About the SA Article in this Training Resource
I am usually hesitant to share my campaigns and websites openly with people, as I don’t want huge amounts of unrelated traffic going to my sites. It messes with my statistics and prevents me from learning what strategies work best to improve traffic, generating clicks, etc.
That being said, I no longer do any work on the Asus Eee Pad Transformer website. In fact, I don’t really do websites like that anymore. That tablet was rendered (almost) obsolete by the release of the Asus Transformer Prime. Therefore, I have no issues with revealing that campaign to people as it is no longer an active campaign (though people still buy the cases).
I do not publish in the SA directory as Joseph Tohill anymore. With the exception of the Asus Transformer case article, most of the articles on that account do not employ the strategies I have talked about in this training resource. This is because most of those articles were written before I developed my current strategy.
@urn357: I understand where you're coming and you do raise some legitimate concerns. I'm not claiming these techniques will work for everyone, but I have certainly noticed a higher CTR on most of the articles I submit using these strategies. I'll upload some screenshots when I have a chance, but it's not uncommon for me to get CTR around 20 - 30% on my SA articles.
Part of a high CTR also has to do with the article topic and the quality of the article. Some topics are just not going to give you a high CTR for various reasons (e.g. not something people are passionate/emotional about).
In response to SA not coming up in webmaster tools, I have noticed a similar thing as you sometimes. However, webmaster also doesn't show ALL of the links going to your website. Just because it doesn't come up in webmaster doesn't mean Google doesn't recognize it. And no, SA has not changed their links to NF.
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And I've said this before in the forum. Google webmaster tools no longer recognizes my links from SA. They used to about 6-10 months ago, but nope not anymore. So if you are looking for Google to recognize your links from SA, then good luck on that. Yeah, your article may rank high in their search engine, but I think SA changed their links to NF or something. I will think this way until they clarify and show me I'm wrong anyway.
And I've said this before in the forum. Google webmaster tools no longer recognizes my links from SA. They used to about 6-10 months ago, but nope not anymore. So if you are looking for Google to recognize your links from SA, then good luck on that. Yeah, your article may rank high in their search engine, but I think SA changed their links to NF or something. I will think this way until they clarify and show me I'm wrong anyway.
