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 wrong way, which will result in Google giving you a few negative points, and the right way which can mean many and various bonus Google points. While they keep messing 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 website, preferably one-way.
Gone are the days when any old links would do in order to benefit towards a Google Pagerank, due to a change around the onset of 2007, the only links likely to assist you get 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 sites, have now found that Google is no longer interested. This is not all bad news, as they still assist with Yahoo, Lycos, etc. So do not ignore them completely, but it is best to focus 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 website, and they are exactly the same, if Google picks up the initial 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, although 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 some way towards your Pagerank.
One last thing with article submissions is that by submitting lots of different subject articles to the same website, this does not benefit your Pagerank, as only one link will count on Google. However, the pay off this does for you is that your website is more likely to benefit from these articles being republished across the Internet, and a small number of these will be from sites with a decent ranking.
Spending hours submitting articles may be a complete waste of your time, and those who review the articles if you ignore the output data above.
Keith Driscoll is the owner of Search ‘n’ Find Articles. Please feel free to use our service to submit articles.
