Off-page ranking factors summary Let's summarize the above part of this SEO guide. Here is a quick synopsis of what you have already read: 1. Good inbound link is a link from a relevant, high-PR site closely related to yours. 2. Good inbound link has target keywords in its anchor text and around the link itself. 3. Good inbound link points to a landing page made specially for each target keyword. 4. Reciprocal links and directories still work, but don't expect miracles. 5. Don't overlook social bookmarking sites. 6. Article submission is useless. 7. Do not spam. 8. Paid links may both hurt and help. To avoid penalty, paid links must be nofollow. 9. Keep your link neighbourhood clean and relevant.
Article submission is a great way to get content link on high PR and trusted domains. It will increase your ranking and traffic as well
Off-page optimization are strategies for search engine optimization that are done off the pages of a website to maximize its performance in the search engines for target keywords related to the page content. ...
Article submissions provide good backlinks and good indexing of your page. But you must use high quality websites for promotion.
For me, article submission is not useless because it is the best way to get backlinks as well as increase the ranking also.