Many entrepreneurs who write and distribute their own articles to the various article directories by hand, find this job time consuming and although there are many article submission software packages available for download, most of them are semi-automatic, which means they still need to use a great deal of time on submissions using the software.

Have you ever just sat down and added up how much money you have spent on-line trying to promote and market your site or product? What you would come up with is probably hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, right? Looking back was it really worth all that money or could you have gotten the same results, if not better, some other way? Most likely some other way, would be your answer.
There are many good ways of marketing something but the thing is that it costs a great deal of money to put together a marketing plan which will actually work for you. For someone who is not very good at marketing it can be quite hard to put together a marketing plan that will work for someone else. With this in mind it might be a good idea to consider doing some of your marketing on your own.

The greatest benefit by doing your own marketing is of course the cost involved. On your own you can reduce your cost to almost nothing except for a little of your time. You have no clue, do you? Well, the head line says it all and it is true. Writing articles is a fantastic marketing tool if you want to generate traffic to your website or to let people know about your product or service. You do not need to be an expert to write your own articles.

If you are not certain how to go about this all you have to do is visit an article directory to see how others are going about it. Basically all you have to do is to write an informative article about what you want to market but the article can not be seen as an advertisement. There are so many article directories out there that you will probably never be able to submit your articles to all of them but you can try and find those who will work the best for you

Every directory will do some good for your marketing although the very best thing for you would be to find a niche article directory which handles only the subjects regarding your interest. The reason for this is that you are bound to be seen by readers sharing your interest and who perhaps would want to visit your website. The more articles you write and get out there to the different directories, the more exposure you will get as well as link backs to your site.

Why not give this a try since article marketing has proven to be a great way to increase traffic to once site. You will also find that you are not just throwing your money away and by doing your own marketing it is all up to you how much time and effort you want to put into it. It does not take much to see some good results but the more articles you write and submit, the better results you will see

Doing your own article submissions by hand – either going to each article directory site and there are many or using semi-automatic article submission software will save you money on the one hand, on the other hand it wont save you time as it’s very time consuming and a task that needs to be done several times a week.

Depending on your work load, its worth calculating whether or not to outsource this task to a company that can do this for you against a fee. There are one or two that are good that we use and find suitable that have reasonable prices for doing the job.

Article Distribution – alternative #1

The first is an automated article distribution service for writers, marketers and business professionals. We serve a diverse set of clients – from large, to small and home-based business owners wanting to effectively promote themselves, their products and their services.

Their submission process is completely data-driven, which ensure that articles are submitted in strict accordance with the specific guidelines set by each publisher. Guidelines may include article category, length of article, and number of submissions during a given period of time. Their servers work steadily through the day and night to make sure that submitted articles are distributed to the maximum number of outlets in the shortest possible time.

Offering one of the most comprehensive article distribution services available, this company serves a great number of authors, and makes thousands of article submissions each day to several thousand people on hundreds of websites, article directories, and email lists and has one of the longest distribution lists in the industry.

Real people review articles prior to distribution at no extra cost and provide personal attention, guidelines, tips and tricks that can help make your article more successful with editors and publishers.

Their author control panel allows members to review and edit each of their articles and when done a one touch article submission facility gets the article onto the distribution level. If there’s a need to schedule articles for future delivery, this can be done too from the control panel… there are ample features to make any article marketing campaign a doddle with distribution just a moment away to thousands of publishing sites around the world, leaving you with the extra time to take care of other pressing business.

To distribute to so many sites around the world would be virtually impossible to do by hand – and as it does equals a lot of potential visits and customers to your site – it’s a task that’s well worth outsourcing.

What does this service cost?

Quarterly Subscription: for unlimited article submissions only $49.99/quarter. At the moment you can save $30 off the regular quarterly price, and receive one free custom-written article – valued at $29.95 – for savings of $59.95 total.
Annual Subscription: Save more with a yearly subscription of $169.99. You save $70 off the regular yearly price, and get two free custom-written articles. A total saving of $129.85, and you’ll get two custom-written articles to launch your campaign!
Lifetime Membership: Limited-time price of just $399.99. Not only will you save $100 to start, you’ll also receive three free articles at $89.85 value. That’s savings of $189.85!

Article Distribution – alternative #2

Or you could choose to submit different, unique versions of your article to over 800 article directories and blogs using this unique system. Even if you have only adsense sites, you still need visitors and to get those website visitors, you have to let everyone on the planet know that your site exists and the best and most proven way to do this is to write articles and distribute them in the same way as for any other website that you’re promoting.

Visitors searching for your products/keywords, will because of your articles, see you at number one in the rankings, and be even more convinced that you are the expert that will solve their problems.

This system is not quite the same as alternative #1, but it does have the advantage of not sending out the same article verbiage twice – i.e. each article distributed to publisher sites is unique and non-duplicated. This equals tens or maybe hundreds of thousands of qualified, genuine, one-way links to your site.

This article distribution services submits a different unique article based on the original – to every directory, ezine publisher, announcement group, and niche website. No other service does this to my knowledge. Average time to submit a new article once it is written and ready to go is about 30 seconds. And no need to register new accounts or respond to confirmation emails – they do all that for you!

An added advantage as well with this system is that your article also goes out as RSS feeds to countless websites that use RSS technology to provide content on their web pages, which brings more exposure to your website.

So, in short no more need for expensive SEO ‘experts charging hundreds of dollars an hour. No more need for spammy, dangerous black-hat stuff that will only ruin your reputation and no more need to buy expensive back-links – with this system all you need is one or two articles per week and it really is very simple.

What does this service cost?

Standard membership is $67 per month – that’s for unlimited submissions using an unlimited number of pen-names. With just one account you can promote all your niche sites and as many articles as you wish and as often as you like. However, they have a special going on at the moment – $30 off the first month.

The choice is up to you and will greatly depend on your work load. But article writing and distribution is a proven method of gaining back links as well as targeted website traffic and hopefully customers.