Lets Discuss Something That Concerns Us All - How to Increase EZA URL Clicks

What you said, can be interpreted in many ways. I don't think we will lose anything by using the methods to increase CTR.

An article ranking for the right keywords, having high views & high CTR will definitely make sales.

Regarding your thoughts about republication of articles, I don't really care about that. I'm concerned only with the traffic part & republication can't be beneficial to an affiliate in any way other than the little seo benefits.

 

Ah, the secret of forum-posting while still preserving an air of mystery!

Well, fair enough. Clients who ask me to write articles for them do. And I do about my own, very much.

That is "the traffic part", surely? The purpose of article directories is for webmasters to be able to re-publish your work as content on their sites with links to your sites intact. When that happens, you get traffic. Far better for 50 other sites to re-publish your EZA article, giving you not only 50 additional backlinks but incoming traffic from targeted (to varying degrees) leads from 50 other sites. If your content is informative and valuable enough, it can re-appear on all sorts of web sites, you know? Not just sites of other affiliate marketers who won't want your links on their pages.

Apart from all those extra sales you can't make just from having your article sitting at EZA and being read there alone, you mean?

 

My CTR on EZA generally hovers around 30-40%. This is because I make the resource box a continuation of the article.

In my opinion, if you are starting your resource box with a generic bio and/or the standard, "For more information on . . . click here . . . " your CTR will not be too high.

I generally flow into it. With EZA you have what, 250 words for your resource box, i think? Write a 350 word article, and then for the resource box add another 50-100 words, naturally flowing into the resource box.

For example:

Last paragraph of article: Many people throughout the world are trying to lose weight, as they are becoming more aware of the health risks associated with obesity. For some, diets have failed, or have shown at least moderate success. A lot of people also feel scammed by diet plans that didn't work for them and hit them and their wallets very hard.

Resource Box: On the other hand, over 27,000 people have found success in a program called Fat Loss 4 Idiots. While the name certainly seems demeaning, it is actually quite a true statement. With the Fat Loss 4 Idiots program, its unique approach to weight loss, where they guarantee 9 lbs lost every 11 days, is so simple even an idiot can do it -- and it's a rather affordable diet plan as well. When you go to fatloss4idiots.com, you will learn everything you need to know about this diet plan, and why you should be the 27,001st person to succeed starting today.

Something like that.

Please note the above contains no actual links or affiliate links, just colors for illustrative purposes.

 

@alexa_s - Nice new pic I do agree with you that longer and informative articles are more likely to be republished. I do agree with you about the real idea behind article directories.

But the real purpose of most article directories is to make adsense money & let the authors do so too.

And yes, longer and informative articles provide benefits to a certain "type" of authors. They do result in some seo benefits. But as far as traffic is concerned, you can trust me that they don't really serve any purpose. Even if they are picked up by some sites, in most cases, they won't give any significant traffic or as far as i have seen, no traffic at all!

So if one is getting expensive articles written especially for ezinearticles just for republication on certain low quality sites, I don't think it is worth it. There are quite a lot of "networks of sites" that allow you to do so for a certain monthly amount. That is the reason why I don't really care about republication. I hope you do find my logic here?

@ryangb74 - That was a real useful post +rep

I do have even 60% CTR on few of my articles & 25 - 40% on many of them. But there are certain articles that do not manage to get even 15%. I guess the reason behind low CTR is that maybe those articles somehow start ranking for the wrong keywords? Or maybe my standard resource box template (not the same resource box itself) doesn't work for those articles?

For such articles, I do have to spend many days to start getting the desired CTR. Like i watch my reports for a few days and if i don't get CTR above 25%, I change the resource boxes. I do this until i am satisfied with the CTR or in rare cases, I give up the hope of getting high CTR and let EZA take most of my traffic So I have to "keep trying like an ant" until i win.

 

Be careful with that: the latest rules are that the resource-box may not be longer than 15% of the length of the article. (350 words, maximum 52 words in the resource-box).