Temporary surge for my EZine article and then back to nothing

11 years ago

Originally Posted by alphabanter

Hi all. This is a weird one. I submitted my EZine article about 6 months ago. Now about a month ago, I had a temporary surge in visitors to my EZine article and in turn, some of those visitors visited my main website. I saw an immediate spike in Google Analytics for my main website and the visitors were coming from EZine.

However, that temporary surge for the EZine article was short lived and only lasted for several days. Now everything is back to normal.

Has anybody else experienced this with EZine? It's as if EZine showcased my article for several days - that's the only explanation I can think of. However, when I visited EZine during the spike, I could not find my article being showcased anywhere!

Spikes can happen for a number of reasons. You mentioned "my Ezine article"
Is this the only one or is it just one of several. Consistency is the key. Become prolific in writing and submitting. Activity is one of the key factors in success on the internet

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kevyiba

11 years ago

I expect that someone used your article in their ezine which they sent to their list and/or used it for their blog.

This would create a splurge of traffic. This is the whole point of EZine so that people can share your articles and drive traffic to your site

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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by kevyiba

I expect that someone used your article in their ezine which they sent to their list and/or used it for their blog.

That wouldn't normally explain it. Normally, the traffic would click from the published version on the resource-box link, and not be coming to the OP's site from EZA as he said.

Originally Posted by alphabanter

Has anybody else experienced this with EZine?

I used to, in the past, sometimes.

What's sometimes happened is that someone's published a link to your EZA article (rather than the article itself) somewhere (maybe in an ezine?), and people have clicked on that link and read the article inside EZA. Rather a pity, of course, because you lose a lot of that traffic (we all do - nobody's click-through rate is 100%!) and it would be much better to get them all going directly to the copy of the article you originally published and had indexed on your own site before you submitted it to EZA. (And you can often get them going there instead!).

No article marketer, for all the reasons explained in this post, would want to have potential customer traffic visiting an article in an article directory: that isn't who those copies are there for at all.

This thread may help/interest you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

The question you should be asking yourself is perhaps "Whatever happened with that EZA article - even if I don't know exactly what it was - how can I make it happen with my website instead of EZA's website?".

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Eutaw

11 years ago

I have heard lots people express the same problem with Ezine articles. I agree with Jeff above, create more articles (good ones & new content) and that can only help your results. At times Ezine does not rank like it did a few years ago. Since it is free..keep going to create more articles which will give you more exposure!

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BackLinkiT 11 years ago

It could have simply bounced into google for a time and then bounced out again?
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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Eutaw

I have heard lots people express the same problem with Ezine articles.

Who said anything about a "problem"? :confused:

Originally Posted by Eutaw

At times Ezine does not rank like it did a few years ago.

True - and this is a good thing for article marketers (as so many of us have been saying here, so consistently, for a couple of years), not a bad thing. For all the reasons explained here, the last thing we'd want is for our potential customers to find our articles in an article directory rather than on our own websites.

But the situation being discussed here has nothing to do with how EZA "ranks", anyway.

This wasn't "SEO traffic" ... at least, that seems terribly unlikely, to put it mildly!

Originally Posted by Eutaw

Since it is free..keep going to create more articles which will give you more exposure!

EZA (and other article directories) are for exposure of your articles only to potential publishers, not to potential customers.

This thread may help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

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alphabanter

11 years ago

Thanks for all the responses! I had no idea that it's common practice to include another Ezine article in your Ezine and the effect this has on traffic.

I only know from Google Analytics that the visitors came from Ezine. Would be nice to know in Ezine where the visitors came from but I don't see that functionality.

FYI, my Ezine article that got a boost was this: http://ezinearticles.com/?Top-Forums...ion&id=7378498

Is there any way to check if my EZine was included in somebody's blog or EZine?

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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by alphabanter

Is there any way to check if my EZine was included in somebody's blog or EZine?

Blog: you can check this simply by putting a ten-word chunk from your article (the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next is good) into Google, between "inverted commas" and seeing what comes up in the SERP's. Check the "supplemental index" as well as the main index normally displayed. If it's been indexed anywhere else, it will show up.

Ezine: these are sent to their subscribers by email, so not unless it's an ezine of which a copy is also archived online (in which case the above method will show you).

What you describe above suggests, though, that a link to the article (i.e. rather than the article itself) has been published somewhere, as that would account for your traffic surge coming from EZA. You can try putting the article's URL into Google, in the same way, to try to discover this (but, again, if it was in a non-archived ezine, you won't find it).

(You've done well to get this accepted by EZA, with a link to your own forum in the text of the article: strictly speaking, lists in the text of the article are supposed to be "non-self-serving"!

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alphabanter

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Blog: you can check this simply by putting a ten-word chunk from your article (the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next is good) into Google, between "inverted commas" and seeing what comes up in the SERP's. Check the "supplemental index" as well as the main index normally displayed. If it's been indexed anywhere else, it will show up.

Ezine: these are sent to their subscribers by email, so not unless it's an ezine of which a copy is also archived online (in which case the above method will show you).

What you describe above suggests, though, that a link to the article (i.e. rather than the article itself) has been published somewhere, as that would account for your traffic surge coming from EZA. You can try putting the article's URL into Google, in the same way, to try to discover this (but, again, if it was in a non-archived ezine, you won't find it).

(You've done well to get this accepted by EZA, with a link to your own forum in the text of the article: strictly speaking, lists in the text of the article are supposed to be "non-self-serving"!

).

Thanks, I put in the first sentence of my article into Google but only one other result came up in some spam site (and it only shows in Google's cached version).

I suppose it will remain a mystery where the traffic surge came from. But at least I have some guesses based on replies from everyone

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Sleinad

11 years ago

Yep just changes in SERPs probably...is there no way to see within ezine articles? Some sort of analytics?

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RobinInTexas

11 years ago

Were the visitors real human traffic? or were they bots or spammers? What kind of bounce rate?

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alphabanter 11 years ago

Originally Posted by RobinInTexas

Were the visitors real human traffic? or were they bots or spammers? What kind of bounce rate?

I think some were human, some were bots. A few actually tried to search for other stock tickers on my website so those had to be human (unless my site got hit by a bot specifically made for stock sites, which is unlikely).
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