Showing You The Results Of Submitted Articles

September 2009 Results - October 2009 Results - March 2010 Results

In part one of this Articles section I was talking about, and gave an example of, a blog that used one of my articles without acknowledging my website link, because it may not of been available to them. In contrast to that, Here is an example of a blog that has used one of my articles with full acknowlegement of my website links, but no mention of the author (me).

Here is a blog that displays my author name, but not my direct website link. It displays a link to my original article instead - The original article I submitted to the article website. And finally, Here is a different blog that displays my author name, website links and the original article website link. So be assured that as long as you only submit articles to article websites that allow you a website link, either underneath or inside your article, there will always be a website/blog out there that finds those articles and displays their website links alongside them.

Research An Article Website Before Submitting To It

One thing to note here is that if you ever use an Article Submitter Tool, which I do not recommend you do, make sure you know which article websites it is submitting your articles to. It may be submitting to 'non-displayable website link' article websites (as just described). So if possible, try and visit all the article websites listed in the article submitter tool, or in its documentation, so that you know in future which article websites to submit to from within that tool.

Article Dashboard, Articles Factory and Bharat Bhasha have just included my articles on their website. Bharat Bhasha did not accept my Hard Drive article for some reason though?! Anyway. The good news is my articles have started to appear in Google from the following article websites - Amazines, ArticleAlley, ArticleBase, EzineArticles and GoArticles.

You can find my articles by searching for Links: "yoingco.com", "Tracey Kiel" and "Sarah Phelt". Or you can search by specific article title or find them naturally. The point here is you should be aiming for your articles to be found in the same way and that articles do get listed, eventually, in the search engines. So if you have started your article submissions, keep going.....it is worth it in the long term.

SEPTEMBER 2009 RESULTS

Here are my results for September 2009 with regards to the three main article websites listed/exampled in August 2009 (Part One of this Articles section).

My September 2009 results, with regards to article websites only, show that once my new (August 2009) articles were submitted they were only good for the first month (August) whilst fresh on the main page(s) of certain article websites. As soon as newer articles arrived on those article websites, from different people, my articles began to move down to page 2, page 3 and so on; Naturally losing sight with the public.

The only people who will see them now, a part from people stumbling across them in a search engine and/or in a blog, are people who search for specific article titles within article websites. Hence why keywords matter, especially if they are offered as a separate entry when submitting an article.

Although the search engines have begun to list my articles, and blogs have begun to included them, these listings/placements only create article readers or article rippers in general. Meaning. The average person spotting one of my articles in a search engine or blog will more than likely just read that article for information reasons only, whereas a website designer for example might rip (copy) that article for inclusion in one or more of their website/blog projects.

And the person who reads one of my articles inside a blog is more likely to read other articles in that blog before saying to themselves "I must investigate the author's website and/or bio.....later". It happens. People do think "I wonder what else this author has written" and click on your website link but the ratio is not that high compared to article (information) readers only.

So in other words, the above is quite normal. People will either read your article(s) and then click on your author's website link or they will just read your article(s) and then move onto other things. That is the reality. In my case my articles cannot be that bad because they are being used in blogs, but this does not mean those blog visitors are going to click on my author's website link after reading my article(s). This is just how it goes. You have to hope that more and more people will find and read your articles and more importantly that more and more people will click on your author's website link.

What many people do not realise is that the market place, in terms of click-through action/results, is between 1% and 3% at the moment. Although this is a small percentage you should not lose faith. Remember, article submission is just one avenue of marketing.

So keep ploughing on - Write more articles if need be until you have tried most variations of article writing. Trial and Error play a big part. If at the end of testing you have done your best and still find your article results poor you will know for sure the article arena is not right for your subject matter. Yes, you will waste time testing and gain unwanted experience but in reality you should also get some good results.....even if they are in small doses.

OCTOBER 2009 RESULTS

Looking at my results for October 2009 you may think they are a little disappointing, and generally this would be true, but it depends how you look at it. If you follow your articles statistics like I have in this section you come to expect, and know, the pattern of behaviour from the article websites you are submitting to and can therefore filter out the "incompatible" or "not working for me" article websites. Remember, it is about trial and error - Testing all the time until you get it right.

So now I know that after the first month or so my articles will begin to be buried deep inside an article website, with less exposure as time goes by, what am I going to do now? Answer. Write a fresh article and plough on, which is exactly what I did. I wrote an article last month that took off quite well, out doing some of the above articles. It is called: WHAT IS BANDWIDTH AND WHAT WEBSITE ELEMENTS USE IT UP?

The reason it took off, and got listed by some web hosting companies for example, was because of the WHAT WEBSITE ELEMENTS USE IT UP? part of the title. That is what brings people to this article. If I had just used WHAT IS BANDWIDTH? it would not of had the same response. People are curious as to what does use up their bandwidth. They want to identify which parts of their website are using up unnecessary bandwidth in order to do something about it (i.e. make their videos shorter). So in other words, do not give up. You should get better results the more you monitor, and learn from, your style of article writing.

A search for my bandwidth article reveals some of the dates and links it was posted in

If you need article writing tips you need look no further than the article websites themselves. Many people overlook this and go for a book instead when the article website should be their first port of call simply because the article website owner(s) will have more knowledge, statistic-wise if nothing else, on what article styles/types work and what article styles/types do not work. And even if their tips seem obvious or too long winded, in terms of the amount of tips information they give out, you should read them. You never know, there might be a GOLDEN NUGGET somewhere in those tips.

MARCH 2010 RESULTS

It is now Wednesday 31st March 2010 and here are the results for my main six articles - Total, Overall, Views from July 2009 to March 2010 (just over 8 Months).

So as you can see; ArticleAlley was the best article website in terms of viewing figures, but overall ArticleBase is the one being linked to and being displayed in Google search results. EzineArticles was a winner with the CPU article though. So it just proves you have to see which article websites will be best
for your articles and their results.

At the end of the day I did these tests to show you results. In the real world though you would need to write/submit far more than articles than I did to really get noticed. Saying this, it does not matter how hard you try sometimes because some of the websites/blogs linking to you might naturally disappear after a while, for whatever reason(s), therefore losing you visitors.

Clicks From Your Website Link Are Important, Not The Viewing Figures

Never mind how many views you clock up per day, month or year; It is the website link clicks inside your Bio/Resource Box that count as well as the clicks from the websites/blogs that contain your article and more precisely your website link. So write an article good enough for other websites/blogs and not just for those visiting an article website.