The drudgery of article submission

Regular readers may recall my article writing series (summarized here in one convenient article). Recently I've decided to revisit the topic and to create some new articles of my own to submit to various sites. Although I think article submission is a great strategy to get some links and publicity for your site, I've always hated the sheer drudgery of submitting articles to umpteen different article sites. So I've decided to investigate article submission software to see how much they can speed up the process. I've narrowed it down to two choices:

• Article Post Robot by David Tang; and
• Article Submitter Pro by Ken Nadreau and Hubert Daul

These two packages seem to be the most legitimate ones I can find. So far I'm leaning towards Article Post Robot because it's a bit cheaper and the creator offers a free trial of the software. (I hope to do a full review of it on GeekAffiliate soon.) Besides, it has much cuter graphics:

(That image was shrunk to make it fit…) But I'd love to hear opinions from any of you out there as to what you use and why.

You may wonder if it's ethical to use article submission software in the first place. Well, you're right to be wary — there are definitely some iffy programs out there that exist solely to spam article directories. This is why most legitimate article directories today require submitters to register before articles are accepted. So any article submission software that doesn't take this registration step — and any manual verification in addition — into account is simply no good in my books.

If you want to submit articles to more than one or two directories, though, I think it pays to invest in this kind of a program, just for the amount of time it's going to save you. Really, I'd rather be writing articles than submitting them. I know the latter's an important part of the process, but if I don't have software to help me along then I'll just limit myself to a couple of major sites like EZineArticles.com and SearchWarp.com and be done with it. But for maximum effect you want to submit to several directories. So it's one of those classic time-vs-effort debacles that's unique to everyone's situation.

Personally, I like to see AdSense publishers spend most of their time creating content and using tools to automate the other stuff rather than the other way around. After all, blogging software like WordPress lets you concentrate on the content and is a real boon for legitimate content producers — though we've all seen blogs being abused as well. Article submission software is along the same lines.

More on this topic once I've played around with the software.

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Eric Giguere is the contextual advertising expert who wrote Make Easy Money with Google and Uncommon AdSense. You can read this blog by mail if it's more convenient for you, just send a blank email to memwg-blog@aweber.com to subscribe.

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