Article Writing: Road to PageRank

Many people know of numerous ways to increase their PageRank, but ironically, because there are so many ways to do this, most don't know where to start. Of all the methods I've tried before to increase my PageRank, the most effective and least time-consuming method is - Writing articles. It is by far the most powerful PageRank increaser.

My PageRank jumped from zero to one in a week, and to two in three weeks. Before I had started writing articles, I had mostly said to myself something like, "Yeah, yeah, when I get more knowledge about the topic, I will write articles."

But eventually, still without a lot of knowledge, I tried writing articles. There was a month in which I didn't check the PageRank, because the Google Toolbar wasn't installed on that machine. One day, I used one of the online PR checkers and found out that there was PR2 on my website! I was shocked at the effectiveness of article writing.

For those who aren't familiar with the whole business of article writing, here's a short explanation: first, you write an article, then submit it to an article directory, such as ezinearticles.com (do a quick search on Google for 'article directory'); next, someone who has a website takes the article and puts it on his/her website as content -- but with your resource box. As more and more websites put the article on their sites, you now have hundreds of one-way backlinks to your site!

Writing an article about something you are interested about is the best. Keep the article between 300 and 500 words. And the critical part is to create an interesting 'resource box,' a box with a link back to your website.

Many people don't write articles because they don't realize how much they have underestimated it's power.

Here are a few tips for writing articles:

- Don't put many links to other sites in your articles. This increases the PageRank 'value' of each link on the page, including the resource box link to your own site.
- Make the article interesting. Website owners won't put the article on their site if they think the article is boring.

Try to realize that writing articles is a kind of 'investment' on backlinks to your website, then start writing your articles.