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Contentcrooner And DistributeYourArticles – Which Is Better?

Isnare is DEAD. Right now there are only two mass article submission services out there that are affordable and sending your article out to hundreds (?) of article sites with just some clicks: Contentcrooner and DistributeYourArticles.com.

ContenCrooner.com

I have been a member of Contentcrooner since beginning of this year. You can read my review I wrote on 12th April 2010 at ContentCrooner Review.

I cancelled my membership beginning of August 2010, because I decided to give the competitor DistributeYourArticles a try especially as it seems that they have some big things coming (addition of 10,000 sites) and they also aquired  articlesender.com. On the day I joined they announced a price increase. I got my membership for $24 monthly. Right now the cost is $34.99 a month.

So first of all why did I stick with Contentcrooner for such a long time?

If you read my ContentCrooner Review you will notice that I was a little upset, because the number of sites my articles got published to was pretty low compared to what is advertised on their site. In addition they advertise that your article will be distributed to new sites that are added to their database. This never happened to any of my articles.

Nevertheless, I stayed with them, because:

* Articles are approved and distributed FAST (oftentimes within some hours!)
* The article directories my articles were submitted to are of good quality. My links showed up in Google within some hours or days.
* My articles were submitted to an average of 200 sites

Beside the negative aspects, I still recommend ContentCrooner and I might switch back to them.

DistributeYourArticles

I joined, because of the lower price and the fact that they

* aquired the whole articlesender.com site including their database
* they advertise that a blog network consisting of 10,000 sites will be added over the coming weeks (Syndication by DYA)

So I was under the impression that my articles will go out to many more sites compared to Contentcrooner. WRONG! I have to admit at the moment I am kind of disappointed.

I submitted a total of 50 articles in 10 completely different niches. My articles got submitted to an average of 130 sites. However, this also includes google groups (I receive tons of Unable to Deliver ERROR mails from non existing groups in my e-mail account...)

In addition the editors at Distributemyarticles cause me headaches. They are very picky when it comes to category selection.

For example. I put an article about "labor induction" in the category "Family /Pregnancy". It got disapproved. I was only allowed to put it in the category "Health". (?????)

I had an article about "boat plans". It got disapproved, because I put it in the category hobbies. I then tried home improvement. No success. I contacted support and was told that the correct category is "sports/boating".

Well, the examples continue and it really drove me almost mad.

The reason why the amount of article sites my articles got distributed to is so low is obviously caused by the fact that I was only able to select ONE category in most cases.  Most category selections got disapproved.

I really wonder why they are doing this.  From my point of view they have about the same database of article directories Contentcrooner is submitting to and Contentcrooner ALWAYS accepted my category selections. I NEVER had a single article disapproved because of category selection.

Well, so right now I am dispapointed with the results. I will wait for some more weeks and see what will happen when their 10,000 DYA article syndication network is life.

My conclusion:

Contentcrooner is working fine. The downside is that they don't do anything to improve their service. No new article directories are added etc. The site offers exactly the same it offered when I joined back in January 2010.

DistributeYourArticles is actively working to improve their service and add new features. This is what I really like. I really hope they will indeed increase the number of sites your article gets send to and also gives some training to their editors. Otherwise I will be gone.

So which mass article submission service should you join?

Right now it is hard to tell, because I have no idea if the addition of the 10,000 blog snydication network will be really effective. In case it is (and I will keep you updated) I would rank DistributeYourArticles No.1

However, right now, ContentCrooner would be my No.1 and if the new features of DistributeYourArticles will not be online within some weeks, I will resubscribe to ContentCrooner.