This thread is EXCELLENT!, I am so glad I subscribe to this blog because there are so many talented people who are willing to share.

Via this blog, I am learning the ropes day by day and hope I bring value here.

- More to come!

Sofia

As a newbie, I have a lot to learn, and it’s forums like this and articles/posts that can point me in the direction of the things I need to research and learn more about.

We learn by mistakes, but your articles help us avoid some of them.

Google can also penalize for landing pages that are not linked back to to the rest of the site pages.

This topic is discussed in detail on
kronikmedia.co.uk/blog

I love that idea… for us to notify you via email if or when any of your articles make it into the most viewed or most published top 10-15 articles in any of the 569 niche categories.

We’ll do that as soon as we can create an email notification control panel so that members who don’t want to be bothered with every email can throttle us.

On the author benefits, there is a lot we do every week that no one notices and we no longer point out because we think it’s just part of our job… and we don’t need a pat-on-the-back every time we add another pool of new servers to speed up the service (happens every month) or when we hire more people to improve our service (happens weekly).

…There will be no staff sky diving trips! Good talent is hard enough to find. :)

Thanks for the response!

To quote you: “On the topic of link competition, I’d like you to ponder this:

What happens when someone else is reading one of the other 10-30 articles that are not yours and they see your article title in recent or most viewed articles at the bottom of every article?”

There is confusion for me here. I have in the past looked for where my articles appear on your site in any lists or anything else. I never found one listed on most recent. Either it did not get listed immediately or later when I went back I could not find it.

Maybe I do not know the system. It would be nice if there was automatic notification when my article title did appear on some list on your site.

Or more kinds of listings or collections.

What services do you offer?

Of course I appreciate what you now offer and would like more as an author, as I have already voiced my opinion about, hopefully in a nice if challenging way.

Do you have a staff editor who can focus on enhancing article author benefits? To explain these, to suggest further benefits? I do know you to have the author in mind also, as well as article quality, and staff sky-diving trips. :)

You’d be surprised… In fact, your jaw would drop if I told you how efficiently millions of monthly visitors can find the Resource Box links at the bottom of every article.

Internet Marketers have trained the whole world to scroll down the sales letter to the very bottom to get the fortune cookie at the bottom of the letter to buy. Readers of articles on a site like ours have also learned how to find the resource box links.

Strephon,

Having (2) human editors to review every article submission is the only way we know how to deliver a quality user/reader experience for the hundreds of thousands of daily visitors who trust us.

Your micromanagement analogy is non sequitur. Could you imagine if any product or service wasn’t quality controlled? Now… That’s a scary thought!

On the topic of link competition, I’d like you to ponder this:

What happens when someone else is reading one of the other 10-30 articles that are not yours and they see your article title in recent or most viewed articles at the bottom of every article?

Tim Bossie,

Thanks for mentioning this thread:
http://www.timbossie.com/2008/05/20/article-writing-and-marketing-tips-for-higher-landing-page-conversions/

To quote Tim:

“That’s the big attraction for marketing your website with articles. The long term traffic.”

“An article is a tool.”

I’m the one that asked for simple and positive: How the heck do you get people to click through or you lose out in competition with Ezine Articles itself, which has far more info on its site than you can have on your own.

I do frighten easily. Chris says don’t do this and that and then has his team evaluate every article I do for the ‘wrongs’ I may be committing!

Do they do that in all the company workplaces of America?

Have a team looking over every worker’s shoulder evaluating where the workers and office people are doing wrong?

It’s a scary way to do things.

I asked for positive, and you gave me positive. Maybe I was a bit too negative myself in my request?

The question still is: how do you get positive click-through’s on your links that beat the competition with other information givers on Ezine Articles?

Thanks and yes, I do get stupid if I am scared half to death by pointing to the wrongs I may be doing.

I will certainly offer something free at the end of my articles. Great idea.