Once you have written your articles, it is time to submit them.  With article submissions, it is advisable to only submit your article to one place, otherwise Google and other search engines will remove your listings.  They do not like replicates of the same content.

If you want to submit to various article directories, you can change your articles, so that they are all different.

Here is a list of the top article submission directories:

Submit your articles to search engines after you have obtained your URL of your page from an article site. It does help to let the search engines know that your article is there.

You can go here:

http://www.google.com/addurl

If you want someone to write articles for you, you can go to:

I've had great success from using Elance in the past and was very happy with the articles I paid for.  On average I pay $10 per 500 word page. 

Once you have subscribed to either of these websites (by the way, it is a FREE service) you can post your project.  Copywriters will then bid on the job and you can decide who you would like to use.

Easy payments can be done via Paypal.com.

Be sure to specify what you would like done, which keywords you would like them to use in each page and how many.

You can view previous jobs they have done and get an idea of what their quality is like.  This is an easy and inexpensive way of getting the work done.

Don't be scared to write your own articles at first, this will ensure that you learn the ropes quickly.  You will see that not only is it a lot of fun (especially if you write about something you are interested in) but it takes no time at all if you are passionate about the subject. 

Build your content around facts and add your own flair to it, go ahead - have fun with your own article submissions!