Building Links to Articles

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Article marketers love ezinearticles website. Part of it is due to the fact that we can get very easy rankings for long tail keywords by submitting articles here.

Earlier people didn't build links to articles. They used articles to build links to their own sites but didn't build any links to these articles. Later on they realized that building links to the articles would help in these articles getting ranked higher for the targeted keywords. Also, the page rank of the article page will increase and it will pass more link juice to our own websites.

However, if you noticed, goarticles and articledashboard respond better to link building than ezinearticles. You submit articles to these 3 sites and then build a few links to each article. You may notice a very rapid increase in rankings for goarticles or articlebase sites. However, ezinearticles may not have responded so favorably or quickly to the link building.

What could be the reason for this? Why does Google prefer goarticles or articlebase over ezinearticles even though the quality of articles here is probably much better?