I recently tried a little article submission experiment on my new Healthspan Blog. Titled "Advice for men who want to look ripped" (yes, I also published it on my blog) the article was on weight lifting, cardio, diet, and muscle definition.
The article was submitted to 250 article sites by someone over at DP. On April 25, 2006 I started getting approval notices and I started counting backlinks. It didn't take long. I've gotten 1 backlink from the articles this week.
It seems that for articles to be effective, you need to steer clear of the general article sites. Write unique articles specifically for high quality (and high traffic sites) in your field.
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