A Word of Caution to Article Submission Software Developers
Article submission is the life blood for many businesses both online and off. And the article directories form the foundation for successfully getting the word out. But of course you knew that which is why you created your article submission software in the first place, right?
You wanted to make it easier for article marketers to get their articles into the hands of the directory owners with as little time and work as possible, and you should be commended for that!
However, the Internet has a dark underbelly that brings with it an added responsibility to anyone who produces software for mass distribution. Hackers and spammers have a sole purpose, and that is to disrupt and destroy any effort to communicate via the Internet.
The reason I bring this up is because I recently received an anonymous email telling me that our own software, Article Submitter Pro was being "looked at" as a possible tool to spam the article directories. Hackers were encouraged to download the free 7 day demo and try to unlock it.
The goal was to provide spammers with a way to blast garbage to the article directories in an attempt to bring them down.
I'm sure you know what that would mean to article marketing!
Now Article Submitter Pro has a fairly secure registration process and has not been successfully hacked in over 4 years, but I'm not so sure about some other submitters. Just a quick jaunt to a warez site will tell you if your own software is being used to bog down the article directories with spam.
Making money is what we're all about, for sure. But if we "cut off our noses to spite our face," and make the article directories vulnerable to attack by developing an article submission software that's easily hacked, we'll all suffer the consequences.
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