The other day I tweeted out that I had two more articles to go before I was at 100 articles submitted to EzineArticles.com. Here’s a great question I got:
So I decided to go ahead and let you have a peek inside my Ezine Articles account, show you around and tell you what I’ve gotten out of posting all these articles.
Ezine Articles Promotional Results
You can see from the image above that I got a lot of article views, almost 10,000. I also had 208 people take my articles for publishing and 703 clicks on my website links.
The interesting thing I noticed was how many views there were to my profile page: 1,337. This made me think that I definitely need to do something with that page and give it a much stronger call to action (ie. reading my articles or visiting my website).
It’s also important to note that the majority of my 100 articles were submitted in the last four months. That means that they really haven’t had much time at all to age and so the long-term effects of these articles is not even showing yet.
I did learn over time how to make my articles better as well. Here are a few tips:
1. Have a strong call to action.
2. Pay attention to your article stats.
3. Read and follow the editorial guidelines and terms so you don’t have to spend time re-submitting articles that get declined!
Overall I would say I’m very happy with the results of my article marketing efforts. I have received over 94 subscribers to one email list over the last six months or so and that’s due in very large part to one article. I’ll continue to write and submit article to Ezine Articles on a daily basis.
p.s. If you want to find out more about article marketing and how to do it right then I recommend you check out the 17-page report “How to Get Free Traffic to Your Website With Ezine Articles” by Jimmy D. Brown:
Hi Angela -
That’s all fascinating…but I was hoping you would share how much you earned from your 100 Ezine articles. Or is it all free? Did none of the people who decided to publish your articles pay for them? Did you get any paying clients from the exposure, and if so what were the projects worth, and did they pay at decent hourly rates?
You’re saying the ultimate upside for all that work is you got 94 people to get on your marketing list, from 100 articles? That’s an average of less than one person per article, who maybe might buy your services or products in the future…or maybe not. It seems hugely inefficient.
I’d love to see you state how many hours you spent writing those articles. I think I could get that many contacts at two or three in-person networking events, which would take perhaps 8 hours total including commuting time. If it took more than that to write 100 articles — and I’m betting it did — there are ways to get leads that would leave you more free time.
I’m getting more than 300 site visitors a day and I’ve posted less than 40 short blogs on my own site. I didn’t have to deal with any being rejected since I’m also the editor here! So how is being on Ezines better exactly?
It seems like keeping it on your own site is a better way to go in my view…not sure you’ve proved the case that using one of these content-aggregation sites is useful. Appreciate more info.
Tune in to the WM Freelance Community in February, when we will be running a whole week of articles all about content mills.
Carol Tice
The Make a Living Writing Blog
.-= Carol Tice´s last blog ..The 7 Habits of Highly Paid Freelance Writers =-.
Twitter: AngelaWills
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Thanks so much for those questions Carol, really got me thinking! I wrote a new post to reply and it’s very detailed:
http://www.marketersmojo.com/5033/make-money-writing-articles/
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Twitter: Ashleysh22
says:
I was wondering if you could shed light on the types of articles that get views and how to get ezine views. I have written three articles in the last two months and received 103 views. How do I increase that? is it my content? my titles? some other marketing thoughts? thank you!
Here’s my ezine profile ~ http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ashley_Higashi
Twitter: AngelaWills
says:
Hi Ashley. I think 103 views for three articles is pretty good!
Tips to increase views would be:
- write more articles
- get links to your articles from other places (twitter, facebook, your blog)
- use EZA’s title suggestion tool (if you have access to it)
- do keyword research yourself to see what popular topics may be.
Hope that helps!
Angela
Thanks for this – it’s fired me up to get going on more article writing. I have about 15 up there at the moment and one of them is consistently on page1 on Google for ‘travel insurance for vacation rentals’. And I wrote that in 2006.
Hi,
I am an internet marketer looking article spinning software. Can u suggest the same. An early reply will be highly appriciated.
Twitter: AngelaWills
says:
Sorry, no. The only thing I would suggest is you don’t use article spinners or other ‘tricks’. I believe in building real content the old fashion way – writing it.
Twitter: rfraser81
says:
I’m starting this as well and will be the third or fourth time that I’ve attempted the challenge lol. I got 40 live articles with 870 article views. Click rate of around 8-9%.
I like writing articles but a lot of people are talking of video marketing now. People are really impatient nowadays and will just rather watch lol.
Would love to connect with you.
Rob