How to get more than 5,000 views for an article in little over a month

13 years ago

There are a lot of paid click services being offered. For a small fee, these services will get people to click on your articles to raise the perceived viewed rate. You just can't believe these viewed figures any more.

Just Google 'get paid to click'.

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steveniam

13 years ago

Right. Just pay a few dollars and you will get all the clicks you want.

I know a friend do it quite a few months ago but I am not sure whether they have already clamp down on such practices.

Originally Posted by AnniePot

There a lot of paid click services being offered. For a small fee, these services will get people to click on your articles to raise the perceived viewed rate. You just can't believe these viewed figures any more.

Just Google 'get paid to click'.

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Britt Malka

13 years ago

It's against their rules. However, there's more to it, I think, because okay, let's say that they don't figure out that this man with 4 articles with each 48,000 views has used a paid to click service.

Should they really have overlooked, too, that in each of his 4 articles, he has a self-serving link in the article body? (Which is still against the editorial guidelines).

Hm... I smell a rat...

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Victor Edson

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Britt Malka

Should they really have overlooked, too, that in each of his 4 articles, he has a self-serving link in the article body? (Which is still against the editorial guidelines).

Ezinearticles is a turd. They allow crap like this for SOME people, but reject quality articles all the time. I just went on there earlier today to get an idea for an article to write... and I completely understand why Google slapped them so hard.

Their site is full of junk. Spun garbage every where. 3 of the 5 articles I opened were barely readable! Yet it's their policy to "manually review" every article?

They have "rules" that they allow to be broken, and they payed the price.

Personally, I'm glad... I hate those tools at Ezinearticles. Oh and they'll come here on your post and read it too, because they get google alerts for their name.

Don't be surprised if you bad mouth them online to find your articles... a little harder to get accepted. Just sayin'

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AnniePot

13 years ago

The self serving link is probably located in the Author Bio NOT in the article body. That's one aspect of clever writing, making the body flow completely naturally into the author bio, with its self serving links. This is how I write my articles.

Originally Posted by Britt Malka

It's against their rules. However, there's more to it, I think, because okay, let's say that they don't figure out that this man with 4 articles with each 48,000 views has used a paid to click service.

Should they really have overlooked, too, that in each of his 4 articles, he has a self-serving link in the article body? (Which is still against the editorial guidelines).

Hm... I smell a rat...

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Britt Malka

13 years ago

Originally Posted by AnniePot

The self serving link is probably located in the Author Bio NOT in the article body.

If you had checked the article I mentioned - and the other articles by the same author - you would have known for a fact that it is NOT located in the Author Bio.

A simple word count compared with the word count mentioned on top of the article clears out every doubt about that fact.

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Wills

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Britt Malka

If you had checked the article I mentioned - and the other articles by the same author - you would have known for a fact that it is NOT located in the Author Bio.

A simple word count compared with the word count mentioned on top of the article clears out every doubt about that fact.

Are you talking about the link "best games" in the "How to Judge the Best Games"?

I think the link is in the resource box. This article was maybe approved before the new rules for the word count came into practice. I could be wrong of course.

Also, the link is no follow, so maybe that has something to do with it.

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Britt Malka

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Wills

Are you talking about the link "best games" in the "How to Judge the Best Games"?

I think the link is in the resource box. This article was maybe approved before the new rules for the word count came into practice. I could be wrong of course.

Also, the link is no follow, so maybe that has something to do with it.

The first link is in the article body.

The article was approved after the new rules.

There's a word count on top of every article. It's easy to do a comparison, if you're in doubt about where the resource box starts.

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Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago

Thanks very much for the clarification, Britt. And the research! I admit I'm surprised. Have learned something interesting, here - thank you.

No, I won't be trying self-serving links in the article body, either ... but I know from experience that my way of doing a 2/3-paragraph resource-box sometimes protects me (on syndication) and preserves a link intact, even if the last paragraph gets removed.
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Alexa Smith

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Britt Malka

If you had checked the article I mentioned - and the other articles by the same author - you would have known for a fact that it is NOT located in the Author Bio.

Well I have checked it, and Annie may be quite right, Britt.

I completely see what you mean, and I regularly do the same thing myself. Things are not always quite what they appear to be.

The resource-box may begin at the words "Lastly, judges also look ...", i.e. at the beginning of that paragraph. In which case both the self-serving links are in the resource-box.

That's my guess, but none of us can say with certainty - only an EZA editor knows.

The author decides where the article ends and the resource-box begins.

It's easy to submit long resource-boxes which contain the last paragraph of what appears to be "part of the article" but may not be.

It's a very useful "little trick", because what sometimes happens is that a lazy outsourced worker will syndicate the article onto his employer's website removing what he thinks is the whole resource-box but leaving intact what he imagines is the last paragraph of the article, which is actually the first paragraph of a two-paragraph or three-paragraph resource-box.

It may be that, technically, the length of the entire resource-box is more than the permitted 15% of the article, but there are many of those at EZA. And as they point out themselves on their blog, all sorts of things have been accepted in the past which wouldn't be acceptable under today's editiorial guidelines.

