Article submission software has been around for a while and I’ve seen comments that it’s used by spammers, it’s a waste of time or it’s better to manually submit your articles. As my time is valuable, as is yours, I decided to test a very affordable article submitter to see what the results were.
For this experiment I tested ArticleBot, like the guy from Remmington, I liked it so much I bought the resell rights to it!
What is does is allow you to automate your article submissions to article directories that are built on a similar platform. You can read this to mean that they are probably article directories that have been set up to earn the owner some adsense income! Don’t think this is a bad thing because most of these directories will give you some good “link juice” back to your website which is a good thing.
Unfortunately patience is not my strong point so setting up each of the accounts did take time. I used a gmail email account that I had set up for this particular website, to keep everything all in one place. As of today there are 353 article directories that you can submit your article to automatically, however I decided to be a bit more choosy than that. Also, I found a few had been hacked by a hacker so obviously didn’t register for these accounts!
What I liked about it was that you can set up some accounts with your username and password for some article directories and then later on you can add a few more. It keeps track of the articles that you’ve submitted to which directories.
There is also a built-in basic article spinner in it, so that you can edit some of the words in your title, body etc. I decided not to use this feature but instead just entered about 5 different titles for the article, as well as 5 different resource boxes to mix things up a bit. You can also add different bodies of your articles too, but as I wanted to get to the end results, this time I didn’t bother. There seems to be quite a debate about how much “duplicate content” hurts your rankings and also what exactly is deemed “duplicate content” but that debate will need to wait for another post!
Once I was ready I submitted my article in batches to the directories, filling in any captcha as I went along. For this purpose it’s good to batch all the directories needing captcha confirmation in one sitting – yes the software does this for you! From entering my article and submitting it to around 90 directories it took me just over 30 minutes.
My conclusion? If I can write an article and submit it to 90 article directories using this article submitter software in about 30 minutes, when it would take me that time to manually submit 4 or 5, I’m going to keep using it. What I will say is that I am using these directories for backlink purposes. For the main directories such as EzineArticles, GoArticles and ArticlesBase I take more time over my submissions and always submit them manually.
The best part of ArticleBot is that it’s only $24.95 for the software and that includes updates. I figured that my time was worth at least that much!
Get your copy here and let me know how you get on: ArticleBot
