I am no SEO guru by any means. My site is only about 3 months old. I opened this thread to share my most recent acomplishment: Top 5 in Google for a keyword that gets an average of 3,000 searches per month, with a competition of 1,780,000. How did I get there? I just recently jumped over 200 spots for the keyword by ARTICLE SUBMISSION. Good articles, I submited 20 articles, about 2 a day, for 10 days. ARTICLE SUBMISSION ROCKS. Forget the directory submissions, there is nothing to brag about. my 2 cents: submit high quality articles
how many article sites you submitted your articles to? is it the same article submitted to all the sites or they were spun? (or using macro)