If I create articles with my keyword phrases and find sites to post them on, will this help wiith my search engine rankings for keyword phrases?

[katiasm]

Also, if I use my web site name for the anchor text on backlinks will it still help getting me ranked for my keyword phrases?

[FranckNlemba]

Absolutely, it's very helpful to focus on "non exact anchor text" , and to target keywords which are related to your business when building links.

Also, its very useful to use your domain name because generally speaking, people tend to use the domain name when they refer to a website (For further reading you can check this excellent post about avoiding over-optimization )

What is definetely important here is the topic of articles you are going to create.

If users like them and share them or just add comment on them, then you will probably win big.

[EGOL]

If I create articles with my keyword phrases and find sites to post them on, will this help wiith my search engine rankings for keyword phrases?

It will invite new competitors into your SERPs. Are you up for that?