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Every day another article submission service goes online.  Submitting articles to reputable online article directories is an important tool in driving traffic and subsequent sales to your website.  They also create vital branding for your company.

Perhaps the most important value is online article directories build one-way incoming links to your site.  It’s also impossibly expensive and time consuming for the already over burdened business manager.

Some managers go it alone by downloading article submission software.  This can work if you are lucky but chances are if the article directories are included with the software they’re already out of date in the fast moving world of content writing.  It can take hours every week just to keep directories up to date.

Furthermore, each directory has its own technical requirements such as accepting articles in HTML format versus text.  Adapting each article to all the rules of every directory is also a time killer and few software programs can spot all of them.  Why not put this important job in the hands of the experts and contract with a service that does all the work?

Look for a service that promises to submit your articles manually.  This will guarantee all requirements of directories are met.   Make sure the service will submit your content in several categories, insuring the widest possible exposure.

Ask them what they do to protect you from SPAM.  Do they maintain a separate email account where the login and password gets verified with each submission?  This is time consuming, but vital for the flow of articles and back links.

Services like this usually charge by the month or the year and for all the work that is involved, an article submission service is surprisingly affordable and one of the most cost-effective tools your business can have.

As you will note this article is written with the end user in mind, however if you wish to become involved in this type of work then we here at Virtual Assistant Jobs would like to hear from you.  We have positions open and are looking for more VA’s.  fill out the contact form and we will get back to you.

The task of Article Submission is one of the many tasks a virtual assistant performs. This is where an article that has been written for a specific site is posted into one of the many article directories.

This is like a huge virtual warehouse of knowledge, which is stored for others to use for their web sites.  A good number of web masters use the articles from one of the many directories to fill their site up with content. The main problem with this is that the articles have links to who wrote the story. If you have your own articles, then the links are directed back to your site.

If you are thinking about becoming a writer and want to submit articles to any of these directories, then make sure that it contains all original content. These sites are known for scrutinizing each submission with a fine tooth comb for plagiarism. This is mainly done with software because of the vastness of articles that have to be searched. In most cases if a writer uses 4 words in a row from a source and it is not referenced, then it will fail the scan and be rejected.

Article directories are not the only place on the web for an article submission. There are also all the social sites that allow submissions from their members. This is being done on a regular basis now. This is basically free advertising if done correctly. By placing an article on a social site, the hope is others will see it, read it, and then follow the links back to your site.

For those out there that are thinking about having a career in cyber world, think about becoming a virtual assistant.  Not only will you learn how to do an article submission but many other needed tasks to make a website profitable.

You may apply for this type of contract work as well as all other phases of VA jobs by using the contact form on this site.  There are positions open at this time.