Hey Karsten,

You bring of some very valid points.

I haven't done any article marketing, so I'm only speaking from theory based on past SEO submissions, and if they are similar then the 80/20 rule applies.

Actually, it's probably more like the 5-10/500 rule, meaning if you submit to 5-10 of the directories you'll get 99.999% of the results.

Social Bookmarking sites are probably similar, in that submitting to a few, instead of all, is likely optimal. And the same is likely true for the directories.

The key is to find the optimal resources, which we will focus on here.

It is still important that you don't use the exact same pattern for every site and blog you create. You will still want to mix things up to a great degree, while focusing and what is found to be optimal.

An example of this would be to find 5 article directories that offer a good "effort to results" ratio. Submit each article to a different number of directoties, mixing in an extra directory or two (other than the main 5) for each article.