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Is Anyone Really Seeing a High CTR With Ezine Articles?

by jsmith2482
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For your articles that are popular and get a lot of views. Is anyone really seeing a decent daily CTR with ezine articles to their CPA offers, sites or videos? It was never a huge or even secondary source of traffic but as a lower end option it can be helpful.
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  • Profile picture of the author Wechito
    Depending on the niche. My average CTR is 20%. However, in articles on the IM niche, it is less than 4% while for some other niches I have CTR as high as 40%, what I think is a pretty good CTR.
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    • Profile picture of the author doorkicker13
      I only have two articles on Ezine so far, they have gotten a decent number of views, but haven't generated much traffic for me. I'm trying to figure out how to write better articles that will encourage people to click. Seems like a trial and error type of process.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        At one time, I used to have a steady average CTR around 38% at EZA.

        Then I made some big changes in the sort of articles I was submitting there, which improved my income enormously (especially longer-term income) from my articles, but it did also bring my average CTR down to about 18%.

        It's still about 18% there now, but my income's still expanding steadily from submitting there.

        I'm just mentioning it in case otherwise anyone assumes that increasing their CTR is necessarily going to increase their income, because that's a very unwise assumption.
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        • Profile picture of the author jsmith2482
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          At one time, I used to have a steady average CTR around 38% at EZA.

          Then I made some big changes in the sort of articles I was submitting there, which improved my income enormously (especially longer-term income) from my articles, but it did also bring my average CTR down to about 18%.

          It's still about 18% there now, but my income's still expanding steadily from submitting there.

          I'm just mentioning it in case otherwise anyone assumes that increasing their CTR is necessarily going to increase their income, because that's a very unwise assumption.
          I'll bite....

          Were you making money with the 38% CTR or were they just clicks? Do you click through to a CPA offer?
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          • Profile picture of the author myob
            The CTR from EZA is insignificant compared to the much larger potential of being sourced out by high PR sites and authority outlets such as blogs and ezines.
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          • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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            Originally Posted by jsmith2482 View Post

            Were you making money with the 38% CTR or were they just clicks?
            I was making some money. Not a lot; but "some".

            At the time that I had the 38% average CTR, I was "writing for clicks". Because I was new to internet marketing, and didn't know what I was doing at all, I made the natural and understandable (I think ) mistake of assuming that the general consensus of opinion about article marketing which I read in forums and in beginners' guides was "information" (rather than what it really is - "misinformation") and that I could get guidance (rather than "misguidance") from it.

            So I submitted large numbers of shorter-length articles (around 500 words or so) with a "call to action" resource-box, tried to make my CTR as high as possible, made every other classic mistake that a newbie article marketer can make, and did get some traffic to my site from EZA. And did make some sales. As one will tend to, "by force", if one does enough of almost anything and keeps frantically rinsing and repeating it all the damn time. :p

            But of course it was a thankless task in the long run, because the traffic eventually dried up, and my articles (for reasons I didn't understand then) never went any further than my own sites and article directories and places I myself submitted/posted them to. So I was furiously "rinsing and repeating" and not earning all that much out of it. Certainly not seeing any true residual income from the work I'd done. And definitely not building an asset-based business in any meaningful sense of the words at all.

            In short, I was naive enough to imagine that I was doing "article marketing"; but I was only really doing "article directory marketing", which was, of course, my whole problem.

            Originally Posted by jsmith2482 View Post

            Do you click through to a CPA offer?
            No; I have no real experience of CPA at all. Most of my income comes from Clickbank.

            Originally Posted by laurenswuyts View Post

            I always see very high CTR.
            Yes; I used to, but I didn't make very much money out of it.

            Now I have a much lower CTR, my income's far, far bigger, and the residual income's growing through syndication (of the lower CTR articles without all the "classic newbie mistakes": the higher CTR ones are still sitting there but now almost "dead"), and has been for nearly 2 years.

            The point (as so often) is in Paul's post above (#6).
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  • Profile picture of the author laurenswuyts
    Ezinearticles is the best article directory, I always see very high CTR.
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  • Profile picture of the author halopm1
    My click through rate has always varied with EzineArticles. I have some articles that pull really well and others that do nothing at all. So I think it's a combination of having quality content coupled with a topic that people are interested in.

    Though you could get around the low click through rates by submitting a ton of articles. You end up beating the odds just by the shear amount of content out there.
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