The timely question and generous answers really are quite enlightening.

Thanks!

Sure, thanks for your questions.

How many articles should you write: I write 8 articles a month, and I submit that many every month. Some people submit fewer with excellent results, but the key is consistency–you must do it every month over the long term.

If you are not up to getting 8 articles written in a month, then start out with a lower goal–do 3 to start with, and then get used to submitting every month. When you are used to doing 3 a month, then keep on adding on another article a month until you get to 8.

I submit my articles through my service, SubmitYOURArticle.com, which is an automatic article distribution service. Each article is submitted to an extensive distribution network of targeted publishers.

There is much benefit to getting widespread exposure for each article–this is actually the idea with article marketing. The power is in the momentum–you want the article to be picked up for publication on as many sites as possible.

If you submit to one article directory, you will likely be picked up by some other publishers (this is what article directories are for).

If you submit to several article directories, you will increase your likelihood of your article being picked up by more and more publishers.

If you submit to hundreds of publishers at the onset, you have a major jump on your competition, and you are getting much more mileage out of each article.

This also means you do not have to submit as many articles as you normally would if you were manually submitting to directories.

I recommend submitting through SubmitYOURArticle.com to get maximum results with minimal effort.