Are article directories worth the time?

[shabda]

I am using article directories to get back links. So i submit iut to article directories. SO far so good. But then it only gets syndicated to junk no trafic, no PR, MFA sites.

[JuniorOptimizer]

If you're aren't doing it by hand it's probably worth it. But don't expect miracles from this type of link.

[tictoc]

I have been searching and searching for the article sites to show up as backlinks in yahoo and google and I do not see them.. I am beginning to think that these article sites do not generate backlinks at all! Google and Y must just index these article sites but not count the outgoing links. I am not sure but this is what I suspect looking at most of the sites that have links from these sites.

Does anyone else see this too?

[mc4210]

Well, I think you can get to the PR3 - PR4 category with articles. With say, 5-10 articles submitted to about 100 sites or so. At least that what's happened to one of my sites. And I did not have any other backlinks.

Give Google about a month to start indexing your articles. Don't search wit the link: command but search for sites containing your domain name or something that will help you identify your articles.