For those of us promoting our home based businesses, we know how important it is to use articles to drive traffic to our websites and blogs. When submitting these articles, we do have a couple of choices. We can choose to either submit them manually or pay to have a service submit them for us. Forking out a couple of bucks for a distribution service provides us with more than just a few advantages.

First of all, and the most obvious advantage to me, is that it saves us time. If you have ever tried to manually submit your article before, you know how tedious and time consuming the process can be. With an article distribution service, you can submit to hundreds of places in the same amount of time it takes you to submit your article to just one place manually. This fact alone should be enough for everyone with a home based business to use an article distribution service.

Another advantage is that the article distributors will bring you massive amounts of traffic. It is possible to get the same amount of traffic by submitting manually, but it would take you hundreds of hours of work to duplicate the results. Any online home based business owner knows that the more traffic you get, the more money you make.

There are some article distribution services that will allow you the option to leverage your articles. Leveraging your articles means to make some changes in your title, sentence structure, and resource box. Doing this will allow your article to be viewed by the search engines as several different articles. This gives your articles a better chance of being ranked higher for your selected keywords. Getting ranked higher means more traffic, which means more money.

The number one advantage to using an article distribution service is that you can use them to make money! The best article distribution services also work as affiliate programs and can pay you as much as 35% for each referral! What that means is that if you refer just a couple people to sign on under you, not only will they deliver your articles for free and bring you massive amounts of traffic, but they will actually pay you commissions on top of the actual service you signed up for!

So after reading through just some of the major advantages of using an article distribution service, you must now realize that it should be a vital part of your home based business. You should now also realize that by submitting your articles manually is actually not saving you any money at all, but rather holding you back from making money both by receiving less traffic and by not giving yourself a chance to earn commissions. If you are submitting articles manually, do yourself and your online business a favor and make the switch to an article distribution service. Just be sure to select one that will allow you to leverage your articles and earn commissions on referrals you bring in.