Site owners throughout the internet use an article directory service to gain both traffic and free one way links for their website or blog. Most are likely to sign up for a bunch. But I have realized that most article directories will let you turn in articles with just a user name and password while others want your full address. So I was wondering why would article directory service need your residency? What do they need it for?

Well some article directories will mail you free stuff from time to time like glasses, t-shirts and pencils with their company logo on it. Do you really want any of those things? Of course not.

I could see if the article directory were going to buy your article by check then it would make sense. But I do not know of any article directories that pays.

Then there are others that sell your address to businesses that will send you junk mail and sorts. Have you created an account for a bunch of article directories and discovered an increase in junk mail? That is where it is likely to come from.

They surely not coming over your house to visit you. Eat dinner and be your friend and keep you company. So why do they ask for your address? Who truely knows the answer but I would not give them my address until I inspected thoroughly first.

They are an article directory service and they should ask for quality articles and not your residence. The deal is that webmasters give you content and in return you get backlinks to your site and maybe some web traffic. Where that writer live should not matter. If they don’t like your article then they can simply reject it and they do not need your address to do that. They are not going to send the article cops to my home right?

So if you are thinking about creating an account for another article directory service that ask for your home address just do a little research on them first. See what could go wrong before you give up your address.

Would you like to use a free article directory that does not ask for your address or require you to sign up as a member? Then see more about it here at free article directory. Or go directly to it by going to free article submission and get started. For other directories see website directories.

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