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When attempting to build a strong presence on social news sites ensuring that you have great content to submit is essential. Yet on popular social news sites you’re far from alone. Thousands of others are seeking highly original content to submit, the result of which means that all too often when you come across a great article it’s already been submitted by someone else.

It’s quite a problem. If you can’t submit highly original articles you’ll left with submitting second rate content. Content which is good but not outstanding. The kind of content which will get a few votes but not enough to reach the front page of any of these sites. And if you can’t reach the front page on a regular basis it becomes very hard to become a power user.

Take Sphinn as an example. It’s often criticized for having a number of cliques, a place where articles from favored sites are much more likely to become popular… when had the article been posted on a different site, one which was new to the Sphinn community, it wouldn’t have been looked upon quite so favorably.

Those who follow Sphinn regularly know that some of these favored sites are:

• Dosh Dosh
• SEO 2.0
• Search Engine Journal
• SEOmoz
• Slightly Shady SEO
• Smackdown

If you can regularly submit content from the above sites you have a good chance of building a power profile and becoming recognized as a reliable source of excellent information.

But apart from sitting there all day refreshing the browser how can you give yourself the best chance of submitting new articles first?

This is where the tool Comment Sniper comes in. Not only is it useful for enabling you to get the first comment in on new articles, as mentioned in our last post, but it’s also an excellent tool at notifying you the moment that a new article goes live on one of the blogs you’re following.

Have you ever used Comment Sniper for this purpose? And how do you find and submit great content to social news sites first?

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