I suspect it will always be of some value. Even if there’s no SEO benefit, you are still putting your ideas, name and site in front of a wide audience. That has to be worth something.

I disagree with Rahman when it is said that articles and posts are different.

Article Marketing is an integrand part of my SEO (I do submit my articles daily to about 150 different directories). The article that I submit each day is my blog post.

I make sure to write each and everyday a high quality article for my blog (where therefore it becomes a blog post); so I have to disagree that they are different.

Sadly, it is a fact that the article directories are more and more filled with junk articles, and so are the search engines with junk/spam websites; yet it doesn’t stop people from using them, right?

Simply because in the end quality will prevail. On the search engines, if you have a good website, people can see the difference with a spam one, same goes for the articles. I do believe that if you write and submit quality articles, sooner or later people will pick them up and publish them despite the fact that there’s a lot of junk articles too around them.

Sorry about the dragging comment, but it had to be said.

An article is written to provide certain piece of information. A blog post is written for that purpose too, but if a blog post doesn’t try to get its audience involved into a line of communication and interaction, its mission isn’t accomplished.