There are many article directories out there.  But most of them are saturated. You submit your article and they got lost in the deep recesses of the article's database.  That's not cool.  You worked hard by researching and writing those articles only for it to become digital waste.  What you need to find is an article directory that doesn't have many articles but is on the up-and-up.

Obviously, start with a simple search in your favorite search engine(s).  Then, you can scour through the results and find ones that don't have many articles.  But many of these don't have articles because the webmasters don't update them.  Often, articles need to be approved by the site's administrator and many webmasters either don't know that is the case or they just don't get around to it.

When you do find a list of article directories that don't have many articles submitted, go ahead and submit an article to them.  This will give you an indication of whether the administrators are keeping up to date or if they are one of the many that have fallen down on the job.

If you do happen to see that your article gets reviewed (and hopefully approved) and it happens within a relatively short period of time (for directories that don't have a lot of articles this time should be no more than two or three days), then you know you have found a winner.

If you find that your article is not getting any attention, it's time to mark that in your list (don't delete it because you may forget later on which ones are bad).  Just make a note in a spreadsheet that you can refer to later.

Now, there is a caveat here.  The editor or administrator of the site might have been on vacation that particular week so I would give up to three weeks before making a decision.  On sites that have more articles than a handful but not oversaturated, consider giving more than one or two days.  Those are really the ones that are starting to take off.

To thank you for reading my Hub page, I am going to get you started on a site that is reviewed daily and doesn't have a lot of articles yet. It's growing though so you may want to sign up soon. How do I know that the sight is maintained? Simple! I own it!

Please note: I have removed the link that was here due to the FTC's new and sketchy guidelines about what constitutes an endorsement. I apologize if you are reading this and it left you a bit puzzled. But there are too many unknowns in these new guidelines to take a chance.