Ed Howes writes:

Different Ed than the one who posed the above question. I don’t give a hoot about who’s going to my website, but I shure would like to know the the publishers who are grabbing my articles. I just had a record 50 pick ups on my older articles in a day. Knowing of the 25 article annual limit, that indicates I have suddenly been discovered by a lot of publishers. Who are they? I’d like to visit their sites. Am I stuck with using the search engines? Which articles did they grab?

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Pamela Beers writes:

My web traffic analysis allows me to see how many people visit my website each day and from where they are referred.

By the way, I am enjoying the pictures at top of the EzineArticles home page. Thanks for that fun addition. It allows me to read other people’s articles that I would not have otherwise pursued.

I would like to see pictures of the Ezine article team! You are a great bunch of folks.

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Edward Weiss writes:

Ed, to see who has your articles do a Google search with your article title in parenthesis like this:

“how to write poetry”

If Google has indexed your article by the publisher who used it, it will show up.

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Ed Howes writes:

Thank you Edward,

I know about the searches. I usually do them on “by Ed Howes” because I’m not interested in any prticular article but in how many locations the total can be found and the numbers often don’t jive with what I know they must be.

Again, when someone comes in and takes 20 or 30 in a few days I don’t know which they took unless I copy the stat page every day, so I have always thought a publisher should notify an author where s/he can see the article posted and I’m reasonably sure this could be automated as well. The ones recently taken might show up on a search next week and might not. If I have 10 pick ups on one older article, who picked it up two months ago and who picked it up yesterday?

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Paul Wolbers writes:

Ed this is how I track these clickthroughs…

The first step to this technique capitalizes on
two little known features of HTML:

Whenever you add a “?” to the end of a .htm or
.html page, it has absolutely no effect on the
page that gets called up. That is, if you were to
write:

http://www.EzineArticles.com/editorial-guidelines.html

or

http://www.EzineArticles.com/editorial-guidelines.html?tracker1

The exact same page will come up. Go ahead and
try it now. Pretty cool, right?

WARNING:

You have to append this “?” after the name of an
HTML file. It won’t always work if you do it at
the end of a domain name (unless your server
supports it or you have special scripting – which
is what we’re trying to avoid.

Fact 2:

Even though the same page is served when you do
this, your server logs treat them as two different pages.

So, every time someone clicks on that special URL
you will be able to know without question, where that clickthrough came from.

Hope this helps…

Paul Wolbers

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Dina writes:

Hey, Ed Howes,

Maybe you can add a “pickup line” to the bottom of future articles that you write? For example,

“You are free to reprint this article in its entirety so long as the author bio and URL remain in tact. Please send a courtesy email to you[at]domain.com to let us know you have published this material.”

(or something more friendly, like):

Do you plan to reprint this article? Email and let me know! you[at]domain.com

Dina

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Ed Howes writes:

Hey Dina,

That’s preposterous! Do it yourself. How about this: Publishers: If you are publishing this article, I want to visit your site. Please leave a comment on my article with your URL and we will both benefit.

Thanks Dina. What a team we make, eh?

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Ed Howes writes:

Dammit Dina!

Now I have to edit ALL my articles. So glad I’m not Lance today. :-)

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Dina writes:

Ed H.:

YES! That’s THE perfect line to get folks to contact you. What are you, a writer or something?

:))

Dina

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Pamela Beers writes:

Dina & Ed…a fabulous idea. I’m going to try it and see what happens.

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