Why Use A Manual Article Submission Service?

PR Log (Press Release) – Jun 15, 2009 – As proprietor of a manual article submission service, I must explain the differences (in general) of article submission services.

I have three levels of article submission services we should discuss.

#1. Copy and Pray
These submission services are generally the least expensive out there, but the fact is, they do not work.  Sure, for a few hours you are gaining 100-1000+ backlinks, but these sites will hurt you more in the long run.  Why do they still exist then?  Because people are prey to price.

The biggest reason why this service does not work is because they are submitting duplicate content.  Google hates duplicate content.  It's all pointing where?  Back to your site.  Your site will instantly lose credibility and marked as spam.

Assuming that somehow you get by, and Google does not mark you as spam, you are paying for backlinks from poor PR sites.  It does your site little good to receive 1,000s of backlinks from sites with a page rank of 1-3.  A few hundreds 4+ will do way more for your business (and traffic) than a few thousand 1-3 PR sites.

When searching for a manual article submission service, avoid these.

#2. Overpriced, Undervalue.
These are the sites that promise greatness, and make you pay for it.  As far as quality of work?  It can be very good, but it really is unnecessary to pay a few $1,000 for a few articles with a "custom" wordpress theme.  Unless you are Coca Cola you aren't worried about "branding" your wordpress or wetpaint site.  Just get on there, make good content, and that will lead to sales.

#3. Bang For The Buck.
I put my company, and only a few other manual article submission services in this category.  Why?  Well, I built my company based on price and value as well as effectiveness.  

I'll give you a few characteristics of a "Bang For The Buck" manual article submission service.

A---They don't promise anything.  The fact is, none of us control what Google does, however with practice these companies have learned tricks that have worked "most" of the time.
B---They don't offer 100s to thousands of submissions.  We don't want to waste your money or time on submissions that will do you no good.  Use the ones that really work.
C---Spinning is included.  This is one of the most important aspects of a manual article submission service.  We insure that there is no duplicate content so Google will never flag your site as spam... ever... no chance.
D---They post to sites with high traffic and high-value.  Sites that take a little bit of time to setup like wordpress, wetpaint, zimbio and more are the sites you need to be on.  Not only are they high PR sites (4-7s) but they can actually drive traffic themselves to your site.  Double bonus.
E---English is their native language.  I know this sounds ridiculous, I've outsourced work thousands of times.  It seems as though everytime I'm dealing with a company where English is not their first language, that deals with content created for the English speaking world, it comes off as unnatural.

A manual article submission service will solve two very important problems:

It will create powerful one-way backlinks that are oh so important when it comes to search engine optimization and traffic in general.

It will save you time.  You don't need to be submitting your content hundreds of times, you need to be focusing on building your buisness.  A manual article submission service will do this.

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Chris Aplin is cofounder of Manual Article Submission Service FastWebStrategies.com