Hi It seems as if articles don't have much effect on your PR, but I have heard a lot of people say that Article submission is great for increasing your SERP?Is this correct?
I have found them both beneficial for PR as well as SERPs...in fact one of my sites managed a PR4 solely from article submissions. The best thing about using articles for link development is that you can use almost any kind of anchor text for the links. Try to vary the keywords with each submission and you will get good results.
in my opinion, one same article on 33333333 article sites will not help you. google does not like dublicate content. my suggest is one article to one high pr article directory
Posting different articles on diffrent directories can help with SERPs. If the directories have high PR, you stand to boost your PR as well and have direct visitors from those who read your articles.
I have a few sites achieving top rankings (1st page) only after i begin to submit articles. It must be a continuous effort for at least some time.
Same for me. I saw results quite quickly after submitting my articles. Just choose the right keywords you want to rank higher for.
As mentioned by trichnosis, too many duplicate submissions can count against you. But working with a small number of quality directories can have a big impact on your traffic and rank.
It can do - but it won't be spectacular - it is best used as part of an wider link building strategy.
I am new to this field and need some clarification. Do you mean content by articles? Essays, monologues, short stories and that type of thing? If you do where would you submit them?
So instead of submitting same articles to 200 articles directories, it's better to write one article for just 5 top articles directories ?
I am on mumber 1 for a term I wrote 2 articles on. I am sure its worth it. However for the main term i still havent come out on top yet but will continue to do articles
Articles are very effect method of gaining links. The key to success is quality of the article. Writing something that other webmaster will place on there site is where you can gain not only quality links but traffic. You have control over the anchor text and with the author bio being able to accommodate 3 links you can also gain those valuable deep links.