All right, Tim... Seems like we see the same things, but think of them differently. IMO this article simply shows that unrelated/unnatural links are bad. Well, I'm not going to argue any more - seems like we won't out-argue each other )) Anyway, thank you, Tim - it was a pleasure to learn your opinion... Honestly
I have to be inagreement with Tim here. The 'worst' that I can possibly see happening is that the IBLs are devalued in some way. I'd suggest writing into the programme that it randomly alters the anchor text used to limit the effect of this. I can't see the site itself getting a ban or even penalty, especially since it' doesn't link back to any of the linking sites.
Barring any massive shifts in the way SE's work, links to you will never be bad. As Matt points out, links from you to unrelated sites may harm your site, so if this were a thread about giving too many links away, we could safely say that giving links to unrelated sites will harm your indexing, which will also affect your serp (especially if you target seperate keywords on seperate pages as many sage SEO people suggest). As for Article Distributor, it is for all intents and purposes dead. It still works and will continue to work for some time, but I have come to see that it's development path is fundamentally flawed, so no new version of Article Distributor will be released. However, I have taken a new development tack, and I am in the process of writing a much better piece of software that will effectively do the same thing that Article Distributor did. It will not be free however, so I will not add my own link to the bottom of the article. (Although that might be a great idea for a demo version...)
I use about one week for google to start indexing. Submiting directory is slow. Do you have other method?
Honestly, no one knows the exact answer about the way Google algorithm works. However there is no doubt that their algorithm is good enough to detect websites that try to perform "over SEO". I am almost sure that 100 submission in a day will annoy Google spider and probably will hurt your website's reputation.
I came to know from many blogs that Google usually penalizes if you have hundereds of same links all of a sudden. google bands some sites for having to many link to it, they do this if one site gets loads of links over a short period of time.