Anarticledirectorymay accept new articles from any contributor, but may require that a new article is unique (not published elsewhere) and not spun (see article spinning).
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Most article directories prohibit keyword stuffing, so it is good practice to use multiple anchor text and links in the article.
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By doing this, one article can theoretically acquire site visitors from a number of article directories.
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Most article directories allow links but usually limit the number to 2 or 3.
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Articles and article directories attract search engines because of their rich content.
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Popular article directories are considered authority sites and are constantly crawled by search engine bots.
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Sometimes article directories are referred to as content farms, which are websites created to produce mass content, where some are based on churnalism.
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However, article marketing makes use of article directories as a free host and receives traffic by way of organic searches due to the listing's search engine authority.
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Captchas are used by freemail services to prevent automatic creation of a huge number of email accounts and to protect automatic form submissions on blogs, forums and article directories.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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