I'm currently using software to automate the process of my article submission. This is my first trial with both article submission and article submission software. The software appears to work quite well. The goal of article submission is to increase backlinks to my site. This has been missing from my link building strategy and I'm excited to see the results. What is the best way to measure the success of my article submissions? I assume I'll receive emails when they are accepted/rejected and I plan on a simple spreadsheet to monitor the success rate. This will also help me next time I use the automated submission tool as I'll know which need either "a better article" or "manual submission". This time out, I only included one link (HTML) in my author bio. It's linking my URL and not my site name (which is keyword rich). I'll explore more options next time out to get keyword backlinks to the site. Any opinions, suggestions on best practices are as always very much appreciated.
It's difficult to track this as most if not all will not have high enough PR to show up with the link: command.
You could simply search for a random phrase from your article, and see how many results come back in Google. Not all sites will link back, though, so that's something to take into consideration.
You can always type your article title name into quotes and get a general idea of how many sites have grabbed your article. That won't tell you much about actual counted backlinks, but it can show you where you have links at.