Lets say I wanted to get a bunch of backlinks relatively fast. What is better, submitting an article with links to my site to a ton of article sites; or submitting the website to a lot of social bookmarking sites? I am concerned that the social bookmarking links would disappear over time while the articles wouldn't; but I may be wrong. I know that using both methods is a good idea - but if you had to choose one?
i think you must use both of them because both has links which have different wiegths. having both of them will vaoid you from serp changing
Article marketing is nice because you can target the backlinks with certain keywords that you would like to build strength for - you can´t really do this effectively with social bookmarking unless the content you are linking has the keywords in the title or something.. Social bookmarking is nice to build a bunch of backlinks in a short period of time - however. I would use both - why not ?