Articles - Do They Open The Way To Search Engine Rankings?

Who doesn't want to get high rankings in the search engines their website. I've read everywhere and have been sold a bill of goods that writing and publishing your own articles get you to the top of the search engines.

Think this through with me. You will see for yourself it's not altogether true.

Let me paint a picture for you. . . You pick a keyword or keyphrase and write an article using your keyword or keyphrase that you think will rank well.

Next you submit your article to all the places you can submit articles
to, ezines, directories and article submission sites. (I know what I'm talking about, because I did this very thing). Wow! Your article gets published in many places, maybe hundreds.

Now you have hundreds of links pointing back to your main site