If you are looking for an easy way to increase traffic to your website, article submission tools offer several benefits. They quickly list your articles in hundreds of directories, increase your rankings in search engines, and some even change an article to look unique on each website.

There are several different tools available. Some are downloaded to your computer and others are used from the host site. There are free tools, tools that charge a one-time fee, and tools that charge a monthly fee. Some programs offer a free trial period of either 14 or 30 days. Some offer a money-back guarantee, while others do not. Some of the money-back guarantees are 30 days, while others offer a 60 or 90 day money-back guarantee.

The number of directories that articles are sent to varies with each program. Some programs have extra features, such as article spinning (making several unique articles from one), multiple authors, and free updates. Information on features can be found by searching for article submission tools on the web and then reading reviews or viewing the software program’s website.

Using these tools eliminates having to remember what directories you have submitted articles to. They have a feature that shows what directories your articles have been listed in, and they usually show your ranking on Google. Also, there’s a link to the article and the date that it was submitted.

An online business has great income potential, but only if it can be found. Profitability can only come with visibility. If someone is searching for a service you offer, or a particular product, such as handmade quilts, and your site is on page 14 in the search results, odds are against you making a sale. Even if you have the most beautiful quilts in the world and the best prices imaginable, it won't matter in the least because most people will choose a site on the first or second search page. No one has time to look through 299,000 results.

Writing short, informative articles about your business is a great marketing tool, but you need to put them out there for all to see. This is done by submitting your articles to countless directories. Done manually, this is a tedious task and can take several hours. Chances are, with running a business, you don't have much time. An article submission tool can quickly handle this monotonous task. Article submission tools find directories that you probably never even knew existed, and some tools update the list every time they are used. With the hours saved, you can concentrate on writing more articles.

Article submission tools increase your site's ranking in Google and other search engines, which means more traffic to your site. Logically, more traffic means more profits. Having articles listed on several directories provides hundreds of links to your website, and you start to get backlinks. Backlinks are links from another site to your site. Whenever you submit an article, you include a link to your site and you can utilize article submitter software. Anyone finding your article and putting it on their own site will have a link to your site, along with the article. The more reputable the site is that links back to yours, the further you move up in search ranks. By having your articles listed in hundreds of directories, more webmasters will see them, resulting in more backlinks.

Some article submission tools are capable of article spinning, which as mentioned previously, is the process of taking an article and creating several unique articles. When the article is submitted to directories, it's viewed as several different articles, so each version gets indexed. When submitting the same article to hundreds of directories, Google views it as duplicate content. Spinning eliminates that problem.

Writing high-quality articles and submitting them to directories can prove to be very profitable for your business. Article submission tools offer several benefits, and with many the many different programs available, taking the time to research them will help determine which one will do the best job for you.