Manual versus Automatic Submission - page 2

by Adriana Iordan, 3/5/2007

There are also article submission services available, if you do not have time to manually submit your articles, like Article Marketer and iSnare, which charge a fee their services. If you prefer to do it yourself but want to speed up the process, you can resort to automatic submission and use a submission tool.

Automatic submission software solutions include products like: Article Announcer, Article Post Robot, Ezine Announcer.

Which One Should You Choose?

Many people would say you should go for manual submission. Why is that? First of all, a lot of directories treat automatically submitted articles as spam. Second, you can quickly see any changes made on the directory's website and respond accordingly, which automatic submission robots can't. Third, it is easier to make changes to your article if you need to, because to manually submit articles you need to have an account with the directory where you can login and edit what you want.

Then there is also the fact that article directories are different in that categories do no always overlap, so if you submit an article manually you can make sure it ends up in the right category. In addition, you can check the terms and conditions of each article directory and see whether they accept links in the body of the article or not, for instance, or whether they accept HTML tags or not. This is something automatic submission tools can not do. The major downside to manual submission is the time spent doing it.

On the other hand, automatic submission saves you the time and effort of manually submitting articles to directories one by one. If you would rather automate the submission process, and use a software submission tool, you should check how often the software is updated, the quality of directories selected and the choice of categories (i.e. are the categories specific enough or does it take only general categories into account) before you pick a solution.

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Read more free internet marketing articles. Copyright © 2007, www.avangate.com all rights reserved. This article was written by Adriana Iordan, Web Marketing Manager at Avangate B.V.

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