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Submit Your Article Review
Monday, October 3rd, 2011Submit Your Article Overview
There are plenty of article submission websites that will distribute your articles to article directories, but Submit Your Article also distributes to their distribution network. From what I’ve heard, the distribution network includes blogs, minor article directories, and their own email distribution list. But the biggest benefit of using Submit Your Article is their ability to submit to EzineArticles.com, the most respected article directory on the web.
Human Review
Because the folks at Submit Your Article take the time to review your articles before they send them out, this service has racked up some high marks in the industry and is possibly the reason they can submit directly to EzineArticles. They also submit to ArticleAlley, ArticleBase, GoArticles, IdeaMarketers, and SearchWarp. These are the other main players in the article directory market.
Submitting Your Article
Submitting your articles is an easy, seamless process. You enter your login and passwords for the top 6 article directories and then copy and paste your article into the form. You choose the resource box you’d like to use and select a schedule for your article to be distributed. That’s the quick overview. Now let’s take a closer look at some of the details.
Article Leverage
After you enter your article into the first form, the system gives you the option to spin your article. If you’ve read my other article reviews, you know I’m not a fan of article spinners, but this one is a bit different and I reluctantly give it my approval. The difference with this article spinner is, it allows you to write your own material to be spun. For example, you can rewrite your title and several paragraphs and it develops combinations using the information you’ve supplied. It doesn’t try to use synonyms for specific words that turn your article into an unreadable mush.
After you’ve submitted some alternate paragraphs and sentences to spin, test the article to double check that it makes sense. It’s a good spinner as far as spinners go, but it’s still a spinner.
Your next step is to set up a distribution schedule. You can submit your article immediately or schedule it to be trickled out over a period of 2 – 90 days. If you choose a longer distribution time, like 30, 60, or 90 days, it looks more natural to the search engines and helps a little bit in your search engine rankings.
Pricing
The pricing depends on the number of services you’d like to use. The $47 per month version is a great place to start. It gives you a robust system with some extras that make your article submissions a bit easier. Or you can go for the gusto and jump into the $67 a month version which includes more bells and whistles, including Naked Articles. With Naked Articles you can submit articles with links included in the body and no resource box. This is a handy feature when your article is being submitted to blogs. It makes the blog post look like it was written by the blog owner and gives the post more credibility. More credibility means a higher likelihood of your links being clicked on. Whichever price point you choose, you get to try it out for 7 days for just $1; so you can make your decision without laying out a wad of cash.
Conclusion
I like this service. It offers a very simple, yet robust way to distribute your articles. The big plus is its ability to submit directly to EzineArticles, which saves you time. I even like the article spinner, because it allows you to develop spun articles that are essentially still your work. If I had to pick something about the system that could be improved, it would be the number of places that your article is submitted to. Where many submission services distribute to thousands of sites, Submit Your Article only distributes to hundreds of sites. Bottom line, though, it works, and your articles end up ranking highly in the search engines.
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Distribute Your Articles Review
Monday, August 1st, 2011Distribute Your Articles Overview
Distribute Your Articles is a very intuitive system. It combines simplicity with functionality and allows you to submit articles quickly and efficiently. You can submit your articles to 10,000 websites with a few clicks of your mouse and schedule your submissions over an extended period of time.
For authors who work in several niches, Distribute Your Articles allows you to create multiple profiles. This helps you organize your markets and develop “expert status” branding within each market.
If you ever run into problems, they have a first class support system and an active forum with members who are happy to answer your questions and point you in the right direction.
Distribute Your Articles Launch Pad
The website is robust, but the “Launch Pad” is easy enough for an 11 year old to use. It’s your command centre where you can see all your statistics. It makes it easy to keep track of your progress at a single glance. You get stats on:
- The number of articles you’ve submitted
- The number of backlinks to your website
- How many articles are waiting for distribution
- How many articles have been distributed
- How many articles are waiting to be reviewed
- The articles that need corrections or changes before they can be distributed
- Which sites your articles are listed on with direct links to your articles
- Where and when your articles were sent
Submission Scheduling
One of the important features in the system is the scheduling function. If you distribute articles to 10,000 websites in a blast, the search engines take note and are likely to penalize you for it. But if you submit your articles over the course of a week, it helps your website rankings, because the search engines don’t look at you as spamming the net. Having said that, no one really knows what the search engines are up to, except the search engine executives. From what I can tell, a slow flow for distributing your articles is more beneficial than a quick blast. Distribute Your Articles allows you to choose which method you prefer, but I recommend the slow flow feature.
Smart Spin
Distribute Your Articles also gives you the option to “spin” your articles using their “Smart Spin” technology. Although they recommend it, I don’t. If you’re not familiar with article spinners, here’s the scoop. You enter your article into a spinner. Select words in your article that could be substituted with synonyms and the spinner automatically inserts synonyms for you. The result is generally an article that is barely readable. As an article directory owner, I delete at least 100 spun articles every day.
Pricing
When it comes to pricing, it is very fair. A one month subscription is $49.99, three months is $99.99 and one year is $299.99. The one year subscription is the best deal. You save $300, which makes it half price, compared to the monthly option. If you consider how much time it would take each month to submit to just 100 article directories, the price almost seams cheap. And with Distribute Your Articles, you’re submitting to 10,000 sites, not just 100.
Guarantee
The final piece of the puzzle is the guarantee. Theirs is rock solid. If you decide you don’t want the service in the first thirty days, you can cancel it and get a 100% refund. If at any time you decide to cancel, they courteously honour your request. Since the subscription is run through PayPal, you also have the option to cancel your subscription through their system too.
Conclusion
Overall, Distribute Your Articles gets two thumbs up. Their functionality is top notch, the simplicity of their website makes it extremely easy to use and their pricing is good value for money.
From the Blog
- Submit Your Article Review
Monday, October 3rd, 2011 - Distribute Your Articles Review
Monday, August 1st, 2011