Hey Goarticles, WTF???

Yeah and now EZA is placing adsense above the fold in your articles. I wonder if they do not realize that in do this stuff, it just opens opportunities for other directories to service people better.

Rodney

well I say F**k them you get a high ranking and most people search that way anyway... over 80% if I'm not mistaking... you shouldn't complain unless the links that they advertise aren't a nofollow link then, IMO, they are abusing your article making power to promote other sites.

I don't know if that is illegal or not. i think it might be because it's editing your content without your permissions, check their TOS and see if it says anything about you giving them permission on editing your content. who knows you might sue them and get millions just remember that i said this and at least buy me a beer in return

I say that tonight as well when I was building backlinks to some of my articles.

If this is a permanent change then goarticles has become much less valuable to article marketers. CTR will be dismal with all those competing links.

I agree with you, Tony.

It will be better to test it and then choose the method that drives the most traffic to the website.

Zack

One more reason to not depend on other people's platforms.

Tyrus

I may be showing my inexperience here, but isnt it still good to use goarticles in order to get backlinks to your site?

Even if your articles are not getting a good ctr or doesnt get ranked high in serps, they are still there giving your main site some backlink juice.... right?

Besides driving traffic to your main site, is there any other way to make money from articles? My reason for asking this is, if there is no immediate monetary value from the ctr rate on your articles, then why worry about the adverts... the article is still sitting there giving you a backlink?

I would think it is better to focus your efforts on getting your main page ranked high in the serps rather than trying to get your articles ranked high.

Like I said, I may be showing my inexperience here, but if I don't ask these questions I may never know the answers.

Even though GoArticles are using your content for advertisment (by the way. that is the whole idea behind the article directory business model) you are still getting traffic that you would not have gotten if those articles was not ranking.

If it is that easy to rank goarticles write a 100 articles, do your thing, and see what traffic and income this bring.

If this justifies you publishing 100 more articles, then do so, if the income and trafic don't justefy it, then don't publish another 100 articles.

I think it's out of order, to be honest. It's one thing to surround your articles with ads, where it's more obvious that these are placed by the site and not the author, but to convert your words to adlinks gives the impression that you actively endorse what's being sold. That is skanky.

I'm not surprised that GoArticles would do that! All of the high PR article directories have been following this trend.

A couple of thoughts:

1) It's so important to have a compelling resource box! You can still get good CTR's even with distracting advertising, but the resource box will still make or break you! I was looking at some of the more recent articles on GoArticles and I was amazed by how the resource boxes were so poorly written....

2) There are some good high PR Wordpress-clone sites (Blogsome, etc.)that will allow you to publish articles without distracting advertising in the text. Best of all, you can get articles on these sites to rank high on Google as well.

Has anyone tried emailing goarticles support? I am sure that if they get enough negative feedback about the links then maybe they will re-evaluate their strategy in order to keep customers and ultimately improve their site.

Just as it was said, they can do whatever they want, but their business model relies on people like us publishing there... if we stop then they lose content.

Once you place content on someone elses site you lose all interest in that content. Make sure you read the TOS because depending on the wording you may have signed away your rights to that content. Don't believe me? read the fine print at many of the article directories, forum sites, blogs etc... Didn't read the TOS? Too bad, your out of luck then.

Once you submit your content on sites you do not own, they can do anything they want to with it. Even publish it in print and bind it to sell in a bookstore. IF their TOS allows them to. But you say you own the copyright to your material you yourself wrote? Read the TOS on these sites that YOU submit content to, and by so doing submitting your content I mean, you agree to the legal mumbojumbo which in part or whole you agree to give up all rights to the content. Depends on the TOS and what it says.

You don't like that they put ads around or inside your content... that sucks.
LOL

Sorry to hear that. Focus your content on the interests and desires of your readers, whatever niche that is. If it is good content people will ignore the ads to read what you have written.

I don't know how you market yourselves but assuming you are using the bum marketing stuff with the quick or not so 300 or 400 word articles... This is what I would do. Feel free to ignore me if you already are doing this.

I would plaster as many articles as I can to ANYWHERE. 30 to 40 sites a day. Assuming I already prewrote articles. I would setup my own sites and directories and also grab a group of you to join in the fun to do the same and we paste our content on each others sites, do some of that fancy skype voice or text and inteview each other and co-promote each other on the sites we jointly create seperately or together.

Then I would continue to paste content linking back to these sites. Socialize it all on twitter, facebook etc...

But they put ads in my article... blah! who cares, stop being dependant on a few sites. You know how many sites are out there you can tap into on ANY niche? If you would focus your efforts actually leveraging the internet you wouldn't give a rats ass.

At least that is my opinion and view on this sad sob story that keeps coming up every now and again. Be dependant on one source for your marketing and you, well... I think you know how that goes.


