unintuitive

I’ve been looking to get into article marketing for some time, however there are a lot of article directories out there, of varying quality, and it’s a little mystifying as to how to manage submitting to them all, keep myself organized, and plan what I’m going to do next.

I could, for instance, spend some time trolling Google to find all of the article directories out there - there’s probably around 700 unique article submission directories. That’s quite a daunting task and would likely require a ton of research. And of course, there’s more involved than just finding the directories. Submitting articles manually takes time, especially if you want to submit your article to more than five sites at once. Keeping track of what articles you’ve submitted and to which directories you’ve submitted them to is almost as big a job, and would require some Excel wizardry, no doubt.

Another other option is to pick my top ten favorite directories and simply hope that’s good enough; affiliate marketing requires a little bit more than hope alone, though. It requires planning, hard work, and a lot of testing. Laziness is not the strategy of success.

I have found a way to overcome these problems, however. A couple days ago I purchased submission software which automates the article submission process - Article Submitter Gold. This article submission software has a list of 650+ article submission sites, it allows you to store your articles internally, and it can submit to all of these article directories - simultaneously if you like.

The coolest part is that there’s a free version of Article Submitter which gives you a smaller database of article directories; it’s a great way to get familiar with the software to see if it meets your needs.  Brad Callen, the author of the software, gives you training videos and a clearly-written PDF manual; icing on the cake!  I was impressed enough to buy Article Submitter after just a couple hours of use.

Time is money, and the cost of the software is outweighed by the time it would require me to manually accomplish everything this software does automatically.