How Does Google Feel About Article Links?

Which are counted and which are not?

[Kish]

Hey guys, this question just popped out of my mind while Im planning to submit articles to directories.

Say I have one article and I submit the same article (without changing anything on it) to several article directories, will Google consider the links (the ones I've added on the articles) as valid? Or will it consider it as the closely the same and will not count the link at all?

[martinibuster]

You cannot use Google's backlink check to determine if Google is counting it or not. So don't assume it's counting if it's in there.