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This was not a project that happened over night: In fact, it’s taken us several months, several programmers, several new dedicated servers, and many many many terabytes of data in order to provide you with this critically important data that can immediately help you improve the quality of your articles…not to mention ROI (Return on Investment).
What can you do with this keyword intelligence?
Some words of caution:
Here is what Premium members will have access to: You can also download a CSV (spreadsheet) access to the data for easier manipulation and swipe file to help build your future article writing topic priorities. How to get access to this feature?
What do you think of this new membership benefit?
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This sounds great but I’ve just checked my stats for my most popular article and its showing keyword searches for: hair styles for women in their 50’s Only problem is my article is nothing to do with hairstyles! Very confusing. [Reply] Comment provided October 8, 2008 at 4:02 PM
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This new tool is powerful! It is similar to using your web host statistics to view how people reached your website. We can now give the readers what they want by writing articles to satisfy their needs and, in return, drive more traffic to our target website. [Reply] Comment provided October 8, 2008 at 4:35 PM
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I already wrote 2 articles using this feature. :) Tonight I’ll look through a bunch more of my articles. I plan on keeping a close eye on all the articles I write using this feature… comparing them to my other articles. I bet most of the articles I write this month will be based off this. I have no doubt this will help guide me in writing 100-200 articles that wouldn’t have been written. Alex, I’ll have “Outclassed AGAIN and AGAIN” for $800 please. Question… What is Buzzle! :) First I get 2 mugs and now this… Chris you must love me. You’re the best!! Thank you. [Reply] Comment provided October 8, 2008 at 5:18 PM
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The new View My Article Report provides clear and useful data. At first glance I picked up details that will result in changes to future article submissions. Your efforts in creating this report will pay great dividends for all authors who use it. Outstanding! [Reply] Comment provided October 8, 2008 at 5:44 PM
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Interesting…but not sure how to interpret the data! My most popular article got 14K+ hits, but there were only 4 search terms displayed, with only a very tiny, probably insignificant number of people using those search terms on any given day. Something more than chance needs to be happening to get that many hits, but I don’t think this data tells me what that is! [Reply] Comment provided October 8, 2008 at 11:21 PM
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Oh wait, quick question…. You posted - “Premium Members get access up to the top (30) referring keywords.” Does this mean if I sign up today as a Premium Member that I get the stats and 30 keywords since August, or only stats from today forward on my current articles? Thanks again! Jennifer [Reply] Comment provided October 9, 2008 at 12:17 AM
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Great feature, Chris. Is there any chance that Premium members could be given access to top search terms across the network (not just for one’s own articles)? It would be really useful to know the top keywords being used to find other articles in my category, not just my own articles. [Reply] Comment provided October 9, 2008 at 1:32 AM
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Hey you guys gals members one n all … its easy to see why ezinearticles are the leaders in the article marketing arena boldly goes where no others knows All my best to you and your keywords and key phrases [Reply] Comment provided October 9, 2008 at 3:04 AM
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Chris, seems everyone loves the idea of this new tool. It’s like a baby GoogleAnalytics : ) Any chance of a guide or article on how best to make use of the data to write more effective articles? I’m sure many of us are wowed by the info and the concept but aren’t quite sure how to interpret and use it in a systematic way to write better articles and article titles. I think it will take a few months to get really informative data, just browsing some of mine, there are some very random keywords phrases linked to some articles! Thanks for continuing to lead the way! Dan [Reply] Comment provided October 9, 2008 at 7:25 AM
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Just going through 3 of my articles gave me 28 keywords to base new articles around. :) The only problem I see with this tool is that if you’re not careful, these newer articles you create may rob your older articles of views. Easy to get around though. Time to get writing. Ciao. [Reply] Comment provided October 9, 2008 at 11:33 AM
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Hi Chris. But now I can take it a step further and find out what keywords led them to those specific articles, and can really tailor a campaign specifically for those keywords. Another reason for me to recommend your site to my clients! (As if I needed anything else:-) [Reply] Comment provided October 9, 2008 at 12:25 PM
