Kristen has some good ideas in this article, so I decided to post it here for my visitors. Yeah, I know I'm taking the easy way out. It's an easy way to add to my blog. Read it anyway. It could help you improve your ranking using article directories in a different way.

Article Submission - Why You Should Only Submit Unique Articles
By: Kristin Thormar

Article writing and article marketing has been a very popular way of marketing products and websites. It can be a very effective way to create backlinks to your websites, but only if you do it the right way!



It is a cheap - but sometimes a very time consuming job to write and submit articles to hundreds of ezine lists and article directories. To ease your job, you possibly use one of article marketing submission tools you can find on the internet, either free or paid ones.



When you have finished writing your article with all the right keywords, and written your bio, you go ahead and submit your article manually, or with one of the article submitters.



Now you relax, and wait for all the traffic that your new article will bring to your web site. Only if things were so easy! Maybe you had success submitting your articles that way a few years back, but not today.



As with everything else in life, the internet has undergone rapid changes, thus making article submission far from being as effective as it was only a few years ago.



The Problem:




What happens, is that you now submit an identical version of your article to every article directory, which means you are distributing duplicate content all over the internet. All the major search engines now filter out duplicate content, so although you have your article on hundreds of article sites, now it may only count as 1 single backlink to your site.



The Solution:



You should keep submitting your articles to the article sites, but only unique versions of each article, because you want each and every article to build a link to your site. If you submit unique articles at least once a week, you can have thousands of backlinks to your website within a very long time!



Do you want to learn how I easily submit my unique articles to hundreds of article directory sites?

A Quality Article From: http://articledesk.info

The end of August and the summer. The kids are going back to school again. Time for the weather to improve if I remember my school days correctly.

With the kids going to school they needed some cheering up so we thought we would bring them on a camping trip. Nothing too adventurous just a couple of days at some regular camp-site on the outskirts of some city, all the running water etc. that we would need but sleeping in a tent and cooking outdoors.

To our surprise we discovered that camping seems to have gone out of style. None of the "campsites" we found were catering for tents. All they would allow is mobile homes, most of which were parked there (and empty)all year. Who would have thunk it. Only a few years ago everyone I know who had a spare plot of land outside the city was renting it to people in tents.

Rather then sleep in the car or pitch our tent illegally we made some calls and went to stay with family we had in a neighbouring city which by the way was also lacking in camping facilities.

In the end it cost us more to make it up to the boys for the disappointment. We had to bring them to all kinds of fun fares etc. And we had to cook the dinners out in the back garden for the next week.

This video has a woman reading an article that anyone who submits articles manually will definitely be interested in. Check it out. It's only five minutes and it is not selling anything.