Over 52200 views at ezine in less than 3 months with one article?

18 years ago

All doubters of the power of EZA are now converted.

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Robert Thorne 18 years ago

Have any of the big article marketers here had articles do this well before?

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James Schramko

18 years ago

You just busted this guys picnic wide open. I can see the warrors writing PLR packs and building blogs as you read this....

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Franck Silvestre

18 years ago

Hmm,

Let's see...

1. The article on Google first page for this keyword (from another marketer) got 8000 view since 2005...:

A Look at Laser Acne Treatment
This article has been viewed 8223 time(s).
Article Submitted On: July 13, 2005

2. I had a look at some of his articles, and they wasn't so successful:

Acne Medicine Exposed
This article has been viewed 59 time(s).
Article Submitted On: October 24, 2008

3. His article is the first in the most viewed articles on EA, and the article just below him (2nd) isn't close to his (only 5767 views):

3 Deadly Reasons Why People Get Acne - You Will Never Get Rid of Acne Unless You Know This
This article has been viewed 5767 time(s).
Article Submitted On: September 12, 2008

Conclusion:

I think he is promoting his article via web 2.0 sites,

or

just like you said, he sent his ezinearticle to email lists.

or (unrealistic...)

He is promoting his article via PPC?!

Interesting... I'll be watching this thread to see what other warriors think about this phenomenom.

Anyway, if the number are real, his recent articles (outside the acne niche are not so successful)

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Marhelper 18 years ago

Awesome job ... I just hit 10,000 with 1 article and thought that was good but 52k in such a short period of time, wow! Hopefully the CTR is good too.
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James Schramko

18 years ago

Originally Posted by aboutalhah

Hmm,

Let's see...

1. The article on Google first page for this keyword (from another marketer) got 8000 view since 2005...:

A Look at Laser Acne Treatment
This article has been viewed 8223 time(s).
Article Submitted On: July 13, 2005

2. I had a look at some of his articles, and they wasn't so successful:

Acne Medicine Exposed
This article has been viewed 59 time(s).
Article Submitted On: October 24, 2008

3. His article is the first in the most viewed articles on EA, and the article just below him (2nd) isn't close to his (only 5767 views):

3 Deadly Reasons Why People Get Acne - You Will Never Get Rid of Acne Unless You Know This
This article has been viewed 5767 time(s).
Article Submitted On: September 12, 2008

Conclusion:

I think he is promoting his article via web 2.0 sites,

or

just like you said, he sent his ezinearticle to email lists.

or (unrealistic...)

He is promoting his article via PPC?!

Interesting... I'll be watching this thread to see what other warriors think about this phenomenom.

Anyway, if the number are real, his recent articles (outside the acne niche are not so successful)

Franck

I think you are close to this secret. I am pretty certain I know how he is doing it and it is an irregular method.

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18 years ago

Originally Posted by aboutalhah

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Conclusion:

I think he is promoting his article via web 2.0 sites,

or

just like you said, he sent his ezinearticle to email lists.

or (unrealistic...)

He is promoting his article via PPC?!
..

Franck, nice detective work but the most realistic conclusion is:
the person is manipulating the number of views to get the article on "most viewed" pages on that article directory.

It's VERY EASY to manipulate the number of views there. I don't want to give any ideas but it's TOO EASY.

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Robert Thorne 18 years ago

Originally Posted by James Schramko

You just busted this guys picnic wide open. I can see the warrors writing PLR packs and building blogs as you read this....

Didn't Think about that James. I was so flabergasted that I had to get over here right away and make the post to see what the warriors thought. Personally I'm still thinking it's a mistake in the stats by EZA.

None of his other articles come even close to the number of views this one has received for this one so I'm really wondering what makes this one different? Could be an interesting case study for everyone.

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grumpyjacksa

18 years ago

and i recall recent threads about article marketing not working, and being overrated and outdated.....

makes you think, doesn't it ?

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naruq 18 years ago

Article marketing works especially when your articles are written about a targeted niche market.
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James Schramko 18 years ago

Originally Posted by grumpyjacksa

and i recall recent threads about article marketing not working, and being overrated and outdated.....

makes you think, doesn't it ?

Consider that this one extreme example.
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Franck Silvestre

18 years ago

Update:

Do the maths...

