Why do you publish articles - for SEO backlinks, traffic or connections?

All of the above are valid reasons to publish articles + most important it helps in sharing infomation.

I Publish Articles for genuine & exclusive Information.

I post to share the Knowledge with the right people at the right time.

I post article for share a information.

I post for SEO backlinks and traffic

To build strong and permanent quality back link.

I publish articles to promote my own links which are encoded in the text.

I publish articles to promote my own links which are embeded in the text.

We all publish any content for All reasons...

Sharing Information and getting backlinks and traffic for SEO.......

Backlinks as well as traffic

Henry Wilson is right. SEO is done to connect with right people.

We can use Article submission for all these reason if you are SEO professional but through Articles sharing, we can share our thought world wide.

to increase the backlinks and traffic both

Branding and link building

I think to increase the traffic of a website.

I think it is for all these reasons plus for branding