As much as I hate to admit it I have good results with AMR. Its all about the size of your list and how you use it.
Tips
Spin alot: that means paragraph level, sentence level, followed by word
scrape: scrape the holly bajesus out of the net for article directories
forum: first off find every gd amr list you can on this forum and others like warriors, dp and random bh forums add them to you list.
wordpress: alot of these ghetto directories are auto approve and almost all accept links in body.
use: read cash202 walk thru
here
heres some advice on finding good footprints for scrapebox
pay attention: sign up for a couple directories manually and PAY ATTENTION to similarities between the directories. For example user names, top posting, template design, categories, esc.. Some times the best foot print is staring you right in the face and you don't even know it. I have 60k directories in my AMR and im doing great
Finally thoughts: People who fail with AMR are lazy and unimaginative. Yes this is the cold hard truth! But every day I see threads crying about first place in google with no traffic and people saying AMR is useless. Maybe its time to think about the common denominator being the problem...
And if you still think AMR is useless just pay my friend
gentoo a visit on fiverr, he has a very nice private network.