I tend to be of the belief that articles do more to drive content to a site if they are actually on the site one is driving content to. If one wants to generate links to their site then they can create an RSS feed for their site that lists the "latest" articles on their site along with a short description. Then one can work on getting their RSS feed listed by the various feed directories. Lots of people are looking for simple content and look at adding a bunch of RSS feeds to their site as a way of generating cheap content.
So in the end keeping the article on one's own site and creating an RSS feed that provides a link to the article could actually generate more links to one's site than if the article were simply given to one of those free article sites.
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