Article marketing may be a numbers game when it comes to writing a lot of material, but if you're on sites like EZA or GoArticles these sites respond really well to quality backlinks provided you've done your keyword research.
I've a number of articles on GoArticles for example that have gone to PR2 within 6 months with just one campaign of linking about 10 times from other article sites, HubPages and guestposting on blogs combined with one article posted from UAW. Of course I backlink...