Does Submitting articles really benefit my site?

I do a lot of article witting that I pose on Squidoo, Google's Knol, ezine articles, Isnare,Hube Pages and others like them When I look in my traffic stats there are not many click though from these sites and some have no click thoughts I have been doing this for a year so I am wondering if there is any benefit to submitting articles

When checking my backlins I do not see links from these sites. With submitting articles being so highly recommend by so many people, I am wondering if when looking at backlinks using several backlink checkers if links are counted by search engines from them but they just don't show up when checking backlinks.? What do you think

Yes article submitting with appropriate keywords do help a lot

I think you have just made a quantum leap in your understanding of SEO... Now apply it and begin to devlop a stratergy to get decent links that DO move SERPs and leave the rubbish usless links to those who do not know better...

Article syndication does help with SEO, but its difficult to quantify. The number of backlinks from your site will help you rank better in organic search rankings. Its unlikely you will get much traffic from the articles themselves though.

Gazz hit the nail on the head!

Some more food for thought...If you are submitting articles to the <strong>right places</strong> then you will start seeing the benefits. Submitting to these huge, not totally related article hubs often results in your content being shuffled through the site before getting bumped off any legitimate page on that site. That is unless you write a really potent article that sticks and gets recognition early on but you are still dealing with a site that is not fully related to yours.

If you are able to find related sites where your content can work in conjunction with another site or you can work something out with the other webmaster, this is likely your best bet. Perhaps you can write articles for each other that would benefit the other site but provide a link to your site from within the content. Just a thought but hopefully you finally see the light and start moving your site up in the results!

Glance at the rep of the people saying yes and no to this question and you will quickly get an idea of wither this is a sound strategy.

That said, there is a time and place for just about every strategy out there. Well written articles can generate buzz about a product. Good free content (like articles) can generate relevant links if promoted strictly to relevant sites with a requirement for attribution, but it is typically beneficial to keep the 'good stuff' on your site. Let people link to it and discuss it rather than giving them the content for their own site.

I would think of article submission as more of a PR device than an SEO device. If you need to get word out that your new product exists or how it rocks more than your competitor it might work well. Not so much for outranking your competitors in the SERPs.

I wonder why you are not getting traffic from Ezinearticles. its d best site for article submissions.

When ur article is published in Ezinearticles there is a RSS feed icon along wid the authors name. copy it n submit it in sites accepting RSS feeds. Hope this will help you.

Well, you are building backlinks to your site, Google definitely considers some of those sites like Ezinearticles.com high quality backlinks. Also, you are building traffic. Even if you only get 1 visit a day per website, it's additional traffic and it doesn't cost you anything, so it can't hurt you.

Agrees to realityhack's disagreement and comment above.

I do think many of us radically oversee the point that realityhack just made. Just because a tactic won't directly harm you in terms of ranking or traffic it affects the bottom line at the end of the day. Time is money as far as I see it. Great point realityhack!!!!!!!!

I guess it depends on a few things. For example, much of the content on my site is articles, so taking the extra time to upload the article to another site for some additional exposure isn't that much effort. The effort is in the article writing.

If I was going to write an article, and the article was only going to be featured on the article sites, then I would question it's usefulness.

Dans, I think the whole point is that there is no real benefit, with the exception of a few cases here and there, in submitting to these types of massive article sites. With the overwhelming amount of content these sites receive daily, the article you submit is likely swept away before anyone can really take notice, especially the search engines.

Your time can be better spent conducting research for a new kick a$$ article which should bring in some quality links if its written well enough.

I'm not sure I agree with that. Let's take for example My Ezine articles. I have about 15 articles, and have had 50 click throughs on my site. That may not seem like a lot, but if even 1 of those 50 is a repeat vistor to my site, or makes a purchase through my affiliate programs, then for me it is a successful venture to pursue.

I think it depends on each individual situation. What might be a good technique for one site, may not be a good technique for another.

I thought I covered that in my "with the exception of a few cases here and there" statement :-D

I am personally not a fan of those ezine article sites. I think they are a waste and I can spend my time better by trying to build relationships with other webmasters that can benefit more from my articles.

I can't disagree with your point about what works for site a may not work for site b.

hehe. i guess i overlooked that statement. lol.

by the way, relationship building is an often overlooked resource for good promotion.

no worries