Personally, I would hate to attract that number of views to an EZA copy of one of my articles. It would feel like an extraordinary waste of traffic, to me: I want potential customers to find the copy on my own site, not the EZA copy.

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AnniePot

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Personally, I would hate to attract that number of views to an EZA copy of one of my articles. It would feel like an extraordinary waste of traffic, to me: I want potential customers to find the copy on my own site, not the EZA copy.

Exactly, I would not want to brag that my articles had achieved that amount of traffic in actual relation to the sales it achieved.

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AnniePot

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Britt Malka

If you had checked the article I mentioned - and the other articles by the same author - you would have known for a fact that it is NOT located in the Author Bio.

When you view the article, either as it appears in their directory, or by clicking the Ezine Publisher link, there is no way of seeing where the main article body ends and the author bio begins. I have numerous articles published on EZine Articles where I have self serving links appear exactly as the one in the article you are complaining about, but I assure you, they ARE in the author bio.

Once the article is published by EZine Articles, there is no way to distinguish the body from the bio.

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Michelle Strait

13 years ago

Perhaps they can't prove that a person paid for clicks, so they ignore the practice. I don't understand how bad articles make it though, especially if a person manually approves them all.

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joymarino

13 years ago

Thank you for posting this thread. I have had my "issues" with e-zine and honestly have been frustrated with them, even before the changes lately. I look forward to perusing the replies here and learning how to work with Ezine and get more views to my articles. I try hard to make the content valuable, and get flustered by all the "crap" that was allowed on there.

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seoresources

Banned 13 years ago

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joymarino 13 years ago

Originally Posted by seoresources

well i think twitter and facebook will be very effective in it i get almost 2000 visitors in 15 days for my blog

Can you PM me how you do this? Thanks! Joy
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AgentHomes

13 years ago

So if ezine isn't the best service anymore who would you recommend to use now?

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AnniePot

13 years ago

Originally Posted by AgentHomes

So if ezine isn't the best service anymore who would you recommend to use now?

For quality writers, Ezine Artilce IS still the best service. Why have they diminished their quality by improving their standards? Of course, this may not be the case any longer for IMers who produce garbage content.

The longer approval time is not an issue either (in my opinion). Just submit a couple of articles every day and in a short time your front end articles will be approved on a daily basis.

I have always seen EZine Articles as the best place to publish my articles (following their publication and indexing on my own sites), and nothing has happened to change my opinion.

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joymarino

13 years ago

Originally Posted by AnniePot

For quality writers, Ezine Artilce IS still the best service. Why have they diminished their quality by improving their standards? Of course, this may not be the case any longer for IMers who produce garbage content.

The longer approval time is not an issue either (in my opinion). Just submit a couple of articles every day and in a short time your front end articles will be approved on a daily basis.

I have always seen EZine Articles as the best place to publish my articles (following their publication and indexing on my own sites), and nothing has happened to change my opinion.

I agree. For those that have great writing skills, it seems to STILL be the best place to submit to. I just don't know if my own articles are good enough.

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rickfrazier1

13 years ago

Originally Posted by AnniePot

The longer approval time is not an issue either (in my opinion). Just submit a couple of articles every day and in a short time your front end articles will be approved on a daily basis.

What I HATE the most about EZA is if you have a problem with a single article, instead of putting that article on hold and processing the rest in your queue, they put the whole account on hold. The message they send you is less than helpful, just that your account is suspended because of a problem. Getting a meaningful response from them takes additional time, and meanwhile, your queue is sitting there waiting...

I used to subscribe to their premium feature (around a hundred dollars a month) and it got the articles reviewed right away, but nothing else. When they suspend the account for two or three days while you review and fix some minor infraction or issue with a single article, it gets very frustrating. Needless to say, I cancelled the premium account. At least if you have delays when you aren't paying, it doesn't cost you as much for the wait time.

I did learn two very important things I'll pass on as tips:
1) if they have a problem article, just delete it and move on. Quicker, less frustrating, and you can use the content somewhere else.
2) never link articles, if one is held up, or you delete one, you are committed to replacing the content or the rest won't make sense standing alone. Each article needs to have a single conherent issue that you address. (I had several of the 15 ways to xxx before I learned this lesson)

I don't want to get started on the really crappy articles, or the ones that are just the text copied from someone's sales pitch page, because that would keep me going for an hour.

Looking for a decent alternative, and driving traffic with other methods meanwhile. Occasionally still submit there, but it isn't my primary free method of generating traffic.

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genietoast 13 years ago

They pay for traffic to get the article into the "most viewed" category. When you're in the most viewed category you stay in it for 60 days.

That can increase your article views tremendously. I tried it before and I had views go from 5,000 to 89,000 in a matter of weeks. But it was junk traffic.

My click through rate went down.

You can still do it with real traffic from traffic hit sites that are legit which goes slower. But the key is to get the click through rate up, not so much the viewership.

