How Article Submission Works and Tops Other SEO Techniques

A fact that most online merchants and webmasters may use to their advantage is the constant demand of readers for information through websites on various niches. This is why subscription services are almost always a hit that is if the website is well known and established with quality content. One of the ways to enhance the chances of boosting web popularity is through article submission.


This technique is well known because of its high success rate which is actually among the top as compared to other SEO techniques available. It may not be the latest but it is certainly useful for most internet marketers. To be able to experience the benefits of submitting articles, it first important to understand what makes article submission such a good process to opt for and what is the key behind its unique significance in the field of online marketing.


Article directories serve as large depositories for an even larger amount of information in the form of articles on the web. It basically works by being the main point where writers may submit articles and webmasters may use the articles that have been submitted to fill content on their site. To keep track of the owners of the articles, there will be a box that may be used for bio or any short scripts or text. It will always come with the article when distributed through the article directories and will be displayed along the article on whichever website.


There are many article submission and directory sites. Fortunately, there is also a huge population that wants daily fresh content and searches for it primarily through these sites. To be able to be picked out from the rest, readability is crucial. It must be able to stand out through hundreds of thousands of contents on the similar topic.


Most of the top article directories will be going through all of the submitted content manually or review it through a special software that checks for grammar, spelling and thought errors. Instead of viewing this as an obstacle, it can be seen as a great advantage. Only the best quality articles are accepted. Therefore, there will be less competition and the readers or visitors who will take articles from the directories will have greater chances of seeing the articles submitted by a particular writer. In addition to that, they will have more confidence in the contents thus providing a long term relationship.


Some internet marketers use free article directory for apparent advantages. However, there will be tough competition in this area. There is a great chance of being noticed in these sites if the articles are of utmost quality and contain the some of the best or authoritative back links. Double the work and effort is required with a free article directory but it saves a lot of monetary resources. Article submissions certainly have a great deal of advantage over other SEO techniques as not a lot of technical knowledge or background is required to be able to succeed. Additionally, it is low cost yet high results oriented.

Eleanor Gibson

This writer also manage free article directory. Submit your unique articles to our article submission directory for free online promotion and passive traffic.

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The Challenge and More Automation For My Business

As my business has grown lack of time time has become an issue. Maybe I do things the long way round, maybe I spend too much time experimenting or getting sidetracked. Whatever, I feel every day that there are so many more things that I can do to help build my business, but I never get everything done.

Outsourcing helps. I regularly outsource article writing, but not every outsourcing experience has been good for me. However after 2 duds in a row I found a delightful lady in South Africa to help me with some articles. I can write my own, but after a couple of articles on most subjects I run out of steam and boredom sets in.

Instant Article Factory

Writing on demand is not for me, but last week I found a tool that is helping me to churn out more articles. The tool is called Instant Article Factory and so far I've got mixed feelings about it. You basically write your articles into a variety of templates with pre written text which can be spun prompting your text. It's hard to explain but you can write basic articles within 5 minutes if you wish.

Why I've got mixed feelings is that unless you rewrite the pre written text in your own words there are going to be a lot of articles around with the same basic formats and sentences and they won't pass copyscape. So it took me more than 5 minutes to write an article because of the changes that I made, but it was still quick and the templates help me to focus on articles that otherwise might not be written. I've written 3 so far, 2 from the same basic template they are at:

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I think that they are different enough, what do you think? Maybe I will write a proper review for Instant Article Factory using one of their templates!

Article Submission

Writing my own articles and getting them outsourced is all well and good but then there is submission. I have always hand submitted to a handful of directories and then used a submission service to send out slightly altered versions. That submission service did well for me but it came to a standstill a couple of months back and not for the first time. I have a stash of articles waiting to be submitted with nobody submitting them except for my hand submissions.

I've looked at other services but I guess that I'm still hoping that my old submission service will start up again. In the meantime I decided to try out the product 'My Article Submitter' which has been sitting on my hard drive for a few years. It looked good but half of the listed directories were either not founds or changed to another use so I checked and deleted those and started adding more directories that I had signed up to. The whole process was taking far too long so I decided to search for current submission software with preloaded directories.

Article Marketing Robot

Is what I found and I am still reeling from using it! No it isn't that bad but my sense of humour is starting to kick in. The product at this moment has 1133 directories loaded on to it. It's blooming marvellous how quickly you can sign up to directories and get the sign ups confirmed, but I did it wrong and only have 175 directories to submit to - it's a long story and it's my own fault. I'm hoping that the developer of Article Marketing Robot will come to the rescue soon.

