I don't know if i should post my articles to other forums or sharing sites to create back links?
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All the articles on my blog are written on my own. I write about 5 ones per month. I don't know if i should post my articles to other forums or sharing sites to create back links? I have heard that it may cause adverse effect because my blog will be crawled more slowly than those forums, so Google will consider the articles on my blog (as) copies. Is that right?
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I need to disagree with Alex. If you examine the impact the Google Panda/Farmer update had, you'll see that sites like Squidoo and HubPages took major hits and lost significant ranking. Why? Because so much content on those sites was considered low quality or of insignificant value to Google. So why would you want to go after links from such places?
If you've got a team of people working on a multitude of inbound link efforts, it might be a different story, but if you're not relying on a team of people to do the work, I would suggest your time is much more valuable than focusing on what are now low quality / questionable links. Especially when we're now talking about what Alex suggests in "spinning" the articles. To get spinning right, you really need to know what you're doing otherwise you are more likely to cause harm than do good.
It's much better to consider finding places to write UNIQUE articles you can get posted to high quality sites - guest blogging. Sites like MyBlogGuest.com can get you started along that path. Getting just one guest article that has one or two links pointing to the appropriate most relevant page on your site, where the article is posted to a site where your target market visits, can be worth dozens or hundreds of spun articles spit out to places like Squidoo or Hubpages.
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I would try spinning the articles and then adding them to different web 2.0 properties such as: Squidoo, Hubpages, etc. Here's a PDF of a list of them I found online: http://www.mediafire.com/?1hdlzwhz40n You can add in context links which will add additional value. This will also increase your unique domain count.
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