Every marketer out there is telling you that writing articles and submitting them are the best way to get one way links back to your site. I write article all the time and I have this automated software that submits them for me. When doing a search for my complete name on any of the search engines you will see a lot of the articles I have written but what can the people who hate writing articles do to get these same one way links to their sites?

Whenever I submit articles to a new article directory that I haven't used before I always check the PR of the site. Sites with a greater PR than I have on my own site are usually my target. I have noticed that although the marketers say to do this, the ones who say that Google is number one, I will sometimes see a greater number of matches by submitting to directories that have between a PR of 0 and 5 . My results on Google on any given day may be as low as 500 then the next day be well over 10,000. I am better able to evaluate the number of matches on engines like Yahoo, AllTheWeb, and MSN rather than staying exclusively with Google.

Here is the answer for those of you who hate to write articles and don't want to have to use articles at all. Comments on Blogs. With all Blogs you want to make sure they get a lot of traffic and using the Google PR isn't a bad idea either. Last Christmas I bought a piece of software called Comment Hut which will allow me to search for blogs by Keyword and PR. Now you can still do this same thing even without this software. It just takes a little bit more time but the end results speak for themselves.

There is software out there that will automatically post comments to hundreds of blogs for you but I strongly urge you not to do this because a lot of sites will look at this as SPAM. Wouldn't you hate to loose all your site visitors because you are into SPAM commenting? I have seen it happen. If you are only targeting lets say blogs on SEO then why not open up Wordpad and write like 4 or 5 comments to use for all the blogs on SEO that you decide to comment on.

Some of you right now are thinking that no way is this better than writing articles. Do a search on my name on Google. Starting on the second page of the results you will see a lot of the comments that I have posted on these blog sites. Sometimes when Google knocks me down to only 500 matches on my name, the first few pages of the results are all comments that I have posted. These show up before the articles I have written show up.