Straight away when I opened the product and saw the directory list I contacted the developer and asked him to take my travel article directory off there. Only a small percentage of those using the software will be submitting travel articles so that means an awful lot of wasted time for travel or niche directory owners like myself. He took Articles Abroad off the list but I have misgivings about just how many niche directories are on there. One is 'Guitar Playing Tips' and another is 'Free Sex Stories', I really don't think that my dolls house articles will suit them somehow.

Watching one of the training videos was vastly entertaining. Articles Abroad is being used as an example of a site that isn't working properly. The thing is that it is working properly but he is obviously using a free email address to try to sign up and free email addresses are blocked on the site and many other directories because a vast amount of spam comes from free emails. At least as my contact Nick says my site will be getting some exposure!

Anyway I submitted my first article with it last night and so far it has been published on 101 sites. That's still really good and far quicker than I could hand submit. Article Marketing Robot also has an article spinner but I'm not interested in spinning articles. Even though I'm not happy with the amount of niche directories that are on there and I have messed up with the amount of directories and  I can submit to I still think that this product is going to save and make me a lot of money not to mention time.

Note: Once I have gone through the articles I have waiting for submission I can always go through the process again properly using a different penname and get more directories to submit to.

Automated Blogs

I've also automated some of my blogs and have been trying out several different plug ins but I'm still not certain which I prefer so I will review them all more fully later.

The Challenge

I did what was called the 30 day challenge 3 years ago and learned a lot and especially how to get targeted traffic to my sites. Being aware that things constantly change on the Internet I decided to join up again this year and formed a UK group on Facebook. There are 7 of us and what a great bunch they are. We are supporting and helping each other and our first conference call on Tuesday went down really well.

Instead of it being a 30 day challenge this year the training modules are shorter and we have 7 days on and 7 days off, there are 7 pre season training videos and 49 full on training video days which makes it 15 weeks instead of 30 days.

I've completed the first week of training and although I haven't learned anything new yet the training has reminded me that I must research more and has introduced me to 6 great people and reintroduced me to a fantastic tool.

Market Samurai

I tried the free trial last year and thought that it was quite good but this year it has added features and I've used it more and it's completely blown me away. With Market Samurai you search for niches and micro niches and it uses data from the internet to help you find niches that have good amounts of daily searches and not too high competition, also if they are money making niches and there is an affiliate ad search feature. I could and have spent hours on there searching and finding!

One of the features that I like is being able to search for free content and post it to my blogs from within Market Samurai. I have a habit of building several blogs at once but not enough time to write enough content for them all so being able to add quick content to a new blog before google indexes it is invaluable.

I could go on forever praising this product but I gotta go shopping now and back to the real world.

Catch Up

It's been too long again since I posted here. Too much to do and too little time. The good news is that BB Articles has now got an Alexa ranking of less than 200,000. That means more traffic and hopefully more article reads. I aim now to get the Alexa ranking below 100,000 within 12 months. It will be hard work but from the beginning I said that BB Articles was going to be one of the best article directories and I like to keep my word.

A couple of months back I removed the sign up form because agents of a company who paid their agents to submit plagiarised articles were spamming BB Articles and other directories with so many cheat articles that it was costing me 2-3 hours a day to check and delete articles and the many new accounts that they opened up every day. I work in a full time job besides run an internet business so some days all that I had the time to do after work was deal with these submissions and my business was suffering.

Last week I was able to put the sign up form back because of a nifty add on created by Bob of www.bjc-computer-services.com The script allows me to check all of the pending articles and delete the offending ones that ring alarm bells with one magical click - the whole process only takes seconds. When you think that it's deleting something like 100 articles a day you can imagine how much time and stress that the script is saving me. I just worry that some of the genuine articles might get caught up in it.

In my last update I talked about my newest site www.uksmartguide.com I've developed that quite a lot and the traffic has grown substantially in a short time. That's thanks to the article marketing that I've been doing and also to the content that I've added regularly. Apart from my own additions a lot of that content has come from BB Articles and my travel article directory Articles Abroad. It's great having so much readily available content that I can use to build a site quickly, but I would still like more content about every area of the UK and especially reviews from those who have actually visited or live in any part of the UK.

