I would say article submissions as it seems less spammy in my opinion but really depends on the quality of the content and how relevant the site is too.
Hello Dear, If you want to ask which one is better so in my opinion article is better, Because it helps in both for link development and traffic and directory mostly target to link development. But both has their importance also.
It depends on what your trying to accomplish here. Both are beneficial - it just comes down to the PRs of the directories you are submitting to, whether it be link or article submission.
I think article submission is more beneficial assuming that you are submitting a quality article to quality directories because Google and other search engines are in favor more on content than on a bunch of links from directories.
Yes article submission is more beneficial than directory because it will take less time for crawl than directory submission .
It will be unfair to compare both the services article submission and directory submission. Both the services have their own impact and importance. Directory submission helps in organic ranking while article submission helps in organic ranking and traffic as well.
I like to use directory subs to get a nice spread of backlinks, AND article subs to do keyword targeted links So, my answer... BOTH!
Article submissions are much more effective as long as you don't submit the same article to more than 1 directory
I think articles are more valuable, but you can get a lot more backlinks easier by submitting to directories. Why not just do both!
Do both. Links from article directories are more powerful because of the related content and less out bound links compared to website directories. Even so, variety is the key. So, do both.
you should mix those two techniques, the more different kinds of links you make the better, so spend half time on directory submissions and half on article submissions, just make sure your articles are unique.
Article submission is better than directory submission becauase your articles can get high rank in google and thus along with pr juice and backlinks, you will get some quality visitors, and the visitors who read articles and then click your resource box are always looking for further info or solution to the material which is explained in the articles, thus they tend to be more targeted and can result in conversion also.
Can anyone tell me how much articles on Ezinearticles with backlink to my website could bring me a pr3?
I combine both Article and Directory submissions targeting one keyword per week. Then I follow up with some blog commenting just to make sure I cover all the bases. I find the article links show up faster and in better quality format than other submissions.