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Finally checked out HOW it works.. YAY! What is so cool about it is that I can see exactly how people found me other than the single keywords and long tail keywords I actually used. This is so good because NOW I can see just what my follow-up articles and articles within the same niches need to refer to. It gives me ideas and incentive to do those follow up articles as well. In regards to ‘others’ seeing my keywords. whoever mentioned that, I don’t really want that. When that was posted before I noticed that I had far more problems with people using my articles as well as my keywords and taking credit for them. So I am not in favor of posting that info. (I know that they can do a resource check, but they are not as likely to if the info is not there right in front of them) [Reply] Comment provided October 9, 2008 at 1:51 PM
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Jennifer, Glad you were able to use this new feature to help guide new articles being produced! That’s the primary reason we gave everyone FREE access to the first (5). Rickey & any others who have no traffic keyword data: This feature really takes power and value when your articles are more than 2 months old with us and have more than 200+ views. Anything under that and your articles just don’t have the market time it takes to collect this info. Have patience… it’ll come. :) All, Thanks! This would not have been possible without the excellent behind-the-scenes developer team who worked hard on this project for months! Dr. Stephanie, I looked at your specific case and saw that your article had thousands of monthly visitors that ended in June and our data only goes back to August but we’re working on getting July data imported… so check again in late October and I bet you’ll find better data. Over time, just like good wine, this data gets better. PotPieGirl, When you become a Premium member, you get up to the top 30 keywords for every article *you* have with us from August 1st 2008 forward. If you meant, do I get to see the keyword stats of everyone else’s articles? Sorry, no. Susan, Sorry, not this year. Our focus for at least the rest of this year is to help our members use this data to improve the quality of their articles writing & marketing activities. I do know that we will never release this data from one member to another… but will study the aggregate data like any responsible data-decision driven person would do. Expect more from us on this over the next year. [Reply] Comment provided October 9, 2008 at 2:35 PM
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Just got around to checking this out. Oh my gosh is it awesome! What a gold nugget of info you are giving us. Seeing all those keywords (actually searched) gives me lots more article ideas and allowed me to see what the reader is actually really looking for (which I probably wouldn’t have known otherwise – other than guessing). THANK YOU! Shannon [Reply] Comment provided October 9, 2008 at 3:01 PM
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Now that I’m using this fantastic tool I realize that it gives us many ideas for next articles, besides saving us time and efforts. We don’t have to look for the best keywords before writing another article about the same subject of one of our previous articles! And many times we observe that what attracts our readers are other keywords or phrases, and not the ones we had imagined that would work better. This tool is a real revelation! PS. Now that I was writing this comment, I received a message from one of your editors. Do I have the permission to talk about a problem related to our articles, even though it is somehow out of topic? [Reply] Comment provided October 9, 2008 at 5:58 PM
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“Thank you!…†I believe that you have to prepare a box and put it somewhere in your blog with the title: “Your suggestions for future discussionsâ€Â. Many times we want to discuss many problems here with you and other members, but we don’t have the chance because we are “out of topicâ€Â. So, please give us the chance to choose the topic of our discussions here, sometimes at least! And, if you would give me the chance, I could relate my problem to today’s topic. Everything is related, because I was accused for “article promotionâ€Â, perhaps because your editor considered the reference to previous articles as an attempt to use the keywords of previous articles to attract readers to my new articles… As a matter of fact, this works very well, as I noticed by chance on Google, even though I never mention another article because I want to attract more visitors using the previous successful keywords of another article’s title, but because I give real lessons to my readers, so that those that don’t have serious problems may find health and happiness without facing depression. However, it is very nice when I see that an old article’s title puts my new article at Google’s first page when I mention it. This is a Great idea, discovered by chance. I don’t understand which the problem could be if we mention previous articles in the new ones: this is only an advantage for our readers, for us, and for EzineArticles ! Christina [Reply] Comment provided October 9, 2008 at 7:33 PM
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Amazing! I’ve been using Google Keyword Tool to find keywords with the highest search volume, but I can’t tell if they were effective. Now I know exactly from which keyword my visitors are coming from. This is truly the missing piece! Thanks a million. Reyn Aria [Reply] Comment provided October 9, 2008 at 8:55 PM
