I know that most people don't believe that article directories will help your SEO efforts. However, it does seem to be a promising way to generate. If you can distribute an article to 1,000 article directories and each article brings in 3 visitors a month, that would equal 3,000 visitors. Has anybody tried this?
I dont distribute that much article but I do distribute 30-40 articles per month to article directories and it does help me in generating traffic thought the traffic is not very big but it is still worth the time.
It could work for some, but I think higher quality and less quantity would ultimately be more effective in the long run.
The thing is you need to submit fresh and quality articles to top article directories to get benefit from them.