But it looks like article directories are getting more and more watered down with rubbish. Everybody wants a short cut to success, and the latest lazy marketing technique I've come across is automated rewriting of your articles.
Look at the tag line of one dodgy looking app I found:
"Quickly Generate Hundreds Of Unique Versions of Your Article Using This Revolutionary Software!"
"Generates up to 250 spun versions of your article at a time into a ZIP file or automatically generates one spun version on screen that you can copy to the Windows clipboard."
End result, another 250 peices of internet garbage floating through the Search Engine index's.
Theres nothing wrong with a bit of link baiting, ie writing quality informative articles/blogs/content etc in the hope that people will deem it useful enough to link to, but using lazy techniques and trying to short cut the system will end in tears.
Maybe you'll get some short term benefit, but longterm, Google is always looking for ways to clean up the rubbish, and would you want your business name associated with some of this junk?
If you can't write copy, go find a copy writer or someone who can. People like Virtually Mary or Alby10 on this forum can help, or there are plenty of people out there.
Remember what they said at school, cheats dont prosper! Dam annoying when they do though
