Manual Article Submission System

One of the most successful online marketing strategies you can do these days is to submit your articles to various article submission websites. This is a great way to promote your services, your expertise, and your book (if you're a published author!). It has been well documented that one-way links to your website increase search engine rankings more than reciprocal linking, and article submission is an excellent way to achieve one-way linking.

However, the downside is that it takes time to manually submit your articles, and if you have several articles, you could spend hours submitting them to the various websites. There is software available that will automatically submit your articles for you, but you do need to check this out carefully. And if you do decide to manually submit your articles you need to have a system in place that makes maximum use of your time, but also keeps a detailed record of which articles you've submitted where, and when.

Below are my tips for an organised and efficient article submission system (I use it so I know it works!):

1. Convert all your articles to plain text, using Notepad - to make copying and pasting easier

2. Set up a spreadsheet which is broken down into various workbooks for article submission sites, ezine directories, and ebook directories

3. On the main workbook for submitting articles list all the article submission websites down the left-hand column (set up as hyperlinks), a column for username, one for password, and a column for each article listing the date it was submitted and the URL.

4. As the article submission is hyperlinked you can just click on it and it will take you to that site. You know your username and password (it's on the spreadsheet) and you can then you can submit each article to the article directory by copying and pasting from your plain text document.

I hope this streamlines the article submission process for those of you who do manual submissions.