While it is a good idea to submit to article directories in addition to the Content Spooling Network (the more incoming links, the better!), the following are ways in which the Content Spooling Network beats out traditional article directories.

• The websites hosting your articles are peer-related (fellow webmasters who are also working to build topically-related links). As such, your links will often carry much more relevancy weight than those in general article directories.
• Links can be anywhere in the article… Article directories usually limit links to the “resource box.”
• Articles may contain up to five links… Article directories almost always limit links to three.
• When new sites are added to the network, a unique version of your article will automatically be added… When new article directories spring up, you need to find and submit to them yourself.
• The Content Spooling Network includes simple functionality to create unique versions of your articles so that each one escapes the duplicate content filter… Submitting unique versions to each article directory yourself is incredibly time-consuming.
• Once you add your article, the submission of unique articles happens automatically… Article directories have no way to automatically list your new articles.
• You can schedule the release of articles to the network to set your article marketing on autopilot… Submission to article directories is only autopilot if you have a dedicated staff.
• The Content Spooling Network offers an article writing service… Try asking an article directory to write articles for you!