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What are your total URL Clicks received divided by the total live articles in your account? This percentage would show you how much traffic your articles are generating on average, each…or would they? First, feel free to comment on this blog entry and share what yours is… but let’s take a closer look at the 8 ways this CTR (Click Through Rate) number can be skewed or perhaps not as important as you may think.
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Actually click throughs don’t count for much as they are quite misleading because many of those clicks can be robots, serps, Google, etc… It is best to use a widget or plugin on your website so you can determine exactly where people are coming from and most importantly how many unique, non robot page views you get. Uniques are what give you sales and quantifiable numbers. 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 Comment provided May 9, 2008 at 1:34 am
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I found this article very intresting and true give the reader what he would like how to increase traffic and ways of doing so Comment provided May 9, 2008 at 4:47 am
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David, 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. Comment provided May 9, 2008 at 6:53 pm
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I find articles of some niches tend to get lesser traffic than other niches, indirectly pushing down the number of CT that an article gets. Anyway, as this article explained, saturating a niche with a large article inventory will eventually get “all” the traffic that a niche gets here. Comment provided May 11, 2008 at 9:24 am
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Amen to that. Random click throughs are as meaningless as high volumes of traffic which doesn’t convert. 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 Comment provided May 11, 2008 at 8:55 pm
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I have to say that the click through rate and traffic that my site analytics says I get from Ezine is quite healthy, better than most other article directories. I would estimate that the traffic I get from the syndicated articles is pretty minimal, though, like 100x less that than Ezine articles. 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. Comment provided May 12, 2008 at 4:35 pm
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John, Glad to hear! I wished more of our members watched or knew their own site analytics. :) I agree! David, Great point. Too many members try to achieve big results with too small of an article inventory. Comment provided May 12, 2008 at 8:46 pm
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Ah ha, “you do the math” because Now YOU know the secret forumla, thank you for that. - Lance Comment provided May 14, 2008 at 10:38 pm
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I am a member of EzinesArticles since March 2007 …I’m very happy! I began to write as hooby … not with commercial purposes (I was looking an American website to write about Cuba’s dictator Fidel Castro Ruz). One proof of this is that I have no personal and business websites (not personal/ commercial blogs). I do not have Platinum status. I have 1 click, 108 votes (no friends or family), 2 comments and views 104,800 (13 months/ 81 articles) … 10 articles in the top 15 (Olympic category) … several top positions (education,Olympics, politics 2007/2008). By my results, I think that I will publish books about countries, politics,Miss Universe pageant, sports, but in English (for the first time). There are interesting proposals!…I have six books (Spanish).
Many thanks
Alejandro