Link Building using Articles

There is talk on the SEO 'street' that using Articles for links is now a process best forgotten, the buzz being that the Engines have now decided that the article engines (where most articles end up) are just another form of Free For All (FFA) links site. As you know, such sites (indeed to some degree also pages on sites that are just a list of links) have been to all intents and purposes disregarded by the Engines for some time now, so if this is true, is it worth all the effort and expense of placing articles on the web?

The fact is we don't know for sure what is in the mind of Google etc on this matter, but we can take steps to make sure that our articles work where the competitions does not, the result here being that we still get traffic and rankings and they don't.

How is this done, well it is a three stage process.

1. Make sure that the articles you right are original and worth the time it takes to read them
2. Make sure that you don't submit exact copies to a whole list of sites, cause if you do Google's 'Duplicate Filter' monster (a nasty beast) will 'get you.'
3. Do some research and find sites that want articles and then contact them directly.

Follow these three simple rules and you'll find that Article's are far from dead in the SEO world.