This is possibly one of the most asked questions with regard to article submissions on the Internet. So what is the answer?

Well the answer is not as simple as a yes or no, as it can be both, and it can be neither! “What?” I hear you ask!

Their are two ways of submitting articles, the improper way, which will result in Google giving you a few negative points, and the right way which can mean various bonus Google points. While they keep fiddling about with the algorithms for Pagerank and search results, the most noteworthy thing that does continue is that you have sufficient back links to your site, preferably one-way.

Gone are the days when any kind of links would do in order to help towards a Google Pagerank, due to a change around the beginning of 2007, the only links likely to aid you receive higher search placing and Pagerank are websites that have a Pagerank of FOUR or greater. So those of us who spent the last few years building up any links to our websites, have now found that Google is no longer interested. This is not all bad news, as they still benefit with Yahoo, Lycos, etc. So do not ignore them completely, but it is best to concentrate on those with a 4+ Pagerank.

One thing the majority of people forget when submitting an article is that Google will ignore duplicates. So if you add your article to a Pagerank 2, and a Pagerank 4 free submission site, and they are exactly the same, if Google picks up the earliest one, you will only get the Pagerank 2 pointing to you by Google, as I mentioned earlier, this is pretty worthless now.

The only way of ensuring each submission to different article sites actually counts as helping your own Pagerank is to change the text in your article for each submission. This can be as simple as just changing synonyms or you can go as far as rearranging paragraphs. A mixture of a few things is usually best, and just changing the odd word will not work either. This can be a laborious thing to do manually; luckily software is out there to assist you, while some are much better than others.

So by submitting your articles to Pagerank 4+ sites only, and changing a reasonable number of words, while retaining the same meaning, each submission should count in most way towards your Pagerank.

One last thing with article submissions is that by submitting masses of different subject articles to the same site, this does not benefit your Pagerank, as only one link will count on Google. However, the benefit this does for you is that your website is more likely to benefit from these articles being republished across the Web, and a small number of these will be from sites with a decent ranking.

Keith Driscoll
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