If you write an attractive article related to the products or services of your website, you can quite easily obtain One Way Backlinks to your website. In these articles, you deposit up to 3 backlinks to your own website. These links are pointing to your website and are thus One Way Backlinks, very good for Google. Article directories live from advertising and need contents for their readers. You bring the content through your articles.They are very interested in reading stuff that you provide. more..den Pagerank steigern(German)

If you put your article to a category which is related to the contents of your website, you obtain good backlinks. So take some time to discover the correct category. If you write articles to well known article directories such as Ezine.com etc. you get One Way Links with a high pagerank. But only attractive and well written articles are accepted from those Article directories.

Unique Content is important because of two reasons. Google would treat that as spam, if you obtain links from identical articles. Article directories want to bring out new articles and not copies of old ones. The article is rejected, if the article directory detects duplicate content with a high percentage. If they find out that there are new articles which are quite similar to your submitted one, they remove the links in your article. more..steigern Sie Ihren Pagerank mit Artikel Marketing(German)

So, do I have to write many articles if i want to increase my pagerank? The answer is yes. This is very time consuming. For the best article directories you should be sure that your articles are unique and that you are the writer. For many other article directories, the articles may have a certain similarity. Therefore you can create several articles from one original article by using of synonyms and by altering the sequence of the sentences or paragraphs. But don’t overuse the synonyms, the article should still be understandable. A tool that helps me much in writing and delivering you find here. Viele Artikel mit dem Magic Rewriter erstellen(German)