In the interest of full disclosure, I'd like to say that I am in no way affiliated with Street Articles, nor to I receive any kind of compensation for my positive review of their service.

Article marketing is a great way to get traffic to your website. Not only do the articles rank in Google, but you also get traffic,comments, likes, shares, tweets, and more from members on the article directory who are either looking for information, or just browsing the community.

Unfortunately, wherever there is opportunity, opportunists flood in, and many popular article directories in previous years were flooded with internet marketers writing poor quality content for the sole purpose of getting traffic.

Low quality content linking to low quality sites reduced the overall usefulness of these sites, and they were soon penalized by Google, some having thousands of articles DERANKED from search engines.

About Street Articles

Sometimes referred to as SA, they're a relatively new directory, and they've got a very different outlook on community and on publishing articles.

The Community

The Street Articles community is made up mostly of internet marketers (from what I can see). There's no pretending here. I believe it was a mistake of other communities to pose as a place where people write 'just for fun', when in actuality, most people were writing to promote their own sites.

At SA, you are allowed to link to your own site, so no pretending is needed. In fact, you can link to your site in your profile, and write about your focus niche or industry in there as well!

This is just my opinion, but I believe this contributes to a completely different feeling. As an owner of an online business, I'm more interested to meet others that also own an internet based business, regardless of the industry. While I may not care at all about veganism, I may be interested in someone's business promoting living a vegan lifestyle.

I think others may feel this way as well, because I get a lot more clicks, a lot more shares, and a lot more comments on SA than I ever did on other directories.

Publishing Articles

Street Articles has a tough, and unflinching stance on submission rules, and quality is a huge metric taken into account.

There are many rules in their TOS that you won't see anywhere else.

Rules regarding link placement, link length, amount of links, the number of bolded word, the number of paragraphs, the length of the article, what content it links to, the subject of the article, and the relevancy of the landing page are all things than can make a difference between getting published, or not.

It's not to say that it's impossible to get anything published at Street Articles! In fact, it's easy. You'll need to learn a few rules, but once you do, you articles are often published within days, if not hours.

And best of all, SA is designed to get your articles ranked in Google, and ranked fast.

Conclusion

With a thriving community, fast approval, strict publishing policies, and awesome ranking Google, you can see why Street Articles is my favorite article directory, and I publish the majority of my articles here.