Article Marketing Warning (possibly)

Some directory scripts will send a confirmation email upon submission, whether accepted or not.

If you can't see the article publicly, neither can anyone else, so there will be no one clicking Adsense ads on those.

If you submit to a distribution site like Article Marketer, there will be many directories receiving the articles, they may be new and unheard of.

If you send emails trying to rush the process, that may get the account deleted entirely.

Most directories are small businesses, and run at their own pace.

Hope that explains it.

Thanks James

I was doing it the hard way, by hand

no submitter
no software
no outsourcing

just elbow grease

I went into social bookmarking the same way... socialmarker leaves some stuff out!

like for instance: not all keywords scripts appreciate commas
aol's propeller insists on underscore
propeller hates advertisments and will remove posts
technorati requires a plus sign to connect keyword phrases

Lots more subtle nuances that you'd miss if you used an automated service.

I like the results I got:

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Unless it's your product of course... :rolleyes:

Funny how often you shill your service of submitting to multiple directories in other threads...

Hi David... glad you were able to find some good articles on IdeaMarketers. Where many sites have an approval process to make sure they have quality articles, we have instant posting and have a bidding system that helps pull the better articles to the forefront. People can set their own prices on what they're willing to pay to be on our home page (which is very popular with search engines). Generally, speaking the people who are willing to put their money where their mouth is, tend to be ones who really have something to say. At least that's my theory.

As for finding your articles, I know our search mechanism isn't as "smart" as something like Google would be. If you were to put "the cow jumped over the moon" into the search box, that EXACT phrase would have to exist in either the title, body or keywords (and you can select which you want to search). If you put in "the cow likes to jump over the moon" instead, it would never find that article unless that exact phrase is somewhere in it. So in this case, you'd be better off searching for something simple like "cow" or "moon."

Hope that helps!

Marnie Pehrson
IdeaMarketers.com