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Too Much Traffic from Google - not articles

by KenJ
10 replies
I have now been writng articles for 3 months in 4 niches. I am getting 20 -60 daily unique visitors to each site but most of these are coming from google. I was expecting all my traffic to come from the articles rather than google.

The split is about 75% google, 20% ezine articles, 5% other

The benefit of this is that I know what keywords people are finding me with. But how come the articles are not outperforming google?
#articles #google traffic
  • Profile picture of the author imb
    It may be due to more backlinks to your website. Do you have some backlinks to your site?
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    • Profile picture of the author KenJ
      I have a few backlinks to each site but I haven't really done much of that yet as I do not fully understand it
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  • Profile picture of the author sparrow
    Are you saying the articles are being found in Google then coming to you?

    Or is your site listed in Google and they are coming to you that way.

    Very interesting.

    Ed
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  • Profile picture of the author imb
    It may be due to the backlinks but anyway why are you complaining that your website actually outperforms the arcticle sites? Isn't it the ideal scenario?
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    • Profile picture of the author KenJ
      Hi Sparrow

      I am saying they are coming direct to my sites from google.
      Google analytics shows me on a graph where the traffic comes from.

      I am not complaining - its just with all the ra ra ra stuff about articles I was expecting more than google.
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      • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
        An insiders look at the issue might show that Google is doing some really weird stuff with article results right now. Give it a couple of weeks and we'll see what happens.

        Is this a change for your articles/website, or has it been like this since you started 4 months ago?

        AL
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        Every day I check the obituaries. If I don't see my name there, then I know it's going to be a good day!
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        • Profile picture of the author MoaddinFM
          I would be happy if nearly all my traffic came from google :-P

          Martin
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          • Profile picture of the author Neil S
            Wow I wish I was in your situation. Right now I get less than 1% of my traffic from Google.
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        • Profile picture of the author KenJ
          The google percentage has increased in the last 6 weeks. Before that it was mainly from ezine articles

          All the sites are new wordpress blog sites. I blog 2/3 times per week on each one as well as posting different articles to the EA directory.

          I think it may be the strength of the wordpress platform and the SEO plug in but as I am learning it is hard to analyse intelligently
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