If you want to get a ton of backlinks on complete autopilot from submitting your articles to article directories, you cant rely entirely on writing and submitting articles as fast as you can for every keyword imaginable. It takes a long time and it takes a lot of effort.
A better way is to submit an article once and to keep getting backlinks from it over and over again. You may be wondering how this is possible

And the answer to that is because of modern auto-blogging software that scrapes articles from article directories and posts them on auto-blogs. The good thing about this is that the scraped article retains the backlinks you have inserted into your articles author bio box as it is placed on the auto-blog. This means more backlinks for you but
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