Value of Referrer Data?
QUESTION: If you knew the source of the traffic that helped deliver traffic to your articles listed with EzineArticles, what specifically would you do with that data?
ie: If we invest the ability to provide the data behind the source of traffic for every article you have listed with us, what actions might you do with that data?
I’m not talking about the keyword and keyphrase data; I’m talking about which sources of traffic brought visitors to your article including both internal (email alerts, RSS, widgets, etc) and external (search engines, social media sites, blogs/sites that link back, etc.) sources.
I’m not convinced our members will do anything positive (submit more articles, increase the quality of your articles, refer more of your friends to EzineArticles) with the traffic referral data but I’m open to your arguments for why we should provide this data?
Hi Chris
I think you are a wise steward of your resources to ask this question before you just offer this service to subscribers because it sounds good.
That’s good market research.
I know that teaching my students and members about the “articleby” strategy and the “EzineArticles + Twitter” strategy that more of them are submitting more articles.
I believe that the same result would come from knowing from what sources the EzineArticles traffic is coming.
I look forward to how other folks respond to this discussion.
Jeff
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