Article Marketing provides one of the best opportunities for getting one-way backlinks for websites and blogs. Here are some hands-on and useful techniques for getting the most out of your article backlinks: Article Marketing - Backlink Techniques
to use article marketing properly, you need to understand something. All modern search engines use a combination of domain and content to determine relevance (among other things, such as backlinks). For example, if you have the same article on 100 different domains, and you search for the keywords it promotes, (IF you rank at all!) the search engine will choose what it thinks is the most relevant 'version' of your article, and you'll see that one result in the serps. If all the articles are wildly different, it can't do this. It's possible to fill PAGES of google results for a keyword search if you 'wrangle' your article so you put a 'different; version on each article directory. Another point - sites that just republish content available elsewhere don't tend to get much 'weight' in the serps. That's because everything they publish is available elsewhere, and usually on *more important sites*. Sites that ONLY republish tend to get dumped WAY down in the rankings, because almost by definition, such a site is pretty much worthless. And backlinks from worthless sites are.. worthless (almost)