Article Marketing for Traffic

According to Ezine Articles, the average article generates between 25 and 250 views per year and has an average CTR (click through rate) of about 3%.

So your 18 views is not particularly good but your CTR is great. How many of the 5 converted?

For views it could be that you need more attention grabbing titles, better keyword research, or the competition in your niche is high. Your clickthrough rate is good though.

But the real traffic comes from syndication not article directories.

Have you been building backlinks to your article, its not just a case of submit it and see how it goes, you need to build backlinks to your Ezine articles.

It is definitely all about submitting several hundred. You should be writing a few articles every day if you're looking into article marketing as a way to build your traffic.

I'd say a minimum of 2 per day if you have another project you're working on, like creating a product or something else really important.

If you're just focusing on building traffic to your offer, you could do 5-10 per day and also consider another source like video too, submitting 1-2 videos per day.

Internet marketing is marketing... it's all about the numbers. The more articles you write, the more views you'll get, the more clicks you'll get and ultimately more sales.

I have found that writing a few articles first and checking to see if you get natural traffic is a good way to start. Then start to work on articles that already have traffic

EZA send out a great report each month showing your articles and how they perform. Also, they give you keywords that people use to find your article.

Remember, what people search for in EZA can be completely different from what they search for in Google.

There are a bunch of different answers to this. However, simply publishing more articles won't increase the views you get.

An easy solution is to Tweet each article, share it on your Facebook page, bookmark it - just get it out there, so that people don't have to physically log onto the directories to know that it's out there.

However, you could be making mistakes in your actual writing that's holding you back - that you may not be able to fix with promotion.

As a couple of posters have pointed out, your titles may not be good enough. After all, visitors on article directories have tons of different articles to choose from. Most simply scan and look for a title that grabs their attention. If your title doesn't stand out, you're not going to get as many views.

And, you'll need to make sure that your target keyword comes as close to the beginning of the title as possible. For example, if your target keyword is "piano tuning", the title "Piano Tuning - 5 Tips for Doing it Yourself" is a much better title than "5 Tips for Doing Piano Tuning Yourself".

Also, are you properly optimizing the body of your articles with the right keywords? If your articles are optimized, you have a much better chance of getting them to appear in the search engine results (and, thus, getting the potential for more views)

I get very few views on my articles too. I think that is because I don't have very many articles published, and the competition is stiff. It helps to build links to your profile page. Just look at Angela.

Her article about backlinks has about 10 backlinks.

goarticles.com/article/Backlinks-What-they-are-and-how-to-get-them/1151743/

The article itself has as of right now 98,589 views. Not too shabby. My articles have a dozen views each...

If you're looking to get more people ON the article directories to
look at your article, you'll have to:

* pick a niche with a lot of interest
* write on a topic that's hot and trending
* grab attention with a punchy headline
* get on 'lists' (like Most Recent or Most Viewed on EzineArticles.com)

If you want to maximize your chances of having your article viewed
even OUTSIDE the directories, you've got to make them attractive for
content syndicators and publishers who will re-use it.

* write in-depth valuable content
* avoid being self-promotional (or even promotional)
* word count should be ideal for their needs (usually 800 to 1,200)
* write about topics that are relevant to their audience
* be proactive about letting those publishers/syndicators know

And yes, it is a numbers game. If you write 10 articles, one of them
may be a winner. If you write 100, ten of them might. And so on

Hope this helps.

All success
Dr.Mani

Bookmark your article and use across the backlink building to get more exposure

Some articles will only get you few hundred views a year.
Some will get you several thousand a day.

Those two sentences will not tell you which is the more successful article.

If you're marketing a technical ebook on restoring and repairing old typewriters then your articles will not get many page views because not many people are searching for information on old typewriters.

If you're marketing something like Hoodia then you can get thousands of page views and still not make many sales.

Articles unless they are really bad will always bring you traffic. Whether the traffic you get gets you any money is an entirely different matter.

Please do not get me discouraged because, i am bent on article marketing business. I have done a bit research and that is what i want to do now!!!!!!!!

Don't just focus on EzineArticles for getting traffic to your website.

*You can take that article put it on your blog if you have one.
*You can send your list to your blog.
*Make a short video announcement about the article then submit that video
to video directories.
*Make a podcast and submit that podcast to the podcast directories.
*Use a tool like Onlywire to submit your content to social media sites.

I see one big problem article marketers have is thinking Ezine Articles is the
End All and Be All...I do alot of article marketing and rarely use Ezine Articles.

Hey,

I can tell from my experience (if you're in internet marketing niche), that article directories are DEAD!

So what you should be doing?

What I do is very simple.

I write an article, find a blog that accecpts guest posts and submit my article there! In 24h I get 5-150 opt-ins! Much more effective.

Yoy may also submit your articles to popular sites in your niche. If you're in internet marketing, you may submit your articles to these sites:

Site-Reference.com, BetterNetworker.com, BloggersBase.com, BlogEngage.com,
and FamousBloggers.net.

keyword research and SEO.