Article Submission- An Overview
In my view Article submission is dying because submissions to article directories has been decreased drastically over time and it is now dominated by Blog and web2.0 technology and user generated content syndication.
Also when the time and effort to put into a thing is greater than the output received from such sites, I think it should be avoided. Article submission is very similar to “add you link for free” sites .. Pros may be good for seeking an audience, not a link or traffic or some links and occasional visitor and cons are greater as a consequences there are lot of chances of content duplication because the surfer usually visit search article sites to snip off content and use them in multiple place and on the contrary you’re helping the site owner than yourself and increasing risk of bad neighborhood. .
There might be exceptional case but People usually read the article but they hardly click on the links because they already gotten things what they’re looking for and usually ignore the links. By submitting your article to Article farms you help the site owner by providing quality content to them and getting little benefit on return. There might be good article sites for submission but still I think we should use our content for our own sites/blogs.
Also Articles submission are mostly used by freelancers and spammers these days because they’ve been mostly kicked out from other places. They’re submitting their articles to worst apprehend SEO neighborhoods. There are more chances that you’re giving away your quality content to sites that are no better than scrapers. Google Engineer Matt Cutts suggested recently they might be downgrading or ignoring such sorts of links, just as they are attempting to downgrade or ignore some other types of links which are found in article farm. Actually the articles should be taken as more integrated marketing, therefore better you should use them for your own blogs and show up in periodicals, Hosting industry magazines, Press release or you can syndicate your content through rss feed and collaborate them to credible web content resources such as wikipedia/google knoll. etc ..
Better I think we should broaden our horizons for content promotion and content syndication..
-Bob





