Article submission for links

I'd been wondering how effective article marketing still is, had dropped it since panda but maybe I'll try again.

Article submission isn't really for links.

It's true that you can get great links from relevant sites by having your articles re-published on them (after original publication and indexation on your own site, of course), but however great those links are (and they're excellent) they're still an afterthought compared with the direct traffic you can generate that way.

The Panda updates were a huge benefit to article marketing, not a disadvantage.

Article marketing is much better and easier post-Panda (and now post-Penguin, too), as so many of us have been saying here since early 2011. By heavily devaluing the SEO potential of article directories, those Panda updates made it much easier, safer and better for us to use article directories for the purpose for which they exist, without the previous risks that our potential customer traffic might find an article directory article instead of one on our own site. For all the reasons explained in this post, no article marketer would want their potential customers finding an article in a directory: that isn't who they're there for at all.

Here's a one-post overview of how article marketing works: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

And here's a one-post overview of how article directories work: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

Now, to answer your original question, about spinning ...

The answer's no. The spinning would have absolutely no benefits at all. Spinning is based on a fundamental misunderstanding. It's a "solution to a problem that doesn't actually exist". A solution of benefit only to people selling spinning software and services. On "spinning", this post and its links will tell you what you need to know: The Best Article Spinners ???

The value of any backlink from any page on the web to any other page on the web has nothing to do with whether or not the content to which it's attached has previously been published, and it isn't somehow, magically, worth any more by having the preceding content "spun". This is all an urban myth designed to sell totally unnecessary spinning software and services which may possibly damage your business but definitely can't help it. The urban myth is based on a misunderstanding between "duplicate content" and "syndicated content", and the differences between the two are explained in this post and this little article.

By the way, don't use those "blog networks". Google has already de-indexed many of them, and is de-indexing more all the time. Those are non-context-relevant, spammy backlinks, far more likely to get your site penalized than helped. Those backlinks were never worth anything to speak of, really, anyway: they're no loss at all. :p

Backlinking is about quality and relevance. But in any case, article marketing isn't about backlinks: it's a traffic-generation method in its own right.