careerskk - 5:28 pm on Mar 10, 2010 (gmt 0)

Hi, if I am going to submit a same article to five to ten article directories, I am sure google will list only one or two among those on search results. But what would happen to backlinks ?
Say if each copy of the article has 2 backlinks and the same article (unchanged) has been submitted to 5 directories, now will ten backlinks be counted or only two ?
Someone please help me to understand how search engines consider backlinks from multiple submissions ?