The ultimate Article Submitter?

If you have read the Article Marketing 180 guide, you know that you don't necessarily need any submission software in order to do article marketing. In case you haven't read this free guide yet I suggest you do so now, even before reading the rest of this post.

With that said, many people still ask themselves "But what about the tons of backlinks" I'll create by submitting to hundreds of different article directories?".

Although it is true that you will create more backlinks by submitting to more article directories, the crux is how much time you will have to spend in order to get this amount of link love. Maybe there are quicker ways to accomplish what you are looking for?

Still, I can't contest the idea that more article directories are...well, simply more. So here is a quick run through of some of the article submitters I have come across.

Article Submitter By Brad Callen

Brad Callen is the man behind the enormously popular applications SEO Elite and Keyword Elite. His article submitter uses the same kind of user interface that, in my opinion, is very easy to use.

Perhaps the best feature of this piece of software is that it is free. Brad also promises to keep the software updated and from my experiences with Keyword Elite that should equal a tight update schedule.

This submitter currently submits to over 600 directories. But, unlike they claim on their web page, it does not do so "in 1 click". This is a semi-automatic submitter - so if you are submitting to 600 directories you will have to select category and click at least 600 times.

If you write articles under many different pen names, a bigger problem may be that this software does not support several user profiles. So for submitting to directories that allows one author per account, it is not a very practical choice.

This program does not submit to any email lists either.

Article Announcer

This is the granddaddy of article submitters, as it wouldn't be unfair to say that Jason Potash started the article marketing boom with his Article Announcer software.

This application is now on its third version, and has learned a few new tricks along the way - such as submitting random articles, saving the details for multiple author profiles (not as easy to do as it could be though) and finding new potential partnership sites to submit articles to. This software is also updated on a regular basis.

The biggest drawback of Article Announcer would be its high price tag - $379 + shipping and handling is simply too much for many beginning netreprenaurs. In Mr. Potash's defence, it has to be said that the physical package you receive is very well put together, and is in fact way more than just an article submitter - it is a complete course in article marketing. A very good one at that.

If you're an article marketing newbie, you could do a lot worse than start your career with this educational package. You can find much of the same information online for free (like in this blog and in my other articles), but Jason's course is of course a more coherent experience.

Article Post Robot

Article post robot is probably the most automated solution you can have on your hard drive right now. By operating on a list of well known article directories based on common scripts like Article Dashboard, it can actually take care of article submissions on auto pilot.

Set up your article once, click submit and the software will go to work and produce a submission report once it has finished. Besides Articledashboard sites, it also submits to some other well known directories like Ezinearticles.

Another great point about it is the fact that it has a built in article spinner. No other article submitter out there makes it as easy to submit unique variations of each article. This is accomplished by adding variations on word, sentence or paragraph levels.

Just about the only problem the software doesn't solve, is creating the author accounts for you. You still have to create these manually, and when it comes to using several pen names (most Articledashboard sites allow multiple pen names in the same account) you have to add these manually as well.

This submitter also submits to a large amount of article announcement lists by email. Naturally, you have to sign up for all of these first as well.

A final negative point about Article Post robot is that its user interface isn't terribly intuitive or nice to look at.

Isnare article submission service

This last "submitter" takes another route altogether. Isnare is in fact a free article directory that also offer to submit your article to 40 000+ publishers, using a credit based system. Having them submit your article for you will cost between 0,83 and 2 dollars per article, depending on how many credits you purchase in one go.

This is truly hands free submission at it's best, and coupled with the ability to use pen names it is a very lucrative alternative. The only two down points are that you have to keep paying for each submission and that exactly the same article will be submitted in all places, possibly making the duplicate content filter reduce some of the bang you are getting for your buck.

So wich one should you choose?

Well, it's up to you really.

But if you ask me, I'd first start using the methods presented in Article Marketing 180 (free, remember?). If I still felt that I absolutely have to submit to even more article directories than I can do easily by hand, I would pay Isnare to submit the occasional article for me - even if many of the articles will be considered duplicate, it should still give you the highest amount of link love you can get from one article. However, I still wouldn't pay them to submit each and every article I write.

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