I would still say it is best to write less and focus more on quality and giving the best info, answer, etc… possible to your audience. Too many authors here write tons of thin or just complete junk articles. As an example upon searching under fuel economy in Ezinearticles we find 100’s of articles on Browns gas, water to gas, run your car on water, etc… I would say from looking through them 99% are rewrites of each other and most are very poorly written, have no real info and serve the reader very little use. Many of these will be destined for the Google supplemental index (kind of like the sandbox).

Just like with Google, could you imagine how nice it would be on Ezinarticles if you didn’t have to weed through 99% crap articles, worthless sales pitches, junk rewrites and so on to find what you really want and are looking for? This might be part of the reason why since last year the Google algorithm discredits almost all links from ezines. They consider them possible link farms. Just ask Matt Cutts at Google. Now, that doesn’t mean you won’t get traffic, you just won’t get much through Google which is the majority of all internet search traffic.

As Chris said above, focus on giving the reader what they want and need and then the readers will give you what you want in return - sales, links, traffic, sign ups, whatever.

David Maillie

We built our URL Click Tracking reporting with anti-click-fraud in mind. It’s specifically takes all bots, good or evil, into consideration and excludes all non-human clicks.

Anyway, as this article explained, saturating a niche with a large article inventory will eventually get “all” the traffic that a niche gets here.

Forget click throughs. Are you getting RESULTS with your article marketing?

If you are, carry on. If you’re not, check the quality and volume of your articles. :-)

Cheers

Angela

As for click through rate, something in the teens is closer to acceptable. 5% is not that great, I average a lot better. And the conversions I see on Ezine traffic is as good as the organic search traffic, but it is a function of the presell you do.

Glad to hear!

I wished more of our members watched or knew their own site analytics. :)

@angee,

I agree!

David,

Great point. Too many members try to achieve big results with too small of an article inventory.

Quality is essential not only for getting your articles published, but it’s necessary if you want them to be read and to ultimately send targetted visitors to your site.

Thanks again for the opportunity to submit articles to your reputable, quality directory.

I had 42 viewings on one article in one week, 1 sale, and 6 clicks on my site. The only bad news is 6 of my catalogue pages were missing for the entire weekend, due to technical difficulties. I had left a message on my Home page that we were having problems and I do hope the visitors were not as disappointed as I was. Hopefully they will ‘come again’ to visit my store. Quality cannot be there when the pages are not visible and having a quality site is what it’s all about.

My thanks and hats off to Ezine Articles!

Shirley Bass