Thanks for your question–

When you’re doing article marketing, you’ve got two options:

1) Submit unique articles to each publisher. We have a tool on our service called ArticleLeverage that allows our members to create as many variations as they like for each article they sumit, and then when we distribute the article different variations are sent out to publishers rather than just one version of the article.

Depending on how many variations you create, you could effectively submit a unique article to each publisher.

You can read more about how ArticleLeverage works here.

2) You can submit the same article to many directories–if you can’t create variations and if you don’t want to write a unique article for each time you submit, then there is still great value in submitting the same article to many directories.

This is how folks did article marketing when article marketing was first getting started, and the effects are long lasting and effective.

When you think about it, having the same version of one article appearing on multiple sites is not a bad thing–in fact, if you submit your article to any article directory, then that is what will happen if things go well.

Remember, article directories are meant to be like a library of articles where publishers can go to find articles that they like and reprint them for free on their websites (including the author’s resource box of course).

When you publish your article on an article directory, the idea is to have publishers find your article on that directory and then republish it on their website. The more publishers who republish your articles, the greater benefits to your website’s traffic.

With SubmitYOURArticle.com, your exposure is magnified by the number of publishers we submit to–We submit to more publishers than any human could submit to manually, and our list of targeted publishers is updated daily.

So, rather than just getting exposure on one or two websites, we submit to a ton of targeted publishers, which drastically increases the exposure your article (and your website) receives.

For more information on how article directories work, please see this resource.

For more info on why it’s a good idea to submit to many directories rather than just a few, please see this resource (and I think this will help alleviate some of your concerns).

I hope that helps!

But one thing I’m still uncertain about is duplicating my articles ie do I submit exactly the same article to all the directories – or must I only ever submit unique ones by re-wording the master?

I think this is what has been stopping me going all out with a site such as yours.

Thanks for your questions–

You had asked “How as a distribution website do I find these blogs that accept articles, do i need to make an account?”

Well, I can only tell you that our article distribution service SubmitYOURArticle.com has such a positive reputation with publishers (article directories, blog publishers, website owners, etc), that they contact us and ask to be added to our distribution list.

That is one of the perks of submitting your article through a well respected article submission service like SubmitYOURArticle.com–we work hard to meet the needs of both publishers and authors, and because publishers know that we pre-screen the articles and submit only quality content, they are happy to jump on board as part of our distribution network. By and large, the vast majority of our distribution network have directly contacted us and asked to receive articles from our members.

Also, you had asked how a blog ended up with a ton of your articles on it even though you didn’t submit your article to any blogs–blog publishers can get articles from article directories (this is the main purpose of article directories–to provide free reprint articles to publishers).

Sometimes people forget about that fact–if your article appears on an article directory, then there’s a very good chance that it will be republished by other website owners (including blog publishers).

I hope that helps!

So. How as a distribution website do I find these blogs that accept articles, do i need to make an account? Do I ask them to use my RSS feed to feed my articles I am distributing to their blog sites? Is there a list of blog sites I can submit to?

For example, this website
Toms Home Biz Blog
http://www.business-opportunities-internetonline.com/blog

has a TON of my articles because I belong to a distribution website. How does he get my articles?

If you can answer my questions, I shall love you forever!