Ezine Articles is starting to crack down on anything that sounds remotely over promotional.
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Kierkegaard

13 years ago

Originally Posted by rickfrazier1

What I HATE the most about EZA is if you have a problem with a single article, instead of putting that article on hold and processing the rest in your queue, they put the whole account on hold. The message they send you is less than helpful, just that your account is suspended because of a problem. Getting a meaningful response from them takes additional time, and meanwhile, your queue is sitting there waiting...

This is interesting. I had a problem with one article and only that article was put on hold. The rest were processed fine. Getting a meaningful response does take time however. Sometimes they just send the exact same message out again as a response to a query about that message!

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Wills

13 years ago

Originally Posted by rickfrazier1

What I HATE the most about EZA is if you have a problem with a single article, instead of putting that article on hold and processing the rest in your queue, they put the whole account on hold. The message they send you is less than helpful, just that your account is suspended because of a problem. Getting a meaningful response from them takes additional time, and meanwhile, your queue is sitting there waiting...

From my experince on EZA they only put the problem article on hold. The rest of them should process as normal.

I think your whole account is put on hold when your account is suspended, usually from a bigger issue than normal, like copying content and the like. (Not saying you did this, but mistakes like this can happen)

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nightowl2

13 years ago

lots of things on the internet smell these days

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writeandreview

13 years ago

I didn't know people pay for EzineArticle clicks. If those clicks don't result in resource box "clickthroughs", what's the point?

Seriously, what am I missing? (If there's an advantage to having a staggering number of views, then by gosh I'll crank up my Visual Web Ripper and let her, um, rip.)

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Bish

13 years ago

There was a WSO on this about a year ago. Clicks are purchased, then cloaked through PHP script.

You often find this method being used in saturated markets, more views / clicks will get you in the most viewed, if your in the most viewed section you have a good chance of your article being picked up by blog owners looking for good content (providing it's good).. Sure it will get you banned eventually?

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Britt Malka

13 years ago

To Alexa and Annie Pot

Yes, there is a way, two actually, to tell where the article ends and the resource box starts.

The easy, but probably unreliable one, is by watching where there is a double space between lines all of a sudden:

The second and more reliable way to check where the article ends and the resource box starts is by copying the text -- for example down to the double line space -- and then count the words in a text editor or even Word.

When I did that with the same article, as I've used for the screendump (this one: http://ezinearticles.com/?Younger-Lo...ay?&id=6088083) I got the result 575 words.

Back in EZA I checked their word count, as it is mentioned at the top of the page: 575 words

And as you can see on the first picture, the self-serving link is way before the double line space. Summa-summarum: self-serving link inside article body.

Anyway, whether or not you're convinced by my proofs, Ezine Articles has answered my question.

According to EZA it is allowed with one self-serving link inside the article - or is it... Here is what I received from them:

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EZA:
One self-serving link inside the article body is allowed if it is
placed in the bottom half of the article and is not promotional.
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Me:

In the Editorial Guidelines it say:

"WEBSITE LINKS/URLS There is a total limit of (4) active or inactive links allowed in the article, which consists of both the BODY and the RESOURCE BOX.

Maximum of (2) "Self-Serving" active or inactive links/URLs to a website that you own, control, or have an interest in.
Maximum of (2) active or inactive non-self serving links/URLs to a website that you do not own, control, or have an interest in which adds value to the article.
Confine your self-serving links to your RESOURCE BOX."

So F iii is no longer valid?
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EZA:

Our Guidelines are not hard-and-fast rules. While we recommend that
both self-serving links are placed in the resource box (because
article body links are 'no follow'), we do allow one to be placed in
the article body.

By 'non-promotional' I mean that the link should be incorporated into
anchor text in the article body, and should blend in with the article
content. Including the URL or telling readers to visit the site would
be promotional.

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To be honest, I don't think I'll risk to put self-serving links in my articles, but it can be done.

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GeorgR.

13 years ago

There are several "not so clean" methods, and they are actually pretty effective, regardless.
I forgot the URL, there was one site where you sign up and buy 10000s of visitors for peanuts (like $9.99), people clicking on your banner, and the banner of course goes to your article. Cha-Ching....you get more visitors.

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shuvo

13 years ago

Well getting that much traffic to a single article is still a dream to me.However I also always believe in quality.If you can provide quality in your article then it will obviously dominate the search engines.

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Britt Malka

13 years ago

You're welcome, Alexa, and yes, it's a neat trick to mask the first part of the resource box by making it look like it was part of the article.

I often do that by having numbered points inside the article, in bold, and then start the resource box with the following number, also in bold.

As for paying for clicks just to get many views, risking to have your account suspended? No, I wouldn't do that either. But I had a naïve idea about those being authentic views.

"Welcome to the real world, Britt" ;-)

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Wills

13 years ago

Think I used a link before in the article body, but it was wikipedia or something like that. Not self serving.

I like the idea of putting the last paragraph in the resource box though. It might stop people quickly grabbing my articles without giving credit. Granted, it will not completely stop people, but could help a bit.

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gslauen

13 years ago

There are a lot of rats out there these days.

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