How To Analyse The Progress Of Your Online Writing Efforts.

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How are you doing online?

That is a good question and one that we should ask ourselves on a regular basis.And is the main reason for me writing this article:- How To Analyse The Progress of Your Online Writing Efforts. It's all very well just getting your head down and writing for all you are worth when you should be analysing your progress regularly.

That is the goal here. To give you guidance on what signs to look out for as you plough your furrow in the world of article writing for the internet.

We are all guilty of just going for it without a care in the world. Hoping that the more we put out there, the better our earnings from Google will be. Not always the case I might add.

Yes, publishing lots of content rich articles is all well and good, but are you reaching the intended audience for your articles.

Today I found myself having a pity party with myself. I had spent the last few days banging away at my lap top churning out article after article in the niche I seem to write the most in only to have 3 out of 5 articles rejected for one reason or another.

At first I was ticked off, angry even. Then the fight in me kicked in.' I will show you'. 'I am not going to waste my time anymore putting out articles to have them rejected'.This is what I thought.

To date I have written over 100 articles and had reasonable success with them over the last 12 months. But what I have noticed is that after the initial publishing of some articles the page views dry up unless I actively seek to promote that particular article.

I also noticed that there are a number of articles which have steadily grown over time since publishing and get hits everyday without actively promoting them.

The statistics don't lie. If you are unsure as to whether you are making progress check your stats for each article you have written. Compare the page views. If you think you should be getting more hits for a particular article then try to analyse to find out why. Make changes to the title if needs be. Perhaps the title isn't attracting enough hits and that Google searches are not reflecting words within your title. Use the title tuner if you are writing on Hub pages.

Maybe when you first wrote the article you weren't quite as SEO savvy as you are today. Make changes and watch to see if this improves your page views. It could be that the article just hasn't matured enough yet. If this is the case make changes as you see fit then give it time to mature before deciding what else to do with it.

Focus on what you can do instead of what you can't do.

A few subtle changes maybe the only thing that you need to do in order to make the world of difference to the ranking and ultimately the number of views your articles receive.

Top Tips For Targets You Can Set.

1. Page views.
2. Adsense earnings.
3. Number of articles.
4. Activity on Social Media sites.

The list is endless.

If you aren't happy where you are in your writing career then it is probably time to set some targets. You can set targets for many of your writing activities.By setting some targets it will at least give you something to aim for. By not having any targets it means that you will just continue aimlessly unaware of what is going on in your business.

is that once you begin to analyse your stats you get more focused on the other articles which are not performing. I have also found that I no longer just want to churn out articles for the sake of it. Research becomes a part of your system and plan for achieving better results for your online writing.

As article writers we spend a lot of time researching and preparing for publication of our work. It makes sense that we should want the best results for them once they are published.

For those of us who are writing with a view to earning an income from article writing, it makes sense to give each article the best chance to do well.

I found that by analysing the results of underperforming articles gives you the chance to make necessary changes to improve your skills and to practice what works and what doesn't work.

SEO is a mine field but the more you study other writers articles who use SEO you will soon realise where you are making mistakes.

As usual I recommend that you find someone within your groups who is doing well and copy the successful things that they do. Now I don't mean copy their articles but I do mean copy their success activities.

I could have done this recently, but I decided to do the opposite and get better. This is always the best way to go. Some things you can't control, so get over it and move on.

Don't Get Bitter....Get Better. are now my watch words. There is no point stressing over trivial matters. You need to adapt your current strategy if it isn't getting you where you want to be.

Before you get there, what you are currently doing will be so different you won't believe it. Re-invention will become part of your daily routine until you find the things that work for you. Always remember that where you are at this moment is only temporary.

The success you crave is just around the corner.

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© poshcoffeeco ( Steve Mitchell )