This past week, software giant Microsoft released their latest operating system called Windows 7. This has been a big phenomenon since their prior release of Vista a few years back. With this operating system being so new, the tech world is hungry for resources to get comfortable, and dive deeper into this break-through operating system.

With this in mind, if any of you out there have any documentation, blogs, videos, or commentary relating to this new operating system, I would highly recommend submitting them to the directories included in SubmitterBot‘s web/niche, article, and social-bookmarking submission lists. Directories are a great way for people to find resources around the web, and our fast and free mass-submission service can help you publish your site to these directories with ease. It is also an effective approach to gain new and fresh traffic to your site.

To start submitting your Windows 7-related site to the various directories that SubmitterBot has to offer, I have provided these steps below:

1. After you have logged in, click on the Add New URL link that is located under My Account on the left-hand menu.

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This past week, a user was wanting to know what the article directory submission guidelines were for our site, since our service already has an existing web/niche directory submission guidelines page set up. With this premise, I would like to introduce you to SubmitterBot‘s article submission directory guidelines:

• Is it free? – Is your directory a free-listing article directory? SubmitterBot is a completely free submission service, and to help keep the process of article submission free is to include free directories when users are submitting their articles.
• Is the submission URL like http://www.articledirectoryurl.com/index.php?page=submitarticle? For SubmitterBot to fully recognize your article directory in our submission list, the submission URL must have index.php?page=submitarticle as its submission page. A number of article directories on the web have this syntax, and that is why we want this method to work with our submission service.
• No adult-related categories – To keep this service B2B and family safe, please make sure that the directory you submit does not have any adult/sex-related categories. This helps keep our quality service clean and safe for everyone to use.

If you have any questions regarding these guidelines or have any other general inquiries regarding SubmitterBot, please free to contact our support department via the contact us form. We would be glad to answer any questions that you may have to help make the submission of your business’ website(s) as seamless as possible.

Happy Submitting!

Lately, a number of people have contacted us for support with logging in and validation problems.
SubmitterBot is a completely free double opt-in service that requires validation from a person on the other end. With this in mind, I have listed a few tips below that may help your validation concerns.

1. No Spaces in Username – When choosing a username for our quality service, please consider a username that does not require a space. The reason for this is that our database is not set up to handle usernames with spaces for security reasons. If you have already selected a username that has a space in it, any characters that are after the space will automatically be truncated (e.g. the username of john doe will be registered as “john”–without quotes).
2. Check Your E-mail – Upon using SubmitterBot’s registration form, you will automatically be sent a confirmation e-mail at the address that you entered in the E-mail section of the form.
   This e-mail will contain a validation link that, when activated, will automatically validate your SubmitterBot account and allow you to log-in to our quality directory submission service. If you are unable to find this e-mail, I would highly recommend checking your e-mail client’s spam and/or trash folders. Our validation e-mails do contain web content, and may have accidentally ended up in either place.
3. Enable HTML – With the confirmation e-mail mentioned in my previous point, please make sure that you have HTML enabled in your e-mail client. This will allow you to successfully activate the confirmation link to allow you access to our site. If you do not know how to enable HTML, please consult your e-mail client’s help file which can be accessed by pressing F1. If you are using a web-based e-mail account (e.g. Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.), there will be a “Show Images” button located either above/below the headers of the e-mail which will enable the HTML in our confirmation message.

If the above steps still are not successful in validating your account on SubmitterBot,
please contact me via our quick-and-easy contact form, and I will promptly troubleshoot
your account’s validation issue.

Happy Submitting!

Directory owners and lovers, I would like to introduce you to a place to share and gain knowledge about directories–not just iEntry directories, but other directories around the web. The place that I am referring to is the iEntry Directory Portal. The different tiers of the Directory Portal are:

• The Blog – This tier is more focused on iEntry directories, but does update on outside directories from time
  to time. This blog also gives updates of when iEntry directories will be down for maintenance, and of new directories entering our network. The highlight of this blog is the “Directory Spotlight,” a summary of a random directory within our network, specifying the directory’s focus and categories.
• The Forum – This is a place to ask support regarding the various directories within the iEntry network in
  the Niche Directories category. If you have any questions regarding our quality service, SubmitterBot,
  there is also a category there for it too.

