Which is the best mass article submitter?

Hi Stu - what mass syndication to article directories can do (and it's all that it can do) is get backlinks. Any sales will come from an increase in traffic caused by those backlinks (possibly, eventually) having given your own site a boost in the search engine results, not from the articles themselves, because for the most part they'll be seen only by search engines and perhaps a few competitors researching.

Copies of articles mass-syndicated to article directories cannot, in themselves, bring you any traffic to speak of, because they'll be indexed only in Google's supplemental index, not in the main index.

The backlinks, however, will be of exactly the same value as if you submitted unique content to each individual article directory, so they're worth something. Something, but not everything: if you submit to more than the top few well-known, well established directories (which you can do by hand quickly enough and incidentally far more reliably, especially if you're planning to use free software), unfortunately the overwhelming majority of the backlinks you get out of it will be on context-irrelevant pages without any page-rank; moreover, such is the turnover of article directories that many of them won't even still exist this time next year.

As a professional article marketer myself, I honestly wouldn't dream of doing what you're suggesting. I do agree that it's one way of getting some low-quality, temporary backlinks for your site, but don't imagine that it's any more than that.

It's one of those subjects about which canvassing the opinions of the group of "people trying article marketing" will typically bring forth totally different opinions from those coming from the group of "people making a good living from article marketing". There'll be many (even here) who will tell you the exact opposite to what I'm saying. Some will even tell you to use a "spinner" as well to make your article-copies "more original", I'm afraid.

The reality is that if you're planning to use article marketing as a way of deriving income, it's worthwhile thinking well beyond "article directories".

Stu,

I know you said you wanted something "free", but we have tried several different article submission services over the past few years.

However, we have found that we like Unique Article Wizard the best. It does cost you $67 per month, but is well worth it, in my opinion.

Note: UAW does not replace Ezine. Continue using them, too.

Good luck.

STU my friend,

I am afraid that free is a word that has at its very best wavered to the side of "TRIAL PERIOD". I agree with George, I to have spent thousands of dollars trying different article submission software and nothing even comes close to UAW.

I track all of the links and the traffic does convert and WAAAAAY more than pays for its self each month.

I hope my words may be of some use to you my friend.

great tips!