50% CTR is pretty high. My guess is that there are very few article-writers who consistently get a 50% CTR. I have had that sort of CTR on occasion, but my average is lower. It varies, according to how well keyword-researched they are, what the niche is, whether they make it to the "most viewed lists" and so on. But yes, it's not unusual to get a wave of early traffic that reduces. The articles stay "visible", though (not quite sure what you meant here) and some people very generously routinely do backlinks to them just to make sure that their efforts feed EZA's Adsense income. But don't forget the purpose of article directories: they're there for other people to take articles from and re-publish them. This is where the real traffic and the real benefits can be, but most article marketers don't think much about this - they're concentrating on traffic and backlinks only, and they overlook what they need to do to encourage re-publication. They don't expire. In principle. There isn't a way of knowing the answer to this, is there? Like many things, 10% of the people make 90% of the money, I think. (Actually I suspect that even fewer than 10% make even more than 90% of the money).
Hi Alexa, thank you for responding to my questions! <<There isn't a way of knowing the answer to this, is there?>> I think there is, to some degree... If there is an Internet Marketer out there that has written 1000 articles and collected $10,000 in commissions, then we could say he made $10 for writing each article. This is obviously average, he could make nothing on one article and $40 on another.
I NEED to do this, otherwise such articles wouldnt get accepted in the first place. But if i get a bunch of articles like that i sit there for HOURS just to correct each single article - and i am not paying someone else and then I have to do all that work. Otherwise i would write articles myself and save my money. This is a VERY TYPICAL example. Although its actually on the "good" side already. I have seen MUCH worse Do you think that such an article would actually sell something?
Does anyone know a place to find people that will write articles for you everyday, something cheap and will not give you crap that is copied and pasted from other websites?? Maybe some filipino's or indians that would do it for me and I pay monthly?
I don't think it is likely to really sell that much, but I have used these types of articles as unique content to send out to article directories and blogs purely to get backlinks and I am happy enough this works.. Still better to have a quality article and a good backlink of course, but just to blast a few out there for some niche / product keywords I think it worked..
Maybe you've been lucky - I've tried to hire writers on there 3 times, the best was below average - the other 2 I had to lodge a complaint against - one blatently just copied and pasted the articles in massive chunks from Google - there is of course good quality people and bad quality people everywhere, and you get what you pay for too.
Yeah I agree. I have to spend as much as 15 minutes on submitting one article. It includes writing the resource box, summary, removing "keyword density" errors & checking the article itself for errors. All of this really takes a lot of time.
Over the last 4 months or so, I've consistently been finding the exact opposite, Al. A 750-word article, across a wide range of niches, will consistently bring me in more than three times as many sales as three 250-word articles. I've noticed from forum conversations with article marketers that people who monitor and quantify by the click-through rate tend to prefer 250/300-word articles (often, I think, in the mistaken belief that there's some advantage to having their resource-box "above the fold"), whereas people who monitor and quantify by sales made tend to prefer much longer articles. Making your articles around 750 words lowers the CTR, undeniably, but I attribute this to the fact that it's "qualifying" the readers more, doing more pre-selling, and producing better potential buyers when they click on the links at the end. You also get your work re-published far more widely if it's longer, because people are scouring article-directories looking for "content" and want as much of it as they can get.
@al Never even bothered to publish 750 words articles since 250 have been effective enough... I've just done my overall CTR on ezinearticles.com and it came out to be greater than 25% .. People are distracted by the google ads .. (we can't do much about that, can we?) .. Al.
Don't mean to be pushy or anything, but can we decide on the word count? I am just getting started writing articles, and obviously one of the key things is the length. Of course at this point you guys are probably tempted to say "test it yourself", but if there's people that have done this for many years, they've got to know the optimal length
@MarkUSA I'm not saying that 750 words articles don't work .. But I've been making a few thousand sales using 250 words articles. Cheers Al.