Writing articles is a great way to get quality, relevant links. Write quality articles relevant to your products and services. Don’t write it in sales speak however. Try to provide useful information without promoting your company or your business. This will help you gain the reader’s trust. Put a link to your site at the end of the article.

Good quality articles are also a plus. Aside from the backlinks, it actually delivers some traffic if your readers found your article useful. It helps you to build a name in your niche.

Here’s a list of some article directories you can submit to:

http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.certificate.net/wwio/
http://www.amazines.com/
http://www.articledashboard.com/
http://www.article-directory.net/
http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/
http://www.magportal.com/
http://www.isnare.com/

Avoid Duplicate Content
Don’t submit the same article over and over to hundreds of article directories. It’ll be a waste of your time since Google will consider them as Duplicate Content. That is, for most of the copies of the articles spread around the web, Google bot will only see a blank page.

One solution for this is to rewrite the articles, and use a softwaer called DupeFree Pro to check for the percentage of similarity. I only suggest you do this for your own articles and not to duplicate other people’s articles for legal reasons.