Marketers need to know their numbers.
This includes the result from your article marketing effort.
How would you possibly know if writing articles is the right strategy if you don't know the results? The only way to get the numbers is by tracking it.
So you get various stats in the members area.
Now how do you know how the articles were distributed? Easy, the answer lies in Google.
You can track which web pages that have been crawled and indexed by Google.
When the pages include the content of your articles, you should be able to locate them too.
An easiest way to do it is by using the exact phrase search.
You surround the title of the article with quotation marks and enter it into Google.
The results are the web pages which contain your articles.
One problem that may appear when browsing each sites though.
You may find that some web publishers fail to include the link back to your site in the resource box.
If that's the case, find a contact form or their email address and let them know you're the writer of that article and you'd appreciate if they could add the live link as is in the bottom of the article.
That is important so the readers can click on the link and get to your site immediately.
From search engine perspective, it can benefit your ranking too.
You can start building relationship with the web site owners too by sending an email to thank them for publishing your article.
You may want to mention that you have other articles ready for them to use.
This is a quick and easy way to start a conversation.
Who knows, you end up being a regular contributor to the site, which could mean a lot of traffic and backlinks to your site.