Using articles to increase your page rank is a bit tricky. It all depends upon where you submit your article to and also what kind of linking is allowed in your article. If the article directory or place where you have submitted your article to passes on link "juice", then you will have a better chance at increasing your page rank. However, the page your article is on has to have some page rank to begin with. If your articles are new to the website where they are located, it could take some time because these articles need to get page rank themselves.

So in a nutshell, you can increase your page rank, but by then, if you do your marketing right, you will have so much traffic that it won't matter what your page rank is by the time your articles increase your page rank. Here is a good source that will tell you some directories that will help in being able to get page rank.

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