What is Your Honest View About Goarticles?

Like a lot of the other article directories, you won't get a great deal of traffic from the site itself(at least, not in my experience) but if you write good articles and put in the effort to backlink and promote them, the sky is the limit Being able to put in affiliate links is a nice bonus too.

It's definitely not as polished as EZA. But, it does serve it's purpose. It's a decent amount of traffic, and they are more forgiving of affiliate links and such.

They have been my second favorite article directory going on five years now. Have hundreds of articles on there.

Thanks Romeo! That was a very good comment. Still awaiting more comments!

I use GA for some of my niches...but I think their choice to immediately publish articles without reviewing them, and the fact that they allow direct affiliate links, is going to hurt them in the long run.

That doesn't nevessarily mean they are going to crash, but it could mean they will not prosper as much as they could.

Allen

With rare exceptions, I find the traffic flow from GoArticles minimal *unless* you engage in promotion of the articles (backlinking, bookmarking, etc.).

I also question the real value of the links you get from GoArticles in terms of boosting SERPs. However, a quick GoArticle submission does tend to help get new sites/individual pages indexed fairly quickly and reliably.

GoArticles articles are pretty ugly, too. I can't imagine that they're actually read as often as articles published on sites with nicer formatting and presentation.

Let's face it. If GoArticles was half as good as EzineArticles, it would be a first choice for many people because of the absence of restrictions and its nonexistent editorial bar.

It can serve a few purposes and the fact that they'll publish anything makes it handy to repurpose content for backlink building, etc. (though, again, I don't really know how much those GoArticles backlinks are worth...), but it doesn't compare to EzineArticles in terms of traffic production or subsequent syndication, for that matter.

It's more of a "little helper" than a "powerful tool," in my opinion.

I think EZA is still best in breed because of their restrictions, even though those same restrictions can be a pain in the neck sometimes.

As for Go, I've never really seen any good traffic from them, but the PR 6 backlink is sure nice and I do think their articles respond more quickly to backlinking then EZA does(my short experience only)

Big rednote, thanks and super thanks! They are wasting their potential!

I used GoArticles to test the idea of article marketing. I published 9 articles and received 310 visits to the url in the signature box. This translated into several new adverts on an advertising site that I have ticking over. Not bad for three weeks - and I am still getting visits from them.

Artwebster, thanks so much! Quite impressive! Imagine if you had a conversion rate of 4%- that is if you chose to send them directly to your affiliate link. Not bad.

Enjoy the weather in Spain.

any more good or bad testimonies from using goarticles? It really will help

I'm waiting!

They do serve their purpose and you can put a link in the body and not just the author area..where EZA limits you.
Your percentage of clicks decreases when you have multiple adsense ads going on EZA.
Look what articledashboard did. It is horrendous.
I stopped using them.

Goarticles is nice b/c they allow you to include links in the body of the article BUT the articles require massive and frequent backlinking effort to stay up on 1st page of G for competitive keywords .. just my experience.

Pagerank is a PAGE rating, not a SITE rating.

The home page of Goarticles may be PR6, but your article there will have PR nothing, as in "unranked".

If my competition is getting ranked for my term with ga , I use ga.

I think no one mentioned this, but Go Articles no-moderation allows to post in other languages than english. For European marketers GA is a must.

From my research and experience, GoArticles.com seems to be more like an article dumping ground than an article directory.

I like GA and think it is a great service. However most IMers are pushing eza and you get a lot more traffic from this one. That said, eza is now pushing a membership model that requires you to pay. I guess in the long run that is the way.

I've used them. but I'm not crazy about their layout and I have yet to receive much, if any, traffic from them.

You can literally almost post anything on Goarticles but that doesn't mean that it's bad. At least Ezine will take the time, look over your stuff and decide to approve it or not when you're just starting out.

Goarticles is a great little directory. There are less traffic holes than ezinearticles. You probably won't get very much "in directory traffic"(compared to ezine), but promoting it is when the real money starts to flow.

GoArticles is said to be the #2 article directory next to Ezine. I have the popularity of article directories in chronological order:

EzineArticle, GoArticles, ArticleDashboard, SearchWarp, ArticlesBase, iSnare, SelfGrowth, Buzzle, ArticleCity, IdeaMarketers, ArticleAlley, Web-Source, SelfSEO, Amazines, ArticleTrader, SearchGuild, WebWorldIndex, ArticleSphere, BusinessKnowHow, PromotionWorld, ArticlesFactory, ExcellentGuide, ContentDesk, ArticleCube, AfroArticles, ArticleBiz.

Although I am also seeing more and more in Google ranking ArticleSnatch, FindArticles, ArticleInsider and EHow.

Barry

goarticles is not a little article directory. the value of it is not in itself. it is valuable because it is a branch of a huge authority network. check who is the mother company of goarticles,


david

I like GoArticles, myself. Along with ArticlesBase, I can get my articles published very quickly without having to go through the editorial queue. That way, even while I am waiting for EZA to approve my articles, they've already been published and indexed and are pumping traffic.