you would be amazed at what the search function here at the Warrior Forum can do

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Thanks for share, I'm a newbie here and so I want to learn more things from different great people on this amazing forum.

With apologies, I'm the worst person in the world to offer anything like "technical advice".

And "technical advice" is what you're really asking here, if you feel you need a way of monitoring that.

I don't see how it will help much, myself.

What exactly would you do, to "prioritise" them, having worked out who they are? Call me a skepchick but I don't really see the benefit. If a publisher has a magazine/newspaper/blog/ezine/website that's relevant to your niche, you should just send your article there and try to add him to your syndication-list. Once he's already published one (the situation you're asking about?) he's on your syndication-list, and you'll offer him future articles and build a relationship with him. It doesn't really make any difference what his traffic's like and how much of it there is, does it? The point is that there's no downside. So I'm struggling to see why you'd want to "prioritise" some? The difficult thing - the time-consuming part of the business - is finding as many as possible.

I suppose in a sense, it would be be great to have so many that you need to think about which ones are the best (though I still don't really see how it would help you), but that's probably not going to happen.

The time-consuming issue most people find is identifying and successfully approaching more/enough places, not in somehow "classifying"/"categorising" the ones they've already found.

Sorry if I'm missing your point altogether (wouldn't be the first time ) but how would it help you?

Only confusion, sorry, Rich. I can't immediately understand why this would be helpful to you, at all. What did I miss here? Tell me more, and I'll try to answer again: at the moment I don't quite see what benefit/purpose you're driving at; sorry!


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When I was writing articles for syndication, I always tracked every stage of the marketing process including article conversions by publisher referral sources. This is one of the very few aspects of article syndication of which I disagree with Alexa.

IMO, there is no better substitute for evaluating article syndication results than bottom line ROI. However, establishing metrics for measuring effectiveness should be applied to every stage of your marketing efforts, not limited to just article response. For example, continually track the sales process such as traffic source, funnel system, filters (lead qualification), follow-up, product mix, repeat sales rate, etc.

Because of the extensive resources used in producing and distributing each article, accurate tracking for me was essential. This particular method may not be helpful to you except perhaps for illustration, but I tracked articles using a short source code appended to the link in the resource box.

Every publisher in my syndication network was assigned a four-symbol alphanumeric code, and every article also had a unique identifier such as a modified Julian date. For example: mysite.com/?ABCD4091801 indicates the originating source and which article (first article written on 1/10/2012) resulted in the call to action click.

While not exact, the revenue from sales extracted from each publisher source was amortized over the number of articles submitted, giving a general average ROI of the articles. The more successful articles were then submitted to other outlets such as relevant websites, ezines, blogs, and offline publications.

Although there were additional sales made from opt-in subscribers and other integrated marketing channels as a direct result of these articles, this is considered ancillary marketing, which results are all tracked separately. The importance of knowing how much profit (or loss) is in your marketing processes and business activities cannot be over emphasized.