I Just Have To Know...Have You Ever Read A Syndicated Article...Anywhere? Your Article Or Others?

So I've been reading here on the forum for a while about article syndication, and I'm not talking about self-made, spun content, distributed by yourself.

The proponents of article syndication "the right way" make the stand that as long as you write really great, quality content, your articles will be found and syndicated to authority sites, spread across the vast expanse that is The Internet, and you'll reap the rewards a thousand-fold over.

Doesn't that sound great? I mean, to REALLY be rewarded for your effort like that? It does sound great, fantastic, really, but here's the thing...

I read many authority sites and blogs and guess what?

I've yet to read a syndicated article anywhere online. ANYWHERE.

I read a LOT of quality content on many sites on a regular, almost daily, basis and I never see syndication of any kind to the many, respectable sites that I frequent.

To reiterate, I've never seen an article from an article directory, of any caliber, syndicated anywhere.

What I do see quite a bit is guest blogging. I see it rather frequently and I see it growing and becoming a very possible replacement of the mythical "article syndication" that I hear so much about.

I want to know your experience with article syndication. I'm not saying that it can't be done, that it hasn't been done, or that it's not possible, but simply that I've never seen it in action.

Do you syndicate articles on your site?

Has your article been syndicated to other sites?

I'd love to hear your experiences with article syndication, good, bad, the ugly. I'd really love for some light to be shed on the subject.

Thanks!