Look at the first article on the list:

Free Reverse Cell Phone Lookup Websites - Do They Exist? by David Down

Most Viewed Articles

1 Millions + view since July 9, 2007

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Robert Thorne

18 years ago

Originally Posted by aboutalhah

Update:

Do the maths...

Look at the first article on the list:

Free Reverse Cell Phone Lookup Websites - Do They Exist? by David Down

Most Viewed Articles

1 Millions + view since July 9, 2007

Franck

Ok Franck,

So we now know the numbers are probably real and not a mistake. Now all we have to do is figure out how these articles get the number of views they do. Is it as simple as your article being picked up by someone with a huge list? Or is there something else at work here?

Any ideas?

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Robert Thorne 18 years ago

Are you going to share with the rest of us James?

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Franck Silvestre

18 years ago

Update:

Do the maths...

Look at the first article on the list:

Free Reverse Cell Phone Lookup Websites - Do They Exist? by David Down

Most Viewed Articles

1 Millions + view since July 9, 2007

Franck

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Franck Silvestre

18 years ago

Yes! Robert and James, I'd like to know this "irregular" secret as well.

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James Schramko

18 years ago

Have you guys heard of mechanical Turk or CPV ?

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Robert Thorne

18 years ago

Originally Posted by James Schramko

I think you are close to this secret. I am pretty certain I know how he is doing it and it is an irregular method.

Originally Posted by James Schramko

Have you guys heard of mechanical Turk or CPV ?

I really don't think he would be paying for each visitor in this case. Don't you think he would be doing the same for his other articles if he was able to get the same results for each one?

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James Schramko

18 years ago

Originally Posted by Robert Thorne

I really don't think he would be paying for each visitor in this case. Don't you think he would be doing the same for his other articles if he was able to get the same results for each one?

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Would you pay $550 to get a top position in EZA for a high priced product?

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Hamida Harland 18 years ago

Originally Posted by James Schramko

Would you pay $550 to get a top position in EZA for a high priced product?

He seems to be sending visitors just to an Adsense site though. Although that particular topic does have high paying clicks I doubt if he paid for a top position (although I could be wrong). I've had a few articles that performed like that and I didn't do anything 'artificial'.
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JamesFraze

18 years ago

I believe fully in the power of quality articles. I wrote one years ago for a client (no longer a client), that was about making "origami shuriken" It still gets 4,000 or so unique visitors each month, though I don't think it has ever broke 5,000 visitors a month.

It was created over 6 years ago.
It was a stupid article
It has bad web design
The copy stinks.

I still think the actual thing (a saw blade like thing) is pretty cool ... 25 years after I learned how to make it. hehe.

it's on the first page of google no matter what way I try to type it. It's been stolen hundreds of times.

Here is what I learned:
1. having fun is the best thing you can do
2. research words that pay
3. monetize the site
4. don't work for anyone on commission unless you have the ability to send them to jail when they don't pay

5. people like stories blended with facts (I broke into class as a 2nd grader and did some corporate espionage to reverse engineer the star that "eddy" had originally made)

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cloudchaser22

18 years ago

This is unbelievable... but how do you guys check how many views an article is getting?

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zeppb 18 years ago

Originally Posted by cloudchaser22

This is unbelievable... but how do you guys check how many views an article is getting?

Just scroll down near the bottom of the page and you'll see the article views and when it was submitted.
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  Originally Posted by zeppb
  
  Just scroll down near the bottom of the page and you'll see the article views and when it was submitted.
  
  Zeppb,
  
  Haha whoa! I didn't even know that was there... thanks for this
  
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18 years ago

An example of the power of artcle marketing.

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KenJ 18 years ago

I don't understand all the doubt and disbelief about this article.

I also have 1 particular article that has performed in a similar way. over 1000 clickthroughs in 2 months from 10000 views.

I am actually disappointed with the click through rate but I like all these visitors

I think that sometimes the keyword and the way the article is written just hits all the right buttons.
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Nicola Lane

18 years ago

Or he could be paying for visitors so that he can claim to have a top viewed article.

I have seeen people on digital point offering to sell hundreds of views to ezine articles.

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Alp Bozkurt

18 years ago

Those astronomic view numbers are usually artificial..

They embed the article page on EZA into their other sites as micro IFRAME. So each time those pages are visited, the view count of EZA article increase at the same time artifically.

