It is important that you monitor whether your articles are being uploaded on the internet.
It is also exciting to see just how many websites your articles are appearing on.
So what you should do is before your start your article writing exercise you should check your current propagation.
What that means is checking how many of your articles are already online.
Then once a month or so, you should check again to monitor your progress.
This will give you some idea of how well your article submission efforts are doing.
You could do this in several different ways.
Tracking by Article Titles: It is easy to track the number of times your article appears online by using the title.
When you create a title you must insure that it is an original or unique title.
You can do this by deciding what you title is, and typing the new title into your browser using quotation marks.
For example if my new article title were: how to check titles, I would insert it into my browser like this: "how to check titles".
Then click on the search link and see how many articles are online using that title.
If the result is returned 'search not found', then the title you have submitted has never been used online.
However, if you find that the title has been used, then perhaps you should change one or two words in the title and repeat the search process.
On completion of the search jot down the number of times each of your article titles appears and check again after four weeks.