Outstanding feature…nice to become ezinearticles writer

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This is really a nice cool feature I’m with Barbara, as I was reading Chris’s article I was thinking wow this just might make me turn Premium.

Of course I just have one article at the moment, but Jennifer has put a fire under me.

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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.

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Thanks Chris for the info regarding Chris Anderson’s book on “The Longtail”. Sounds interesting and informative. Appreciate the good info.

Shirley Bass

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Interesting…

I just did a study using Ezine Articles 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!

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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 EA. Seems like I am schmoozing but the truth is the truth!

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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.

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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!

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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 EA 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

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Excellent work Chris. I can tailor my articles so much better now. Thanks

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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 EA’s and the author’s problems too. This is very easy comparing to the kind of problems I have to solve in my field…

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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
Internet Marketer

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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 EA tool is being considered and might possibly be added to my profile.

Very excited to see your new E-Book Christina! Good for you!!

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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 “treatment”, another one looks for “psychotherapy” – they are synonyms.
I was thinking about a smart way to put both in the article’s title, but in a beautiful way… This would be the ideal solution! This way both will be there, for all users, depending on their preference.

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.

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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’.

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Fantastic, Chris. The keyword metrics is an excellent value add for the authors. Kudos to the ezine article tech team to come up with proactive solutions and exceeding customer expectations.

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I am very glad that this service is now available. It was something I liked with Scribd, use on my own website, and find very helpful.

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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.

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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…

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Christina, I know I am belaboring this, but what do you mean when you say they found you, ‘by chance’. I don’t understand. Are there ‘no’ keywords found in your article search?

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Doing the appropriate keyword research prior to writing your articles is essential. You have to know what people are looking for/searching for – then provide it in the way of meaningful, helpful articles.

Great work Chris – and team.

~Carla

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Carla,

I thought your advice was very sound.

I went to your website and wanted to let you know that your words inspired me tremendously. Actually, they are just what I needed to hear!

Thanks,

Shirley Bass

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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!

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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

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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.

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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!

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Ever see “Where the Hell is Matt?’ YouTubes? That’s the celebration here.. doing that HAPPY DANCE!

THANKS TO ALL AT EZINE ARTICLES!

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Thanks Chris, this is amazing. Another reason why ezinearticles.com continues to be the leading article directory on the web.

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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.

:) :) :) :) :)

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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.

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Jennifer!! OMG!! That is astounding!

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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

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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…)

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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…
PREMIUM + TRAFFIC SEARCH TERMS = :) :)

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.

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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.

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Chris, this is the most smart thing ezine could have done in a long time. My guess is that ezine is authority on certain key phrases and once we know that, we can focus on those, and get a lot of traffic for you and us. Nice job!

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