Q:Is writing and submitting articles to hundreds of article directories a waste of time?
No, it helps, gives you bulk amount of backlinks by that.Not to put too fine a point on this, but Quantity of links is irrelevant today. It's the QUALITY of each link that matters.
When will folks realize this?
As for submitting articles, well, I've never put any value in it. I write stuff for my own websites and grow my own presence in that manner.
I do write some freelance stuff for a couple of magazines, but that's different, and when I post the article on my own website it's still unique content online.
If the article sites are getting crawled before your own site they might be getting attributed as the originator of the content you posted and you're getting labeled as dupe.
It's something you need to be very careful of when sharing content around.
Another thing to watch is that many of the big article websites are starting to be seen as link farms. There are so many people submitting and so many outgoing links that the engines devalue any link from that domain - and if that's all you have pointing at your own website, well, bad link neighbors can hurt you sometimes. (not because they're linking to you, but because they're the only links you might have...)
I saw avoid the article submission route and concentrate on building your own website and it's readership.
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