How do I submit my articles to article directories?

You can do this manually but this would be painfully slow.

There are several programs that can assist you. A couple of facts you must know before choosing.

1. The following figure taken from Article Submitter Pro shows that the majority of article directories require that you login to their site before submitting an article.

To obtain a login account you must provide the directory with some of your details. The following is a typical form:

When completed you will be advised that your account setup is almost completed. The directory will send an email to the address you provided with a link that you must click on to confirm your email address. The account will then be set up. You can then login to your account and submit your articles.

If you use a program, such as article submission pro, you will enter your data just once. The program will then take you to each directory that you wish to submit to and enter the data for you. You must choose the appropriate category from a list offered. Confirm and your article is submitted. Your software program will then take you to the next directory and the process begins again. Programs, such as article submitter pro, speed up the process enormously.

There are programs that recommend that you should send variations of your article to the directories. The typical argument is as follows:

"There are now literally thousands of articles out there, all displayed in exactly the same way on hundreds of different Web sites.

Now this isn't a problem in itself, the more times your article is displayed, the more links you have, the more readers you're going to have, and ultimately the more click-throughs you get to your Web site.

So all well and good, in theory ... except for the search engines this meant they had a bit of a problem. (Sorry, Google!)

SEs like Google now had hundreds of pages in their listings that displayed the same content as hundreds of other pages, and this gave no particular value to their customers, the search engine users.

For example, SEs would now be far more likely to display the same content from different sites for the same user query, which wouldn't make them too popular with their users - which is after all who they serve.

Really, one page with the new content on was enough, most of the other pages could be relegated to a supplemental index, with any Page Rank removed."

Nobody knows exactly how search engines like Google rank pages but it seems logical that if you have submitted an article in the same format to 200 directories, Google might give full ranking to one backlink but less to subsequent backlinks for that article.

I have tried three programs that include software that juggles up your article in a sensible manner so that each directory receives a variation.

I found two major flaws with these programs. Firstly two of them did not request that you setup an account with the directories so that you could login to them. I am suspicious that their programs do not submit to the majority of article directories. These programs provided no information on the directories that they had submitted to.

One program required installation on my computer. Even with reasonably helpful videos, it took me ten hours to have the program working. This was a program that did not request that I registered with the article directories. Their advertisement claimed that the program would submit my articles to 1500 directories. I clicked the submit button and watched the program go into action. After an hour the work was complete. I was advised that my article had been successfully submitted to 66 article directories. What had happened with the other 1,434 directories? I went through the user help file. The program has a built in filter which prevents submission to inappropriate directories and hence prevent spamming. I repeat, this program had not requested any login data with search directories and I do not believe that it attempts to submit to the majority of directories.

You will find filling in numerous forms with repetitive data laborious. I would recommend Roboform which will fill in the data for you. It is freeware!