Organic Traffic
There are definite pluses to organic traffic that article marketing
1. People go straight to your site
2. people go straight to your site
3. people go straight to your site
The main thing that kills the article directories is people don't like to leave the site they want to just keep reading through articles. Only 30% or less of the people will click through.
The only reason to ever use an article directory is to rank high on search engines for keywords that are high traffic, because eza and ehow rank high right off the bat with a few book marks and free webs submissions.
Alot of people would say, why not do both article and keyword for longtail and short tail, since all you have to do is copy and paste. However they miscalculate that the article may out rank their site and go down the 30% or less funnel of the article directory game.
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