For widespread promotion of your article, you need to submit it to various article directories. Article directories would review your article and publish if they find it suitable. There are thousands of article directories where you can submit your articles. There are various methods of submission that you can use.

Manual submission

That is how everything began. It is still done by a lot of marketers. However, manual submission becomes quite a chore and takes up a lot of time. The best part about it is that it is absolutely free.

It does not cost anything as for as money is concerned. But it demands time. If you think you can devote time, go for it. Manual submission is not for busy marketers. In such case you should use software that helps with automatic submission or paid submission services. Both would cost money but save the time.

Article Submission Software

First time I bought this after struggling to cope up with my article submission routine, I was amazed. Article submission software work for you faster because it will submit your articles to the article directories automatically article you have fed it with an article.

It reduces your time by saving the cut and paste time for you. But that is it. You still need to open an account with various directories you still need to open article directories and you still need to open article directory page you want to submit to. It is the same chore at faster speed. It is much better and faster than manual submission but comes at a price.

Paid submission services

Outsourcing is new mantra on web and paid submission services rock. After you have opened an account, you need to write article and submit it to submission service you can sit and forget it. Your submission service would submit your articles to the various article directories.

There is one downside with submission services. They are costly.

My recommended service for paid submissions is Article Marketer. Not only it is economical when compared to other services but also it offers a lot of features that others lack. It offers you unlimited submissions and also automatically create accounts for you in various article directories. This would save a lot of time. Article Marketer also do a free preview and sometimes guide you on how your article can be made better.

Manual Paid Submission

These services would submit your article manually for a price. It is basically outsourcing your manual work. One good point about this is that a person and not a software is submitting your articles. Thus you can tell them the article directories that you want them to submit to. In some point of your business, you would need to outsource your submissions. You yourself can decide what would be best.

In my view Paid Submission Services give you best freedom.