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Rather than submitting your articles to a syndication service, I would recommend using them as guest posts on individual blogs. My Blog Guest for finding blogs that may post your articles. Article spinning/syndication might result in a bunch of links, but most of those links will be of very little value. On the other hand, getting links from a handful of high quality blogs can go much further towards improving your site's authority.

I've used this Redirection plugin a couple times  on smaller sites, makes it about as easy as possible.

Both of these comments are on target, that said, I would remove any links you can.... within reason.  And, I am generally a big fan of updating content.  Regardless of the successes of the page.  I think fresh is good, it keeps people coming back......... cheers!

Post-Penguin it's supposed to be a bit of a concern. On the other hand, we have 12,900 links from a single site, yet we have moved to the #1 position from what seems to be a result of Penguin and a lot of white hat SEO, of course. I know 12,900 is nowhere near 87,000, but the site that links to ours is nowhere near the authority of the Chicago Tribune so I guess you could say it balances out?

Man, and you're writing about US websites... Here in Europe (non-UK) is practically impossible to get quality links just because of the content.

Time is what you need.  The more you write and get indexed in google the more traffic google will send to those pages and future pages you write.  Keep writing and then use social media to try and drive traffic to your site and help these pages rank better. Tweet everytime your write something, put it on facebook and make sure you interact with people who are following/like your page that way they will be more inclined to help promote and share these pages. I personally wouldn't put this content on another site as if their site is more powerful than yours and theirs get crawled first then you could well be in for duplicate content.

George Lubaretsi can you tell us what is this post? if you explain us, i promise give you projects. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2373680

ok thank you all for your replies!

LOL at the dark alley remark. OK. I think you make a good case.

Hi John Thanks for the answer I think you are correct. My competitors have been advertising on these sites and I was absolutely sure they were getting some benefit from doing so (more than just brand awareness) and now I think this thread had confirmed it for me. Alot of people have websites and many of them are not interested in seo and therefore dont read up on google guidelines so it is easy to understand how these things can be missed by some web owners.

John, I applaud you for already doing as much as you have been regarding providing value when you post to forums and blogs.  That alone is a big deal.  So now it's just about tuning the process.

I totally agree Matt.  When we take a step back and ask "do these pages look like they're written for a search engine", that allows us to start to see the unnatural patterns that come from that type of approach that's geared toward ranking and not users. I also put a lot of emphasis on that concept though - unnatural patterns.  Think about the greater web outside the small world of SEO driven sites.  Is it natural for someone who has NO clue about SEO, to repetitively use the same keywords over and over in link anchor text? Absolutely not. Apply that same rule to every other aspect of the work. Do NOT however, throw out the principles of Information Retrieval in the process.  Proper page titles, proper (and appropriate use) of keyword specific anchor text, H1s, H2s, breadcrumbs, content and topical organization -these are all CRITICAL to Information Retrieval, going back to the days of library index card systems (adapted to web content).  And that's true even without SEO.

Dr. Pete did a great post about just this topic (same exact title for the blog post even) at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many

Well this penalty actually occurred back in February and I think we did add a paragraph or two of descriptive text at the time which may have been slightly over optimized but has also been fixed. The specific page is "http://www.absoluteautomation.com/driveway-alarm.html" <-- it's been penalized for the phrase "driveway alarm" it's still doing alright for driveway alarms,driveway sensors, etc.

Revisiting this - check out this Quora thread with some additional insight. http://www.quora.com/Search-Engine-Optimization-SEO/Do-sub-domains-hurt-SEO

My advice would be to get some decent content on your site then hit the social sphere though twitter, pinterest, facebook, stumble, reddit etc and get yourself noticed. Whilst thats happening get some other great conet that you could use for guest posing on other websites. these are just the initial steps, theres plenty more to do as Matt says. Check out Matts link.

Another possibility - and I haven't done this yet, because I'm still working on getting out from under a big fat panda, is to join The Guest Blogger subgroup of "The Blog Zone" at Linked-In, and find someone in your niche who wants a guest post.