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I am constantly needing to display html code on a web page. Without actually executing the code. This is so someone can see what the code looks like.

There is an easy solution:

I use the form on this page:

http://www.felgall.com/htmlt47.htm

To convert regular html code into something that will display but not execute.

If you want to submit unique articles to numerous directories and other content distribution places, you can do it manually. Which will take years if you do many articles. Or, use an automated service. There are several possibilities:

Unique Article Wizard – $67 per month – UniqueArticleWizard.com promotes that it has a ’secret sauce’ to create unique versions of your article which are then distributed to thousands of websites. Many article directories can quickly and easily signup to automatically receive articles from Unique Article Wizard. However, a common theme of late in many comments online is that the quality of sites is poor and Google can quickly identify the UAW attempt to make articles unique. Overall, I wouldn’t worry about many new (low PR) article directories picking up your article. The duplicate content issue is another matter – assuming you are in the camp that believes there is no duplicate content penalty. (We’re not going to get into that debate here!)

Submit Your Article – $47 per month – SubmitYourArticle.com is very similar to Unique Article Wizard, except that it has done a better job of managing the quality of articles submitted through its service. As a result, Submit Your Article is possibly the only mass submission service that lets you submit to the top article directories, such as Ezine Articles. It has options to try and create unique article versions. You can also control the rate at which your article is distributed to other sites. SYA also makes it easy for article directories to automatically accept article submissions.

Article Marketing Automation (”AMA”) – $47 per month – ArticleMarketingAutomation.com is free if you just want to receive article submissions to display on your website. There is, however, no option to even try and make your articles unique.

My Article Network – $47 per month – MyArticleNetwork.com is the newest service. It doesn’t offer the options available elsewhere and only submits to blogs. No article directories. The service has a spinning function.

Syndicate Kahuna – closed – SyndicateKahuna.com is similar to MyArticleNetwork. Even though it is currently closed to new members, I mention it here because it is a decent service. This submits to blogs – not article directories.

SubmitEaze – $78.95 one-time fee – SubmitEaze.com is software you download to your computer that is automatically updated with new directories and article directories to submit to. It has a quick submission feature which makes article submissions fast, but not hands-off like the prior services. It allows for unique article titles and anchor texts, but not article text. (Although from the software it seems like this would work, it is not mentioned in the brief manual and I have not tested the possibility.)

ArticleBot – $24.95 one-time free – from Incansoft.com, ArticleBot is also downloadable software that you can use to submit to article directories. Not as automated as the online services. It’s also a lot cheaper. While many Incansoft products have received rave reviews, to-date this is not one of them. Supports spinning of article titles and resource boxes, but not the main article text.

Article Post Robot – $127 – ArticlePostRobot.com is more downloadable software. I almost didn’t include them here (and may not as for some reason this is the 4th time I’m made this update, but Firefox keeps mysteriously crashing) because Article Post Robot has not been updated since July 2009. Ouch. However, if you really want a unique article sent to each directory APR cannot be beat. Not only can you spin article titles and resource boxes, but if you use another problem (eg, thebestspinner.com) to create many different spun versions of your article, just put the versions in a directory and ArticlePostRobot will randomly pick one to send to each article directory. Very, very nice.

Overall recommendation – this partly depends on your budget, and you have a number of options to choose from. Even if you don’t think there is a duplicate content ‘penalty’ – it never hurts to have unique content! If you can afford it, check out SubmitYourArticle.

Article Post Robot remains a viable choice, if you’re willing to risk that the software suddenly won’t stop working. You have to login to your online account from the software to submit articles. With the software not being updated, you should not be confident about this.

If you are looking to get backlinks by submitting your pages to bookmarking services (note I didn’t say you would use a bookmarking service to save useful link you’re actually going to use – no one does that), there are two programs: Bookmarking Demon and SocialBot.

Let me just get this out of the way – SocialBot is the clear, hands-down winner.

So let me start with the Bookmarking Demon review.

Bookmarking Demon comes with 100 social bookmarking sites. The concept is that you can grab all the urls from your domains, add in bogus urls to make your booking appear more ‘natural’, spin the content of your submissions so they are not all the same, and randomly submit to various accounts you create.

All done automatically.

Sounds great.

Used to work.

I’d say through version 4 Bookmarking Demon was useful.

Now in Version 5.1 it’s a complete mess. The interface is near impossible to manage. It is broken up into different areas ridiculous to decipher and effectively use. Maybe if this is the only program you used, and you used it every day, you would learn the ins and outs and it would be second nature. But unless you created this monstrosity, good luck.

Basically, it tries to do much and has a disorganized interface.

The latest upgrade, from 5 to 5.1, now includes a requirement that your license be entered. That would be fine, unless you bought the original software years ago. Think that license number would be easy to find? Guess again. Nowhere to be found in the software.

Ironically, the software appears to have a license number embedded in it, which checks a server to determine that new version is available. But then it ignores the number and wants it manually entered again – but it won’t tell you what it is. Utterly stupid.

Needless to say, this appears to be the top support request to the support manager – which is in Singapore. Type in your purchase email and get your license key. Except it doesn’t work. Simple as that … does not work.

Bookmarking Demon is basically dead man walking software.

SocialBot, on the other hand, is one of many titles from the well-respected Incansoft software collection.

Easy to use interface.

Not just a hundred bookmarking sites, but try 1200. Yes 1200. 12x as many as Bookmarking Demon.

You can start using it right away. Create multiple accounts. Spider your domains for urls to submit. Using spinning syntax to create unique submissions to each site.

And it costs less than a quarter of what Bookmarking Demon costs.

The one place I give BMD the edge is the ability to randomly select accounts to post to.

But in every other respect, this is a no-brainer decision.

Go with SocialBot – available at the Incansoft.com website.