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Bravo! You’ve gone that extra mile for article writers worldwide. Knowing the exact keywords that consumers search for is the foundation for crafting more articles that specifically tell your audience the *exact* information they want to know. Thank you so much for adding this valuable benefit. This is a total *score* for writer and reader alike. [Reply] Comment provided October 9, 2008 at 11:20 PM
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Can somebody say..this tool will revolutionize your online business. =) This is by far the most amazing tool I have ever seen…If you are serious about your business I wouldn’t hesitate for a second to buy this…and that’s why I bought it right away! Thanks Chris and EzineArticles.com [Reply] Comment provided October 10, 2008 at 12:44 PM
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UPDATE: It’s Bonus data Friday! Today we added an extra month of SEARCH TERM DATA going back to July 1st, 2008. That means if your articles were live on our site since July 1st, 2008 forward, we’ve added that data into your search term data reports. Robby, This feature is *FREE* for every member to get the top (5) keywords and/or keyphrases for every article in your account. You get the head of the tail of data for free and Premium members get the long tail top (30) keywords. [Reply] Comment provided October 10, 2008 at 3:07 PM
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If we could bump off McCain and put Chris on that ticket with Palin, I’d give them my vote. This is AWESOME because most of my high article views had tons of searches in July and I couldn’t see that data. Now I can. More data = more articles. HAPPY FACE :) [Reply] Comment provided October 10, 2008 at 3:57 PM
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Thank you, Chris! I’m so busy lately that I couldn’t use this new feature yet, but I’m sure it will be my favorite as soon as I finish the last ebook derived from my summer offer of free translation. I even think I wasted a lot of time with the blog discussions, while I have so much to do… But I like your blog very much! It’s the only place where I like to discuss whatever… even when my suggestions and ideas are not accepted. [Reply] Comment provided October 10, 2008 at 5:01 PM
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I have to ask, because I do not understand this. What is the difference is between ‘head of the tail’ and ‘long tail’? Maybe ‘5′ is the keyword here, and ‘30′ is the keyword for long tail. Hum… I just don’t understand it. Nonetheless, I really like knowing what keywords people entered on to read my articles. It is very significant to the success of our businesses and am appreciative. Shirley Bass [Reply] Comment provided October 10, 2008 at 5:02 PM
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Chris, Having the extra month of data very useful. Looking forward to seeing the resulting article views of new article titles generated from this info. Christina, Could I be so bold as to say that you seem to be prolific and leave multiple comments on nearly blog post here at EzineArticles, yet you’re always saying you’re so busy and never have time to check anything out? : ) Dan [Reply] Comment provided October 10, 2008 at 5:08 PM
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Just to let you know Chris, I submitted a total of 29 articles today and yesterday. About 26 of the articles were based off using the traffic search terms from my other articles. Saved time = way more output. Geez, I’m exhausted now. Will you have some weekend editors coming in tomorrow and Sunday… or is that top secret information? Just to let you know, I only write articles late Friday-Sunday when I see or expect that my articles are being reviewed over the weekend. If no weekend editors, then I don’t write any articles from 4:30pm Friday until Monday morning. That’s just my perspective. You can get an extra 8-12 articles out of me each week due to your weekend editors coming in. Maybe other people are the same. [Reply] Comment provided October 10, 2008 at 5:47 PM
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Yes, Dan! This blog is like vacations for me. In other sites I only talk about serious problems and impossible solutions because this is my field, while here the discussions are about one of my favorite subjects: article writing. I’m usually discussing here and doing many other things at the same time in the intervals; this is why I said that I don’t have time for the blog conversations. But I like them, and this is why I come here everyday… I only stopped coming here during my summer offer of free dream translation because it was really more than impossible to find time for the discussions too, while translating so many dreams for everyone… [Reply] Comment provided October 10, 2008 at 5:54 PM
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Jennifer! WOW!! TWENTY NINE! YOU are amazing!! You and Christina and of course guys like Lance. And Dan! wow, you are quite the writer my friend, as I have commented lately on some of your outstanding art articles. Hats off! I have a lot of catching up to do! Thank goodness we have this new tool… I am just so excited about it. I had complained before about not finding keywords and long tail keywords, yadda, yadda and I fell into a real slump! I been kissed by a frog! RrrrRiBit! I doubt that I will ever measure up to the likes of some of you guys regarding the number of articles I write, but I can do more now with confidence! So Yay! Happy day! PS I know this is ‘completely off the subject but! I sold my house! Yesterday! In THIS economy! So it is just a bit of happy stuff! Cause good things are in fact all around us! HUGE SMILE! [Reply] Comment provided October 10, 2008 at 6:11 PM
