Article marketing is one of the greatest and most effective Internet Marketing strategies and has 3 very strong benefits.
1. Article marketing is one of the best and easiest ways to get one-way backlinks to your sites for search engine 
optimization and link building.
2. Article marketing is a great way to get direct relevant and targeted traffic to your websites, by utilizing the correct keywords. Read the step-by-step guide to Article Marketing for Backlinks and Getting Direct Traffic.
3. Article marketing has a viral effect. Many article sites utilize what is called a Creative Commons copyright license, which basically means that anyone can reprint the articles you submit and then reprint on 
their sites, as long as, all content is retained, the credit is given to the original author, and the backlinks to your sites are kept intact within the article.
This creates a great viral opportunity for your websites because when your articles are reprinted your links are then spread all over the web giving you great exposure and traffic for your websites.
As I have always said Unique Article Wizard submission service is the best way to submit articles. Article Marketer submits my articles to over 5,000 sites and 14,000 publishers for a very low price, especially considering the exposure and the time/work it saves me. And, realistically how long would it take you to submit even one article to that many sites? I love Unique Article Wizard, I use them and strongly recommend them, for the most exposure, the most backlinks, optimizing your campaigns and as the biggest time saver.
While Unique Article Wizard submits to the top article marketing sites, I did want to let you know of three specific article sites that are more lenient, as they allow hyperlinks within the article body and not just in the "about the author section".
These three sites are great for the viral effect because, as opposed to Ezine Articles, for example, that exposes your articles to a large amount of in-house traffic, these sites are highly used by lots of webmasters looking for free content for their websites.
Article Dashboard PR6
Amazines PR3
Article City PR6
Article Alley - PR5
There are many article sites that are primarily set up for submitting articles with the purpose of reprinting and I have tested many of them, but these three always get the best results.
Since submitting my articles to these sites, more than 25 of those articles have been downloaded by other webmasters between 20-40 times each and reprinted on their sites. This means MASSIVE exposure for my websites.
The key, of course, to getting reprinted is writing articles that have good titles and are well written, learn more at my post: Are You Writing Garbage - Keys to Writing Effective Articles.
In addition to submitting to other people’s article directories, you can also create your own Article Dashboard site. The Article Dashboard script is free, although it’s not supported well.
This method can be useful since you will certainly approve your own articles with whatever links you want in the content. If these are picked up by sites that republish content from other sites this can be even more effective. I recommend using a 8 year old plus pre-owned domain for this because this will help you overcome some, but not all, duplicate content filtering.
What are your thoughts on submitting to many sites? I submit my articles to about 150 sites, but generally only see about 50 backlinks in google from all the effort.
Joe
@ Austin
Well, I use Article Marketer a service that submits my articles for me, saves me TONS of time and submits to over 5,000 sites, so my motto is, the more article sites you submit to the better. The ones I mention in this post are those that are great for the viral effect, but primarily for backlinks, Article Marketer is the service of choice. It costs but very little for the time saver and the amount of exposure.
Google rarely updates their link stats, so what their results show are not accurate, they are there and counted, just don’t show up in results. The best way to check backlinks is through your Yahoo Site Explorer account or with this Free Backlink Checker
Is it Good Also for us to using the article from that directories for our Blog content……..Please the opinion and the reason why.
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@ Hidayah,
Yes you can, but not all the time, basically if you always use articles from directories on your blog you will have what is called a scraped content sites, variety of your own and other articles is better. Your blog will essentially be competing with all the other article directories that have used that article and many of them are high PR. Better to buy PLR and then rewrite it as your own.
Great post. I normally only submit to Ezines so I will try some of the others you mentioned.
Do you still consider article submission to be as valuable a link building activity as say, writing for your own outside indepenent wordpress blog?
My outside blog for example is a PR3 blog, with a number of the older posts being PR1′s and PR2′s
@Madison NJ Real Estate Agent,
Do you mean using that blog as a link source for another site? or do you mean just writing content on it? Because those are two totally different things.
Both link building and content / longtail search terms actually.
Jim
JR, which type of promoting, in your opinion, brings better results: article submission or blogging(comments posting)?
By the way thanks for suggesting the ArticleMarketer.
@ IT
Definitely article submission, if that is all you have time for, then do that.
@ IT
I agree with you on that one, article marketing not only brings backlinks, but also get targeted traffic to the site, which results in conversions.
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