I have already posted questions like this one at various SEO forums, nevertheless I have some additional questions to ask about article submission techniques. The first one is connected with article submission practices! What do you think about submitting the same article to numerous article directories? On the one hand it is very difficult task and can take a lot of time and efforts to write a unique article for each article directory separately, on the other hand search engines can accept these articles as content duplicate and links will not be counted in such a way. How to find the golden middle and to get the maximum benefits from article submission process? What keyword phrases it is better to orient articles on? What keyword phrases it is better to put in incoming link text? It is better to insert a key phrase existing at a website or the key phrase that doesn’t exist at a website? What advices could you provide on this matter?
Not much value but still you should do it. Even with every article if you can get 10 visitors every year on average from 100 submision, you are getting 1000 every year, Pretty good ROI IMO. Its you who should judge about how many articles you want to submit. make a balance between time, money and article submission. Put your main keyphrases in the author/resource box though I often randomizes it. Don't use same anchor too much, dont look very natural.
and remember to have Google index the article on your site before submitting it to external article sites
Do you mean putting an article to my website first and have it indexed by google before submitting it to article directories, right?