Let's say I have written a killer article and I want to drive traffic to that article. If I publish it on my site, how then do I drive traffic to the article on my site? Submission to article directories means submitting the complete article, does it not? Link directories would consider the link to the article as a 'deep-link' meaning that it would probably be rejected, yes? I have seen that some link directories also accept articles, is that the complete article or a link to one? I don't particularly want to submit the article to tons of article directories, nor do I want to only get a small amount of traffic to it by limiting the number of article directories that I submit it to. I don't want to have to rewrite it several times to avoid dupe content issues either and finding free/cheap deep-link directories is difficult (although I do have a great list of about 300 or so). So, how would you drive traffic to that article on your site if it was yours?
You can post the article on your website or on some highly traffic oriented article websites such as Ezinearticles.com and once the article get published on the website you can copy the URI of your article and post to Social websites... this would work on your website too.
You can put your "killer" article to your website and write another article which will be submitted to article directories with the link to your killer article in the author resource box. If your site has low pagerank you can consider your best article submit to ezinearticles and again another article submit to as many article directories as possible. In the resource box of the second article link to the page at ezinearticles where will be your first article published.
I hadn't thought about writing another article to promote an article although I had considered using the resource box for the link to it. I have other similar articles that are also on the site (or will be ) and could probably get away with a multi submission of one of them to article sites with a link back to the 'killer' article. I'll probably use Digg/SU/delicious too, when I publish it on my site although I find that the traffic from them isn't 'quality' traffic.