  This forum also has various categories for non-iEntry-related directory topics under the Other Directories heading. These categories are:

  • Popular Directories – Discussion regarding other popular directories around the net.
  • Directory Submitters – Topics regarding directory submission services can be discussed here.
  • Directory Software – Discussion regarding installing and maintaining directory software such as phpLD, Joomla, etc.
  • Directory Announcements – Do you have a free listing directory that would you like to announce? Post it here.

This is just another way to get in touch with the directories that SubmitterBot has in its submission lists, and interact with other users from our quality service.

This week, SubmitterBot user ‘paddyoh’ submitted four quality directories for inclusion in our submission list and have provided their details below:

• SaratogaBar.com (PR 0). Categories include: Arts & Humanities, Comedy, Health, News, and Technology.
• SaratogaBand.com (PR 1). Categories include: Bands, Business, Games, Internet, and Real Estate.
• GlensFallsBands.com (PR 0). Categories include: Blogs, Comedy, Musicians, News, and Travel.
• LakeGeorgeBands.com (PR 0). Categories include: Advertising, Attractions, Culture, Home & Garden, and Newspapers.

I would like to pull this week’s discussion from a question from the SubmitterBot Blog regarding article submission. A user’s comment was asking if we publish the same article content in the directories, or if we do them uniquely? From an SEO standpoint, it is not an exact science and is still up for speculation. The way it will work is like backlinks, where the more backlinks you have in a website, the more visibility your website will have in search engines. In this instance, the more verbatim versions of your article that is published in various directories, the more your article’s content visibility will increase in search engines when people are searching for topics that relate to the specific article.

Our service (SubmitterBot) can provide this for you. SubmitterBot currently has 58 article directories to submit to. These directories are free for inclusion through our service, so feel free to submit your article(s) for inclusion in these today!

What are your thoughts on article submission and how it stands for SEO? Leave your comments below.

Happy Submitting!

This past week, I have received an overwhelming response from SubmitterBot users submitting their directories for inclusion in our directory list. I have successfully reviewed all of the directories submitted and have provided the accepted directories below, along with their various and unique categories. Be on the look-out in our directory submission list for:

• LikeDir.info (PR 1). Categories include: Arts, Blogs, Education, Health, and Regional.
• AllWebDir.net (PR 0). Categories include: Books & Literature, Government, News, Region and Languages, and Webmaster Resources
• V2s.info (PR 0). Categories include: Business & Economy, Computers & Internet, Entertainment, Reference, and Society.
• 9da.info (PR 0). Categories include: Blogs, Education, Entertainment, Recreation & Sports, and Shopping.
• GetZooted.com (PR 0). Categories include: Arts, Business, Games, Kids & Teens, and Science.
• (Article Directory) Publish-articles.com (PR 0). Categories include: Advertising, Computers, Law, Shopping, and Travel.
• (Social Bookmarking) eBookDealz.com (PR 0). Categories include: Business, Game, Sports, Employment, and Shopping.

Unfortunately, some directories did not make the cut to our directory submission list, because there was not any submit.php file present, as
discussed in last Tuesday’s newsletter. However, you are more than welcome to submit your site to us again for review.

If you are a free-listing directory owner and would like to see your directory listed with us in our directory submission list, please feel free to submit your directory via the contact us form. Just select ‘Please add my Directory’ from the drop-down list, enter your directory’s information, and it will be promptly reviewed for inclusion. If you are submitting an article directory or social bookmark directory, please be sure to provide an account login/password for SubmitterBot‘s automatic submission.

Happy Submitting!