Ezinearticles and traffic

Admittedly, I’ve been more than skeptical that an article on ezinearticles.com would produce traffic. With millions of articles already on the site, how could “my” article ever find the light of day? So, being part of the 30 day challenge, I opted to follow through with their techniques and write just ONE article with no hopes of success.

One day I sat and wrote a 295 word article for one of my sites. The article will not win a Pulitzer Prize, but it wasn’t trash either. I think it took me a total of 20 minutes. The majority of the time was spent signing up as an author.

I submitted the article and had it reviewed by their editors within two days. The article went live on 30 Aug 2007 and I was named an “expert author”. To date the article was viewed 319 times and I’ve received 25 site visits. These visits spend 4.22 minutes on the site and view 2.25 pages.

This is just one article. What if I wrote nine more? You get the picture. From my brief experience, I would definitely recommend you write a few articles to support whatever site you’re working on.

Traffic Tip — Use Comments to Increase Traffic

Getting traffic to your site is the “sine qua non” of making money online. Here is a simple tip to help you get more traffic.

  • Go to the Technorati Top Blogs
  • Check out those blogs and make relevant, non-spammy comments
  • Find a way to link back to your site (many let you post your name/website)

I would suggest you only start doing this once your site has compelling content.

Celebrity Gossip Blog Demographics

Searching around blogads.com, I found an excellent survey of >6000 gossip blog readers. I recently posted on the success of a recent celebrity gossip blogger and wondered about the demographics of such readership. Inwardly, I was hoping to confirm a hunch I had about “who’ was clicking those ads.

Here’s a summary of the respondents:

  • 49% are in the 22-30 year old range
  • 77% are Female
  • Music and Books were the highest purchases online in the 0 to 100 dollar range
  • 86% read blogs for humor followed by 73% for pictures

Need I say that if you’re doing a celeb blog, you should focus on affiliates for music and books? And yes, this did confirm my hunch.