A Challenging question to Article Marketers

I could be wrong but most people browsing around the money making category already know that money is being made from home so...

they are more interested in the easiest ways to make money from home so therefore you're getting lots more views on your second article.

TL

This is very simple. It's not because he has awesome google rankings for competitive terms.
That author pretty much owns the most viewed category for this niche.

Blakhat my friend.

On the internet, everybody plays be their own rules.

Simple, he promoted his articles...

Got backlinks to it, and ranked well for some decent keywords

people like easy. looking at no more than the title i'd choose the second because I already know the first is true.

Try building backlinks to it .. but you would have done better if you posted that article to your site first and built backlinks to your own site. Then post that article to more directories and not just eza....

I have not looked at the articles because I really have no need to visit eza, enough marketers do that to inflate eza traffic...

James

Apart from the promotions, his title is better as it
will surely get more people to click on his article
than yours. So - yes, the title does play a whole
lot of role.

There is a ton of information on Search Engine Optimization and marketing out there. Start reading into some of that. (and don't let it intimidate you)

Based just on the titles, the first one asks a very basic but nebulous question. The second title presents a valuable resource.

Even if someone didn't know you could make money at home, if they were given the choice between the two titles, they would pick the second one because it promises something.

The first one promises nothing...it's speculative and weak.

A better headline for that same article would be something like the following...although it's off the top of my head and isn't necessarily the best headline. But it's better than the original...

How To Earn Money At Home With Affiliate Marketing

Incoming links are the difference. In fact, that's likely the only important difference.

Just looking at the title...One proposes a question, the other goes straight for a solution. Which would you click on?

I also think it has something to do with the title of the articles.

As master direct marketer, Ted Nicholas once said:

"Based on hundreds of tests conducted, a good headline can be as much as 17 times more effective than a so-so headline. And this is with exactly the same body copy!"

@OP

Title does play a role but mostly it's about how solid your source of traffic is, the problem seems to be with keyword research, either you didn't targeted a keyword with appropriate difficulty score or you didn't optimize it well enough to rank at top in SERPs. Not as many people browse EZA to find better titles as they get to your article after searching for a keyword and finding it at the top in SERPs.

So to sum it up, select a keyword that you can rank for, easily, and then optimize it to get ranked and you'll have good read count without much effort.

PS: The quality of your article will effect the CTR, but it doesn't have much to do with read counts.

I agree. The title is part of the problem. If both articles had the same number of backlinks, I still think the second one would get viewed more because of the title.

It's purely the keyword combination, that is all.

you haven't optimized that article for the search engines properly.. You should also tweet every article you write if you don't have a twitter account make one. I also use stumbleupon and bookmark every article i write. Anything that has to do with making money online has to be very optimized which means a lo of quality content. With your chosen keywords in the body of your article. Making money at home is very competitive, and its hard to get a top listing if you don't know anything about search engine optimization etc... When your writing an article about making money make sure its a long article the more words the better, and optimized to stand a chance at ranking high. My 3 favorites are ezinearticles, ehow,and hubpages they all have high pageranks and a lot of readers. And very high alexa rank!

Yeup, said many times but you need to hear it again. Your title doesn't suck..

Title and headlines have one job and that is to suck the reader in to begin reading.

You can't solve the problem or answer the question in the title. If you do there is no reason to take time to read your prose.

That's easy - it's all in the title & a little bit of luck. People reading articles want to leanr some valuable information there and then. They want to learn from an expert about the tricks and techniques they are having success with. So if you picture yourself as someone looking to make money from home, or to start a business or whatever.... think about which title you would click on. You'd click on the one which promises the most valuable content there and then. That's why it's got so many more views.

I'd also point a couple links to your articles.... there are a lot of ways to do it for free, bookmarking sites, forums, squidoo, facebook, whatever free resource is a good one.

I'm sorry to agree with everyone else, but the second title is more compelling. I would also consider using some numbers in your title, such as, the top 3 ways people are making money at home. In my experience, lists tend to attract views.

I'd have to agree with those who "blame" the title.

The second title promises to help me out some way. The first impression I get from your title is that you are going to prove that you can't make money at home.

Can one of the people on this thread who attributed the difference to incoming links please tell me what tool I would need to use to see these alleged links?

Yahoo Site Explorer shows 0 inlinks.

Google shows 0 links.

Mikkosant, and especially Alexis, will you two be my new best friends?

This thread absolutely blows my mind. Mikkosant gave the correct answer, and Alexis pointed it out that he was the only one to give the correct answer, only for both of them to be ignored by basically everyone else in the thread, and the poor OP basically telling Alexis that she is wrong and thank goodness everyone else steered him/her in the "right" direction!

Um, these two people were the only ones who actually CLICKED THE LINKS the OP gave in the thread, did 5 minutes of research, and discovered why the discrepancy existed. (Black hat tactics by the other article author.)

It has NOTHING to do with the title!

And the funniest part of all....the OP never even asked about their title!!!

Other than the generic "why do I have fewer page views than this guy", this was the only specific question the OP asked:

I'm absolutely blown away by the fact that so many people are trying to jump in and "see" things that simply aren't there. It's a heavy reminder that on a forum of this size with so many people, you really do have to pay close attention to who(m) you listen to.

Anyway, I'm normally a little more PC and laid back than this, but I'm still having trouble picking my jaw up off the floor after reading the whole thing.

Mikkosant and Alexis.....friend requests are incoming.