10-Week Statistics For 10 Article Directories

by Bill_Z
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Hey - This might interest you article guys.

Just took a look at my Google Analytics for one particular landing page I drive traffic to via an article marketing campaign (beauty niche). Basically I have a VA write one article per day, and submit to 10 article directories, every day. I just looked at my stats for the last 10 weeks (starting Dec 1). Total pageviews to my landing page were 2171.

Here were the number of views I got to my landing page from the 10 article directories:

EzineArticles: 1407

ArticlesBase: 198

GoArticles: <5

Article Alley: 11

Idea Marketers: 35

Amazines: 6

Article Click: <5

Article Trader: <5

Article City: <5

Search Warp: 60

I don't do SEO for any submitted article BTW, we just submit and that's it. I also used DistributeYourArticles but I'm going to cancel. The amount of traffic I get isn't worth the extra money IMO. I can't even check where my articles are located from their list of submissions. They just give me a list of the TLD's and not a direct link to my article, so for all I know nothing is being submitted. I tried searching for the articles on those respective sites but the search results return thousands of possibilities. Going to spend that money elsewhere.

Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
    Bill,

    Those are some pretty cool numbers to see and they seem pretty consistent with what I get. However, I am a bit surprised with goarticles because I usually get a good amount of clicks from there.

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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Thanks for posting these, Bill. I also generally do a little better from GoArticles, but the distribution/proportions of the figures could otherwise have been mine, from when I was submitting to about 9 different article directories. And I agree with your decision to cancel DYA.
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    • Profile picture of the author TimG
      Originally Posted by Bill_Z View Post

      Yea I was surprised by GoArticles too. Not really sure what happened there...
      it could be the niche topic. Some directories perform better with certain niches then others.

      Not sure why other then perhaps the quality of their published content is strong for certain niches and weaker in others causing Google to take notice and then rank their articles accordingly thus indirectly contributing to page view patterns.

      Respectfully,
      Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author cma01
    EzineArticles: 1407

    ArticlesBase: 198
    Bill,

    Have you noticed which sites your articles get republished the most from?

    I haven't really looked at the views on my articles, but just from checking backlinks, I've gotten the most republishing from ArticleBase.
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    • Profile picture of the author tpw
      Originally Posted by cma01 View Post

      Bill,

      Have you noticed which sites your articles get republished the most from?

      I haven't really looked at the views on my articles, but just from checking backlinks, I've gotten the most republishing from ArticleBase.

      That was one of my two questions:

      1. Which one syndicates the most? and

      2. Which one leads to the most sales conversions?


      p.s. I have no doubt that those traffic numbers are accurate. But CTR traffic is only one metric to track.
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      • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
        Originally Posted by tpw View Post

        That was one of my two questions:

        1. Which one syndicates the most? and

        2. Which one leads to the most sales conversions?


        p.s. I have no doubt that those traffic numbers are accurate. But CTR traffic is only one metric to track.
        I am also curious to these stats. I know that different articles perform differently and some of the best articles I have written didn't give me the highest CTR. Sometimes the ones that I feel are utter crap, but submit anyway, return the best actual CTR.

        Benjamin Ehinger
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      • Profile picture of the author paj_mccarthy
        Originally Posted by tpw View Post

        That was one of my two questions:

        1. Which one syndicates the most? and

        2. Which one leads to the most sales conversions?


        p.s. I have no doubt that those traffic numbers are accurate. But CTR traffic is only one metric to track.
        Absolutely.

        I'm constantly surprised by test results. Sometimes the strangest changes yield the most impressive that would seemingly defy logic.
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    • Profile picture of the author HostStage
      Originally Posted by cma01 View Post

      Bill,

      Have you noticed which sites your articles get republished the most from?

      I haven't really looked at the views on my articles, but just from checking backlinks, I've gotten the most republishing from ArticleBase.
      Same here !
      With ezine, I`m on first spot for most viewed articles with at least 500-1000 views in each article and still i`m not quoted as i was expecting...
      But with articlebase, i receive pingback notices like daily...
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      • Profile picture of the author packerfan
        Thanks for sharing. It kinda confirms what I believed to be true. There are only a couple directories worth submitting to if driving traffic is you're main objective.

        If you're getting links, I suppose it's different.

        Have you considered only submitting to the top 3-4 but submitting more articles? Seems like it may be a bigger payoff.
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        • Profile picture of the author Bill_Z
          Originally Posted by cma01 View Post

          Bill,

          Have you noticed which sites your articles get republished the most from?

          I haven't really looked at the views on my articles, but just from checking backlinks, I've gotten the most republishing from ArticleBase.
          Yep ArticlesBase for me too.

          Originally Posted by tpw View Post

          That was one of my two questions:

          1. Which one syndicates the most? and

          2. Which one leads to the most sales conversions?


          p.s. I have no doubt that those traffic numbers are accurate. But CTR traffic is only one metric to track.
          Conversion rate is the best from Articlesbase, followed by Ezine. Overall conversion rate of views/sales was about 1.2%. This was going straight from the article to the landing page which was a sales video so I'm pretty happy with this sales video so far.

          Originally Posted by donhx View Post

          Thanks for posting. I'm always in the quality of the articles that got the kind of response you got. Any comment on that? Do you set any writing standards for your VA? What is your niche?
          This was for the beauty niche. I review the articles the writing team submits, and while not every article is wonderful I am quite satisfied with their work. Only mistakes they make are very tiny grammatical errors.

          Originally Posted by packerfan View Post

          Thanks for sharing. It kinda confirms what I believed to be true. There are only a couple directories worth submitting to if driving traffic is you're main objective.

          If you're getting links, I suppose it's different.

