Hopefully, the article spammers will mature. I am maturing although maybe not as fast as you would like, given I have started an Article Directory as part of Pete Drew’s system, which at the start I think will attract a lot of poor quality articles.

However, my point is that when we start out we have most of us very few skills in article writing. It is only by experience that one realises that quality pays off.

Now it sounds as if that was obvious to you, but to the rest of us the light bulb can take a little longer to go on!

It’s unbelievable the amount of “vomit content” I get. But that’s a short-sighted strategy. Submitting articles just to get links is basically leaving money on the table. With just a little more effort, people could also build their reputations and their traffic from the articles. This is a much smarter long-term strategy. Putting all your eggs in the search engine basket is risky at best – you never know what will happen when they change their algorithms. It’s good to have multiple traffic streams.