Here’s a list of Article Submission Services that are pretty popular/widely known.

******   NOT included in this list is the crap PLR and MRR products that are one-time-fee purchases that supposedly submit to a lot of “quality article directories”…

ISnare – sends one copy of your article out to hundreds of webmasters.  Articles need to be 500 words or more. With their platinum level membership for $69.95/month, you can Distribute 300 articles per month with lots of benefits for $59.95/mo. recurring.  You’ll get a smattering of traffic from this and a decent amount of backlinks, if a good portion of the articles submissions turn into Published articles.

ISnare

Submit Your Article – this is better than ISnare as it submits to EzineArticles for you… cost is $37.00/month, only allows you to submit up to 8 articles per month and supposedly has some back-end technology that makes your content unique for better syndication effects.

Here is a very basic overview.

After signing up, you go through an initial one-time process where you enter some key information, such as your name, email address etc., your log in details for a handful of major article directories (so we can log in to your account with them on your behalf and take care of your article submission – there is only ten or so of these), and so on.

This initial set up process is a vital part of our high-quality article distribution process. You only need do it once, and then for each article submission the process is very simple:

• You enter your article into the system.
• When you are ready to distribute it, you simply click the button provided to do so.

Article Marketing Automation, A.K.A. AMA and the same service as My Article Network - blog networks supposedly 10k-20k sites in size.  Great for backlinks and referral traffic, cost $47.00/month.

The sites in the network aren’t of the highest quality, the links obtained aren’t very powerful, but you DO get a lot of backlinks and the service is very easy to use, albeit a bit time-consuming to write good articles and spin them.

Unique Article Wizard - blog, html sites, and article directories network.  You WILL get hundreds or even thousands of backlinks per article here, plus a decent amount of referral traffic. cost = $67.00/month and worth every penny.

As a happy user of “UAW” I get my articles submitted to an AVERAGE of 800 directories per submission and I see the links coming in regularly and see a lot of my articles showing up in the SERPs.

SpinDistribute - Another network of sites types of service where you get links form other sites in network AND from other sources,like directories…  They also offer to write, submit, and syndicate 7 articles/month for $77.00/month, and you would be hard pressed to beat that kind of value.

1WayLinks - another blog network -type of service, (1500 strong last I checked) and the network is full of sites that got turned into link-farm quality sites, the links are ineffective and it’s not worth using even if it were free.  cost: $47.00/month

MyWayLinks - this is like a closed door membership site/service whereby you’ll only get links from quality sites.  The network is small compared to what My Article Network and Unique Article Wizard have for network size.  Cost; $47.00/month.

MyWayLinks

ArticleSubmissionServices.com - Their sales page has typos in it and grammatical errors so I don’t think I’d be using them to write articles for me, nor would I pay money to have articles submitted to directories for me when I can do a lot more than that with pretty much any of the services listed on this post..

SendArticles.com - their sales page is too brief, and doesn’t say how many directories your articles get sent out to. Don’t forget… a link from an article directory is only ONE type of backlink, and you want to have a variance of backlink styles for a well-rounded link building campaign.

FastSubmitArticles.com - They submit one article to 352 directories for you for$30.00!  that’s expensive and you don’t get much out of it, links-and-directories-wise…

SEO Content Writers - very professional-looking site here, and they’re expensive, too so they must be delivering the “goods”…

HOWEVER,

It has been my experience that it is FAR more effective, and much less costly to you if you develop your own way of doing things by using leverage.

How do you use leverage when it comes to article marketing and article submissions?

By tapping into pre-existing networks that are waiting to receive and publish your articles for far less cost than many of the services listed above…

All you have to do really, is get a service like My Article Network or Unique Article Wizard for $47.00 or $67.00/month then get some great articles written for you at places like getarticles.com, who specialize in writing UAW-formatted articles…

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