Could using a article submitter program like article marketer, and submitting a lot of your articles using the program get you in the box?
not sure what you are asking. Do you mean sandbox? If so, it doesn't matter what you are doing: posting articles or collecting links. But if you are doing an aggressive seo campaign - that might lead to imposing special filters. But, IMHO, that doesn't have to deal with sandbox.
Some of the articles never get indexed or get deindexed and lose their PR juice so choose good places to submit to.
One thing you should realize is that, there's no point submitting to every article directories in the net. There's no benefit in doing this. A few and most important ones like ezine will do just fine. If there's really an auto-submitter, it can be interpreted as spamming.
You can use a third party software like Instant article Submitter I have used it works fine and will not put you in the sandbox. If you want to manually post articles in the directories, post in these three, http://ezinearticles.com http://www.goarticles.com http://www.articledashboard.com First I submit the article in ezinearticles , once its approved, then I post in the goarticles and the article dashboard. Hope this helps Regards Tehmina
you won't get banned for posting via automated software on article sites, i've used these a lot. I use isnare
Search engines have no idea whether you submitted an article manually or with automated software. So just by using the software you are not at risk. The problem lies with how you use the program. If you were to automatically submit a high volume of articles in a short period of time, then the search engines will see that your linking frequency is unnatural. So if you choose to use such software, ensure that you don't overdo it. Spread out your article submitting with some other marketing activities done in between.
No.That's not a good idea. Submitting the same article with same title and same content to hundreds of sites may harm your site. Otherthan that, try to submit the article manually to a few sites..that will be more useful.