Article submission to free reprint article directories is a most effective viral marketing method. Its advantages are numerous, and include: fast visibility to major search engines, credibility boost, targeted traffic and targeted Back Links to your website, and many more advantages. For the above reasons, many online marketers, site owners and copywriters now engage in submission to article directories.

In order to give an article maximum exposure, the article author / submitter must submit his article to as many directories as he can, which makes the submission a tedious process. Many authors try to save themselves the bother by registering to automatic online submission engines which are solutions intended at taking care of the article submission process. However, it is important to note that those automatic article submission services may harm the authors