Dear Content Crooner,

Thank you for your message. I really appreciate it. Yes, I just had one account under Kass Hanson. I am not sure how to contact you but my info is on the account.

I would prefer a 3 week credit back into my PayPal account. I am still deleting hundreds of emails and trying to unsubscribe to numerous and crude groups under bestfreearticles.

Thanks again. It is good to hear that the kinks are being worked out. I will revisit the service again in the future.

Sincerely,
Kass

To answer the OP ...

I have done a vast amount of research and testing on Article Marketing and I can tell you it has nothing to do with it hurting your credit/rep but it will not help you either.

Many are under the assumption that if they submit to 1,200 article directories (yes there are 1,200) then they will get 1,200 backlinks but this is not the case. The fact is you will be lucky to get 100 or so backlinks and most of those backlinks will not mean much.

It's a sad fact but many of these article directories are nothing more than adsense farms. Many of the owners do not even know how to market their own directory and thus why many get little to no traffic. If a site does not get indexed, ranked, traffic then it is going to do you no good.

Another sad fact is that hundreds of these article directories close every year due to the fact the site owners do not make enough money on adsense to keep the site up. When the registration dies and hosting dies then they do not bother to pay more money to keep the sites up.

So assuming you even submit to 1,000 article directories and get 500 backlinks.. In a years time you will lose those 500 backlinks and that will hurt your rankings. So you must ask yourself was it worth your time to spend money for a submission system ??? In my opinion no it is not...

Now let's tack on the fact that CSS3, HTML5, and Php6 will be fully released soon and when it does many of those low level article directories will be forced out of business because the scripts they use will not run any longer. Some HTML5 and CSS3 already works in FireFox browsers.

You are far better off submitting to the top 20 or so article directory sites and then using web 2.0 sites to build those articles up...

James

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James,

Thank you. That was a thorough and straightforward review. It does appear that submitting to the top directory sites makes the most sense at this point.

However, please clarify what you mean by using web 2.0 sites to build those articles up.


Miuch appreciated,
Kass

As I do agree with most of what James said I would still use submission services. If you have a new site and you would like to get one way backlinks fast with minimum effort then article submission services can really help you. I have used article submission services for many of my sites and I must say that the most links are still there and some of the articles have got syndicated so I have even gained more links without doing anything.

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Well I just made a very detailed post on this but since I added links (not mine) in the post I guess it is waiting moderation ...lol

Basically using sites such as multiply.com to build your articles by linking to your articles... Of course web 2.0 profiles need bookmarked and rss feeds submitted also but the point is the web 2.0 sites will help increase the rankings.

See things link this can not be done when using automation services. There is way more to article marketing then what most realize and when manually submitting you can get far more out of your articles as you will know the exact urls to link to when you post that article manually.

James

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Article submission services usually provide you with the full list of article directories where your articles has been submitted so you can choose 10 to 20 more popular article directories or more if you like and go and build up your articles the same way you would do with your articles on ezinearticles or articlebase.

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True .... But .....

Which is easier ...

Post article - bookmark, add to web 2.0 site, submit rss feed and then move to the next article post, bookmark, add to web 2.0 site, submit rss feed and then move to the next article, and etc ...

Very easy doing it in steps ...

~vs ~

Getting a report with a bunch of low level article directories and now you have to decide how in the world to bookmark, add to web 2.0, submit rss feeds to hundreds of places..

You see the first option will be more productive due to the fact human brains work better when it comes to doing things step by step vs trying to do many things at once. Option one above will be far more productive and you will see better results in a way less time.

You can not build a house by trying to do everything at once, you must build that house step by step ...

James

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It can be bit time consuming to separate the low level article directories from good or half decent ones especially if your article is submitted to 500 different article directories but once you have done so the system can look something like that:

Choose an article directory - bookmark your article, add to web 2.0 site, submit rss feed and then move to the next article post or directory, bookmark, add to web 2.0 site, submit rss feed and then move to the next article or article directory, and etc ...

By using article submission services it takes you 5 minutes to have an article in 500 or more article directories, so you have not really lost anything even if the 80 percent of the directories do not give you much link bower. Submission services just save you of signing up, submitting your article, keywords and author resource box 500 times in a row.

But I do agree that that submitting to the top 5 major article directories should be done manually.

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I disagree .... Article directories are useless unless they are 100% ad free and the owner actually helps you as an author. Sorry but this is fact. Over 90% of the article directory owners do not even know how to market a site. I know some self proclaimed article marketing experts that do not even use article marketing to market their own article directory.

True article marketing has nothing to do with mass submitting to lame sites using lame mass submit sites such as content crooner, unique article waizard, submityourarticles, and the other lame mass submit sites.

What these places do not tell you is the fact that you will never see any true backlinks due to the fact the sites are not marketed, they have so many ads on them all link juice is lost, they have no real traffic from consumers, they get no listings in google, and etc..

They do not tell you this because they want you to pay them $30, $40, $60 a month. This is how they make their money. If their services was so great then why do they not use it ?? Go look at submityourarticles and uaw and see how they market, it is mostly by PPC - Well if their service was a great as they say then they would not need to use PPC.

Personally myself I use every single service I sell... I do not just slap up a site and try to get people to join. I use the tools, I help others use the tools, and etc ....

James

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Article submission services have been very beneficial ( Content Crooner ) for us getting one way backlinks and it has saved us lot of time. Our site got over 400 one way backlinks in very short period of time and as articles have got syndicated now the backlinks have grown well over one thousand.

We have also submitted articles manually for articles directories like Ezinearticles and ArticlesBase and although these article directories have lot of ads on them they surely and steadily are getting some descent amount of traffic for us.

In my opinion it is quite a good result for very minimum investment in time and money, but I would still like to know how to get even better results using the article marketing the way you do.

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