Articles Abroad has been doing well too. I love that site - I get to read about lots of different places every day, trouble is I want to visit them all. I designed a new cheerful header last month, professional designers will probably think it's naff but what the heck I like it.

One thing that I have noticed especially about articles submitted in the travel niche is that some of the authors mess up by using bad titles for their articles. What I mean is titles like 'car hire in Istanbul' or 'holiday rentals in Spain'. You click to view the articles expecting an article about car hire or holiday rentals and find a description of a place with no mention of car hire or holiday rentals until you hit the author resource box. Basically the titles are aimed at the resource box and misleading to readers. If I was searching for information about car hire or holiday rentals and hit on one of these misleading articles I would click away annoyed and certainly not click on any links in the resource box.

Thats enough for today I think.

The Article Marketing Handbook – Will it Help Article Marketers?

This review is my personal opinion of 'The Article Marketing Handbook' I'll tell you:

1) What it's about
2} Did I learn anything?
3} Is it worth the asking price?

I’ve read a lot of articles, ebooks and forum posts about article marketing and have found that the information and advice offered can be conflicting and confusing to new article marketers. As an article marketer I have studied the results from my own campaigns and come to my own conclusions. As an article directory owner I can see from studying the site stats month after month which articles are working for the authors. I can also see from Google searches which articles have been found on my site and republished on blogs or websites.

With the double insight of article marketer and directory owner it can be frustrating to see articles being submitted that you know will not be effective for the authors. On the other hand you learn to recognise articles that are going to do well for the authors and your directory.

With this in mind I was curious to read ‘The Article Marketing Handbook’ written by Allen Graves – an experienced article directory owner and article marketer. I’ve come across Allen in forums and have to admit that we don’t always agree, but it is plain to see that Allen cares about article marketing. Because Allen has been involved with article marketing longer than I have I hoped that I would learn something from his handbook. I also felt that as he had the same opportunity of double insight as I have albeit for longer that ‘The Article Marketing Handbook’ should be as good as if not better than anything that I have previously read. My expectations were high so lets see if the handbook lived up to them.

The Content

At first I was impatient to get to the ‘meat’ of the ebook and wasn’t happy with the long introduction and theorising in the first couple of chapters, but then I saw that Allen was expressing why it is important to get your article marketing campaign right. It isn’t just information - it’s plain common sense that every article marketer should consider before embarking on a marketing campaign and worth reading.

Allen then guides you through selecting your niche, ways of discovering what information your readers are searching for and spending money on and how to find the best keywords. All useful information and if used correctly should help you to write more effective articles.

You learn why you should use pen names and how to select them. How to write titles that grab a reader’s attention while appealing to search engines. How to best summarise your articles and how to format the article body to capture the reader’s attention and keep them reading. Some tips are also included on how to write your author resource box to gain higher click throughs to your website.

Did I learn Anything?

Yes I did. I was particularly interested in a chapter explaining how to find the best places to submit your articles to and why. Also how to get more click throughs by promoting your articles after your submissions have been accepted. Both ideas are so obvious that I wondered why I hadn’t thought of them.

There are several more article marketing tricks that I have noticed used by authors who submit to my directories and hadn’t really thought about. To find out if they work I checked my site stats and sure enough those articles were getting more than the average hits. That could be a coincidence or those tricks could be working for the authors and my directories.

What I Think

There is a whole lot more information but now I’m going to tell you what I think about ‘The Article Marketing Handbook’. The ebook is well written and in a no BS style that I personally like. For anybody familiar with article or Internet marketing it’s easy to understand, but those new to the field may struggle without more basic information about for instance the importance of keywords and phrases. But, that and other basic information can be readily found with an Internet search.

Is It Worth The $47 Asking Price?

For most ebooks I would say absolutely not. That is because there are thousands of ebooks available on the Internet free or at incredibly low prices and that muddies the water on perceived value. The Article Marketing Handbook is different in that it provides a lot of information and advice that I haven’t seen before in any article, forum or ebook. Information and advice that I know from experience is correct even if I hadn’t thought about some of it before reading the handbook.

The Article Marketing Handbook is by far the best guide I have read on the subject of article marketing, so I wasn’t disappointed. As Allen will be providing updates as the market changes I would consider the one off $47 payment to be a good investment for ongoing success in the article marketing field.


The author Patricia Jones writes for several websites including The Creative Writer and Make Money From Writing

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