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SubmitYourArticle.Com is an article distribution service. For a monthly fee they will distribute 8 of your articles per month to hundreds of publishers and article directories for you. They also provide a service entitled article leverage which allows you to alter parts of your article, so that a slightly different version of your article appears at each different article directory.

ABOUT SubmitYourArticle Review - As I have explained above SubmitYourArticle.Com is an article distribution service which distributes your article for you and also comes with the additional article leverage service which alters your article slightly for each new directory it appears in. To review this service I will talk you through the typical article distribution process using SubmitYourArticle.Com and article leverage then provide an overall opinion on the service.

So to begin you log into your account and click the ‘Submit an Article’ button. You are then presented with a form requiring you to enter; the article title, the article itself (in plain text format), your resource box/author bio box in both plain text and HTML format (useful if you want your links to be anchor text links), a short description of the article, the article keywords, the article URL (for example if you have published the article on your website you may want to enter that URL here) and the article category. Then you preview your article and if everything’s OK then you can save it. Overall, this stage is pretty simple and is no different from entering your article into a normal article directory form.

Once your article has been saved you have the options to edit it, publish it or delete it. At this stage you may also notice one of SubmitYourArticle.com review additional features - Article Boost. If there are any potential problems with your article that may prevent them from being published, Article Boost will detect them and notify you here. You can then make the necessary edits to your article. I’ve found this to be a pretty useful feature because sometimes my article is too long or not formatted correctly, so it’s good to know this right away.

After this you will want to submit your article. You have the option to submit it normally meaning the same article goes out to all directories or via Article Leverage which means an altered version of your article is sent to each article directory. If you choose normal distribution then you’re finished - that’s all you have to do to submit your article. However, if you choose article leverage there are a few more stages. I generally choose article leverage to avoid the issue of duplicate content.

If you submit via Article Leverage the first screen will ask you to enter two or more variations of your article title. You just think of as many as you can and then wack them in here. Next you are asked to enter a variation or two on your existing introduction. Then your asked to enter variations of random sentences within your article. After this you are asked to enter variations on your plain text and HTML resource boxes which is useful if one article can potentially promote multiple websites. Once you’ve done this you are taken to a preview page where you can view potential variations of your article. Once your happy with everything you can complete the final step and distribute your article. Overall, article leverage takes an additional 20-30 minutes but I think it is time well spent.

So that’s all their is to the SubmitYourArticle.Com service. Using Article Leverage I would say it takes a maximum of 30 minutes to submit your article - a significant time saver if you compare the time it would take for you to submit your article to every article directory manually. I’ve also got to compliment the customer service at SubmitYourArticle.Com. When I started out I had a query and they responded promptly and were very helpful.

So do I have any criticisms? Well my first criticism is that they limit the number of articles you can submit each month to 8. Although I haven’t managed to write more than 8 in a month it would be nice to submit unlimited articles each month for the fee. Secondly, your article distribution credits do not carry over into the next month. If you only submit 5 articles in month 1 then you cannot submit 11 in month 2. This is quite annoying if you are a bit slow with your article writing one month.

Overall, I highly recommend the service. Although the limits on article distribution are slightly annoying it is such a relief to just enter your article into the form and then let SubmitYourArticle.Com do the rest. Manually submitting articles used to take me hours but now I can have unique versions of my article out there within 30 minutes. Plus, they also provide you with a lot of additional information and advice concerning article marketing. I’ve learnt a lot from the SubmitYourArticle.Com newsletter which has helped me improve my articles, titles and resource boxes. SubmitYourArticle.Com have provided me with lots of new information, a great service and saved me huge amounts of time which in my opinion is well worth the monthly fee.

GOOD POINTS
- Seriously reducest the time to submit an article to hundreds of directories.
- Article Boost identifies potential problems with your article that you may have missed yourself.
- Article Leverage allows you to distribute unique versions of your article to all the directories. I can’t even imagine how long this would have taken manually.
- The additional resources on article marketing are really useful and have taught me a lot.

BAD POINTS
- You can only submit 8 articles per month.
- You cannot carry over article credits to the next month so if you do not submit 8 articles each month you are losing out.

