What's your CTR of the articles that you buy at $1.00 / 100 words?

Good question as someone who started making money that way i have a had good reviews on my work but no one actually telling me what their CTR rate is.

I guess it depends on the niche etc.

I pay $1 per 100 words and my CTR over 100 articles is 15% pretty good I think. I don't think the quality of the articles really matter too much, I think other factors determine CTR.

Ernie what factors do you think are the most important?

I don't know a hell of a lot about article marketing, but I have always been interested in this because so many people promote article marketing as a good way to generate traffic, especially when you don't have a lot of money to spend on PPC.

anyway, in the research I have done on the subject, I have come to the conclusion that as long as you have a decent article, the thing that determines if you will get many clicks from it is the resource box. You need to take control and tell the reader what you want them to do, gently of course. I believe that most people are followers, and if you take them by the hand, and tell them to click here, as long as you have their attention and have given them a decent reason to trust or follow you, they will do as they are told.

it is kind of like when you put on a sales pitch, if you don't ask for the order, you are likely not to get it. So, ask for the order, or the reaction you want from them, which is to click your link and go to your offe
Anyway, that is my theory. There was a thread many months ago on this subject, and Steven Wagenheim gave some examples. I copied them and saved them to my hard drive, but it was so long ago that I don't remember what the file was called or where I put it. O well.

Any more input?

Thanks Alexa, you are always helpful.

Here is some advice...

You can have the best written article in the world...and your click-through rate can be next to nothing. It depends on the topic and that is a definite.

I doubt many people would want to read about an obscure topic that isn't that interesting than about a topic that everyone would love to read about.

Once upon a time I literally threw an article together that had no meat and just the barebones (for my own personal account on ezinearticles) and my CTR is 3.2% or last I checked it was.

The topic itself is more popular and that is the only reason I get click-through's on that article. Otherwise I think it's poorly done to be honest. I wasn't even in the mood that day to write but did it anyway.

Thanks for sharing.