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Kathy, Congrats on your home sale! :) Shirley, Read up on the concept of the Long tail: Jennifer, Isn’t it a great feeling to know that the content you just produced will most likely find a higher chance at traffic attraction than had you not had the information about how the market was finding your existing content! As for weekend article reviewing, we do not have formal weekend article review hours at this time. That said, you do see us frequently reviewing & accepting articles on the weekend, especially when we’re not meeting our article review response targets for Basic & Platinum members. [Reply] Comment provided October 11, 2008 at 9:22 AM
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Brilliant! I’m almost tempted to go Premium just for this!….However, most all of my “traffic search terms” result in this message: [Reply] Comment provided October 11, 2008 at 10:57 AM
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Hi Barbara! Are your articles too recent? The statistics start working after two months at least, so if you haven’t written articles two months ago, there are no statistics, if I remember well what Chris said about it. (I’m on a hurry now, but I saw your message…) Be patient and the statistics will appear – and keep writing! [Reply] Comment provided October 11, 2008 at 11:48 AM
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I have been subscribed to this tool for the past few days…and I am having the best time ever. It has revealed so many new Long Tail KW’s for me that I would not have be able to on my own! This tool really helps you dominate the Search Engines. = ) [Reply] Comment provided October 11, 2008 at 8:53 PM
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Right on Jessica! You are using this tool exactly correctly and you are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. I was thinking the exact same thing today when playing around and looking thru various articles and the key words folks were searching. This is a Triple Win for everyone. EzineArticles gets more traffic, you get more targeted traffic reading your articles to contact you and WE as Internet users WIN because this improves the online experience, as people find what they are looking for. It’s all good! [Reply] Comment provided October 11, 2008 at 9:28 PM
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Hi Everyone! I’m reading sometimes your messages, while answering to other messages in the intervals, because I’m still writing my ebook with many dreams and translations, and I want to include all dreams… this is taking too much time… I’m jealous of you who are using this fantastic feature while I cannot even care about verifying which keywords let my readers to my articles… I only took a look briefly on Friday. Imagine! I have such wonderful tool at my disposition but I cannot use it yet because I’m too busy giving explanations about the dreams I translated and other lessons! But I’m thinking while writing and reading quickly your messages, and making theoretical conclusions. This feature is more than fantastic and much better than the previous idea Chris had mentioned. Of course we prefer to know how our readers found our articles and use the same keywords in our next titles than to have the knowledge about where the traffic came from: Google, Yahoo, blogs, etc.? I have many ideas about how to use this feature… When I’ll have time I will show you my conclusions. [Reply] Comment provided October 12, 2008 at 12:04 PM
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Interesting… I just did a study using EzineArticles new tool with an article I wrote, that had three parts. I wrote my initial article and then 2 progress reports. At first I thought, why even look at the keywords or long tail keywords used for the two progress reports, wouldn’t they be the same? Good thing I checked though, because readers did not come to those follow up articles for the same reasons, not specifically anyway. WOW! This is just the most amazing tool! [Reply] Comment provided October 12, 2008 at 3:24 PM
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A couple other revelations about my study: Top keywords actually changed from one month to the other. It is as if peoples moods shifted or something. Humm not sure what that means in general but it does mean that I need to check each month! It also means that there is HUGE VALUE in Premium Membership with EzineArticles . Seems like I am schmoozing but the truth is the truth! and A lot of times the keywords I ‘thought’ had brought me traffic were not the keywords that did at all! Before I figured they had, so I used those keywords that I ‘thought’ had worked, again. I was often confused because they did not work for me. DA!! It is because it was not those keywords that really worked in the first place! Sheeze Louise! I am just kind of humming from all of this. [Reply] Comment provided October 12, 2008 at 4:07 PM