- Terry

it's like visiting a HyperVRE site...lol
But I've never use them for main marketing purpose as they approve even the most nonsense, gibberish, duplicate article. But they are good for backlinking purpose anyway.

You could see this coming - I even said to myself a couple of weeks ago after seeing people praise the results of GA lately, hat they are going to screw it up for us.

Happens all the time.

They say the artcle is the give and the resource box is the take. They can do what they want with the article...the resource box is yours to maipulate.

But if the readers never can get to the resource box because you can't find it or because you've already clicked away to some Adsense or sales site, then what's the point?

Sad...

Allen

ezinearticles is still the best, just put a good headline above the first paragraph in bold italics and people will still read read your articles. Just phrase the headline as a question like "Do You Want To Lose Weigh Fast"


With this method I have a 25% CTR at ezinearticles with a pen name account that i opened right after the adsense layout changes.

Also amazines.com does this in text advertising as well. They give you the option to shut it off. But even when i shut it off it seems to reappear after awhile???

I sent them a email. Hopefully they will reconsider their new policy. It always seems like when I am feeling good about something, it goes south. I'm afraid to ask about any suggestions for where to post next because I don't want that resource to dry up either. I guess folks from Go Articles come to the Warrior Forum too and thought that since they were being recommended they could go there. Let's make them feel like the flavor of the week and drop em like a hot potato. Thanks Adamv for the heads up.

Just a quick note to all members who have commented on the ad links that recently appeared in the body of articles on GoArticles.com. GoArticles is running a two week test of an ad link system as a favor to a major partner. The ad links system will be removed on or around July 3rd.

A similar system was implemented about a year ago for monetizing the site and we found the return to be minimal and the aggravation to be major. GoArticles has no intention of ever implementing such a system in the future.

Our thanks to the Warrior Forum member who brought this thread to our attention.

I've stopped using them until my backlinks actually show up.

This is the very reason I stay away from "Article marketing". Those who run the directories are only in it for their own benefits. It is your articles that build their sites to such magnititude, give them high PR and therefore a high volume of traffic to from which they generate their income.

Apart from the backlinks and a trickle of traffic, what are other benefits do you get as a "Goarticle" or whatever directory it is you build for them?

There is some benefits for article submiter but with such stratergy the whole thing is further diluted to a point to ask "Is it really worth it?". I for one don't think its worth it, but then again thats my opinion

I have just received a response from Go Articles customer service and I would like to post it here. Here is my email and their response:
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To Whom It May Concern:

It seems Go Articles has decided to add links into the articles of your site. Just a word for you... the word is going out in Warrior Forum to discontinue submissions to your site due to this new practice. Although you have been a good source in the past, I and others like me are choosing to discontinue submissions as well. The whole purpose of article marketing as you know is to get the customer to come to a particular site after reading, but with the added competition of the added links, it is no longer beneficial to do so. If you would like read how people are feeling about this new policy, please read here:


http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...icles-wtf.html

Response from Go Articles as follows:

Monique,

Thanks for the info.

The links referred to in the Warrior Forum post
are temporary. We are helping out a large co.
test their ad link system for 2 weeks. The
ad links will be removed on or around July 3rd.

We'll post to the forum to reassure any Goarticles
users that the ad links are only temporary.

--
GoArticles Support

******** Sorry looks like someone beat me to it. Just wanted to make sure you understood it was just temporary.

Hey Monique

Thanks for going out there and finding out
what these guys are up to.

It's definitely an issue if this is going to be
a continued trend!

Thanks for the heads up Adamv.

I haven't had much joy with Go articles. I've found Ezinearticles to be very good and I love their service. They seem to rank above the other article directories on Google page 1?!

Tip for all Warriors - you can direct link to an affiliate product using a top level domain you own and re-direct. It's allowed by Ezine. It's in their editorial guidelines and I've done it a few times and it's working great.

Enjoy!

How much will this even matter? I know that I barely click those. We want them to click OUR links ... my own clicking patterns indicate that I tend to ignore text link ads. But thanks for bringing this to my attention. I didn't realize they were even doing it!

HI

This should not be the only article directory you should submit your articles to and I am not worried them doing it because I am sure they have publishers that go there to get new articles to post on their sites and blogs... then you will not have those ads in your articles.... plus I submit my articles to as many directories as I can...

Thx
Tom

GoArticles had worked very well for me. I will definitely keep submitting to it!

Thanks Adam. You'll be pleased with your results, I'm sure.

Our author base doesn't want me to let the cat out of the bag, but we are quietly flying under the radar, kicking everybody's butt!!! LOL

Allen

A few days ago I was seeing added links in my articles and now they're gone. Hope they don't come back either.

It happen with Squidoo too, have you all notice it yet? This will distract our reader.