Article Submission -- Manual or Automated?

I have the same question.

I've heard that auto submit can get you into trouble with some article directories.

Any recommendations would be great!

Automated, if it actually works obviously, and as long as the software you use respects the Terms of Service of article directories.

Article directory owners are not against automatic submissions per se, but they have fight against junk, spam, and improperly formatted articles - and they get a lot of these by automatic submissions.

My suggestion:
-Get a program which respects article directories, doesn't care only about the submission but cares also if your article gets accepted or not. For example, you should get a program which formats the article properly for each directory. For example, some directories want you to mark new paragraphs with <p> tags, some just line breaks etc. etc. Very very few programs do that.
-Get a program which is NOT web based. Because some users will abuse it, and article directories will start banning that IP address. Get a program which does submissions in undetectable 'stealth' mode, simulating what a web browser would do.

Yeah - I'm using a VA for a lot of my article submission too. Though sometimes I still use Article Submitter (from Brad Callen). It seems to work reasonably well, with only a few small issues.

Also, doing it manually should be out of the question if you're serious: at least get a program to fill in forms in your browser for you (login data, article body). This saves a lot of time, and you can still be a heavy control freak if that's what you want.

I personally use a combination, manual to the major directories and a web based human controlled service for the rest.For the short time, I have been doing this ( 3 month) I am happy with the results so far in respect of back links and take up of articles by other uses.
John

As for me, I submit only to EZA. My VA submit to other article directories. I don't really like softwares... pretty boring stuff.

But there are no problem with semi automated softwares, all they do is speeding the process, so you can use them.

Franck

Very cool, Milan.

So, if we're using plain text in your app, I assume formatting (such as bold) is out?

i am using a automated one. i find it fast and save alot of my time.

In my opinion, if you're serious with your article marketing, I prefer manual, most of the time auto submit software fails, because every article directory owners made little adjustment on their submission form the software don't work any more. And there are many factors that cause the auto submit fails.

I use SubmitYourArticle com - It gts around the snags of automated programs, and the feedback I've got from obscure publishers shows it gets around!

Hi Sebastian

I use SubmitYourArticle.com also and have found it easy to use, plus they have a few little extras worth taking a look at.

The price is quite reasonable too as long as you make use of your allocation.

Hope this helps
Ian

Never get too obsessed about this questions if you've never even trying to write and submit an article.

Sometimes, people just worried too much before even getting started...

I only worry about submitting to the major directories (EZA, Go Articles) any more, so I do all my submissions manually.

I do a lot of article submissions and I use online services to do it. I don't have a software, except for SENuke. Other than that I use a couple of tools that greatly help syndicate my content all over the freakin' place

- Chris

as far as I understand its not the method of submitting that can cause problems, its what you submit.

You submit the same identical article to thousands of directories, it probably won't help much, whether you submit by hand, by robot, by post, by rocketship, by mindmeld.

Yea i've also not stepped into the field of automatic article submission as i am afraid my articles might get banned, imagine how it would feel to get banned by EA? (is this possible?)

I have also tried the 7-day demo from Article Post Robot and the amount of work needed to prepare different variations of text files for titles, resource bio, keywords etc and slotting them into tags puts me off. I would rather use the time to concentrate on writing a high quality unique article!

Hi milan,

Quick question!

How does your software handle categories within the directories?

Are they generic, or can the user navigate at some point (before or during submission) to the specific categroy that fits their article?

Dave

You can use a program like AutoHotKey (Freeware) and setup hotkeys on your keyboard to make manual submissions a breeze :-)

Hi Milan,

Thanks for your answer, and I got your PM.

Just to be absolutely clear about categories; Some article directories might have a broad category like 'Travel', and then various sub-categories beneath that, like 'Destinations'', 'Accommodation', 'Cruises', 'Flights', and then many sub-categories beneath that; Am I correct in understanding that your software will allow me to dig as deep as I need to to select my category?

Thanks

Dave

that's one of the problems with autosubmitters. The best use complicated programming to select the closest match to what was actually wanted (assuming it doesn't exist).

If you need best result...manually work is better...but, if you have a lot of project, an automatic way [ with software ] is better option for you...

I manually submit articles and auto-feed the social bookmarking sites. Articles are to important and yield long term benefits. I just feel they need more individual attention. Besides I only submit to three article sites so it's not a big deal.

I am a total newbie and have Brad Callen's Article Submitter program. After signing up to just article sites with a PR of 3 or more (about 100 of them), I was able to auto submit to about 50% of them, and half of those failed.

The best part of that program is the auto filling of the forms, and I think that's all I will use it for and submit to perhaps 70 of those sites and then submit manually to the likes of ezinearticles.

I don't know. I'm still in the dark.

Thanks guys! Great help
you're awesome
Sebastian

yeah... Google is starting to ban articles pages on article directories if it even looks like it was submitted using an automatic software. Although, some software products has learned how to work around this issue.........I say do it by hand...

I am going to be submitting articles for clients, so I've been pondering the automated solutions. Right now I'm doing it by hand, and it's just time consuming, especially when I have 20-30 articles to submit.

I am using article post robot, actually right now as we speak.
Its a good software and you can submit to over 400 directories
but I need multiple accounts for different niches.

I will be buying AUTOMATIC ARTICLE SUBMITTER for Elite Article Marketers no aff link
for total automation!

Automatic is better cos its saves time.