| How to Read Your Article Stats Data The amount of statistics available to you right from the View My Statistics section of your EzineArticles account can seem downright overwhelming at first. However, if you take a little time to sort through and understand what it all means, you'll have the skills to sift through piles of data to find those nuggets of strategic knowledge to fuel your article writing efforts. In this video, I drill down and take an in-depth look at the article writing analytics available to you. This could be just the thing to trigger a new level of understanding of the impact you're having on a variety of levels. 
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    Here's a recap of the video: To get started in analyzing your article stats, access them through your Author's Area. To get there: - Log into your Member Account
- Hover the cursor over the Author Tools drop-down
- Select View My Statistics from the drop-down
This brings up the Stats Dashboard. Stats Dashboard The Stats Dashboard is the homepage for all of your stats. It's broken into three main sections: Article Stats, Keyword Referral Stats and Author Stats: - Article Stats - This area gives a quick overview of all articles and authors on your account. You can see a summary of your stats on the left:
- Total Views - Article views give you a quick idea of how your articles are performing overall based on how many people have seen all of your articles.
- URL Clicks - URL clicks show how many times the URLs in your articles were clicked by readers. This stat is a key indicator of how engaging your articles are. To increase URL clicks, ensure that your URL leads to similar content as your article.
- Click-Through Rate - CTR represents the average number of URL clicks per 100 views (as a percentage). The higher the CTR, the higher your rate of successfully converting readers into prospects.
- EzinePublisher - This number indicates how many times your article has been "picked up" or republished by an ezine publisher. Having your articles picked up is an excellent way to exponentially increase your article's exposure. Keep in mind that ezine publishers want your high-quality, evergreen content.
- Emailed - This shows the number of times readers have emailed your articles to friends.
- Comments - This number represents the number of comments you've received on your articles.
- Votes and Rating - This shows the number of times someone has rated your article and the average of all total ratings on a scale of 1 to 5.
Moving on, the middle part of the Article Stats section is a graph that shows your total CTR (click-through rate) over the past few months. Then, on the right is a list of your most-viewed articles.
- Keyword Referral Stats - The middle section of the dashboard is filled with keyword referral stats for your most-viewed articles. It shows keywords that readers used to find each article. If you look closely, you can see how many times a word or phrase was used to find each article.
- Author Stats - The bottom section of the dashboard shows stats broken down by the authors on your account. The graph gives a visual representation of profile views over time as well as how many articles each author has published.
Now, this information is great, but it doesn't provide all of the answers on how to improve your overall article writing strategy. In other words, it doesn't offer actionable data because it represents an accumulation of information across your entire account. It doesn't represent the smaller decisions you make that can have a great impact. So, let's move back to the top of the page and access the individual stat categories, starting with Article Stats, through the Stats Shortcuts on the top of the Stats Dashboard. Article Stats This page shows a stat breakdown of each article on your account. You can filter the list by author name. From here, you can see all of the same information that was at the top of the dashboard, except it's broken down on a per-article basis. You can sort the list by clicking on the header for each stat category. This data can help you pinpoint the types of content and writing styles that generate the most highly viewed/clicked/rated/etc. articles. If you click on an article title, you'll see a breakdown of more stats for that article, including: - A graph that represents the article's views over time.
- A table that also displays the article view data.
- A list of the links in the article and how many times each one was clicked by a reader.
Below that is a breakdown of the most popular keywords or keyphrases used to find the article. This is incredibly powerful information because it tells you what terms people are actually searching for in search engines when they find your articles. Plus, it becomes more powerful the more you write and submit. With this information you can do your own keyword research and find a never-ending stream of data-backed keywords to focus on. Author Stats Now, let's move on to the Author Stats section by scrolling to the top of the page and clicking Author Stats from the Stats Shortcuts buttons. What you see on this page is similar information from the top of the dashboard, but it's filtered by authors on your EzineArticles account. From here, you can upload an author image and click on Author Details to see a graph of how many people have visited your author bio. Keyword Referral Stats Lastly, let's move to the Keyword Referral Stats page by clicking Keyword Referral Stats from the Stats Shortcuts buttons. This tools shows the most popular search terms used by readers to find your articles through search engines from all of your published articles. It's displayed in what's called a "keyword cloud," meaning the keywords are clumped together and the size of the words are weighted by frequency. The bigger the font of the keyword, the more times you've used it in an article. So this gives you an idea of the keywords you have focused on most. Depending on your writing strategy, this information can direct what keywords you incorporate in your future articles. Understanding your article writing analytics is vital to the success of your article writing campaign. Knowing which of your articles are performing better than others and knowing why will help you write new articles that are laser-targeted to the demands of the readers in your niche. View this post online to pose your own questions about article stats. | 
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