Internet marketers who have already tried to submit articles to directories and blogs may know how wearisome and time-consuming the process is.  Article submission services, such as My Article Network or Linkvana, offer the site owner a way to save a lot of time that he could put to good use in other important marketing strategies.  Aside from providing you with a lot more time, these kinds of services can also substantially boost the number of back links to your site.  Increasing the quantity of back links to your site is important because search engines use the number of back links as one of the indicators of the popularity of your website and thus is rank in the results pages for those words or phrases that you have determined to be your money makers.

Some Internet marketers may not want to take part in article submission services, such as MAN, because a certain amount of investment is needed while the manual submission of articles to the thousands of blogs and directories does not require a fee.  There is also no penalty imposed by search engines for websites that do not apply this type of service but there are competitors that you have to consider.  There will be other Internet marketers who will be targeting your keywords and phrases.  MAN and possibly other article submission services may be able to provide them with 20 or more back links during the time that you are able to manually obtain one back link.  It is easy to guess who will sell more products and services because their sites are likely to rank much higher than your website in the search engine results pages.  

Using one of these article submission services, such as MAN, will require a monthly investment.  However, if you want to compete effectively against the other marketers, this is a required expense.  If you are not able to play in a level playing field with your competitors, the difference in the results may be so great that your sales may not be sufficient to cover for your costs and you may soon abandon your enterprise.  Some of these services even offer an affiliate commission for members when they are able to recruit additional members.  Thus, your commission may even be enough to pay for the required monthly fee if you have made a sufficient number of recruits.  The monthly investment in article submission services, such as MAN, could be worthwhile because the choices for your business may be to get ahead or to fold up.