Now, Ezinearticles Tougher Than Buzzle?

This is all true and correct. But it isn't my main reason for doing this.

My main reason is that the more often you do this, the more quickly you'll achieve a "collective situation" in which an article directory doesn't outrank your own site (even temporarily) for your own keywords.

When you have a new site, and do this, and then submit to EZA, the EZA copy will still typically appear higher in Google's SERP's than your own copy. Temporarily. The more often you do it, with more articles, the shorter that "temporary" time-period will be. And eventually it won't happen at all.

It may be that now, since Google's recent algorithm change, it's "very temporary" instead of "temporary", and it may be that there'll be a lot more instances of it not happening at all. I can't comment on this because (a) it's too early to tell, reliably, and (b) most of my sites have reached a point at which that didn't happen much anyway (and that's nothing difficult to achieve at all: I'm not talking about sites with high-PR pages, or anything that anyone can't achieve).

The big point here, from my perspective, and the point which it strikes me that so many people don't quite grasp, is that when someone puts one of your keywords into Google as their search terms (and the fact that they do that is the reason you chose it as your keyword, isn't it?), you want them to find the article on your own site, NOT the article directory copy.

This is absolutely fundamental to article marketing.

You want the visitor coming straight to you - 'do not pass "go", do not collect $200'.

If they go to an article directory instead, you may lose 50% of them right out of the gate, to the AdSense and other distractions, and then get only the ones who read your article all the way through and click on the link in your resource-box. That's not so good for you, obviously: this is a real no-brainer.

Not Buzzle, because they won't accept it. They're the only ones who won't. So don't use them.

Noooo, never take it off. Let it sit there. It doesn't necessarily have to be "very easily findable" by readers of other pages there, as long as it can be found so that Google doesn't imagine you're showing the search engine something different from what you're showing a human (which they quite rightly don't like at all!). And as you write more and more articles, your site's content will grow and grow. Which is, of course, good for its on-page SEO, too.

I do. I get 95%+ of the value from EZA, to be honest, because I'm writing for syndication and that's where people go for content to be syndicated. But I also submit to a couple of others (typically GoArticles and ArticleBase) on the eggs and baskets principle because it would be a nuisance for me if EZA disappeared in the night, and although that's unlikely in the extreme, I trust nobody and like to cover my assets.

I don't bother now.

I used to. I used to submit to about 7 directories, and change the title, keywords and resource-box a bit, and I did that for well over a year, but have stopped doing it now because I had no evidence at all that it benefitted me. I certainly wouldn't blame anyone for doing that, but it didn't help me, and it's time I'd rather spend doing something else (like posting here! ).

I do change one punctuation-mark in every copy, so that I can reliably identify its source when it gets syndicated. And that's how I know it's nearly always the EZA copy that gets syndicated by others.