Are article directories still good for traffic?

Hi Everyone at BHW

Just thinking about submitting articles to ezinearticles and/or articlesbase to generate traffic to my blog.
Does this method still work in 2014?

Not doing this for backlinks just another way to generate traffic.

Thanks for your replies.
Adam

Not really. You will get little to no traffic from those articles.

It depends on your website but, Yes. . I think you probably should do it
From what I read ..It helps you to rank up your website a little bit even without backlinks and makes your website to look more interesting

One article gets few visitors. Average 5 - 20 visitors per article for the all time. It is from EzineArticles.

If you want to get hundreds of visitors, you need to write hundreds of articles. And thousands of visitors with thousands of articles.

Having in mind that you want to bring traffic using these articles I assume that they are going to be high quality.

I would much rather spend time on creating one ass kicking article than 5 mediocre. The least, this is much more rewarding in the end of the day.

Having said that - do guest blog posting. Depending on the article and blog, you can get a ton of traffic.