what do you think about article backlinks?

Yeah 300 backlinks should give you a boost, it depends how strong your competitors sites are though.
Also Your article may not be accepted by all the directories if it has already been used on another site.

Yes it will help. Personally I use Unique Article Wizard to spin my articles before submitting them, but I think this is not really required.

A good tool for mass submitting articles is: AUTOMATIC ARTICLE SUBMITTER for Elite Article Marketers

I see the price has gone up since I bought it, but it is an one time payment.

Yes, submitting an article through these type of systems works for rankings, but it is important that you do not wait for the magic to happen, but continue to promote your website.

It will help in terms of your traffic as well as back links. It's advisable you take it slowly if you are into SEO.

the thing is that there is a new tool that is an invite only tool that can get 300+ articles submitted and almost 270+ are guaranteed to be posted so I wanted to know how well it would be to post 300 articles on a keyword for which the top competitor has only 50 backlinks.
I will also buy a domain name with the keyword in it, should be too tough? would it ?

the thing is that there is a new tool that is an invite only tool that can get 300+ articles submitted and almost 270+ are guaranteed to be posted so I wanted to know how well it would be to post 300 articles on a keyword for which the top competitor has only 50 backlinks.
I will also buy a domain name with the keyword in it, should be too tough? would it ?

I also have used Unique Article Wizard and have gotten good results with backlinks. Just make sure if you use the "wizard" you learn how to create unique titles and resource boxes so the articles don't appear to be duplicate content.

I cannot just sit and put unique content on each site so I think I'll try and submit 1 unique article to all 300+ directories, some will just give me visitors and some may give me a few extra backlinks

I thought having dupe content on the same site is a waste of time

I believe you will get juice from a few of the article directories you use, however I believe there is a point where the juice will simply run dry. I don't think that after they see the same content more than 100 times (just an arbitrary number) that they will bother giving you credit because it looks like article spam.

The search engines know that article directories are article dirctories.

That being said, syndication and republication IS alive and well. The thing is that internet users and webmasters don't syndicate/republish ONLY to article directories, article spammers do.

What I suggest instead is to submit to a much smaller amount of article directories, the ones that are powerful for your niche. Then use other types of sites out there to your advantage...sites that people would naturally syndicate, or brag about.

There are social networks out there aplenty, there are social bookmarking sites galore, there are blogs that accept expert content, RSS sites, niche-related authority sites, video sites, etc...

When your backlinking campaigns look natural, things are cool. But when all you have is 300 links coming in from nothing but article directories, I believe you will only gain a certain (probably low) amount of juice.

Good luck!
Allen

I would say it would help to a degree, but the duplicate content issue arises as far as what article will be in the search engines result. Now the search engine reading the back link, I feel it would help there and in the directories themselves as far as members of the said directory clicking you link in the bio.

thanks everyone, I'll target a low competition keyword and build a site around it, I'll try to build backlinks with this method and will report if I get an increase in rankings

Unfortunately nowadays google has devaluated many article directories. The reason is that most of them host the same content (duplicated across hundreds of sites). So, even if you post a unique article in each directory, most of them will not be indexed because if a domain has many duplicated pages, then even the original ones will not be valued...