HOW I HAVE GAINED FROM SUBMITYOURARITCLE.COM
First and foremost it has saved me a huge amount of time. Submitting articles manually is a long and tedious process which has now been reduced to around 30 minutes thanks to SubmitYourArticle.Com. Secondly, I have learnt how to improve the quality of my articles, titles and resource boxes so that they got more views, more clicks and ultimately generate more traffic for me.

The recently released Google Sniper course by George Brown has gotten an excellent critical reception. It provides a start-to-finish system for creating websites to make money online. While Google Sniper works, it does omit teaching one critical area of SEO, but you can fill in that knowledge gap with this article.

The foundation of Google Sniper involves picking low competition keywords, creating highly themed content with excellent on-page optimization, and pre-selling your visitors with a review or story. George provides more than enough info on those areas. Problem is, the course assumes you did a perfect job of assessing your competition, because if you made a mistake, you won’t rank well without link building.

If you’ve done any internet marketing before, you know it’s usually not that easy to find a perfect keyword. If you make a mistake with the keyword, you’re probably not getting first page of Google, or any sales for that matter.

What can we do to combat this?

The easiest solution to this issue is to simply build links pointing to your site. Well, you’ve got a problem, because George hates link building, so he doesn’t really talk much about it. Given that issue, I thought I’d give you a quick primer on some basic ways of link building here.

1. Social Bookmarking: George says most of what needs to be said on these. Don’t make these the foundation of your link building efforts though, most of them are no-follow, so Google doesn’t give them a ton of weight.

2. Link Wheels: This involves making a bunch of web 2.0 blogs that link to each other in a circle, and then pointing a link from all of them to your money site. You can find more info by Googling “linkwheel”.

3. Profile Links: A lot of sites where you can register a user account will let you post a link to your site. Check out MTV.com and MacUpdate for starters.

4. Blog Commenting: Find blogs that you can leave smart, relevant comments on, and post using your anchor text as your name and don’t forget to put in your URL!

5. Article Submission: Write high-quality articles and submit them to reputable article directories. These directories will allow you to include a resource box at the end of the article where you can link back to your site. Not only do you get a backlink out of this, but these articles usually rank well in Google, so you’ll get some traffic out of the deal too.

The 5 techniques above will give you the foundation of link building, which you can use to increase your Google rankings no matter how tough your competition is. Now that you’ve got this knowledge, the one hole in the Google Sniper system has been patched and you’re ready to start building your empire. Get to the site building, there are buyers waiting for you!

If you want to rank high on Google’s organic listings you need to get links, lot’s of them but knowing this is just the start. How we get these links is another matter entirely and it requires a great deal of creativity and investment.

Article marketing is a very popular linking technique, write and article and then point an anchor text link back to your content. This works but not how you would expect as it has one fundamental flaw.

Article marketing was a great way of boosting your google seo campaign a few years ago but in todays market you need to think outside the box. You see the problem with article marketing is that you are distributing a duplicate article across the web on thousands of directories, so what the issue?

A common online fallacy is that every link you build counts, this is not the case and only a link on an indexed page is worth anything and if you have published a hundred article Google is only going to index a few. What Google will do is index the article from the most authoritative domain, in my opinion there are only 4 or article directories online with this pedigree.

So use article directories but only the best ones, the ones where you know your article and link will be listed and indexed.

It has long been known that backlinks are the key to ranking high on Google and ranking highly on Google means mega amounts of traffic and if you optimise correctly money.

Google’s algorithm has come a long way since it was first launched and the ranking system is now more complex than ever. You have to consider all kinds of factors before deciding on a solid formula and a search engine optimisation strategy.

There are many things Google would like to see in a link pointing back to your page. Firstly they want to see that your site is acquiring links from pages with high authority, this means that the page has been around for a while and has already got backlinks pointing at it.

The second thing Google will want to see is that you are getting links from blogs that are related to your subject. In links from irrelevant sites can ring spam alarm bells and will pass little value to your site.

The third aspect of links building that will increase your rankings in the search engines is the anchor text you use to create them. Links that are anchored with your target key phrase will help add relevance to your page and increase your rankings.

Any link building plan you decide to implement needs to be carried out carefully and not all links can or even should be acquired quickly. Links that are acquired too quickly will look spammy and could lead to a huge amount of links losing value.

Google’s main advice is that links should be natural. A vote to your site should be an honest one, pointing there because of the usefulness of your content and not because you have paid for it. Remember this and create quality content and your rankings will soon rise.