As you may already know, article marketing, also known as article directory submission, is an effective way to build relevant links and to boost your online visibility. The benefits are plentiful and the investment is minimal, in most cases anyway. What many people do not know, however, is that there are two tools in particular, both of them free to download and use, that can speed up your article directory submissions immensely. While these tools will not let you auto-submit to article directories, they certainly bring you several steps closer to auto-submit speeds while keeping to the safer, and more accurate, manual article directory submission model.

These two tools rely on the use of the Firefox web browser, so if you do not yet have Firefox installed on your computer, you should download it now.

Informenter

Informenter is a form-filling add-on for Firefox that allows you to "click and fill" text fields on a website. When enabled, an arrow is placed next to a text field on a web page, and you simple click on the arrow, choose the text to input, and click on that text. The tradeoff here is that instead of copying and pasting your article information into an article directory submission form, or worse yet -- actually typing all of the information in, this two-click process will shave precious seconds off from each and every manual article directory submission that you perform.

To use Informenter, just install it, setup a profile, and enter each of your details onto a new line. Personally, we store our name, our email address, our website's primary URL, our article summary, article title, one text version of our author bio, and one HTML version of our author bio in Informenter when we are getting ready to submit an article to article directories.

You can download Informenter here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/673

Roboform

Many people already know the power, security, and convenience that Roboform wields for protection of personal information. However, many of those people, even if they utilize article marketing as an off-page SEO or link-building strategy, do not realize the potential that Roboform holds for article marketing.

Even with the limited, yet free, version of Roboform, you are able to input what it calls "custom" fields. These custom fields represent different elements of your article that you are submitting to article directories -- your name, your website's URL, the article itself, your article's summary, keywords, and so forth. While the pro version of Roboform allows unlimited custom fields, the free version currently allows three custom fields after you have the software installed for thirty days. In any case, it is still a big help.

How Roboform differs from Informenter is notable; instead of having to click on an arrow to fill each individual field, you simply have to click a single button with Roboform to fill all of the fields on an article directory submission form -- it's far from perfect one-hundred percent of the time, but it is a real time saver.

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