Yes, I am working on a site recently and using article directories for backlinks and have noticed that it still works.

I still submit the same article to many directories although of late, due to a misunderstanding about the google panda update, many directories only now accept articles not published elsewhere. To me it is not worth writing one article each for each directory especially to some obscure directory.

I would not recommend spinning as it will eventually get to kicked out of many article directories and you might lose the links you already have on them when they delete your account.

Article backlinks are most effective for better search engine rankings. to check it place your link on your targeted keywords and you will get good results. you should try ezinearticles and articlesnatch for good effects. if you want anymore help regarding article backlinks search article directories in google and try it.

Yes they are....article marketing is a good strategy for building backlinks and getting free traffic...

Yes it's Still effective. And it's working very good to increase your ranking.

Articles still rock! They get you direct visitors and boost your rankings, so definitely use them in your SEO arsenal!

OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's still a killer technique to building backlinks and ranking a website...

Shoot!... Depending on how much competition a site has to deal with, sometimes article marketing is enough to get a site to atleast the first page for its keywords. Not much more needed to do so.

You looking to do it yourself?

Holla!
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Spun articles, although don't make much sense to a human reader are still valuable since very few websites would do manual reviews of all articles uploaded. Even then, there is no way for them to tell if its a spun article because it could just be a human with really bad English, in which case they have no grounds to discriminate based on the up loader's grammar.