What's the secret to getting more page views on Associated Content?

Much the same as any online content, it's all those things. More articles means more hits and so on. One big thing is search engine phrasing (SEO) for the titles. Picking a title like, say, "I lost 10lbs in two weeks" gets FAR fewer hits than "How to lose 10lbs in 2 weeks". People don't search for the first one. I guess most of it is just marketing - shout and wave your arms (virtually) every time you publish. Tell people here, on your blog, on Twitter, Digg, Delicious and Stumble (and all the other networks). The more people who see it by chance, the more chance of it being seen by more people. All the people on a million views have been on there for ages and have hundreds of articles, from what I've seen.

AC has started the whole linking your other sites up to notify people when you publish. It is set up for WordPress (I think), Twitter, and Facebook. I'm also on Tumblr so I linked up my Twitter to publish to Tumblr also. This gets a good amount of views from people that I know, plus I try to put things on Digg, but they rarely stay up on there. Every hit counts though. When I write articles about top blogs and things like that, I post a comment on their blog to let them know that they were featured and sometimes they are nice enough to link back so all of their readers will read the article to see which other similar blogs are listed. I still haven't figured out the whole science of it though, I wish I had a better way to get people to read, but I'm pretty happy with how well I've done so far.

I agree with Spike... SEO keywording is as important as the QUALITY of an article. I've seen CP's with under 50 articles, and still have thousands of pv's. Write the article well, research throughly, keyword properly after you're done, and your pv's will go up in no time!

You add subscribers (friends of yours email addys to your subscriber list) Add you link to your emails, also if you invite someone to join, promote your work on different sites. There is an area on AC where you can promote too, also places like Digg, Propeller, Yahoo, etc. I am at 9 ranking. Good luck to you. Also reading others articles on AC and commenting, will help you get more AC followers, follow them and favorite them, you will get emails letting you know when they publish, and they will get emails when you publish. I submit alot of recipes for free, and get lots of page views.

Well, I just posted an article to helium and emailed everyone I knew interested in the subject. That was over 200 people which would have been great for my earnings but I only have two articles there so far and I just found out you have to have at least 4 to get your first star. :-(

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Good discussion topic! I ahev also started thinking in these lines only recently ,about increasing page views because I am not sligible for upfront payments and so it would be great if I can maximise page views.As Spike rightly pointed out , the greater the number with proper key words, the better it is.See you there!My profile has my link!

I am at a level 10 ranking. I really didn't do much to promote my articles. However, I did put the work in and wrote a lot! I have over two hundred and fifty articles on Associated Content. I really enjoy writing, and Associated Content seems to love my articles so much they are offering upfront payment for most of them. So I continue to write them.

I also found out one interesting thing. I write in Helium and then re-post some of the good articles in AC for performance payment only. The type of traffic (i.e. earnings, in other words) do not appear to be similar at all in both. There are a couple of articles which almost seem to get similar traffic. There are some articles that get good traffic in AC but not so in Helium - and vice versa.

Send me your link. If all of us here add our myLot friends to our subscribers on AC, that will help with page views.