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The Only Article Submitter You’ll Ever Need
One doesn’t have to go far to see the article submission software being touted by today’s gurus. There are times when you see more of them and times when you see less of them. Every now and then you see a surge in the article submission software market as gurus come in out of the woodwork to sell their latest (or the software that was the latest in 1999).
For the most part, I don’t recommend article submission software. You are likely to get something doesn’t really help you. But there is an online article submission service that does a great job. It’s call iSnare.
iSnare charges $2 per submission and sends your article out to thousands of websites and directories at one time. The downside to using iSnare is that you can’t track your article. Once it goes through the loop it’s out there and you’ve lost control. But for $2, you get fast submission to a lot of websites. If you want to track your article then I’d suggest signing up for one of the popular article directories and manually submitting your article through them. Then you can track views, uses, etc. Otherwise, iSnare is about the best article submission service you’ll find.
Article Submissions The Easy Way
You frequently hear about article submission software and how easy it is to distribute your articles using them. That’s fine, but I recommend a service like iSnare.
iSnare is a service where you submit your articles and they in turn submit your articles to thousands of other sites and directories. It’s convenient and you can have your articles distributed widely just by submitting them one time. They have a free service, but I recommend spending the $2 per article to have them sent through the priority service.
The priority service is a bit of a misnomer. You still have to wait for iSnare to distribute your articles. The $2 ensures that your articles are placed in the priority cue. If you don’t pay the $2, you’ll wait longer. Still, you have to wait on iSnare to approve your articles even with the $2 fee. They don’t do it instantaneously. But when iSnare does get around to distributing your articles, they’ll distribute widely and your articles will get picked up by the right websites and directories. It saves more time even than the popular article submission softwares.
An Article Distribution Tip I Highly Recommend
For every article you distribute I recommend having a list of your favorite article directories on hand and target those directories first. For instance, if your niche is gardening then try to find an article directory that focusing on gardening articles. You can also add a general and popular directory like EzineArticles to your list. Choose 5 or 10 good directories that are perfect for your kind of article and distribute your article to those directories first.
After that, send your article through iSnare for a wider distribution. iSnare will send your article out to thousands of websites and directories at once. Of course, many of those sites will reject your article because it won’t fit into their niche. That’s OK. There will be some that will take your article and that just gives you more coverage online and distribute your article in places you might not have thought of.
The reason you want to send your article to your favorite directories first is because if iSnare sends your article first and your favorite directories accept it then the directories will place your article in a file categorized for all iSnare articles. It won’t go into your own profile. While it will have your name and author resource box attached, you won’t be able to track any results from the article whereas if you submit the article yourself to the directories then you can log into your account and view how many people have clicked the links in your resource box, how many publishers have published the article, etc. You have greater visibility on your article that way.
By distributing your article in two waves this way you can take advantage of tracking capabilities and see your article get a wider distribution. You have the best of both worlds.
How Many Directories Should You Submit To?
Article directory submissions is a necessity in today’s online marketing arena. But how many directories should you submit to?
If you listen to Chris Knight at EzineArticles.com, you should only submit to one article directory. Naturally, his. Others will tell you to submit to every article directory you can find so that you can maximize all of your article marketing opportunities. I disagree with bits of advice and I’ll tell you why.
EzineArticles is not the only article directory that e-zine publishers and editors use. There are hundreds, even thousands, of article directories online and a few article submission services as well. On the other hand, once your article has been picked up by about 100 e-zine publishers and webmasters then you don’t get that much benefit from it any more. So which ones should you use?
There are two things you can do to market your articles through article directories. The first of these is to choose a submission service like iSnare. ISnare claims to send out your articles 40,000 or so directories and websites, but most of them aren’t going to be interested in your articles. You send send your articles out to their list for a few dollars per article and it’s worth it for the most part.
Before you do that, however, I recommend that you select a few article directories – 5 or 10 – and manually submit your articles to those directories under your user name. The benefit you get by doing this is you get to see your articles appear under your account name whereas iSnare submits all of its articles under a generic account name. This makes tracking those articles impossible. But if you manually submit your articles to 5 or 10 directories then you can track your articles in those directories and see how many people are publishing them. Once an article reaches its maximum effectiveness – you see more than 100 downloads of that article – then you can take it out of the directories, rewrite it, and recirculate it. You’ll get a lot more mileage out of every article that you do that with.
