When time is limited, is it better to backlink more and more articles to your website or to backlink some articles to other backlinks (squidoo, weebly etc)? I only have a limited amount of time for seo so would appreciate answers. NB I currently have about 20 odd articles in 8-10 directories pointing to my site. Should I now concentrate effots in making squidoo lenses pr2 etc or create more articles to my own website???
The answer is both. You really need to be doing both in order to build up more chances to rank for your keywords and to build up better back links to your primary domain. One of the great things about my main link building method (article distribution services) is that with spinning you can easily link to a variety of landing pages all with one article submission. I commonly link to 15 to 20 different landing pages with each article I submit. This also helps build up your links more slowly which I think looks more natural...
My advice is to get some great PR comment links. As well some quality press releases. That can help you getting links and traffic.
You can do the backlink in your site and to make a backlinks to the other sites because in that way you can rank up in the SERP and in that way you can also gain a lot of visitors.