This stategy has been around for awhile and for most it will return little results – check out the backlinks for the sites that rank well – if you can turn on 10,000+ links to any domain with a bit of age I suspect the results would be better.
FYI – I did a test with an authority site article then did likewise for one of my 2 year old domains – all things being equal, the authority site outranked my own domain for a couple of weeks, then my domain started outranking it. Then the authority article sunk down the serps.
Don’t put too much value in this technique. It gets indexed fast and may provide some higher than expected initial results, but it’s certainly not a “magic bullet”.
Kevin 11