Advanced Link Manager – Analyze your website’s link popularity, find link partners and valuable information about them.
Product Page: http://www.advancedlinkmanager.com

Rank Tracker SEO Tool – Rank Tracker is an all-in-one rankings monitoring SEO tool for webmasters and professional SEOs who need to monitor their site’s positions in more than 250 search engines.
Product Page: http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/

SERank – RAGE SERank will monitor search engine rankings for any number of keywords and display changes in a web site’s search engine rankings over any point of time.
Product Page: http://www.ragesw.com/products/search-engine-rank.html

Advanced Web Ranking – Advanced Web Ranking is a search engine ranking software that emulates a manual search through each search engine. It works exactly like if you were manually checking your keywords ranking position via a browser.
Product Page: http://www.advancedwebranking.com/

Link Assistant – A search engine optimization software program designed to automate the many tedious link building tasks us SEOs need to do on a daily basis. A complete, feature-rich, easy-to-use environment.
Product Page: http://www.link-assistant.com/

iWeb SEO Tool – Quickly and easily optimize your iWeb based website for search engines then publish directly to your iDisk or FTP server without ever leaving the application.
Product Page: http://www.ragesw.com/products/iweb-seo-tool.html

SEO Spyglass – SEO SpyGlass is an extremely powerful competition research tool that is amazingly easy to use. In three simple steps SEO SpyGlass will show you exactly how your competitors got top positions in search engines so you can learn how they do it, improve on it, and get your own site ahead of them, in 232 local and international search engines!
Product Page: http://www.link-assistant.com/seo-spyglass/

WordButler – A wordtracker competitor specifically designed for mac users.
Product Page: http://www.wordbutler.com/

If you will do the bookmarking yourself, this will require time. You have to visit every site manually and bookmark the site you’re promoting unless you have the funds to pay someone to do it for you which usually costs a lot specially if you’d like to go into a lot of social sites. But not for now…

Social bookmarking submission service is now cheaper  as socialbookmarksubmission.com is finally here. For a low price of $47, you can have your site bookmarked to a huge list of 500 social bookmarking sites. Cheap? No. It’s cheaper compared to any other services offered out there. The service even provides a very detailed report with the help of screenshots taken to give you assurance of a quality offer. And for an extra $15, you can even have your very own account on every bookmarking site used. A quick turn around time of 96 hours is the average time frame per site compared to other competing providers that takes 15days for that amount of social sites.

So for your social bookmarking submission needs, always go to  socialbookmarksubmission.com, where you can find cheap but quality service.

Here are some screenshots:

1. Screenshot of articleyard.com, a directory that I own. You can see that the guy who went to my admin panel even left me a message, how sweet…

2. Screenshot of 63s.org, owned by Philip Tiangson. I went to his admin panel, took a screenshot and showed it to him. I didn’t do anything that will harm his feelings so nothing to worry guys, he didn’t kick me afterwards..

So to make everything short, there is really a hole into the article dashboard script. And as the script is widely used by hundreds or even thousands of webmasters, this is something huge if the hack will spread. Someone asked me on how to do it saying that every article dashboard user should know it so they can protect their sites but I didn’t gave it thinking that it might fell into wrong hands so what I’ll just do is to give tips on how to protect your site.

If you’re using a cpanel, here’s a quick tutorial:

1. On the homepage of your admin panel, click the password protect directories button
2. Navigate to the directory that you want to protect
3. Click on the tick box next to the icon
4. Optional, enter the name that you want to appear in the protected resource name.
5. Then click on the save button.
6. Finally, add an authorize user to enable access to the directory.

I have done this to article directories that I own, and it works perfectly against the recent exploit. Hope this will help others too..

• Article Directories Are Free. Almost 99% of article directories are free, only a small percentage asks for payment mostly those with specific niche.
• Backlinks And More Backlinks. With every article you submit, you are always allowed to include 2-3 links in your resources page. Aside from that, there’s a few article directory that allows html in the body of the article to give you additional links.
• Free Promotion. Article sites serves as circulation center for contents. You submit and others reprint it to their sites giving your writings a bigger audience so you should always grab the opportunity, write something sensible enough to gain interest.
• No Expirations. Once you submit, it sticks as long as the article directory stays alive and even continue to spread as others reprint your article. Unlike buying links for months or years.

There are still some other reasons like giving your business a personality or style but the ones I’ve mentioned above seems to be the top among others.

By the way, if you’re looking for a faster way of submitting your article, you can try digiXMAS Article Submitter wherein you can submit to 500 directories within 15 minutes.