2 SEO Questions I want to know.

Honestly, I didn't see any movement at all by depending on one source for back links. I found the best movement by creating back links in all areas of blog commenting, directories, social bookmarking and more. When I concentrated on one method at a time nothing great happened in the rankings.

As I understand it article marketing is currently the only way you are trying to promote your site. Article marketing should only be one component in a traffic mix.

Also: Are you doing article marketing only for link building? Or do you really want to get traffic from your articles?

If you are only doing it for the links you have a problem:
1. Article directories took a big hit recently in terms of authority and traffic (due to the recent Panda Update)
2. If you only get links from article directories you don't get too much link diversity.

You should be getting links from all over the Internet - not only from article directories. Especially since most article directories are just sites with duplicate content.
Most people submit to ezinearticles and then take the same article and submit it 50 or more article directories - all duplicate content.

If you are really into article marketing then please do it for the traffic - not just the links.
But this means:
1. You need to do keywords research to target specific keywords with your articles so that they get found.
2. You need to write really high quality articles that people will read all the way to the end.
3. You need to write a compelling author bio so that people will click through to your site.

I hope this helps.

Stefan

Articles work but should only be a part of your overall link building. If you're manually writing articles consider how long its taking per link. Most people into writing articles manually like this do so because they are putting out quality articles and actually ranking their articles for relating long tail keywords and preselling within the article. You could manually do probably 10-20 links in the time it takes you to get 1 link from a manual article.

Blog commenting, profile links, etc. are very simple just jump in and start with it!

This is personal preference there is no right or wrong answer here and it largely depends on your strategy. Are you just trying to get backlinks or are you trying to rank your articles as well.

Your question is more SEM than SEO.

There's not a correct answer to your question except to find where your market is first. That will tell you where you need to place your presence.

Not all forms of traffic will reap you the conversions that you may be looking for.

An example would be, if you had a football site that focuses on the strategies of defense, you wouldn't do very well creating a community presence on MySpace because the demographics of that site is more orinated to music interests. You would be better off creating a presence through FanHouse...etc. It will give you targeted traffic that already possess the mindset that you are looking for and it gives you much better link juice.

Don't depend on Article directories to saturate a market for you. They still have their purpose and by all means include them in your arsenal. I'm just saying that the exact same content that you use for article directories will carry more mileage in a community targeted for your niche.

It is best to get a wide variety of backlinks from different sources. Don't just focus on one method of link building. There are many other ways to build backlinks.

Article writing is one of the most effective ways in SEO. But as you've said, you didn't do any other methods in doing SEO for your site. It is very important that you get backlinks from different sources if you want to have better results.

Article submission is important technique of getting backlinks and visitors directly to your website. I think you are doing some thing wrong. I usually submit maximum of 4 to 5 article for one SEO project and surly get results. As you mentioned you have submitted hundreds articles then surly some thing wrong

Second you can easily submit one article on more then 100 article directories to get backlinks....