For the past 2 months I've been writing blogs/articles for EZines and I get to plug in with links 2 of my website URLs and some info on them in lieu of payment. This has worked out OK as I've definately have increased website traffic. What I'm unclear about is, approximately 6000 of these articles have been viewed of which maybe 400 of my website links have been clicked. Does that mean the 6000 pages have been credited with backlinks or is it just the 400 that have been actually clicked?
I guess I need to speak broken English, use wrong tenses and write out abbreviated nonsense terms like ur and Oh yes write in sentences that aren't sentences to get help on this board.
If you got the traffic from links in the blog posts/articles, then that's direct click traffic. If the # of search engine clicks increased then it probably means your link building campaign has boosted your serp. To find out which of the 6000 pages' have actually linked back to you and are viewable in search engines' index, try the backlink checker at http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/domain-popularity.html
When you wrote your articles did you use anchor text? Anchor text is simply a means of helping google to give more credit to your website and help it ratemore highly in the search rankings. You'll noticethat many people's signatures on DP forums read like the nameof their business or what their website is trying to promote. For example Make Money Online or whatever. Google then attaches more prominent to your site in it'ssearch engine than you would have got if you'd just put your website address. I've written a beginners guide to blogging, which is equally relevantto website ownersand covers how to create backlinks and simple anchor you can viewit here; http://www.friendsandmoney.co.uk/make-money-online-blogging.html
Those links are practically bottom of the bargain bin basement quality links - they won't help you much other than to drive (some) weak traffic to your site. The only way they'll help you out is if you've optimized your site for a non-competitive search term that nobody else has (wisely) optimized for in the first place.
Bottom line in the industry of SEO is called links as it also known as trump in the process the more you linked then more you rank .