EZineArticles.com Update (One Month Later)

One month ago (on July 3) I posted my EZineArticles.com stats.

Today I’m doing it again:

I’m mostly interested in what the numbers have been during that one month period:

New Live Articles: 105
New Article Views: 18,975
New URL Clicks: 4,459
CTR: 23%
New Articles Published: 148

I’m quite pleased that the overall URL clicks per day is rising and that my CTR is rising. It’s worth noting that looking at CTR by itself can be somewhat misleading. It’s easy to get some really untargeted traffic and thus get a lot of views with no clicks sometimes (ie StumbleUpon traffic) which can lead to a low CTR but doesn’t really mean that the article has a bad resource box.

Plus the articles I had up that were not optimized well (before I learned to think about this aspect, I used to think of articles entirely for SEO purposes, not even considering direct traffic) are still getting views.

I’m not going to the trouble of looking at this specifically be I’m quite sure my CTR is close to 40% for the 105 new articles in my account since July 3.

So what are my goals for September 3? Well I’m moving this month so there will be some breaks in the work schedule – but I’m definitely hoping to better the 105. 200 seems like a reasonable goal at the moment. As you can see I’ve already got 25 pending articles ready to go and 1 “problem article” which is truly a bunch of bull, but I won’t get into that. Hopefully they’ll correct their problem and let that one go through.

Actually, what the hell, I will get into it. Basically they are saying I’m linking to an “affiliate link” when I’m not – I never do that in fact which makes it even more annoying – I submitted it twice hoping they’d realize their mistake the second time through. Nope. I’ve now contacted their support people about it. It really annoying when they flag your article no good reason.