          Have you considered only submitting to the top 3-4 but submitting more articles? Seems like it may be a bigger payoff.
          In my experience, the links I get from articles are not worth the time, money, or effort. They haven't increased my ranking for anything other than an extremely, extremely low competition keyword. At this point I don't perform article marketing or frame the resource box for backlinks, it's strictly for traffic.

          Yes, I'm probably going to submit to just top five and lower my rate. Or I might add another article, submit to top five, and increase my rate slightly. I'll probably do the latter.
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          • Profile picture of the author tpw
            Originally Posted by Bill_Z View Post

            Syndication:

            Yep ArticlesBase for me too.


            Conversion Rates:

            Conversion rate is the best from Articlesbase, followed by Ezine. Overall conversion rate of views/sales was about 1.2%. This was going straight from the article to the landing page which was a sales video so I'm pretty happy with this sales video so far.

            OK, I am going to make it a little more difficult for you -- not because I am an ass... Even though I am... But because I really want to know if you have dug this deep into the numbers...

            EZA is producing 7.5 times the traffic that ArticlesBase is...

            Is the ArticlesBase conversion rates high enough to make it more profitable for you than EZA?

            In other words, ArticlesBase would probably need to convert at 7.5 times that of EZA to bring the dollars earned from the two directories Even-Steven...

            I doubt if ArticlesBase converts at a level that much higher, but you have the opportunity to prove me wrong...


            Second question:

            If you add the traffic from the sites that syndicated the articles from the directories, and combined them to show global traffic numbers resulting from placement in each directory -- via direct clicks and clicks from syndication of the article -- how much closer are the numbers, if at all?

            Depending on the depth of your tracking capabilities, it is likely more difficult to track sales from those syndication outlets.

            Do you have any numbers to add from those sources?
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    • Profile picture of the author schttrj
      Originally Posted by cma01 View Post

      Bill,

      Have you noticed which sites your articles get republished the most from?

      I haven't really looked at the views on my articles, but just from checking backlinks, I've gotten the most republishing from ArticleBase.
      Well, for me, here are the sites that gets my articles republished the most (though not all sites stats checked):
      • EZA - most republished!
      • ArticlesBase
      • GoArticles
      • ArticleAlley

      There you go!
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  • Profile picture of the author jhnbrwn
    Ezine Article is the best directory which not only returns you the value of your writing but also gives you a lot of motivation to write and publish more and more for so many reasons, the big no. is the the big motivation; just for an example.
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  • Profile picture of the author jslee
    My results are not as dramatic as that but yes. Some article directories does not do much for traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author George Phillip
    Great test. This is a testament about the power of article marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author donhx
    Thanks for posting. I'm always in the quality of the articles that got the kind of response you got. Any comment on that? Do you set any writing standards for your VA? What is your niche?
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  • Profile picture of the author Bill_Z
    Hey there Bill -

    First question: Nope the conversation rate is definitely not high enough to make AB more profitable than EZ. The rate was only a tad higher, EZ is by far the most profitable.

    Second: I actually don't track that, but I wish I did have some of those numbers. Would be interesting for sure
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  • Profile picture of the author schttrj
    Originally Posted by Bill_Z View Post

    Hey - This might interest you article guys.

    Just took a look at my Google Analytics for one particular landing page I drive traffic to via an article marketing campaign (beauty niche). Basically I have a VA write one article per day, and submit to 10 article directories, every day. I just looked at my stats for the last 10 weeks (starting Dec 1). Total pageviews to my landing page were 2171.

    Here were the number of views I got to my landing page from the 10 article directories:

    EzineArticles: 1407

    ArticlesBase: 198

    GoArticles: <5

    Article Alley: 11

    Idea Marketers: 35

    Amazines: 6

    Article Click: <5

    Article Trader: <5

    Article City: <5

    Search Warp: 60

    I don't do SEO for any submitted article BTW, we just submit and that's it. I also used DistributeYourArticles but I'm going to cancel. The amount of traffic I get isn't worth the extra money IMO. I can't even check where my articles are located from their list of submissions. They just give me a list of the TLD's and not a direct link to my article, so for all I know nothing is being submitted. I tried searching for the articles on those respective sites but the search results return thousands of possibilities. Going to spend that money elsewhere.

    Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author AdamNolan
    Good job. I guess ArticlesBase is an excellent article directory.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea Wilson
    What an interesting statistics for article directories. I think this summarizes everything and maybe I should take another look on which directories I am submitting to.

    Andrea
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  • Profile picture of the author jslee
    I come across a thread here that talks highly of articleblast and articlerich but I do not see them mentioned anywhere else. Anyone tried those?
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Carl Kelly
    By the way, I had my team research Google search results for keywords in all of the niches we are in. My aim was to have them find the first article directory article to show up in the SERPs. As it turns out...

    Buzzle is currently kicking EZA's behind in just about every niche we researched. Over and over again, a Buzzle article link showed up ahead of an EZA link for the particular keywords we researched. I imagine this could be due to Buzzle's "original, unpublished articles only" policy.

    On top of that, Buzzle's PR for their front page and categories is the same as EZA.
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    • Profile picture of the author schttrj
      Originally Posted by Steven Carl Kelly View Post

      By the way, I had my team research Google search results for keywords in all of the niches we are in. My aim was to have them find the first article directory article to show up in the SERPs. As it turns out...

      Buzzle is currently kicking EZA's behind in just about every niche we researched. Over and over again, a Buzzle article link showed up ahead of an EZA link for the particular keywords we researched. I imagine this could be due to Buzzle's "original, unpublished articles only" policy.

      On top of that, Buzzle's PR for their front page and categories is the same as EZA.
      That is strange 'coz most of my Hubs and EZA articles rank higher than any other article directories for that matter...
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