Do you write articles to help promote your blog? if you do, you dont copy an article from your blog to the article site do you? duplicate content and all that. Have you had much success with this method.
Sometimes i write an article to promote my site http://www.moscowbeauties.ru This site is in russian language. As a rule englishspeaking people dont know what this site is about. But they can look at pictures. Pictures on the site tell them all about site. There is some parts - news, beauties and cars, tourism or jorney and cooking and some other parts. But they dont know that this site has its own catalogue of sites.
Yes, I promote my blogs using article submission though I'm not submitting the same article on my blog in article directories.
At our company, we've found that article submission can help. However, I think you need to pick the site carefully. Since writing unique, topical content can be difficult and time consuming, I've been experimenting with creating content mash ups. I assemble several articles surrounding a similar theme a write an article using the main ideas as a framework. It has really helped me jump start ideas and be more productive.
I write a new blog post several times a week, and a longer more in depth article once a week or so.I re-write the article before submitting it to directories.It´s all about quality content...
I make an abbreviated version of a good article then add it to my blog because blog posts should be short and sweet
If you copy a content from a blog then your article never cache, google never show it in its backlinks
I have had success with it has part of a long term strategy. You can't depend on just one type of link though. And I always submit a different article than the one I post to my blog.
I have started rewriting some of my posts and then submitting them. I haven't seen any results yet but like mention above, it's more of a long-term approach.
i always get quality and long articles written up for article directory submissions, i only submit unique articles and don't copy anything from the blog. bigger and unique articles gets accepted in most article directories, and also it gets promoted well
i some do write articles but what i do is first write a detail article on my blog and write other 2-3 short summary articles about the article i had written on my blog and submit to articles directory mentioning "more more detail go to.."
Article submission is a great way to bring targeted traffic and gain backlinks. My advice would be to write articles for the article directories, and not just copy/paste the articles from your site.