Generating Traffic with Article Distribution
Everyone I have come across who has written anything about distributing articles to article directory sites on the Internet, always stresses what a good way it is to get tons of traffic to a web site.
Over the past 6 months I have been tracking the amount of traffic I get from my own article distribution and I have to say the amount of traffic is closer to ounces than tons.
As well as tracking the traffic I received from someone clicking through to my site from the article, I also monitored how much exposure the article has had.
By exposure I mean how many other websites and web pages do my articles appear on when doing a search in one of the major search engines - Google, Yahoo or MSN.
Despite my articles being on 10's of thousands of other web sites the amount of traffic I get from them has been negligible. For example one article of mine was being reported by the search engines on an average of 19,800 other web sites for over 3 weeks.
From that one article that was featured on 19,800 web sites and for a time reported on as many as 23,000 other sites I received an avalanche of traffic - 14 visitors.
That's a daily CTR (click thro rate) of less than 0.003%. My best daily CTR on another article in the same period was 0.036%.
In total I have tracked the traffic generated from each of 9 articles over many months, during which time the best daily CTR was 0.07% and the worst was 0.0002%.
It would be good if a daily CTR of 0.07% was for an article exposed on 20,000 web sites since that would be over 420 extra visitors per month from one article. Unfortunately it seems the more exposure an article gets, the lower the CTR.
Tony Simpson
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