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Interesting observation, Kathy! And quite logic if we think about it: different people use different keywords. So, from time to time, depending on the terms that the different users prefer, the keywords through which they find an article change too. This is why synonyms must always be used, especially in the article’s body. I’m finishing with my ebook, but the end is the longer part. In the end I present full psychotherapies, what means: a big collection of dreams from the same dreamer… and all my translations and my explanations about how I could discover the accurate translation for each dream… In a while I’ll be able to give you my advice about how to use this feature too. Now I’m thinking about smart ways to use synonyms in the article’s title… while still giving explanations for my e-book’s readers… I can’t wait to start using this feature! But I have to finish my best product, first of all… Then I’ll write many articles promoting it! [Reply] Comment provided October 12, 2008 at 6:28 PM
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Christina… Synonyms? That is a keyword guessing game. You assume that people are going to use a different phrase or word that means the same thing… that may not be the case. Say I was referring to fairies and for a synonym used winged creature or tiny person with wings. Maybe someone would find me though those terms.. but not bloody likely. Yet.. I see that you have plans to get to the EzineArticles tool as soon as you are done with your project.. so I don’t know WHY I feel like I need to comment on this… I just do! Call me… ahh whatever. lol [Reply] Comment provided October 12, 2008 at 7:22 PM
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You are a very active person. I see all your comments at Twitter! You are always in contact with many people. I comment here for recreation, in the meanwhile, while writing my ebook for example, because I write about problems and solutions, while here the atmosphere is lighter. It’s nice to think about article writing and change subject for a while… I like to find solutions for EzineArticles ’s and the author’s problems too. This is very easy comparing to the kind of problems I have to solve in my field… [Reply] Comment provided October 12, 2008 at 7:53 PM
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One word sums this up “THANKS!” Your hard work will definitely help people increase their website traffic through article marketing. The information you will provide to members of EzineArticles is really a gold mine. Knowing how people search for things on the internet is the best way to improve and write about what people want to know more about. I like many others will defintely enjoy this new service. Your hard work will not only help us improve our articles but will also help promote the #1 Article Marketing website! Amazing job! Look forward to seeing more great stuff from EzineArticles. Sincerely, Jamie Boyle [Reply] Comment provided October 12, 2008 at 8:03 PM
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No intention of offending.. I find this fun as well. My activity on Twitter is of a political vein till after the election.. yup I AM totally obsessed these days! LOL. I also update my 75 Squidoo’s and continually feed info about my website, blogs and other sites of mine on Twitter though…. sooo, yup I confess I am indeed shameless as far as promoting my art and myself. Interesting about Twitter use, I have noticed a nice spike in people who sign up for my newsletter. Speaking of keywords, I make sure I have some good ones in my profile too. Seeing what brought people to me with the new EzineArticles tool is being considered and might possibly be added to my profile. Very excited to see your new E-Book Christina! Good for you!! [Reply] Comment provided October 12, 2008 at 8:07 PM
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I’m always condemned for forgetting the topic, now that I remember this detail… So, I would like to finish my comment saying: of course synonyms are the way other people may find our articles. For example, one person looks for the word “treatmentâ€Â, another one looks for “psychotherapy†– they are synonyms. How could we use strong synonyms near strong keywords in our article’s titles? We could write something like: “Depression Treatment – The Best Psychotherapy for You†But it is not easy to make such combination… because the title has to define the article in only a few words. If we waste words with synonyms our titles will be too long – this is not the ideal solution. [Reply] Comment provided October 12, 2008 at 8:19 PM
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Yes indeed I agree that is a creative way of expanding on the subject and makes for wonderful writing, which of course is your talent extraordinarie! My point is that coming up with a beautiful or even great synonym does not mean you automatically have a good ‘keyword’. [Reply] Comment provided October 12, 2008 at 8:27 PM
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Kathy, We’ve noticed a sharp increase in new Premium memberships solely because of this new tool and those who have been signing up are doing so with the quarterly or yearly instead of monthly plan (tells us there is more confidence in the value proposition). Barbara, If there is no data yet for your articles, it’s because you’re too new yet or because your articles didn’t get enough traction yet or because your viewcount is too low yet to attract SE traffic. Go into your account, into your article reports, sort by view count, and then look at the Aug stats for your article, “Wealth Building Strategies You Won’t Hear From Your Financial Planner” and you’ll find traffic search terms for AUG 2008 that may be meaningful to you. :) It takes at least 250 views to an article before the traffic search terms stats start to become meaningful. [Reply] Comment provided October 13, 2008 at 7:01 AM
