New URL Clicks feature on EzineArticles - thoughts and comments?

[Dan Goodwin]

Hi everyone,

I assume as Jeff is such a fan of EzineArticles that most of us post articles there and are aware of their new URL click tracking feature.

If not, it's a new column in your Author's Area> Article Reports that shows how many times someone has clicked a link in each of your articles.

I'll be honest I've been a bit disappointed by my numbers. Some articles have done well at around 20% click through rate (no of clicks / no of views) but many have got no or a very low number of clicks.

What have other people found so far?

And how will this data influence how you submit articles in future?

At the moment I'm a bit confused at how to analyse the info so it'll be interesting to hear others people's views...

[Lynne Lee]

I was worried until I realised the results weren't historical. I checked out my bio box, there's little wrong with that and plenty of incentive to click through. I'm going to see which categories out perform and target articles to those areas.

[Dan Goodwin]

Jeff,

That's a very important point, it's very early days.

And as we know, affective article marketing is about maintaining a steady output of new quality content over a long period of time.

It'll be interesting to see how the URL click features develops. I sense a few articles about it will appear on EzineArticles before too long too!

Dan.

[Jeff Herring - The Internet Article Guy]

Hi Dan!

Thanks for bringing up this issue.

The most important thing to remember right now is that these numbers ARE NOT a reflection on the historical performance of your articles.

EZA just began to display this feature early this month and it ONLY measures back to late June, the 25th or 28th I believe.

So it is NOT a measure of how your articles have done with click throughs the entire time they have been up there, just since late June.

Hope that helps!

Jeff