1.) You can submit your article to hundreds of directories using various auto-submit programs and a large percentage of those directories will be crap – you are right there. However, if you use the right program you will also be able to submit to all of the most important, high-authority, high-PR directories. We use two programs and they both do this beautifully. Now, handling the ridiculous editing requests of EzineArticles and GoArticles is another story, but if you know what you’re doing an article submission software program works better than ANY other article marketing method except submitting directly to an editor’s inbox. I won’t mention which software we use because I certainly wouldn’t want you to think this is a biased affiliate post, but we have been “article marketing” for going on a decade now and I can assure you some programs do work.

2.) This myth about Google penalizing people for developing too much content or backlinks too quickly must not be propagated. It’s simply not true in any way and therefore shouldn’t be a concern at all. We have written and submitted thousands of high-quality articles for our own websites and for our clients, and have methodically looked into this theory.

We’ve tested this myth repeatedly and it’s simply inaccurate. Now, if you’re submitting junk content using black-hat techniques, then you might have a problem. But we have taken clients from back-page nowhere to first page ranking while developing thousands of links per month. We also participated in a case study that setup a dummy company and blasted it with links, articles, content on PBNs, etc as quickly and intensely as possible. What do you think happened?

We made that dummy company number one for the keywords we went after.

If what you are saying is true, then any person anywhere could pay someone in some third world country to produce thousands of articles and blast them out to get tons of backlinks in a short period and theoretically get a competitor banned.

Meaning, you’re a writer and therefore you’re my competition. So I can get rid of you simply by creating too many backlinks to your site too quickly? Nope.

Remember – despite popular belief, Google really doesn’t care much about how many backlinks you have. Rather, the search engine cares about the quality of those links. If you create 10,000 PR0, BS backlinks in one month, you’re NOT going to get penalized by Google. Instead, you’ll simply be wasting your time and money. We’ve seen time and time again how one good PR7 to PR9 backlink is worth thousands, even tens of thousands of crappy PR0 backlinks.

So while you are right about posting naturally, it’s not because if you don’t Google will red flag you. It’s because it just makes good business sense.

I agree that you should post every day if possible. Our research and years of tried-and-true experience also tells us that you should submit to a good mix of DoFollow and NoFollow blogs/sites and that you should DEFINITELY submit to a mix of PR0 – PR9 sites. If you do use submission software, ensure that it has an email check feature so that you can respond to editing requests in order to get your articles included.