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I find this comparison interesting. Does look like articlebase.com and buzzle.com are seeing a bit of an upturn. But it also looks like EZ gets far more traffic than all of these other article directories combined. Taking EZ out lets us see the trends of the others a bit better: HERE. It seems to me from this that articlebase.com and buzzle.com may be worth looking into further. I'd say SearchWarp.com too but I already know they are super strict about what kind of articles/links you can get away with.
What about Isnare? I thought that Isnare and SearchWarp were pretty good, but I haven't actually tried them. GoArticles seems to go completely down. Looks like I will need to try ArticleBase and Buzzle...
ISnare isn't too much about the traffic on their site itself (it gets very little) but more the article distribution - The articles I submit through ISnare end up on a lot of other sites. But mostly very small sites with little traffic. I can't say that I'm sure I get a lot of direct traffic from my ISnare submissions - but I do get a decent amount of link backs. It's more a part of my SEO strategy than my direct traffic strategy.