Goarticles backlink question

[Medicman]

[Grizzly]

[Medicman]

h*tp://gouttreatments.blogspot.com/

h*tp://www.squidoo.com/goutinformation/

I wanted to add, thanks Grizz

[Grizzly]

Medic,

You've got some decent links to both sites and h*tp://gouttreatments.blogspot.com/ is ranking 311 on G but nowhere on Yahoo yet. h*tp://www.squidoo.com/goutinformation/ is ranking 133 on Yahoo and nowhere on G. (both for the term Gout Treatment) Neither is showing the GoArticle links however which is curious.

Could you give me the GoArticle URL (s) and I'll dig a little deeper.

[Medicman]

This is the first article I did for the squidoo lens last year.

h*tp://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=510100

This is one for my Gout Treatments blog

h*tp://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=879455

I previewed the links and they go to the articles.

Thanks,

Medic

[Grizzly]

[Gartwynn]

[Medicman]

[DennisJr]

[jaggerstone]

I've also noticed that GoArticles seems to have lost their "Google appeal". I'm showing they have a PR3 and I believe they did rank at PR4 or better a couple of months ago. I too have ran some of my sites through SEO Elite and none of my Goarticles are showing up either which leads me to believe they have lost the Google love. Damn shame too.....I love Goarticles!

Anyway, I'll wait for Griz's analysis on Goarticles before I use them again. Too much work to do and not enough time to be wasting effort in areas that don't produce.

Phil

[Medicman]

Looks like we may be seeing a trend. What a shame.

Medic

[dinheiro]

Let's wait and see what happens. Google is instable, and goarticles is an old domain with good authority. I believe it'll come back to the index.

[Coaster]

[dinheiro]

[Grizzly]

Ok, I have run a few tests with Goarticles and this is what seems to be happening.

I created a couple of new blogs and only used GoArticles for links. Both blogs took over a week to get indexed (not good) and the GoArticle links are not showing for any of the search engines. Now two possibilities exist - either G found the blogs on their own or G followed the GoArticle links. My hunch is that G followed the links as a third blog I set up has no links whatsoever and has yet to be indexed. (over 3 weeks so far).

This is far from scientific but G must still crawl Goarticles regularly (just too much content to ignore) but I think they have devalued any link juice coming from the site as it houses a lot of spam and duplicate content.

My Grizzly home page used to be a PR4 and is now a zero h*tp://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/author.cgi?C=46507 which may be an indication of G devaluing the PR or maybe just because I have not been building links to it for some time now and haven't been adding new articles. I plan on getting some fresh backlinks to it to see if it can be rejuvenated. It is interesting that the Top Authors page h*tp://www.goarticles.com/top-authors.html has also been devalued from PR3 to N/A.

In any event I think it still works for indexing but seems to be useless for link juice. Too bad but as mentioned above - we tend to screw up everything in our ruthless pursuit of backlinks...

[lissie]

It seems then just to stick with ezines :they bring a bit of traffic as well as the links

[Medicman]

thanks for the update, grizzly