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Article Submitter v3 The facts and myths

If you have arrived to this page from one of the many resources on the Internet linking to the article about the Submitter, you will have possibly already read the beginning of this extremely popular low down on Article Submitter, so just skip down the page to continue to worked examples etc. If this is your first encounter, then read on and discover how to make this neat piece of software really work hard for you.

Article Submitter v3 The facts and myths

The fact you are reading this article is proof enough that Article Submitter does work as this article was submitted with the software. But beware!! There is much to do before Article Submitter can be used on auto without crashes.

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The Article Submitter software is quite good really, its sadly let down by its database of article websites that will accept your articles.
Having spent days taming this beast and forcing it to do what it should do anyway, I decided to write this article about Article Submitter so others could make wise and informed decisions about buying Article Submitter.

Like I say, Article Submitter does the job, but needs a day or two invested into making it work to acceptable standard. If you are not prepared to spend this time then Article Submitter is not for you. As it simple does not work out of the box! If however, you are prepared to give up a couple of days and fine tune Article Submitter, you can submit articles all day long on virtually auto pilot.
And submitting articles does work. You get loads of good backlinks, the search engines will love you and your site will rocket up the search engine listings. Creating and successfully submitting informative articles about whichever product or service your site offers, will generate high quality visitors and increased affiliate or sales revenue.

Why on earth the guys (or gals) down at Article Submitters office don't clean up the database is a total mystery to me. I used the latest Version 3 with the latest (supposedly cleaned) database to try out. The database had over 400 article sites listed when I got it. After deleting out the bad url's, hacked sites and just simply badly set up sites, there were only just over 200 sites left.
What took me two days would have taken them a couple of hours to sort out.

Basically, once you have created the author information page, you register it. Have a big sheet of paper and pen at the ready. As Article Submitter goes through the automated process of registering a new account with all the article sites, you will need to note the failed ones. There will be 404's, php / script loading faults, hacked by MOu34d, stuck pages or just times out. Note these url's in Article Submitters menu (left top) Where 'Directory:' will show the submission sites url you are on. In the travel category for example we found initially around 40 dud sites for one reason or another.
Close down Article Submitter and open up the file directories.cdb with note pad (Make a backup copy first in case you mess up).
Scrolling down the list of directory sites, find the bad ones and delete everything beginning with <title> and ending with </title> containing the bad site. You can find some worked examples at my website linked at the bottom of this article.
Save the file and open Article Submitter again. Click 'Manage article directories list' the page will then show in pink any sites that failed for some reason to register the author details. Note all of these and after closing Article Submitter, open up directories.cdb with notepad again and delete all those sites as before.

Next, choose your article and start submission. Have the pad and pen ready again as there will still be quite a few missed first time round and some will time out with bad php or poorly hosted. So note all these down again.
When a site freezes or shows blank page or does some other weird php badly written script failure, just click the 'Skip url' button after noting it.
By now, you will have been working on Article Submitter for some hours and probably wondering why the heck you bothered. Well, I've tried a few article submitters over the years and this one is brilliant once you've made the changes, it will work like a dream on virtually auto pilot.

Article Submitters database is stored under program files/Submit Suite/ in that folder you will find a file named directories.cdb. This is the main file that Article Submitter stores information about which article directories to submit to. Modifying it is a breeze once opened in Notepad.

For example;

The following is the start of a typical directories.cdb.

Now say you want to remove www.00articles.com from the list. You simply delete everything from <item User=" to </item>

So it would now look like;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Directory - Article Dashboard Directories</title>
<link>http://www.submitsuite.com/</link>
<description>List of directories designed on Article Dashboard platform</description>
<item User="" Pass="" Category="General" PageRank="3" Type="AD" Post="Manual">
<title>123article.org</title>
<link>http://www.123article.org/</link>
<description>General article directory</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 10:37:02 GMT</pubDate>
<categories>Accounting|Accounting:Auditing|Accounting:Bookkeeping|Accounting:Budgeting|.........

There you have it, the database is reasonably clean. Now submit an article and keep an eye on any sites not working, make a note of the url, then after the submission is complete, open up Article Submitters directories.cdb, delete the offending site and save.

After you've submitted two or three articles and repeated the same cleaning, you will have a remarkably quick auto submission of as many articles as you wish, without any snags or hang ups.

Now that I've cleaned my directories.cdb, I can truly say Article Submitter works without fail all on virtual auto pilot.

Though Article Submitter is submitting to around 190 good sites, if you wish to attain real status and loads of really good back links, then do submit the article manually to the main article directories as well. You will attract really good linking status and brilliant search engine placement.

Would I recommend to buy Article Submitter? If you don't mind a little fine tuning work, definitely YES! Once tamed it works perfectly doing what it should have done out of the box. And works much better than many of the other crappy submitters out there that cost a lot more.

You can get a completely free trial copy of Article Submitter HERE

If you want to save all that hard work, I have put a cleaned directories.cdb on this site HERE Simply right click and save link to where you like on your computer.
Just remember to open it in wordpad or notepad, Edit, Replace User="" and Pass="" with your own user and password details which you entered in Article Submitters 'Author' registration details. Also, SAVE A COPY of it, just in case you accidentally update Article Submitters database and get a crappy directories.cdb again.

Submitting articles works. Its the best way to quickly get high search engine ranking. Submit at least one article a week, daily even better and watch the visitors come flooding in.

This page gives a listing of the top article submission sites