I've submitted well over 50 unique articles to Ezinearticles over the last 3 months and have gotten very little pageviews and url clicks on my articles. The highest one of my articles have received 235 pageviews and 81 url clicks and the lowest is 29 pageviews and 0 url clicks. Now I understand that popularity of the niches is important to determine how much traffic we might expect from the articles but any recommendations or best practices on how to increase pageviews and url clicks from ezine?
Did you write the articles yourself? Gauge if the articles have interesting titles and if they're not too much on hype and "self-praise."
I'm thinking that I should alter the titles. From your experience, are how-to type titles good to use? Also, what type pageviews/url clicks are you guys getting from your articles?
Hi... Sorry to hear about your struggles. Let me offer a slightly different perspective. When I hear about someone not getting enough page views for their articles across the board, my hunch is that they are not writing those articles around "profitable" keywords. Yes, the article title is important, but if you choose the wrong keyword phrase, the article title won't matter much because people won't see it anyway. Now, do you know what a "profitable" keyword phrase is? It one that has good demand (ie. number of daily searches on Google) and low competition (ie. results on Google within quotes). Generally, I focus on long tail keyword phrases that get over 30 Google searches a day and have less than 10,000 competing webpages. Why is keyword selection so important? Most of the page views that you get won't be from people browsing through EZA. It will be from people searching on Google, and because Google loves EZA (right now anyway), your articles tend to rank higher than on other article directories for the most part. So if you aren't getting the page views you want, then my gut tells me that you are either writing articles on keywords that don't get many daily searches or the keywords have too many competing webpages (or a combination of both). Or, you may not be doing keyword selection at all and just writing about different topics within your niche. In any case, I'd suggest that you look at your keyword selection process. Hope that helps. Best wishes, JoeMack
I never got any sort of "great" traffic from the ezine....too much competition there for it to work for all of us.
articles are more for seo then actual traffic. If you are looking for traffic put the articles on your own domain so that you have more and more quality content.
is it just me or are you missing the point of article submission? article submission is used to embed links to your site thus inproving natural search listings. i HOPE people don't read articles as some of the crap i've written is embarasing but it's got the job done SEO-wise!
Hey JoeMack, Thanks for your response. Actually, I've done my due diligence prior to picking niches to go after. The KWs I've selected have at least 50 searches/day and less than 1000 pages using the allintitle tag in Google. Searching in Google only with quotes doesn't mean anything to me. It doesn't show your "true" competition IMO. I think what I've done so far isn't incorrect, but instead, requires me to fine tune a few things here and there to see if that improves my results. Based on the responses to this thread, I took a look at my EZA articles and I think there's too much detail and not enough reason to click on the links in the resource box. The titles should probably be refined a bit as well. I appreciate the feedback.
Do you really know anyone that browses Ezine articles for a good read? It's only worth using it for backlinks for SEO purposes not direct traffic. In my experiences anyway.
You got it, thank you for this post. We would be lucky after playing great to get someone to read our blog, yey alone article submission and do you really know the back ,link quality. At least in our opinion this is becoming a has been item/issue. We would look for what is not being widwly done today. I think the search engine spiders are yawning these days over this. LOL.