Automatic Article Submitters

Hi Julia,

Yes, this is completely right. (And ezine publishers, as well as webmasters, one hopes).

Ah, I see ... no, it doesn't work out like this.

Because there are (literally) thousands of article directories, but there's one huge one, which has been established for more than a decade, and is where all content-seekers "know they need to go" for their content, and that's called Ezine Articles (it was originally intended as a directory of "articles for ezines", but now their stock is intended for both ezines and websites too, of course). And once your article is deposited there, you've probably covered about 99.99% of the opportunities for getting them republished in that way.

Over the years, I've had many thousands of instances of republication, in this way, and I think all but one have been from Ezine Articles.

I used to submit to many hundreds of them, at first, in exactly the way you're asking about, using software. When I understood why that was a bad thing to do, and that I couldn't benefit from it, I "cut down" to about 8/9 directories (the ones I thought were "the best ones") and I did that, too, for over a year before realising that even that was a waste of my time and more likely to do harm than good.

Now I just use Ezine Articles for this purpose. And because I'm anxious about over-dependence on one directory, however professional and well established, I also submit a copy of each article to either GoArticles or ArticleBase too (depending on niche) but I don't benefit from those copies at all (so far) and can't really recommend it.

(I can always tell reliably from which source a copy has been syndicated because of my little "punctuation trick" described in the ones of the threads you've read, I think).

What's important is to appreciate that all of this is only passive syndication, and should be an afterthought compared with the active syndication methods described here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

And of course for any sort of worthwhile syndication to take place, the articles need to be written for syndication in the first place.

But it won't help you to use automated mass-submitting software to multiple directories, I'm afraid.

However well such software works (and my impression, both from when I was using them myself and from what people tell me now, is that they're never very reliable anyway and most of the directories to which they submit don't publish the articles, and even when they do, most of them are never indexed), if the job it does is a job that has no benefits in the first place, it's not worth doing.

Then you should know better.

Ron Douglas gets interviews on TV and radio all the time. You wouldn't recognize my name if I published it, but I get articles I've written or interviews published on a fairly regular basis.

Not every article is about someone famous. That would make for poor journalism and poor entertainment. Someone has to cover the up-coming things. Not everyone can be a copycat.

Of course you do have to do something notable or remarkable. Ron Douglas (a warrior) created a book of recipes duplicating restaurant recipes.

Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg weren't just covered because they were famous. They became famous because they were covered.

That is the job of publicity.

If you say that what you are doing isn't remarkable or notable, then you are probably right. If you are willing to change the world though, publicity works great.

It doesn't work for things that are generally spammed though. People who spam don't have anything remarkable or notable to offer or they wouldn't have to spam.