I don't, personally.

I submit the exact same copy of it that's on my site to EZA, GoArticles, ArticlesBase, and so on (not Squidoo - but that's a whole different matter: Squidoo isn't an article directory). With the addition of the resource-box, of course - one obviously doesn't need that on one's own site because the readers are already there.

The quality of backlink one gets isn't improved in any way by re-writing the article.

They're backlinks, and in a sense it's better to have them than not to have them.

But they're very, very poor-quality backlinks (unless you find an article directory specific to your niche), because they're all non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlinks, which in backlink terms are close to being the lowest of the low.

I used to do mass submissions, when I first started, then I cut down to about 20 directories, then to 7 or 8 and now I submit only to 2 or sometimes 3. Those extra article directory backlinks aren't worth having, for me. In anything approaching a competitive niche, you'll need a six-figure number of them (yes, really) for it to help your off-page SEO much, and all the more so after the lastest Google algorithm change.

Almost all the professional article marketers here will tell you that backlinks are not really part of the reason they're submitting their work to article directories.

Sites like Squidoo and HubPages are a whole different matter. These backlinks are typically much more worthwhile than article directory backlinks, but they're not article directories and one's reasons for using them aren't at all the same as one's reasons for using directories. Some of those "Web 2.0 sites" require unique content; others don't. Some will vary whether or not you're allowed self-serving backlinks, and their quality, according to whether or not the content's unique. It's essential always to read the terms of service when you're posting anything on a site which you don't yourself own.

It depends exactly what you mean by "article sites". On almost all the article directories, there's no need to change the article (other than by adding a resource-box, of course, as observed above) and no benefit to doing so.

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Article submission directory is an integral aspect of any successful link building strategy.

In fact, it is the most successful and most popular method of link building on the Internet.

Article submission directory will be fruitful and effective once you are able to choose the right article directory.

Is it alright to submit the same article to multiple article directories?

The answer is "yes", and you will benefit greatly if you take the initiative to do that.

I think it's worth mentioning that 1 way backlinks can't hurt your site. At worst, they do nothing since it would be the easiest thing in the world for your competitors to spam your site with crappy backlinks so that they can knock you down in the rankings.

Its useful because of the visitors might come to your site via that link in those articles.

The reason why I sometimes change my EZA article a little before posting on other article directories is not because I think the link will be null and void but so they are all indexed in their own right and therefore will perhaps get some organic traffic. Unfortunately, due to the google changes, this is becoming a less viable strategy.

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It's not better especially this time where Google is marching against content farming. All we need to do is to promote with unique contents in-order to survive.

It is good if they will approved your posting. Ezine is very strict. Much better if you will make another one or spin the original.

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Basically, you don't have to publish same article at different Article Submission Sites. If you do such thing, Google might not indexed or read that article for the bots have see it exactly from other sites..

Have you learn something from these replies? The main point is, write an article with unique, good quality, and interesting content.

well thats what is happening in majority of the blog sites , changing a bit of the orignal and creating an identical version and then submitting it out on the different networks. yes thats an easy way for creating your back links. until and unless you dont get caught the duplicate version can be more effective then orignal one (just an opinion)

I use Article Marketing Robot and The Best Spinner. Let me tell you that they do a great job and I get several hundreds successful submissions per article. I don't think anyone should worry that much about how heavily spun is an article. After all, backlinks are the main target and you do get lots of them.

So far, I never had any trouble with duplicate content... my focus is ranking my main website's pages anyway and I use all those submissions to get backlinks to my own site to get it to the first page for that particular keyword phrase I target with each article.

Honestly, I focus on quantity and it works.

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When I copy articles from my blog straight to EZA, they would reject me. Never had luck doing that.

What you could do is post an original article on your site and have that article rewritten. Then you take the rewrite and make it your seed article for spinning. Spin it at sentence and at word level.

Once you have that article with spintax you submit a unique version of it (check using Copyscape) to each of the popular article directories and web 2.0 sites.

Once that is done you take your seed article and submit it to Article Ranks or AMA. Make sure to have no more than 2 contextual links in the body of your article. If you are using Wordpress you will get a pingback each time your article gets posted on the AR or AMA networks, be sure to ping (pingler.com) the sites were your articles are posted.

This should give you plenty of links.

Hope this helps.