One of the most important things that you can do online is to track your articles, especially if you are sending them to more than a few different directories.
If you are sending your articles to 100 different directories, what if you knew that only 5 of the 100 were producing any results at all$%: You would stop sending articles to the other 95, right$%: And unless you do the testing, you won't know that, you won't know where you are being most effective.
So how do you do it$%:
There are a few different ways that you can track your articles. All of them will involve using a different link in the articles that you submit to the different directories. So you would use one link for all the articles going to one directory, and another for all the articles going to another directory.
These are the simplest ways to do it:
1) Buy adtracker software which will generate a unique link for each source, and then track your traffic for you. That way you will be able to see, quickly and easily, which article directories are sending you traffic.
2) Create a different squeeze page for each article directory. You can use your web log traffic information to see which pages are getting the most traffic, and you will know from that which directories are most effective.
3) Create a different squeeze page with a different autoresponder tacking code for each source. The nice thing about doing this is that you can not only track traffic, but because you have a source for each subscriber on your list, you can track buyers also.