How to Submit to an Article Directory

If you keep using software to submit to the directory, the editor will soon find out about it. Eventually, he will ban your account. Worse still, they might blacklist your IP address and ban you from accessing the site forever.

There are hundreds of article directories on the internet. You can find the article directory list by visiting directory site such as Directory Critic, and web-directories.ws. Since article submission is time consuming, you might consider outsourcing it to a SEO company. Before signing up for the service, you should read reviews of customers to find out what they are talking about the SEO company. You can find reviews by visiting the internet marketing forum such as Digital Point, V7n.com, Site Point and etc. In addition, you can visit review site such as Epinions.com to read customer reviews of a specific SEO company. You should only sign up with reputable SEO companies that have been in business for several years in the industry. If the SEO company receives an overall good feedback, you can proceed to sign up with them. There are two ways to submit your article to the article directory which are manually or through automatic software.

After submitting to the directories, you will have to wait for some time for the article to be approved. If your article did not meet the submission guideline, the editor will ask you to make the necessary correction. You should receive a confirmation email once the article is approved.

The art of directory submission involves submitting a page or a website to numerous different online directories; examples of online directories include the yellow pages and Google directory. The aim of directory submission is to create an enhanced exposure for a web site, business or a service. Usually the more directories which have been submitted to ends up attracting more visitors due to the enhanced exposure to potential visitors.

If a person does not want to go through the time consuming process of submitting their web site into directories themselves, they have two options, one is SEO manual directory submission and the other is automatic directory submission. There are many distinct differences between the two, each with advantages and disadvantages; we will talk more about each one in this article. The person must decide which is best suited to them and/or their service.

Automatic Submission

Automatic submission involves downloading a piece of software which will automatically post your web site or service to multiple directories quickly. Alternatively you can pay someone to do this for you; there are many web sites and companies on the internet offering to do this for you at a nominal price. The advantages of automatic directory submission are that it will save the submitter a lot of time compared to manual submission processes and services. Also automatic submission services are much cheaper in comparison to people offering a manual directory submission, especially if you want the added extra of SEO aspects to the submission. The disadvantages of automatic submission services are that they are usually much poorer quality than manual submission; automatically submitted web sites into directories are much less likely to be ranked and indexed. Automatic submission software's are also very unreliable which can have the end result of many important directories being bypassed. I would especially not pay for an automatic submission software or service.