How many articles should you submit a day?

You can good results submitting two or three good quality articles to several article directories every two or three days.

As many as you like!! I used to do one a day though.

I stick to 5 articles a day.

Try to submit too many as you'll get sandboxed

Okay before I rip the Post from Chris apart I will give you my advice. I submit articles when I am finished with them to about 15 directories. I don't spin them because this, in my opinion, is a waste of my time. I don't worry about how many I submit a day because all the article directories approve them differently. Some approve them right away and others it could be a couple days or even a couple of weeks. This, alone, will spread your backlinks out.

I also use a service that mass submits my articles and I see about 4 to 8 new links per day to my site. You can really go up to about 20 backlinks a day and be safe. You also have to consider that the Google spider does not find all your backlinks right away and this will also spread the links out.

Now onto what Chris said:

I would venture to say that the proof for me that article marketing is not a waste of time is the fact that I have built a full time business around it and I have done very little other than article marketing and good SEO.

My personal opinion is that if you have 25 articles of 700 words or more and you submit them to the major directories and you only see a few hits from the every month, then either what you think is high quality is not or you are in a niche that just does not get much traffic from articles.

All niches are different and some of them get a ton of traffic from articles whereas others do not.

However, let's look at article marketing from a different perspective.

1. When you write, submit, and have an article approve you are getting traffic for the rest of that article's life. This could be many, many years and that means quite a bit of traffic over time.

2. That same article provides a backlink to your site that is of higher quality than many others. This is more important to Google than having a ton of backlinks. They now put more weight on higher quality backlinks.

3. If it took you a full hour to write and submit that article how much money does it really need to make you to make it worth that hour? If it makes you 5 sales a year and you get a $20 commission per sale, then you get $100 a year from one article. That is incredibly obtainable.

Benjamin Ehinger

Hi:

Shireen here :-)

I submit two to three articles per week

If you looking to build pagerank then you will want to be building up a steady flow of backlinks, depending on the time you have to write articles a day you want to submit the same every day. Unless of course you outsource this?

I generally try to get an article submitted every couple of days, I also mix up which directories I send them to so the search engines start seeing links coming from other places.

All you have to watch for when submitting to different directories is how long it takes to be approved, as this will affect the "flow" of backlinks. Ezine will take a couple of weeks whereas some others will only take a couple of days.

I am a very firm believer in Quality over Quantity. One top quality article per day is usually all I can manage because it's never a case of churning out just more of the same. Instead, I research and read, look for new angles, FRESH information. This takes time in itself. I have set up a lot of my keywords (plus associated LSI keywords) in Google alerts, and these are often all I need for targeted research.

i think 2 high quality articles and i mean HIGH quality should be for me in order to prevent being sandbox which is a pain....ouch!

Hi! There, If your article content id different, then you can submit it on more then article directories, else ezine is best and 1- 2.

Atmost 3 per day.You should give importance to quality over quantity.Remember that if the article is very good visitors may share it via digg,twitter or Facebook and hence your traffic will increase.

Stick to 5 good, 100% unique, on niche a day, everyday (including sundays!) and you will soon get some decent traffic and trackbacks :-)

I've only written about 4-5 articles in my entire campaign for the last 2 months and my site has been going up the rankings slowly but surely.

Some of the people here are mentioning 50 articles a day. What? I figure that's for traffic more than for SEO purposes, but anyway - 50 articles - how do you do that? Outsourcing like crazy maybe...

Klein,

There are so many moving parts and variables to submitting articles because it will depend on what you are using them for. If you do a keyword search under "article marketing" you are going to find a lot of different opinions, strategies, and methods with regards to your question.

Around 2001, I used to submit one article a week and got great results from it. Around 2006, I would submit 2 articles a day per each product that I promoted through affiliate marketing. And that got me the results I wanted in some pretty competitive niches. My oh my have things changed in the past few years! Submitting only to article directories isn't enough anymore, unless you're into cranking out some serious volume.

It's not so much how many articles you should submit per day, it's what kind of content are you going to generate and what distribution channels are you going to use? You can write a quality article, certainly, and submit it to the top 3, 5, or whatever, article directories. Then you can turn that article into a video and submit that video to the top (insert your magic # here) video directories.

You can then add to that article (or combine articles), use the free OpenOffice.org software and convert it into a PDF document and submit it to ebook directories. You can also submit it to document sharing websites. You can then hire an experienced PR person who knows how to write a press release that will grab attention from the media. You'll get tons of back links to the article on your blog or website and you might also get asked for an interview (I recommend submitting at least one solid press release a month).

That's just one example of one permutation on how someone can use their content. I haven't even included contacting e-zine authors, niche websites, or using blog networks (or any network for that matter).

So it's not really how many you should submit in a day, it's also what are you going to do with that article after you submit it? Generally, though, I think submitting one quality a day should be the bare-bone minimum if you're looking for a number, realizing that some of your articles are going to be big winners and some of them are going to be real stinkers.

I view my articles like a mutual fund, once you hit critical mass with your efforts, you'll get to a point where you won't be able to stop the traffic, even if you wanted to.

RoD "My-Coffee-Mug-Is-277-Ozs-Tall!" CorteZ

I can't see how anyone can write 50 articles a day! I have a heck of a time eeking out 1 or 2 a day! I do agree with the poster that said it doesn't matter because the articles are all approved at different times. Sometimes it takes hours and sometimes it takes weeks. Google will find out about these back links at different times, so I don't concern myself with too many too soon.

The quantity of articles is not important but the quality of content can help your webiste to get backlink as well as popularity online. so try to write quality content and submit it over 20 article directories daily its enough.

Ben nailed it. This will be more natural and really wont suck up all your time. Spend the time making quality content. You will be surprised by the results.