But once you ask the right questions you find out that they have 10 PLR articles which probably another 1000 or so people have also received and they are then trying to put these into many different article directories usually getting declined but even if they do have the articles accepted into the many low quality directories the link really does not count for much.

You have to make everything you do online “YOUR OWN” unique to you and the results will follow.

As for low quality sites yes you will get some of those and you will get those that use “Nofollow” on your link text but overtime and I mean six months or more your feeds and links start to get picked up by many other services and the links take on a different aspect with getting comment track-backs, feed subscribers and even articles posted into Technorati which this site Affiliate X Files is actually now ranked #2 in Small Business due to article marketing and MyarticleNetwork and Unique Article Wizard. We have also had featured articles appear on Webmaster Radio PR7 site.

Here is an article you might be interested in How To Increase Website Traffic this works but you really need to work at it to make it successful. This site has only been working since March of this year I do not use any reciprocal linking at all and have been listed at #3 in Google for “affiliate marketing” out of 38,800,000 and I have only been using this tactic of article marketing and the networks mentioned.

Our homepage has gone from unranked to PR 3 in five months followed by some of our posts getting Pr2 or PR1 depending on the age as well as our category pages being given PR2 by Google, and something that I did not expect was that Google has already allocated our site with “Site links” which you can see in your webmaster tools, this was definitely something that I didn’t expect to happen so soon or even within the first year or so. I have other sites that are four years old using very conventional methods including submitting articles to the directories and still only very few pages indexed and definitely no site links to be seen.

We are also now being constantly approached by other affiliate marketing sites to allow them to place articles on our site or even review their products on our site so for me it is working and if the day comes that it stops working I will post it here to let you all know about it.

Oh yes they post your articles and they get published, but honestly the links I got were so low value Alexa.com rejected almost every one in terms of relevance.

I do use article marketing but I spread my content across multiple niche’s manually and avoid “Spinning” altogether.

Article marketing works if its natural and most “spinning” takes too much time anyway. I may as well just write another article from a different perspective.