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I noticed today, examining the keywords through which my readers found only one of my articles (no time for studies…) that most of them found it by chance! Only the fifth one used the keywords I had in mind when giving the article’s title. It’s quite disappointing when you see that most readers found your article by chance, while they were looking for something else… I hope that the new feature will help us choose the keywords that will really define our article, because if the reader wants something else but finds our article by chance, chances are that he or she will simply look for what they want… Our article’s title should be more specific. This was a lesson… Now, back to my ebook! I’m writing now about a very interesting case. Someone had constant nightmares for years and sent me a message asking for help… Too many dreams… I have to organize them. In the next interval I may analyze the keywords through which my readers found another article. Interesting!… I like the traffic search terms very, very much! I saw another article’s keywords now… couldn’t resist. This time only one reader found my article by chance. This was one of my best titles! Given by chance, because I was on a hurry… like now… [Reply] Comment provided October 13, 2008 at 1:05 PM
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Christina, People won’t find your article “by chance” It’s not the way that google works. the page with your article on will have been found because google adjudged your article to be a good match for their search. So for example if your article was about Steam trains and you mentioned in it “the optimum length of train” and then someone was researching wedding dresses and searched for “optimum length of train” then your aticle would show up. [Reply] Comment provided October 13, 2008 at 2:22 PM
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Hi Kathy! How are you today? When I say “by chance†I mean that the information they were looking for was different, but they found my article because they used the same keywords I did, but with another intention. Now I can’t find the article I saw before… Let me find another one then, to give you an example… I found one that is not such a good example like the previous one, but never mind… Article: “The Importance of Accurate Dream Interpretation With The Scientific Method†Traffic Search Terms: the importance of dream analysis dream analysis importance dream of being abandoned in dangerous area citation the importance of accurate importance of dream analysis Only three readers found what they were looking for. The readers who typed: dream of being abandoned in dangerous area citation the importance of accurate …found my article by chance. They were looking for something else, not for the information I’m giving in this article. Fortunately most readers found it because they cared about the information I’m giving in the article. What I said before is that if you see that many people find an article while they were looking for something else and not for what you talk about in your article, this means that your title is not as specific as it should be… My title in this case was good, but in the previous one I saw that it had multiple meanings, and this is why people that were looking for something totally different found it by chance. [Reply] Comment provided October 13, 2008 at 2:35 PM
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OK Beautiful Christina, that is what I thought. So NOW you can see that you have some glorious NEW information as to what people are actually looking for. Do you see what I mean? THIS is the amazing value of this new tool. What you have now is unique keywords to write NEW articles about. See? Isn’t that the coolest thing? [Reply] Comment provided October 13, 2008 at 2:54 PM
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Yes Mark, I know how Google works, but what I meant with the words “by chance†had a metaphorical meaning. My readers were looking for something different and only because they typed the same keywords I used in my title, they found it, even though they were giving another meaning to the same words when using them. If your title is too ambiguous, it may bring you many visitors who are not interested in the information you are giving. This is negative, because they will leave without feeling satisfied. …………………………………………….. Yes Kathy! This tool is fantastic! We can see exactly how we must write our next titles in order to attract the maximum number of visitors! [Reply] Comment provided October 13, 2008 at 3:05 PM
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There are a lot of ways to research the keywords, too. Google Adwords keyword tool is great as is the Wordtracker tool. I’m spoiled because I use SiteBuildIt to create my sites and they have a brainstorming tool integrated into their program, so I can search for a keyword (or keyphrase) such as job search and get back hundreds of phrases as well as how much they are searched for and how much they are being supplied (by content sites). As for the unusual searches that people use and land on your site… you never know when someone will see your site and say, “You know, this isn’t where I was headed, but I’m glad I’m here now.” ;) ~Carla [Reply] Comment provided October 13, 2008 at 3:05 PM
