| Article submission software – people always | | | | to 100 article directories a day manually without |
| ask if they are really useful in article marketing. | | | | article submissions software, we can really gain a |
| To paraphrase that, what online marketers really | | | | great deal of exposure for our websites be it a |
| want to know is whether there truly are merits in | | | | business or hobby site. With so many submissions, |
| using them to submit articles. The truth is there | | | | we are putting our content before hundreds to |
| are two schools of thinking about using article | | | | thousands of eyeballs everyday. But the problem |
| submission software. As usual, there are those | | | | is we only have 24 hours and taking away time |
| who do not believe it works while another group | | | | for sleep, meals and breaks, there are only a few |
| can vouch to its effectiveness. Why don’t we | | | | hours to do that. We are limited in our time. With |
| have a quick look at the workings of the article | | | | article submission software, it allows people to |
| submission software before we decide if we | | | | write more and post more each day. Instead of |
| should submit articles with them? | | | | one article to 100 directories manually, we are |
| Article submission software in recent years have | | | | talking about potentially, several articles to few |
| been emerging as a tool to replace manual | | | | 100s of article directories. |
| submission. When I first started online marketing, I | | | | There is another twist to using article submission |
| wrote articles and submit manually to these article | | | | software. Search engines like Google, Yahoo and |
| directories like GoArticles, HotLib and a few other | | | | MSN are constantly ranking websites or for |
| popular article directories. It often takes me more | | | | accuracy purpose, web pages according to link |
| than a few hours to submit to more than a | | | | popularity. Article directories are high Page Rank |
| dozen article directories. There was the log in, | | | | sites and links from these directories count as |
| followed by sieving through the article submission | | | | powerful one-way links. So how do we get these |
| form, copying and pasting my article title, article | | | | article directories to link to our websites? The |
| body, article summary, relevant keywords and | | | | answer is to submit articles! Articles are |
| author resource boxes. Every article directory has | | | | contextual content relevant to our websites and |
| a different interface, and very often I have to | | | | links from these articles to our websites are |
| customize and twitch a little bit here and there. | | | | valuable because of the anchor text keywords |
| Trust me and those who have experienced all | | | | we are targeting to rank high in the search |
| these, it is tough job and sweat. Okay, so here I | | | | engines. Article submission software can submit to |
| have an article ready to be published after one | | | | many article directories and in just a few days, |
| day’s hard work including the writing. This is | | | | the number of high PR links to your site would |
| manual article submission done all without article | | | | increase. |
| submission software. | | | | There are alternatives to using article submission |
| That was a typical scenario most early day article | | | | software such as using article submission services |
| marketers and authors have to face just a couple | | | | like Article Marketer, iSnare and others to submit |
| of years back. Today, the landscape has changed | | | | articles. But they charge you either monthly or |
| with the emergence of article submission | | | | for per article submitted. Unless you have a huge |
| software. The great thing about the functions of | | | | advertising budget or enough money to pour into |
| article submission software is it makes the log in | | | | these services, buying an article submission |
| and article formatting for each individual article | | | | software would be a wiser choice since the |
| directory so fast and so easy. Some article | | | | payment is one-time. Typically, quality article |
| submission software are semi-automatic which | | | | submission software would cost around $99 |
| requires you to click from one article directory to | | | | onwards. |
| another to post. Others which are more advanced | | | | From the look of it, it does make sense to submit |
| requires just the click of a button and off it goes | | | | articles with article submission software. Many |
| to different article directories to post. In terms of | | | | article marketers including myself have reaped in |
| speed and efficiency, such article submission | | | | thousands of dollars from sales by using such |
| software definitely makes the submission a | | | | software. Read a review of several popular article |
| breeze. As a result, we have more time to write | | | | submission software marketers have in their |
| quality articles. | | | | marketing arsenal. |
| If we can stick to writing an article and posting it | | | | |