ezine vs go articles

I would say no.

Also, if I am not mistaken, go articles is nofollow.

Ezines would probably be the way to go in my opinion.

I always see ezine in the SERPs and rarely see goarticles.

Here is my experience with getting EZA and GOAR ranked high in the serps:

I have over 500 articles published on EZA and around 100 or so with GOAR...

GOAR seems to be MUCH more responsive to backlink building than EZA. Not sure why this is, I've also heard similar reports from people using Angela's backlinks (including Angela herself).

Even though I have nearly 5 times more EZA articles out there than GOAR articles, the ones on GOAR consistently outrank EZA for the same long-tail keyword phrases.

I always figured EZA would outrank GOAR which is why I focused on them so much in the beginning. Now I exclusively focus on GOAR if I want an article to rank high through a backlink building campaign.

There is an intersesting "catch" to all this though...

When it comes to an article naturally ranking high for a keyword WITHOUT any backlink building, EZA wins hands down. I have dozens of EZA articles that have naturally ranked high but zero GOAR that have done this "naturally".

So if you're going to put effort into building backlinks, I would definitely choose GOAR over EZA. I believe you will see much better and quicker results.

Matt

Keyword target oriented searches seemed to display Ezine's articles over the other.

i would say, ezine, isnare are the best. go article are no follow, so i prefer the other two. i am personally more comfortable with isnare, i agree that it costs a little, but here all i am talking about is the comfort factor which i have with isnare

EZA gives your new articles that huge boost by appearing on their PR6 (last time I checked) homepage for a day or so. If you choose keywords wisely, you can have several articles at any given time on Page 1 at Google with EZA. I too have seen GoArticles do better with backlinks, but not with enough examples for me to call it a rule of thumb. Definitely seems true for long tail keywords. I think most article marketers would be best served by working both of these directories.

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Thank You everyone for their replies.

To make my question more specific...

in terms of strictly doing a backlinking campaign to rank #1 would a e zine article or go article rank better? My keywords are in the 3-5 word length (most are in the 4 to word range)

You really can't go wrong with either EzineArticles or GoArticles. As a rule of thumb, I will go with whichever article directory is not currently among the top 10 for my specified keyword phrase....If it's a tie, I'll use another high PR property like Squidoo.

Without a doubt, Google likes variety!

...although I've had more articles google dance with goarticles...and not just once.

Too bad that EZA makes you use a top level URL.

Ezine is SO slow. But 'articles base' is one I use when ezine is still 'approving' all my submissions. Hope this helps!

now please mind that I'm no expert in this sort of field, but IMHO I would use rather GoArticles for traffic purposes only while EZA for good quality back links... just my ¢2

Its quite simple to perform a research. Go to google and search for Page Rank and find out the Page Rank of the both article site.

Remember building link with a high ranking site is far better than the lower ranking site. Good luck