Article syndication.....still good?

[andybarnes]

Browsing through the forums here tonight and I found this one which put me in mind of years gone past and how the marketing landscape seems to have shifted.

Anyone else remember Ezines? It's not a term we see much of anymore. Is it that they have gone out of fashion, or perhaps they have just been replaced by blogs and vlogs.

closely linked is Article submission and syndication sites. The big beast was EzineArticles.com and see that they are still going. Not a bad alexa rank either.

This surprised me, so maybe I'm just not looking in the right places.

Is anyone still using article submission for link-building and/or personal branding?