I am getting ready to grap myself a copy of Big Mikes Articlebot but i've been reading in some forums that if you submit to 400 directories that Google is only going to credit you for the first link it picks up and dismisses the rest as duplicate content. If that's the case why submit to 400 sites if your only going to get the juice for one....and if Google grabs the first one from a REALLY crappy site why not only submit to Ezine for a good quality backlink? Thanks for any responses
I'm not 100% sure about article directories, but social networks still work well. Personally I would suggest you submitting URLs to sites powered by Scuttle or PHPDug script (you can find many, many of these... and there are some tools to automate submissions in full). It doesn't mean that G will pick up ALL links, but most of them get indexed very shortly (according to my personal experience).