Common sense tells us if we want quality results in our article marketing efforts, we'd want to make sure the article directories remained healthy and thriving with high page rank and good quality content. We'd also certainly want to make sure that anything we do with them isn't wasting their time. But could you be guilty of spamming the article directories without even knowing it?
Most article directories "hand moderate" their article intake, meaning each article that comes in to them is scrutinized by human eyes and judged according to its quality, its category placement, and its content value. Some of these article directories get thousands of article submissions every single day, so the moderating work can be extreme at times. This is why some people can wait weeks before their articles get accepted and posted.
While many articles submitted are of high quality, and are usually placed in the proper category for ultimate relevancy, some have used automated submission software combined with article spinning software to bombard the article directories with garbage. As you might imagine, it would take only a few people using these tools to triple the work these directory owners have to do in order to keep their sites healthy and relevant.
Unfortunately, these so called "one click" tools have been briskly sold to hundreds, if not thousands of marketers, leaving the directory owners to clean up the mess.
Worse still, many of these tools are easily hacked and distributed to thousands of spammers for free. So you can imagine the havoc all of this causes article directory owners trying to keep their sites clean and relevant.
So while it may seem like good business to completely automate your article submissions, it's not. You're just creating more work for someone else who has to double and triple their efforts just to maintain the value of everything you and everyone else submits.
Far better would it be for each of us to take extra care in our article submissions by submitting either manually, or using a tool that allows us to submit complete, well written articles and put them in the very best categories for relevancy and easy locating by readers.
Article directories are the main source of back links for many marketers, but with so many being guilty of spamming the article directories with spun or poorly written articles, blasted into any category, this dynamic resource could rapidly be fading away.