Golden Rule to Increase Article Views
Article marketing is still one of the best ways to drive free traffic to your websites or blogs but you need to know the golden rule to increase articles views if you want to get lots of traffic.
Every now and again you will get some guru saying that article marketing does not work anymore, or they say it does not work as well as it used to. This is only true if you are using the same article marketing techniques that you used 3 years ago.
Article marketing is just like any other form of internet marketing, it changes with time, and you have to move with the change or get left behind. A few years ago you could post an article on Ezine articles and get a lot of traffic from just doing that. Now days you can still gets loads of traffic from an article but you have to do a bit more work to make it happen.
If you now post an article to any article site and just leave it there don’t be surprised if you do not get traffic from it. There is a golden rule to increase article views, and the rule is to send traffic to your article. Once you employ the golden rule to increase article views you will see a big difference in the traffic you get.
But that’s crazy I hear you saying, surely the whole point of posting an article is to get traffic not send traffic to it, Wrong!
Let me explain what I mean here, lets for instance take a look at ezine articles. When you post an article to ezine articles people may read it if it is written well and contains great content, and then they may click on your link and go through to your site or blog.
If you go to any section in ezine articles for any niche and click on an article to read it, you will see below the article a section that lists the top most viewed articles for the category the article is in that you have read. If you can get your article on to the most viewed articles list your article is going to drive a lot more traffic to it.
There is a little trick you can use to get your article into the most viewed section. You can use a site such as Donkeymail.com to drive very cheap traffic to your article. Every time someone goes to your article it will be classed as a view, but beware, as ezine articles are wise to this trick. There are however ways to do it correctly.
Instead of sending 1,000 visitors to your article you want to send the traffic in small bursts and to do this you are going to need a URL rotator redirect set up on your site.
A url rotator is just some code that allows you to set up a number of url’s so that when someone is sent to the url rotator it will send them to url number 1, the next person directed to the url rotator gets sent to url number 2 and so on.
You can get url rotator code easily for free on the internet, Just try googling it, You will need your own hosted website.
How this works is that you write and post say 10 articles. After a week check to see which articles are getting the most views and select the 3 articles with the most views.
Usually you have to open up one of the files on the url rotator using a text document. You then need to set the url for the first article you have selected as url number 1, the url for the second article you set up as url number2 and set the url for the third article as url number 3.
You will need to set up your url rotator on a blank page on your site or blog, and make a note of the website address for the page the rotator is on.
Once you have joined a site like donkeymail.com you purchase some traffic. I would recommend just 1,000 to start with. You then enter the url for the blank page on your site where the url rotator is located. What happens now is that a third of the traffic will go to each of your 3 articles in turn.
You need to check how many views that the 2nd to lowest article in the most viewed section has had and then add 50 to the number. This will give you the amount of traffic you need to send to one of your articles to make sure that it gets into the most viewed article section on ezine articles for your chosen category.
Whatever you do, do not send a thousand visitors to one article all in one go as ezine articles will see what you are doing and may take your article down.
Using little tricks like this and following the golden rule to increase article views can make all the difference to your traffic.
Just interested to know HOW you find out how many views an article in EzineArticles has received? I’ve looked, and can see no way to find out. It certainly doesn’t come out and tell you. Am I overlooking something?
Hope you can take the time to answer this question for me, & thanking you in advance
If you go to any article on ezinearticles and click on the title of the article so that it opens up in a page of its own. Then scroll right to the bottom of the page, and just before the bottom of the page you will find the following message “Adds by Google” followed by links to other adds. Just above these links you will see not only the date the article was submitted but also how many views it received.