How Many Directories Should I Submit My Internet Marketing Article To?

So you found a great product to promote, you wrote the perfect internet marketing article, and now you're ready to submit it and start making some money, right? The question is how many article directories should you submit your article to, and which ones.

This is quite a debatable topic even between internet marketing gurus, and there doesn't seem to be any right answer. You have to remember that article marketing really serves two goals. The first is that it brings traffic - bot immediate and long term. Secondly, it provides backlink juice to your site.

But not all internet marketing article directories are created equal by any means. Some have a Google PR of 6 or 7, and others have a 1, but those PR 1 sites may have a publisher that picks up your article and gets it in front of 100,000 people. The argument is if it's worth submitting to all of these little sites.

The second issue that inevitably comes up is duplicate content, and the fact that Google punishes sites for having identical content as another site. First off, the notion is all wrong. What Google slaps people for is publishing the same content over and over on one single website - so the theory is crap. There are plenty of news aggregegators and other sites that only publish duplicate content and they are doing quite well. Secondly what people forget is that the duplicate content penalty, if it exists, only hurts the sites that your articles are published on - not your actual link. So if you're concerned, only publish unique content on your own personal website, which should be the case anyway.

My experience, however, is that EzineArticles.com really brings 80 percent of the traffic. Everyone looking for content uses this site, but with that comes more competition. However, it still seem to trump all other article directories.

So, my suggestion (for what it's worth) is one of two things. If you want some free high PR backlinks and traffic, manually submit your site to EzineArticles and Go Articles, and maybe Article Dashboard. Outside that it becomes a real pain in the ass to submit articles manually.

Your second option, if you want tons of backlinks and don't want to miss any opportunity to get your internet marketing article picked up by big publishers, is to use an article submissions software program, the best being Article Post Robot. Most article submission programs are semi-automatic, which means you still have to fill out some fields on each website and click the submit button (doesn't that defeat the purpose of automatic submission?). Article Post Robot is fully automatic, which means all you have to do is upload your article, add your keywords, title and suggested topic, and click submit once. It actually does all of the work for you - putting your content on nearly 600 article directory sites.

Submitting articles can take a hell of a lot more time than actually writing them, which is why most people quit doing them after a week. Once you start earning some income from all the articles you submit, you'll be able to figure out how much each article roughly earns you. If you're making $40 an article for example, it would makes sense to outsource the writing by paying someone $5 per an internet marketing article. Then use the automatic submitter, and your job is done for the day. You'll make your money back a billion times over.