How to Submit Articles to Article Directories?

Article marketing is one of the best methods of creating quality backlinks and driving targeted traffic to your blog. It is as easy as writing your articles or if you can afford it hiring someone to write your articles for you or perhaps using PLR articles and changing them a little to make them more unique, and submitting your articles to article directories.

Article marketing is by far one of the most effective traffic generation methods while building quality backlinks that will help you rank better amongst search engines. The only problem with article marketing (at least for most people) is that its time consuming.

But there are a few different ways you can submit your articles to article directories depending on your time and/or whether or not you can spend money on outsourcing the tasks or buying a software.


Submitting Articles Manually
The cheapest method of submitting articles is manual submission which is also the most time consuming way of submitting articles to directories. After registering with your targeted article directories, you simply submit each article manually to these directories.

Although it takes a lot of time specially if you have more than a few articles and more than a few directories to submit to, but one of the main advantage of manual submission is that its precise and you control every aspects of it. For example, when you submit your articles using softwares, often time it will submit your articles to the wring category, but manual submission ensures correct category submission.


Submitting Articles Using Article Submission Services
There are many article submission services out there that for a fee, will submit your articles to tens and in some cases to hundreds of article directories.

Using article submission services is costly, but it allows you to use your time on other aspects of your blog or website whether its SEO, creating content or what have you. Its always a good idea to look around and make sure use an article submission service with positive feedback from other article marketers.


Submitting Articles With Paid Article Submitter Tools
This is another costly way of submitting articles to article directories, but again it lest you reach more directories in a short amount of time.

One of the disadvantage of using article submitter software is the fact that because you only have one category option, it often submit your articles to the wrong categories or not the exact category you wanted to submit your article too.

But if you can afford to buy an article submitter software, it will save you a lot of time in the long run, and it also gives  you much better results in a shorter amount of time than say manual submission, simply because with article submitter tools you often can submit your articles to hundreds of directories at the push of a button.


Submitting Articles Using Free Article Submitters
Submitting articles with free article submitter tools obviously doesn’t cost you any money. But the problem with most free article submitters is their limitations. Often time free submitters don’t give you much option or limit you usage some way or another.

For example, most free articles submitters allow submission to only a handful of article directories, to submit to more directories you have to upgrade and pay for the upgraded version.

The only free article submission tool that I came across that was actually better than most paid submitters is the Article submission helper. It actually allows you to add as many article directories as you like to the software, so you can submit your articles to as many directories as you want.


No matter which method you choose to submit your article, article marketing is your answer to targeted traffic, quality backlinks and an increase in search engine ranking. If you haven’t started using this great tool to advance your blog, I strongly suggest you get started. You will be surprised by the results of article marketing.