High PR Do-Follow Article Directories

Article directories are websites, and websites don't "have page ranks".

Only pages have page ranks.

When people talk (mistakenly) about "article directories with high PR" what they actually mean is "article directories whose own home pages happen to have high page ranks". And if ever they find a way of getting their articles published on the directories' own home pages, that might become useful to them (though not very much, even then, because they still won't be context-relevant sites).

I submit a copy of all my articles to Ezine Articles (eventually - after publishing them and having them indexed on my own site first, obviously). I do that for the passive syndication potential (only an afterthought for article marketing, but it doesn't cost anything or even really take up any time to try it).

Ezine Articles happens to have a PR-6 home-page, but my articles (just like everyone else's) still go own their own PR-0 pages, just as they do in all article directories, and just as they would on a new page on your own site.

For all the reasons explained in this post no article marketer wants to get potential customer traffic coming to their own site from an article directory.

Article directory backlinks are close to worthless. That was so even in 2009/10, before the Panda updates (when SEO textbook writers were pointing out that 50,000 - 100,000 of those backlinks gave the same linkjuice as one backlink on a quality, relevant site), and it's all the more so, now. But that, too, was never part of the purpose of using an article directory. An article directory is only a stepping-stone to getting traffic (and backlinks, if you insist) from the relevant sites who re-publish the articles, having looked them up there (not in Google!) in their "available content-sourcing". (That's even why they're called "directories"!). In short: clearly there's no point at all in trying to use article directories for the "benefit" of their own backlinks (that's actually been true ever since I've been online, back in 2008), but of course that's also never been what article directories were there for, anyway.

Success at incurring a heavy SEO penalty because of the Penguin update, maybe: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ing-robot.html

You can damage your business, using automated submission software like that. You can't assist it: http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...d-tactics.html

I think this post (and the links inside it) may help you a lot: it explains how article directories work: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872