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You are right, Carla. Even though most people don’t want to waste time reading other things when they are looking for certain information, many times they read something else that they found by chance, and this way you may acquire a new visitor, who may even will feel very glad for discovering your site. However, this is not what usually happens, and this is why we better be careful with our article’s titles, describing there exactly what we are talking about in the article. [Reply] Comment provided October 13, 2008 at 3:15 PM
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All, Great News: We’re done importing several hundred gigs of data that means we’ve been able to add June 2008 to your TRAFFIC SEARCH TERMS data! This is as far back as we’re able to go and shows you how long ago we started this project. So, enjoy the bonus data on your articles that were live since June 1st 2008 (or older) and forward! [Reply] Comment provided October 13, 2008 at 3:51 PM
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Yesterday I wrote an article on something with a keyword phrase I got from a previous article I wrote… using this new traffic search term feature. Today, there is a news story on that very keyword phrase on the front page of YAHOO. What Luck!!! OMG… I’m getting hits like CRAZY. Now my previous article and yesterday’s article are 2 of the top 3 in Google. I would’ve never wrote that 2nd article without the traffic search. :) :) :) :) :) [Reply] Comment provided October 17, 2008 at 10:38 AM
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Just an update: Between those 2 articles, I got over 7,000 article views in about 5 hours. The new article dropped out of the top 3, but the old 1 is still up there. USE THE TRAFFIC SEARCH TERMS in previous high view articles! This allows you to “double up” on google’s 1st page often. [Reply] Comment provided October 17, 2008 at 2:07 PM
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Jennifer, amazing results, well done! Chris, I’ve visited a few different articles of mine and the stats only go up to Oct 7th. Today is the 17th. Will there always be this timelapse in the results? Long term it doesn’t matter, but I’m just keen to get the info as soon as possible to be able to generate more articles with the best keywords! Thanks, Dan [Reply] Comment provided October 17, 2008 at 4:47 PM
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Congratulations, Jennifer! This result was really fantastic! I couldn’t see any result because I only submitted two articles using the traffic search terms after finishing my ebook (which I’m still reading…) and they were not approved yet. (By the way, Chris, the old “two days†for approval are not being respected even if we are Platinum members. I noticed that my articles super-delayed to be approved last week. I would even complain if I was not so busy with my ebook… I hope that this is not a consequence of the priority you are giving to the Premium members…) [Reply] Comment provided October 17, 2008 at 5:09 PM
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Thanks guys. Here is some more “inspiration”. I have over 30,000 article views for the past 5 days. :) I’m writing a ton of articles. More than normal because I don’t have to bother too much with keyword searches at google. I just check my article search terms in my highest and most published articles and find the ones that pop out. Then I do a quick google check and off I write. Lets see… This traffic search terms thing is way better than I initially thought. I thought it’d be good, but not THIS GOOD! It’s helped me out a lot. I’m getting in “Lance territory” in my daily article writing output. KIDDING… kinda. OFF TOPIC (I apologize ahead of time but I’m kinda giddy still from that yahoo thing)… Lance, it looks like 15,000 articles by Dec 31, 2008 will be no problem for you. How about my anonymous challenge of getting 16,000 articles by then? 11 weeks and about 1500 articles to go. Can he do it… hmm. [Reply] Comment provided October 17, 2008 at 5:32 PM
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Dan, About the lag in traffic search terms data: We made this feature live before we had enough servers online to deliver the service; so our team has been manually parsing the data with our development servers and uploading it. The data is being collected, but not displayed without human intervention. This will change by the end of the month as the additional servers ordered to drive these stats are online now and working the backlog. [Reply] Comment provided October 20, 2008 at 9:06 AM
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Dear Christopher, Please explain the following: What do you mean by “multiple authors in your account”? “Under the “Views” tab will be the number of total views life-to-date that each article of yours received. Click on any of those numbers. You can also click on the “VIEWS” link to sort the list by most viewed first.” Thanks, [Reply] Comment provided November 16, 2009 at 10:38 PM
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Mithi,
You can have multiple pen-names within your account. If you only have your author name in your account, when you go to your article reports, you’ll only see the stats for your articles. If you have 2 or more author names within your account (example: I have Christopher Knight and Chris Knight within my account) you’ll see a list of your author names to choose from before proceeding to the article stats on each author name.
We decided last night to create a camtasia/screenflow video that will show you how to access Traffic Search Terms… Should be out in less than a few weeks.
November 17, 2009 at 8:02 AM[Reply]