I recently began writing and submitting articles to promote clickbank products but I am not getting the results I was hoping to see... For example, I wrote a 500-word article which I think is pretty good, it has some interesting points, good structure, title is relevant to the body, etc. The statistics are: 104 views, 16 URL clicks, which means I'm getting approx. 15% CTR. Given this information, it appears that I'll need to submit 5 articles to make 1 sale. Do you guys think this is typical or do my results really suck? Thanks!
15% isn't bad for a beginner. I think most article marketers aim for 25%+ though (otherwise it wouldn't be worth it) - my average is about 30% although my CTR for some articles is much higher. 5 articles to make one sale isn't good because at most you'll only ever make 2-4 sales per day (and probably burn out in the process). You should really be concentrating on making at least 1 sale per article, and that means you need to work on getting your articles ranked in the search engines and getting ALOT more views.
15% is "ok" for a beginner, yes, but you should shoot for 35%++, some of mine have over 50% CTR. Its not the norm, but its doable. key: Have a good resource box providing a solution for a problem. and: Titles/Articles targeting a "needy" audience PLUS providing the solution will yield higher clicks than a rather general article. aka "How PCs can get infected by a Virus" <- versus -> "Get Rid of the X Virus - A Solution". Now guess which one will have the higher CTR? Its likely that for the second title the reader has the virus and wants to get rid of it...and the first title is more general information. Second will get way higher CTR.
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Haha, you kids and your paltry 15% CTR! Check out: Haha, just wanted an excuse to post that. Ignore the 6 articles that are <15% in favor of the more awesome 48% CTR, if you please, lol. On the actual topic... You said a 500 word ish article, which, just from my experience, I notice the max I can have an article is 450 words (which I really only do so I can get around EZA's new lame rule about the amount of words in anchor text) for it to get a really nice CTR. The ones with 35-almost 50% CTR are REALLY short and I used the "Did you know that xyz people who try xyz make one crucial mistake? You can find out that mistake and avoid it by clicking here". So for example "Did you know that most people trying affiliate marketing usually fail? You can learn how to be different and succeed by visiting website name". Yes, not one, but two shameless plugs. Anyway, just my take on it. Which doesn't mean much- I'm so new I get excited about a just under 50% CTR, after all, lol.
That article ranks on the first page (position #6) in Google, and one position lower in Yahoo (I think it might be in MSN too, but Rankchecker returns a different article for that keyterm and I can't use the specific URL cause it won't work with Rankchecker- if I type the phrase in manually it appears on the 3rd spot for me on MSN, though) for a key term that, if you typed it into any keyword tool wouldn't get you a high estimated search volume, but it's a common sense keyword in the niche that I knew people would search. I also think it might be getting picked up by in the little "recommended articles" or whatever at the end of other related articles, so people see it and the title is catchy enough to make them click and read it (or skim it).
i dont buy it Not without Black Hat or fake traffic Or you must have some REALLY, REALLY good keywords (Talking about your views)
Honestly, that should be very possible if your articles are old enough. Check out how to get your ex back. It was published about a year and half ago, but has racked up almost 175k views. Don't know how old onlinemoniez's articles are, but probably at least a couple months old. If you get a keyword early enough you won't even need page links, it seems.