Use of mass article submission ? with sofware

Opinions differ. Most professional, successful article marketers say "no". Many unsuccessful people starting off threads with titles like "Article Marketing Is Dead" are/were the people saying "yes". That isn't a coincidence.

Article directory backlinks are all non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks (regardless of the page rank of the directories' home pages).

Technically, strictly speaking, they're not (quite) "valueless", but 100,000 of those backlinks and $3.50 will get you a cappuccino at Starbuck's.

That has nothing to do with "link baiting". That's about article syndication. Very, very few article directories are worthwhile using as a way to get articles syndicated. Ezine Articles is. GoArticles and ArticlesBase can be, occasionally. The rest you can more or less forget. Only articles which are specifically written for syndication are likely to be syndicated. And one shouldn't rely only on passive syndication from article directories: there's a lot more to it than that.

It's very unlikely that you'll benefit measurably by submitting to more than those. I used to submit to thousands (literally) when I started, but have gradually reduced (first to a couple of hundred directories, then to seven or eight, and now to EZA plus one of those other two - which one depending on the niche in each case) and I'm far better off this way.

Why did you care about its approval times?

Authors in good standing who submit there regularly get very fast approval times from them. You just need to be patient at the start.

The fact that GoArticles uses autoapproval is a reason to use EZA, not a reason to use GoArticles.

Yes, it does. That doesn't make any real difference. (Yes, I know most people think it does: they're wrong).

If you use a very "salesy" resource-box, it's possible that some people syndicating the article may not take it; this is true. But that's (a) not a reason not to do it, and (b) very easily remedied anyway, as explained in so many threads here.

Article directory backlinks are extremely low value. The few people who are still trying to use article directories for their "link-juice" are gradually dropping out of what they think is article marketing (it's actually only "article directory marketing") and starting all the threads here and elsewhere with titles like "Article Marketing Is Dead" and "Article Marketing Doesn't Work Any More". They mean "article directory marketing", of course, but what they're saying is absolutely right - that aspect of it is dead. And actually has been for a long time. The "Panda update" was only the last nail in a coffin-lid that was already closed.

There's a world of difference between "article marketing" and "article directory marketing". One is to all intents and purposes defunct, and the other is a thriving, flourishing and improving business model - and now further assisted by the so-called "Panda update", in that it's much easier for us to get traffic to our own sites now that - thankfully - all those article directories' SEO has been well and truly hammered.

The purpose of articles is to get high quality work in front of highly targeted traffic. And the purpose of an article directory is to provide webmasters and ezine compilers with a depository of freely available content for syndication (subject to terms of service, of course). That's what article directories are, and it's the reason they exist, and it's the purpose they were set up to serve. They're not there for marketers to use them for backlinks or traffic, and they never have been.

There's more information here, in a variety of threads ...

This thread explains a lot of stuff about "spinning" and why most professional article marketers think it's a waste of time, and based on fallacies and mistaken beliefs about "duplicate content".

This one explains why it's seriously bad news to create backlinks to article directories.

This one explains a bit more about article directories and writing for syndication.

This one is about "unique content" and a bit about link-juice, I think.

This one is about writing for syndication.

And in this excellent little article an expert writer/marketer explains "duplicate content" to perfection.

Good luck!

Thanks for the explanation along with the supporting links, great share.
Bob