Progress at BB Articles

I can't believe how quickly time has passed since converting BB Articles into a WP article directory rather than using Article Dashboard. Over 3 months now and I can honestly say that I made the absolute right decision for myself and the site.

The site performs much better than previously, more than 3 times the amount of visitors and a steady growth. Although the Alexa ranking has dropped from just over 70,000 to around 97,000 I am not concerned about it. Basically my site stats and Google analytics tells me that there are far more visitors so the Alexa drop must be because there are less internet marketers with the Alexa toolbar visiting and more visitors seeking information.

Articles are getting indexed within hours usually and views are variable. It really depends on the key phrases used and if the authors give their articles a little extra help with bookmarking or linking to them. Clickthroughs - I don't know. It would be great to have a plug in that would tell myself and authors how many views and clickthroughs there have been for each article - on my wish list!

However I did a test last month by getting 10 articles written for a new site and submission to the top 4 directories. I submitted them to BB Articles with slight alterations and have tracked the progress. BB Articles has done just as well as 2 of them for clickthroughs and better than the other two. That is only one test though - results might be totally different at another time or for somebody else.

Interesting was that I wrote one new article myself and submitted it to BB Articles and those other directories and that single article has outperformed the ten outsourced put together. I don't think that I'm an especially good writer but I think the difference was that the 10 articles were produced to order and rather flat and boring whereas I just sat down and wrote what I thought and what was interesting to me and my article flowed better.

Of course if I'm charting the sites progress I need to look into finances. It isn't earning a fortune yet but BB Articles is in profit for the first time in over 2 years. There are more things that I can do to earn but I'm happy for now because earnings are slowly growing and I'm not spending the miserable hours on the site every day checking a high percentage of dire articles.

Of course there will always be problems with some articles and some authors. I have refused several new authors because the articles that they showed me when they asked to become authors were full of errors and offered no real information. At least now I can refuse before they flood my site with poor quality articles that wastes my time checking them and their time submitting them.

A very low percentage who sign up ask to be upgraded to authors. Probably intimidated by having to take a further step, or they might think that there are plenty of other article directories out there and they don't need mine. True but I don't care how few actually ask to become authors as long as the ones who do treat my site with respect as I would with theirs. Contrary to what they think I don't need them because there are plenty of other authors out there - and who needs poor writers, plagiarists, article spinners etc.? not me!

I've seen tirades against a certain top article directory on forums whenever they refuse articles. The posters complain when their articles are denied for poor quality, lack of information, spinned goodness knows how many times with no more information or impossible to understand. You get the usual saps who comment say that they save the best content for their sites and post the worst on article directories. These people are out to get quick backlinks and do not care about what they put on other people's sites - I also wonder if they would put the poor content on their own sites - I doubt it.

I have been using an autoposter for some of my niche blogs. It's pretty good, pulls in Amazon ads, Clickbank and ebay, Yahoo answers, flicka images, Youtube videos and articles from a choice of 2 directories - 1 of them a top directory. I've been getting some good results with it but after seeing how dire the majority of the articles were I have set the autoposter to add the posts as drafts rather than them appear immediately on my blogs. Why? Just look at the following to see why:

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Do you understand that? I don't and whatsmore nor will any visitor looking for information. I really think that dumping articles like that on other people's sites is taking the whiss and that any directory owner who accepts articles like that are asking for problems with Google, if not now eventually.