With lots of expensive article submission software on the market, it's great to see some free submission software being released (although slightly ironic, since I just
paid for some new article submission yesterday, can you believe it!).
The new free article submitter software has been released by Brad Callen, the author of SEO Made Easy and can be downloaded for free
here.
Install
The software is pretty straightforward to install - just click the download for free button, put your name and email address in a box and submit, then press the "click here to download" link to download and install your software. It installs in a few seconds and there is no need to restart your PC.
The download includes the software itself, which will submit your articles to up to 100 article directories, plus a user guide in PDF format. The user guide is a quick and easy read at 10 pages long, but it covers everything you need to know to use the software.
Adding ArticlesThe first thing you need to do is add an article that you want to submit to the directories by pressing the add article button. This is pretty straightforward and you just need to type in the article title, your name, email address, author bio and you can also add an email (autoresponder) for the article and a URL for the article. The last two aren't necessary as a small number of article directories ask for these.
Next you enter your article resource box in both HTML and non HTML (as some directories accept HTML and others don't). Be sure to put your keywords in the anchor text. You will also need to add the keywords for the article and an article description. Finally you enter the text of your article, first with no HTML and secondly with HTML. If you don't know HTML I would just stick to using a BR tag at the end of each paragraph and that will suffice.
All the article information was straightforward to enter and you can easily enter multiple articles by hitting the "Add an article" button, or edit existing articles using the "Edit Article" button. There's a nice drop down box where you can quickly select which article to submit if you have multiple articles.
Submitting Articles
At this point you are ready to start submitting your article and you just need to select the article directory from the list by double clicking on it. Note that many article directories require a login and if you are not a member of some of these article directories already you will need to create one. This is a very time consuming process, but remember that you only need to do this once, so the next time you submit an article it is much quicker. Article Submitter will save your login details for you so you don't need to remember them for your next article submission.
At this point it's just a case of logging into each of the directories and letting Article Submitter auto fill each of the boxes for you. usually you will have to select the article category yourself, but apart from that it's automatic. You should be able to whiz through the article directories very quickly, compared to doing it manually.
Pros
Free to use
Although the free version has only 100 directories, it doesn't expire and 100 is a good amount.
Easy install
Very easy to get started and simple to use
Looks nice :-) (there's a lot of ugly looking software out there)
Allows you to sort directories by Page Rank and Alexa Rank
You can sort directories based on whether or not they need a login
Keeps track of when you last submitted to a directory
Allows you to enter HTML and non HTML versions of articles and resource box
Upgrade to the full version which has over 600 directories is very reasonable at $67
Cons
Doesn't allow any automatic submission of articles (although this could be a pro for some people, who want to be sure to double check things before submitting).
Although I entered an HTML version, in some of the directoires which I knew accepted HTML, the non HTML version was used (e.g. Article Dashboard allows an HTML resource box, but the non HTML one was used)
Although I entered my non HTML version of the article with line breaks between each paragraph, in some of the directories e.g. Article Dashboard and Article City, the article that was entered had no line breaks whatsover
The last submission date is recorded for each article, which is good, but this is filled in when I visit the article directory, not when I submit the article.
The Verdict
If you don't already have an article submitter, this is a fantastic tool, which you can download free and start using straight away for your article submission. I recommend this for anyone who wants to speed up their article submission. Some of the cons listed above may put you off, but hopefully these are just initial teething problems will be sorted out.
The Competition
You can also read my reviews of:
Article Post Robot (favourite so far) and Article Announcer.
Labels: Article Marketing, Freebies, Product Reviews
