Article Submission Software or Service, Which Is Better?
A lot of people wonder whether they should use an article submission software or go with one of the many services available that submit your articles for you. There are pros and cons to both.
With an article submission service you simply send them your articles and sit back. They do all the submissions for you and, if they're good, they'll send you a report so you know where your articles went and when.
Now on the surface, this seems like a pretty good deal. Your articles get submitted, you have nothing to do, and the back links start adding up for you. The price of some of these services also seem to be a bargain. In some cases, you can get up to four articles submitted for around $37. One or two charge a one time fee of around $120 and give you four or five submissions a month, while others charge per article.
But there are some drawbacks.
For one thing, if you're used to submitting a lot of articles every month, you'll need to hire a couple of services to carry you over. This could get to be somewhat expensive, and a recurring expense as well.
Secondly, you'll have no control over where your articles are submitted. Many of these services submit via email to group lists and to individual ezine owners. The value of submitting to groups only comes if the group list members actually reprint your articles on their own sites, and your articles will only be seen on ezines if the owner has room to use it.
With most group list members using "throw away" email accounts to keep from having their main email accounts bombarded with the hundreds and thousands of articles that get sent to them in return for the privilege of submitting their own, the chances are slim your articles will ever be seen, let alone used.
And if hundreds of people are sending the ezine owners their articles, only the best of the best will ever see the light of day on any ezine, with most getting rejected and sent to the trash. Most ezines will contain no more than four or 5 articles per month, so you do the math.
Now if we revisit the price versus the value of using an article submission service, things may not be adding up for you. Over the course of, let's say a year, you could be paying a couple hundred dollars to get your articles sent out to places that may or may not have any return benefits.
On the other hand, you could get fifty to a hundred articles sent out in that year and really have very little to do with the actually leg work of getting them submitted.
So to give you another perspective, article submission software could be more up your alley.
When you use software to submit your articles, you get full control over when and where they go. Most, if not all submission software submit primarily to article directories, which means you automatically get the benefit of back links regardless if anyone else reuses your articles or not.
Software comes with a one time price and is reusable any time you want to use it. No limit on the number of articles you can submit, or when you can submit them.
The big drawback is you have to do the work of submitting. At this point, any software that promises a one click submission to hundreds of article directories should be dismissed because many of the article directories are now taking measures to block them by using security tools, like captchas, that require a human presence to get through. So yes, when you use a professional quality article submission software you have to do the work.
But when you're done submitting, you know your articles have been submitted to the best places, in the best possible category, and formatted correctly so they can be appreciated for their content.
So there's the choice. Just remember you're article submission efforts will prove to the world that you're a legitimate, expert source for information. You need to get it right so you'll be seen as such by the largest number of people possible.