[fred]

Well I tend to disagree with what was said earlier. I don't think spinning the articles makes such a difference and I can tell you from experience that from all the article services I use, the only one that gets my articles on the first or second page of Google is the one that submits the same article to all directories. That said, since back links need to come from various sources in order to have weight in the eyes of Google, I alternate between spinned article and non-spinned article submission ...