Well not so right, you are correct if you do it the wrong way and that is how many newbies end up doing it when they start up. But if you do it the correct way it can bring in results. It is should go in the sequence quality-->quantity and not the other way round. Article marketing is still one of the best possible ways to build backlinks as that is the most natural linkbuilding method since you still dont know how many backlinks you end up having like in case of other link building methods.
So does anyone know about the whole duplicate content thing? Should I submit articles and not put them on my site so google doesn't think that it is duplicate content? or should I submit to only one article site each article? I'm still confused and want to avoid duplicate content if I can.
I usually submit articles to ezinearticles.com goarticles.com articledashboard.com and articlebase.com
Street Articles , go articles , idea marketers and FindArticles are article sites that i am currently using.