The head of Google’s search spam, Matt Cutts, posted another video that is telling webmasters that it isn’t a good idea to use article directory websites with link building in mind.
In this video, the question was:
“Links from relevant content in article directories — Seen as good or bad? eg. I link my beauty website from a cosmetic surgery article on say, Ezine? Would you do that?”
Ultimately, Cutts responded to the question by saying that he wouldn’t recommend uploading articles to article directories.
To reiterate his answer, he tweeted his answer to the question as “No.”