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How to Create a Resource Box for Your Article
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What is an article resource box? For those who may be some what
new to the field of internet business and article marketing the
resource box is the small biography about the author of the
article with a hyperlink to his website. Most articles have this
at the end of the article.
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Distribution Date and Time: 2006-08-31 10:12:00
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How to Create a Resource Box for Your Article
Copyright � 2006 Craig Ritsema
Part Time Work At Home Opportunities
http://part-time-work-at-home-opportunities.com/
What is an article resource box? For those who may be some what
new to the field of internet business and article marketing the
resource box is the small biography about the author of the
article with a hyperlink to his website. Most articles have this
at the end of the article.
Resource boxes are not a new concept created just for the
internet. Magazine articles have used them for many years.
Newspapers have used them also, except maybe for staff authors.
What the internet has done is add the hyperlink to the resource
box.
You can think of it as a bartering exchange. The publisher
benefits from the content being provided by the author, which
makes his website more informative and useful to visitors. The
author benefits from the increased exposure that links back to
his website.
So what makes for a good resource box in an article?
The goal is to not be too overwhelming for the publisher. Yet it
has to be effective in drawing the reader to click on the
hyperlink and visit your website. A third but equally important
requirement is to consider how the search engines view your
resource box.
1 - From a publisher's perspective:
I have a website which I use to publish articles from other
authors. I don't just automatically approve all articles but
read them to decide if appropriate. I've learned that one of the
first things I do before even reading the article is to check out
the resource box for some obvious issues:
* Is the author's name included? This indicates ownership and
commitment.
* Are there too many hyperlinks? For me, one or two links are
desired. Depending on the links maybe three is appropriate. If it
appears the author is simply greedy and looking for exposure to
multiple sites I don't even bother with reading the article.
* Does the author say something about himself or about their
website or what they do? One or two sentences are usually
appropriate here.
* Follow the hyperlinks and check out the website(s). Is the
site completed? Is it useful and appropriate? The kind of site I
would be willing to link to?
These are the resource box attributes I look for before even
reading the article. Again this is my option, but from what I've
read other publishers look for similar requirements.
2 - From a visitor or users perspective:
For the reader or potential customer you have only a few
sentences to draw them to click on your website. As mentioned
previously, some basic information usually fulfills this
requirement.
The real work for invoking the user's click on your link is with
the article body itself. If the article content is found to be
useful and interesting to the reader, they are more likely to
click on your link. Under these conditions your resource box
simply needs to give them a little guidance to get them there.
3 - From the search engines perspective:
From the search engine perspective keywords are everything. It is
beyond the scope of this article to detail exactly how keywords
are determined. Check out any popular forum (Google for one) on
search engine optimization and you'll find plenty of topics
about keywords.
Many experts now recommend including the keywords in the anchor
text portion of the hyperlink. The "anchor text" is the portion
of the link which is visible to the user. When the user clicks on
the anchor text, the hyperlink directs him to the website address
which is the second part of the hyperlink.
The primary obstacle with using your keywords as the anchor text
is that it requires some html elements to be included when
submitting your article to be published. Many automated web
publishing systems automatically strip out any html elements it
finds, which then eliminates your link.
To get around this obstacle authors are submitting two links as
part of the resource box. One is with the html formatting to
properly display their keywords as the anchor text portion of the
link and another link with the plain text version of their
website address. This method at least provides a basic link to
their site if the html formatted link is removed.
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