If search engines such as Google and Yahoo penalize or downgrade a website's ranks for DUPLICATE content, why do article directory owners accept articles submitted via ArticleMarketer (AM), iSnare, ArticleTrader, and etc..? Since those same articles are also submitted to other article directories, why accept them in your article directory? Right now I only see ArticleMarketer (AM), iSnare, and etc.. benefiting from this system.
duplicate content is always a problem, but all article directory owners add some paid article aswell to maintain the balance! if they totally stop article submission then the traffic will also die, so they try to mix it with good paid content!
Automated submissions are a strict no-no. Try hiring a paid article writer so that redundanies are elimiated when u use the same article everywhere