The problem with posting articles is: 1. Everyone does it. Therefore, you have to keep doing it. This makes it a potentially never ending process. You have to question the value!

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2. Articles only appeal to article copiers and stealers. Thus, you are attracting the 'wrong' type of visitor, which is unwanted. 3. Writing an articles rarely converts to a sale. The only reason for visting your website is to get the article for their own agenda.

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4. Posting hoards of articles doesn't make anyone expert. Plus, the quality of some of the articles is laughable and is suspiciously close to 'spam'.

5. There might be a free link for you. However, the practice is so widespread - it kinda loses it's 'edge' as a marketing tool. Do you really want the person clicking on your url at the end of the article thinking you are desperate? It might actually cost you a visitor or, more importantly, a sale.

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6. You need to post at least 10,000 different ones for it to be worthwhile. AND you need to maintain that number constantly for it to work and keep ahead of the game. It is a waste of valuable time in exchange for the value of traffic gained.

7. One theory why article banks exist isn't to necessarily 'help' anyone. Instead, they charge others to post articles. As so many do it, it must be conceivable the ones after the free links, DON'T have the ad budget anyway. The last thing they do is puchase anything from the article resources or the poster themselves.

Therefore, submitting articles as a traffic source is short-term and very questionable.