First off, writing and publishing articles online has several very important benefits for your business and online marketing strategy. Article writing is a fantastic way of getting high quality backlinks to your blog or website especially if you know which article sites to post them on. (I'm going to provide a list at the end of this post.) Publishing articles with content related to your blog or website will also increase traffic and through the backlinks you include, increase your site's pagerank. This is especially so if your backlinks are anchored with your websites keywords.
Let me explain....let's say your main website or blog is selling catfood and you are trying to get a high search engine results position for the term "gourmet catfood". What you need to do, is write articles relating to that keyword and then when you post the links to your website at the end of your article, you make sure that the clickable text is the phrase "gourmet catfood". Never, ever use "click here" or "read more"! Always make the link anchored with your keyphrase. Google absolutely loves these types of links so use them whenever you can to increase your pagerank and push yourself up in the search engine results pages.
To create anchored text links use the "a href" html tag. (I can't post this tag here without actually creating one, so click here to see the format of this simple tag.)
Determining the PageRank of Your Articles
If you came to this blog because you searched for the term articles PR to find out what PageRank your articles have in terms of what authority google gives your articles, then it's very easy to do. If you want to check you can use this tool to check your articles PR.
It takes a while to get a good PR for your articles, because one of the factors Google uses to determine pagerank is how long it has been published on the web. So don't feel disheartened if your page has no PR or a low PR of 0 - it should increase over time if it's of good quality content and posted to an article website with good PR itself.
Articles PR and The Best Article Websites to Post on
This leads me nicely onto the last meaning for articles PR. I can't tell you exactly how many article publishing websites there are out there, but there are plenty! Have a look at my article websites directory for a list of some of them.
There may be many article writing sites on the internet but they are not all created equally! Choosing where to post is as important, if not more important, as what you post. In the most simple terms you want to post your articles on high PR article websites rather than low PR sites. This is because, the the higher the PR of the site the more authority google gives to the links pointing to your website. So for example, links from infobarrel.com which has a pagerank of 4, will not be as good as links from hubpages.com which has a pagerank of 6.
These are the article pubslishing websites with the highest PR:
Scribd - PR 8
eHow - PR 7
Squidoo - PR 7
HubPages - PR 6
DocStoc - PR 6
EzineArticles - PR 6
Helium - PR 6
Associated Content - PR 6
Each of these article websites have their own merits and drawbacks and some such as hubpages and squidoo can also generate extra income through adsense and affiliate programs on your article pages. My best suggestion would be to write 5+ articles at each of these sites that point to your main website or blog and watch your pagerank and traffic shoot up! If you don't have time for all this writing then paying someone else to write for you is a good option - check out my website SEM Article Writer to learn about what a professional writer can do for you.
Understanding article marketing and articles PR is easy when you know how. Feel free to leave your comments and thoughts and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
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