I agree to some posts saying that I don't give beyond-the-next-day news - this is correct: many of the methods are known and used.
But they gave nice results. SEs love the sites and traffic from SEs is much better now.
Still, I agree - if site is just a directory of articles, you can have problems with Google and forget about their lucrative AdSense payments. My personal experience shows that if you give something unique on site (like free Forex trading system) and support this with nice, fresh, quality and
seo-wise content - then your chances get much upper.
But, you must offer something good, something of value. Otherwise article marketing will not save you.