Blogging 101 Questions

Whatsup boys and girls!
I have a couple questions for you today and I hope I can get a couple of great answers! So I have started a local company website with and i'm trying to get the blog up and running. I write my own content and I'm just looking to get some juice to my blog and pass it along to my money pages. So here is my first question.

1. When I write an article and I post it on my sites blog as a post is it common practice to take that exact same article and start submitting it to article directories, social bookmarks etc.? Or should I always write separate articles. One for my blog and then one for the article directories or the social bookmarking sites.

2. I do not want to start submitting my articles to every garbage article directory or social bookmarking site. Do you guys have like a top 10 list you can provide me with? I want only high quality sites. Not necessarily a site with a high PR but sites that have loyal readership and they give credit to your site rather than the article directory sites.

A big thanks to whoever may decide to help me out!

Cheers,
Raffi

Always right different articles and submit them to the top 3 article directoies.
You can bookmark all day long it will not really help you with SEO those days are long gone.
but again bookmark at the best sites like Digg, Stumble etc.

anyway as of right now the penguin update and othe Panda refeshes have broken Google
and destroyed so make sure that your business plan does not involve Google or you will be
sorry

kez1000 said:

Always right different articles and submit them to the top 3 article directoies.
You can bookmark all day long it will not really help you with SEO those days are long gone.
but again bookmark at the best sites like Digg, Stumble etc.

anyway as of right now the penguin update and othe Panda refeshes have broken Google
and destroyed so make sure that your business plan does not involve Google or you will be
sorry

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Thanks for the reply. I really appreciate it.
So what you're saying is that SEO for my site has become worthless? I mean I understand that a lot has changed in the last 2 years but I don't think it really affected the ones performing white hat SEO. At the end of the day they just attacked the guys who are spamming and bringing in low quality links.

What I want is to be able to submit my articles into high quality places so I can get high quality link backs. I am uninterested in quantity. Only quality. So with that being said, what are the best places for me to submit my articles?

Top article directories and then you can search with footprints like "write for us" + your_keyword to look for sites that accept guest blogging.

1)When you do guest posting, or article uploading, also take a snippet of that article (the part with the best keywords) and post it on your site with a link to the "original" that you've placed elsewhere.

2)Hiten has the right idea, find good HQ sites that match your niche and try post on those and get a link back.