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Another thing too, and this regards the un-natural linking.

If this was truly a problem or a factor then why doesn't everyone do it to get their competition banned? It would be easy to blast a ton of links to any site with little effort.

I don't go so far as to submit to 400+ sites, I do submit to 120 or so. Not all the links get noticed at the same time. There are a handful that get noticed quickly (the high PR ones... new Ezinearticles articles are indexed usually within minutes of going live for example).

Im still getting credit for new links a month after I stopped working on a project (to test the fast link theory). So, even if you did 90 articles in 30 days (submitted to 100 directories... aka 9000 x2 links) it could easily take months for all the links to finally credit you. And even still, you will go into maintenance mode after that point where you continue to submit articles, just not at the same pace.

And to mention, not all of those 18000 links you are tossing will go to your website(s)...  some of them go to ranking your articles, which helps your website even more.