How effective is submitting articles for building traffic and PR for a site? How many articles submission in your experience would give say a PR4 and what would the traffic be like from this kind of promotion?
You wont really get traffic from your submissions. Very little really, but you will get a nice free backlink to your site. To get a pr-4 it wont take too much really. You just need a couple links on pr-5, pr-6 websites and you will get a pr-4. A lot of my sites got a pr-4 with no backlinks. Alteast none that I produced myself.
You wont see a pr change for a while from the articles. When you post an article you create a new page a page with 0pr so you pretty much gave yourself a link to a page with 0pr. Once that page gets a pr it will hold more weight and thus increase your pr. I'm not sure how you have a pr0 though. Pretty much if you're site is online you get atleast a pr1 lol. Are you sure google just hasn't updated the pr of your site yet?
This is the key: article submission is not for PR, at least not for short time. Article submission is good for ranking in SERPs, because you get most RELEVANT links.
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We all know that the article is rarely read by the people because in the today's scenario no one has time to spend lots of time in the article reading so I thing that article submission is a useless task this does not provide a good traffic because today every one is know that the article that they are reading they are article cum press release so they are not interested in the article reading, what's your opinions about this. I have wrote lots of article but they are not providing me good traffic http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ambrish_Shrivastava please see and then give me your review does my article material is not not good or this article site is popular
I have good experience with articles. I write a SEO optimized article, send it to aprox. 400 article directories, include a couple of optimized links in the resource box, wait 3-4 weeks and that's it. It won't bring me a lot of visits but certainly improves my rankings. It took me long to lear this but now I'm very pleased with the results.