How To Choose An Article Directory Submission Service

Anyone who is serious about Internet Marketing knows that implementing an article-marketing component to his or her strategy is absolutely necessary. Article marketing will build back links to your website, an integral part of off-page SEO (search engine optimization) as well as increase your traffic. When I first implemented article marketing as part of my first launches it was exciting to see the traffic come to my site and the sales increase. This sounds good right? There are people that struggle with Internet Marketing for months and years. They have a great website but no one comes to it. Well Article Marketing is one solution to that common problem.

Article Marketing can be done in a couple ways:

1. Create a list of all the Article Submission Sites: You can create a list of about 200-300 article submission directories, join them all by manually creating accounts and then manually submit your article to them all. Keep in mind that to get the most out of your article you will want to rewrite it or "spin" it and to get even more value from them. Ouch...I did try this method and yes I saved some money but I lost a lot of time and I know "Time is Money."

2. Use an Article Submission Program: With this program you will be able to save time in the submission process which, can become almost automatic but still requires that you spend time managing the program. You also need to create all the accounts although most software will already have a built in list. This takes time but nowhere as much as finding the article sites.

3. Use an Article Directory Submission Service: This is a great way to go and although there is a monthly subscription fee it becomes VERY nominal if you are going to use it regularly. They are in the business of getting articles out for people and know what they are doing. You write an article, submit to their site and sit back and watch the back links grow and traffic increase. I am not going to blow any smoke, you need to write more than one article. Some people have a goal to write one article a day while others get one a week. If you are starting up you will want to get articles out as soon as possible. Keep reading so you understand that you don't want to just have a ton of articles published to a bunch of sites automatically.

So here are the main considerations when choosing an Article Directory Submission Service.

1. Article Spinning - You can take one article and using your brain or software to spin the article you can get a number of unique articles from the one that you wrote. This will give you more back links with focus on a topic. Doing it yourself can be pretty quick if you are good at paraphrasing and have a good command of your language. There are article submission services that will "spin" articles for you as well. I use a service that uses Article Leverage Technology. This allows them to submit a different version of your article to their network of article directories.

2. Article Trickling - If you submit an article to many sites all at once that feels good but if you build your back links too fast it is not natural and some search engines like Google will raise a red flag. The service I use has a system to let you choose to publish your article over a period of time. This particular article submission service allows your article to leak over a period of 2-90 days. This will give a more natural build of back links to your site. This will also allow the traffic to not come all at once. This is good if you are doing any split testing on the page that the people will come to from your article.

3. Pre-qualifying an article - If you submit an article with spelling errors, verbiage that is too pitchy or other undesirable qualities you may get banned from article directories or they may just throw your article in the cyber trashcan. Once again the service I use is very "picky" and although that has upset me once or twice I now realize how valuable it is that they do that. My articles get accepted without any problem. This allows me to spend my time writing articles instead of correcting them. Again you know it as well as I do, "Time is money."

4. Cost - There are article submission sites that will charge as high as $100 per article submission, ouch. I pay a very reasonable monthly fee that I do not see as an expense but an investment. The benefits just absolutely outweigh the nominal fee.

So that's it. Now, if you have not taken the time, you need to learn the key components involved in writing a good article. That reminds me, I really should write about that. For now I sure you hope have a better idea about how to choose an article directory submission service for yourself. Choose your article submission tool wisely so you won't be sorry. I learned from experience and it was not always pretty in my beginning and want to spare you the frustration that I had over a decade ago.