Its not the number of places you submit it to that’s the key…
The key is to be sure you have a link embedded (at least one) and mention the URL (in case someone strips the article), and first and foremost, whenever I write a press articel I put it un an un-reachable page. Then I add it to the top of my xml sitemap and manually submit it through Webmaster Central. Once I see Google has crawled it I link it through my site wherever I would have originally. This assures me that I will get the credit for it and not be pinged for duplicate content or take the risk that I get crawled or scraped by an bad people before Google sees its mine and give me credit for it.
sure, but i mean – is it a good idea to use the article submitter that will submit your article with a back-link to 100s directories or would that be classified by google as duplicate content and affect my website rankings?
as for hawaii let me look into that you jet setter! 