Is GoArticles dead?

Thanks for the feedback. So where do we go if we are doing article marketing? I had been told the ezine and goarticles were the top two places for free article directory sites. Has a contender taken their place?

OHHHH, ok, I see what you all are saying now. I will start looking at authorities in my niche. That sounds like a smarter way to go anyway. Thanks for all the help everyone, I greatly appreciate it!

Yep.

Been this way for a while now.

yes agree with you. +1

article syndication and also guest posting since 2010 is quadrupling our traffic and we have not even scratched the surface of high authorative figures and resources in our niche.

Article marketing is very much alive and well... It's the idea that you can submit your articles to a few directories and rank highly in Google that's past its prime.

Yes, you should always be publishing great stuff on your own site. Not only will your visitors appreciate it, but the search engines will, too. However, if you never branch out, and publish stuff away from your own site, your business is never going to be able to grow the way you want to. You need other websites - like article directories (when used for their intended purpose - as a syndication resource), guest blog opportunities, etc. - to show off your expertise and your high-quality content. That way, you're attracting new traffic, encouraging people to link to you - and you're doing it all without depending 100% on Google (which can be a very dangerous business decision).

First, we need to make the distinction between original and unique content.

Original content refers to the underlying substance/idea/information/gist of the article.

Unique content refers to the composition/presentation of the text.

An article can quite easily be unique without a trace of originality. An article with originality will, at least on first publication, be pretty unique.

EzineArticles never required unique articles.

But if we ask ourselves which directory was in the minority group by asking for unique or previously unpublished content when others didn't, Buzzle is the answer we are looking for.

Buzzle, unfortunately (for itself and its users), seems to have been subject to the same devaluation of ranking authority as many of the other directories.

But let us not forget that the Panda update didn't target article directories specifically. It targeted sites whose contents were thin and of little value. This encompassed many sites that accept user-submitted content beyond article directories - many of which might come under the umbrella term of "web 2.0 sites", whatever that really means - and an awful lot of those those weren't big on non-unique content, if they published it at all.

And still they were kicked to the ground.

Besides anything, many people have had such a misguided impression of what article directories like EZA are for (repositories of content for republication - which necessarily implies that all content will/should eventually be non-unique) that they've only ever submitted unique, albeit often badly spun/rewritten articles to them anyway.

Unique and/or original or not, masses of thin, low quality content and poop backlinks does nobody any favours.

Exactly... as far as the "big dog" article directories go, none of them require content that's never been published anywhere else.

In addition to Panda, Buzzle also seems to be drowning because it stopped allowing any kind of links in its content, including the resource box! That alone led many authors to go elsewhere.

You're right... GoArticles hasn't been deindexed. However, your articles are wasted if they're just sitting there. If no one comes by to view them (and syndicate them, if they're good), they're not doing you a darn bit of good.

LOL...I often felt the same way. After posting an article and looking at the view stats, I'd be like...why am I doing this again?

Yes, Ezine Articles also still has good rank. While others, hardly seen on google.

Totally agree.. That being the case, you should submit your unique article to your own website or blog first (talking about article marketing), the reason why you wanna do this is to have your unique article (which either cost money or your precious time) to be indexed by google FIRST instead of giving away the credit to other article-directories..

By having your unique article in your blog/website indexed by google first, you'll have 2 benefits (or even more) - killing 2 birds w 1 stone:

1) Long-tail keyword (most prolly from your title) .. People search for your keyword from google and will enter your website straight away (instead of going to EZA or other article directories first).. you will have 100% of the visitors to your website.

What's 20% CTR from EZA sig box when you can get 100% visitors from google straight?

2) Posting unique content to your website is always a good thing - Google LOVES it.. you'll get higher ranking, higher page-rank etc.. What more can I say?

I've been in this forum for only 3 months now, and have learned a lot from Alexa Smith regarding unique content, article directories, SEO panda etc etc... I'm giving credit to her for being able to post this post..

God bless you,
Jeremiah

P.S. Hope people will learn and gain smthing here

I found go article's articles are indexing; further syndication depends upon the quality of ideas. May be link juice is less, but is there. You can book mark your articles, automatically it would work. Fundaments of SEO does not suggest to neglect article marketing.