Article Submission Software vs Submitting Articles By Hand
Authors who use article submission software are gaining a nasty reputation among some article directory owners. In fact, a few article directories are installing scripts that force authors to create accounts and submit their articles manually.
From the author’s perspective, I can understand they don’t want to waste time submitting articles when a computer program can do it for them just as easily, and much more quickly.
From a directory owner’s perspective, though, forcing manual submission could be a good decision.
Article writers who use software to submit their articles have an unfortunate rep for irrelevant and spammy submissions. Which means that directory owners have to waste their own time deleting garbage submissions, instead of accepting articles that deserve to be published.
At WAHM-Articles, I haven’t taken such drastic measures as this, but I do delete articles (and occasionally accounts) if:
- they’re not written by moms or women who work from home
- they’re irrelevant to moms or women who work from home
- the name on the account looks something like this: Denise Willms Denise Willms (telling me your name once is enough, thanks)
- articles are repeatedly submitted to the wrong category
- an author signs up for multiple accounts
- the pen name doesn’t match the name in the article’s resource box
- the author’s resource box contains a link to a submission software site (that’s not the author’s own business)
Regrettably, most articles with these problems were submitted by article submission software.
I have nothing against submission software per se. As a busy mom, I can appreciate the value of tools that save time and still do the job well. I just don’t appreciate when people save their time at my expense.
If you use an article submission program that doesn’t do any of the things on my above list, I would love to hear about the tool you use so I can recommend it to our authors!
