Articles,option 1 or option 2

[Wham]

Option 1- Make as many ezine articles as possible, once accepted submit them all to other article directories

Option 2- Make only a couple quality ezine articles using competitive keywords with high monthly searches, then submit crap loads of spinned articles to other article directories with backlinks to the ezine article in hopes of getting them to page 1 on google

what do you think would bring better traffic?

[David Wolfman]

Both strategies work best when you use them at the same time.

1- If you submit the same articles you create duplicate content that may be:
--rejected by other directories,
--placed on back index in google and never show up in google listings,
--penalized by directories by blocking your outgoing links (hubpages.com)

2-Couple of quality articles is not enough, you may need about 30 to submit on DAILY basis for the 1st month or so, then submit less frequently.
Spinning works well but not if you spin paragraphs only - this way you still create duplicate content because the content is checked on sentence basis. You have to have an original sentence.

[Marhelper]

I just stick with EZA and do pretty well with it.