Some others buy cheap ppc for their EZA article page using general & irrelevant keywords & ads, say $0.01 each visitor just to inflate the view count.

When the view count reaches a threshold so that it's shown in "most viewed articles" list under each article, the article starts to get huge exposure and this time the view count explodes naturally....

I personally don't find the tactic ethical...

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Alp Bozkurt

18 years ago

Not to mention those "10000 targetted visitors for $50" rip-offs directed to EZA page...

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gcjmarkets

18 years ago

I believe this does show the power of article marketing but more impotantly it show the value of viral marketing. The op posted a link to this article that he had no affiliation with because he was amazed at the amount of views it had recieved in such a short amount of time. This in turn peaked our interest to view the article so we could find out if the writer had done anything special that we could possibly use. Also I noticed links to other high view articles being posted making them more viral.

I believe article marketing will always be very powerful, but I already knew that. What I got from this thread is exactly how powerful viral marketing really is. Thanks for the thread

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James_Harkin

18 years ago

I have a mega free traffic article which was published in my newsletter back in 2004. A lot of it is still valid today and can still generate $50-$100 a day. If anyone would like a PDF copy of it, PM me a message & your email and I'll send it over.

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Franck Silvestre

18 years ago

52K views in three months while the oldest article on the main keyword in the same category get less than 10K views (since 2005).

I think he got too many clicks... The cowboy should slow down.

Now, we get EZA click fraud. What can EZA do?

This is the question...

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cloudchaser22

18 years ago

So... what this guy is doing is perfectly legal then?

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anomaly

18 years ago

great discussion ...

based on the numbers above, it does seem likely they're manipulated in some way ... but yes, once it gets on most viewed articles then all the traffic would come easily ...

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Charann Miller

18 years ago

Wow! Wish all my article views looked like that, I have to say I'm impressed. This is all organic, free range traffic?

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Mike Bogowski

18 years ago

Well this post has assured that he will get a few hundred more views, which will keep him in the most viewed section, which will give him even more views.

The bigger articles tend to dominate for a long time. Ive seen counts this high before, although Ive never been fortunate to have one that high myself

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18 years ago

Some of you have asked for a copy of my PDF about mega traffic generation that I published in my newsletter back in 2004. The file is attached. Some of the data is still valid. Enjoy

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Mattangel

18 years ago

There is a guy selling a WSO claiming to know the secrets behind the one million page view article. I haven't read it, but i doubt if it is ethical. In my experience, you cant possibly gain that many page views in such a short time legally.

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18 years ago

Originally Posted by Mattangel

There is a guy selling a WSO claiming to know the secrets behind the one million page view article. I haven't read it, but i doubt if it is ethical. In my experience, you cant possibly gain that many page views in such a short time legally.

If you mean my WSO then there is nothing unethical about my techniques. Please don't comment about a method without checking it out first. Also, it really depends on what is your definition of ethics in this context. If you consider defeating your competitors as unethical then I beg to differ.
Btw, I don't think this guy is doing anything unethical. He is just building backlinks to his article as is evident from 5000+ backlinks shown by yahoo siteexplorer.This actually doesnt harm ezinearticles, but helps it, so it cannot be unethical.

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18 years ago

Originally Posted by Mattangel

There is a guy selling a WSO claiming to know the secrets behind the one million page view article. I haven't read it, but i doubt if it is ethical. In my experience, you cant possibly gain that many page views in such a short time legally.

Your experience is hiding you from the possibilities.

Do you know you can by traffic for less than 1 cent per view?

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braver55b

18 years ago

Originally Posted by Robert Thorne

Hi guys,

I did a double and than a triple take when I saw the views this article has had since september 5th. I understand that this article has probably been picked up by a few big newsletters. However, I still don't see an article getting this many views in under 3 months.

Do you think EZA made a mistake with the number of views or is this another example of the power of article marketing?

Article submitted on September 5th, 2008 and Article Views now at 52656.

This is the article Laser Acne Treatments - Don't Leave Yours to Chance

I am in no way affiliated.

If these are the true stats on this article, what marketing lessons can we learn from this?

Case Study Anyone?

Robert Thorne

P.S I still think there must be some sort of mistake

They really must be raking in the dough and doing things to promote their article on ezinearticles using other techniques, I seriously doubt that it was ezinearticles alone that generated that amount of traffic from either being displayed in google etc or from their user base.