I have just tried logging in to ezinearticles.com but they wanted my personal address and phone number. Do you get lots of spam mail through using them? Has anyone had any bad experience? Or are their reasons innocent?
It's interesting to see everyone's thoughts on this topic. I personally like doing both article submissions to directories and building Squidoo lenses. Both methods have their benefits, and both help establish you, your site, and your product as a "go to" person in your niche.
You should try both Squidoo and Ezines for building high authority backlink that Google bot love. If you have free time, you can use Hubpages, Weebly, Wetpaint, Wordpress and Blogger too. After that, you should spin your article and submit to all other article directory for huge amount of backlinks that Yahoo bot love !
Well you can always try building some backlinks to your Squidoo lens and give it a boost in the rankings. I have used Linkvana a bit to give my Squidoo lenses better ranking in the SERPs.
Link building through article and squidoo both are best. Remember you need lots of links so using all such services is helpful. Using squidoo you will represent your business more nicely and its really optimize with h1, h2 and 40 tags. Squidoo can be use as landing page. you can put as many links as you want and edit it. (dont spam) Squidoo, hubpage and some article directory will bring you traffic also. but you need well targeted niche. I hope this will clear your confusion.