Can somebody explain the benefit of sending the exact same article to muitiple sites

While the multiple submission of articles (whether exactly the same or not) will provide many more backlinks to your main site, it is also beneficial to understand what else these article directories are used for.

Many business and website owners will often scour article directories for relevant and informative content that they can place on their site. As long as they use the formal method of syndicating your content to their blogs, websites, etc, this will provide additional backlinks to your article and eventually your main site. These additional backlinks will, of course, add to the potency of your content in the search engines eyes.

Although there are specific article directories that may provide you with an initial surge in traffic, one of the main reason for using these directories is to get "others" to syndicate and spread your work around the internet. The more people who "use" your articles in this way, the more readers you will have, the more authority you will gain and this will eventually (hopefully) manifest itself into more visitors to your website and, of course, more subscribers and sales.

Do you honestly believe that every single website and blog owner on this planet merely uses 1 article directory to populate their sites? No of course they don't, they use many, many different directories. So the more directories you have your content published on, the more likely it will get "picked up" and used.

This is merely one benefit of article marketing and many writers never even consider this when submitting articles.

Cheers
Partha

I have used article submitters in the past and still occasionally use Big Mike's ArticleBot, but in all honesty the best system I have found to submit to say the top 20 article directories - Outsource!

Many highly intelligent outsourcers from around the world can follow your precise instructions and put up 1-3 articles at each of the top 20 directories in under an hour.

How much do they charge? Well I have seen WSO's and other adverts for full time Virtual Assistants (VA) for approximately $300 a month...and remember that is full time. Even if you had a VA submit 5 articles a day to the top 20 directories, this is still part-time work and therefore may not cost as much as you think!

Cheers
Partha

Jim,

The traffic and chances of being picked up by webmasters are much smaller in comparison to the backlinks created by these additional submissions.

Many of these article directories have high Page Ranks, and creating links on these sites with the same articles is an ecomonical and efficient way to generate quality, long term backlinks.

I provide a service for this, and according to my personal experience and those of my customers, the technique DOES help with the improvement of the ranking of the site/blog you are trying to promote.

Much Success,

KateD

I have many articles in both directories and on individual web sites. Since duplicate content isn't an issue with article directories it doesn't hurt to submit the same article. But, I prefere to spin my articles using an article submission site. This gives the benefit of unique content that is picked up by more webmasters.

As far as getting visitors from directories, you bet you can. if your article is key word rich then people will find it when looking for specific information. This ultimately brings them to your site. I have several sites that get the majority of visitors from article directories. Some of these sites are Adsense sites and they make me money. I don't use any other form of advertising for them.

Stephen