I thought I was done with the initial series, but not quite. I have been lazily oberving figures and observed something interesting. What seemed to have been the worst performing campaign by far – 2 articles on SEO combined have since made up for lost ground and caught up to my views on a niche article. Obviously the niche still wins hands down for achieving a greater number of views on its own merit, but when I last wrote I think the gap was at least 12 views, so it’s interesting to see the gap close down like that. Similarly, between the two SEO articles there have been 4 URL clicks as opposed to the 5 click on the niche article’s URL.

I also got a few views through the search engines. Literally only 1 or 2 views on some of the articles. Great for articles just over a week old? I don’t know. Maybe I had a poorly optimized title or maybe it takes time for the title to achieve a series ranking.

The searches that lead to article views weren’t very well targetted in all cases other than the SEO articles, interestingly enough! Also, all these search engine originated views happened the day after the article went live, and the second day after for those articles that achieved a second search engine click through. Looks like they got buried soon just as quickly as they appeared.

It will be interested though to see whether I do start receiving search engine traffic again and how long it takes before that starts happening.