| Author | Ken Nadreau |
| Title | Where Should You Submit Your Articles? |
| Category | Article Marketing |
| Article |
There's been a lot of talk lately about article submissions. Some say you should submit your article to only a few directories with high page ranking, while others say to submit to as many directories as you can. What's the real deal about all of this anyway? One of the arguments used by those who feel you should limit the number of submissions you do is because the search engines grow suspicious when a site gets a large number of back links all at the same time. In this spam conscious world we live in, this might sound like a reasonable bit of advice. But what happens when you submit your article to only a few of the high ranking submission directories? Well the reason they're high ranking is because they get a ton of traffic and likewise get an equal ton of articles submitted to them. This means a couple of things for you . . . It means that your article will, no doubt, sit in a database waiting to be reviewed for quite some time, (unless of course you know somebody in high places). This process could take upwards of six months in some cases. So your article, that you worked so hard on with the intent of getting back links to your site for, won't be seen by anyone until the admin of the directory gets around to reviewing it. Also, with hundreds and even thousands of articles pouring into these directories, even when your article gets posted, it won't take long before it ends up in an archive. So all in all, this doesn't seem like an efficient use of your article, does it? But that still leaves the issue of too many back links happening too quickly. If submitting to only a handful of article directories isn't the clear way to go, how does one keep from looking like a "back link spammer" to the search engines? Well let's go back to what was said about how the directories work . . . You submit an article to a directory. In most cases your article is sent to a database where the admin goes to review it before posting. Now depending on how many articles are in this database, it could take him or her anywhere form a few minutes to a few days to review all the articles and weed through them. Now if you multiply all the different directories, and take into consideration that their admins live all over the world, and add in that the different directory scripts have various types of review modules. The odds that your article would be reviewed by all of them and posted at the same time is astronomical. In fact, it would almost be miraculous if you managed to have a small handful of them post your article at the same time. So in essence, you have a built in staggering effect no matter if you submit your article to only a few places, or to every single directory there is. The truth is, you'll get some that post immediately, some that'll post in an hour or two, others that'll post within 24 to 48 hours, and the vast majority that'll post anywhere between 48 hours and 6 months. So likewise, your back links will appear slowly over time and will not trigger the spam detectors. And the really good part is that, as your article gets archived by some of the directories, it'll just be newly posted on others. If you submit articles, you should be more conscious of the quality you produce than you should worry about the quantity of postings you make. Let the article directories handle when and where your articles get posted, and you concentrate on writings that'll assure yourself of approvals. |
| About the Author |
Ken Nadreau and Hubert Daul are experts in the field of Article Marketing. Their software program "Article Submitter Pro" has help many marketers achieve higher Page Rank, and has contributed to the Article Marketing explosion. http://articlesubmitterpro.com |