7 Article Writing Tips on Author’s Resource Box

Here are some useful article writing tips relating to the author’s resource box and how to use it for maximum effectiveness.

Note: the author’s resource box is the short paragraph tagged on at the end of articles as they appear at article directories. Resource boxes are often used to give some information about the author, as well as links to the author’s website. They can also be used to write directly about the message or conclusion of the article, followed by a link or links to more information.

Tip 1) Change the author’s resource box for every article.

The reason for doing this is to maximize the uniqueness of the page your article will appear on at an article directory. The more unique content there is on the page — as opposed to duplicate content such as that formed by web site templates, standard sets of navigation links, standard disclaimers or copyright notices and so on. It is not difficult to take what would otherwise be your standard resource box text and tweak it using different words to express the same thing.

Tip 2) Make full use of the maximum number of links you are allowed in the Resource Box.

Read the guidelines at the article directory you are posting to in order to make sure what that number of links is. It may be two or it may be three or more. Make the best use you can of all of them.

Tip 3) Make what you say in the resource box spurs the reader on to click on the links.

You could offer more information, or hint at something very useful to be discovered at the author’s website.

Tip 4) Include an invitation to reproduce the article on the reader’s website, ezine, blog or elsewhere.

People may be reading your article somewhere else other than the article directory you are currently posting to – once it has been taken up by other sites. So, it may not be clear to such visitors that they can re-use the article. Making this clear could lead to your article appearing in places that it would not otherwise have been syndicated to.

Tip 5) State that the resource box must be included if the article is re-published.

This is important as it makes the situation clear to your readers. Some of them may still ignore this legal requirement (one of the hazards of article marketing) but at least they cannot claim that they did not know they had to include the resource box.

Tip 6) Include your keyword phrases in proximity to your links.

Search engines are believed to give your links and their anchor text greater weight if the keywords are also part of the accompanying text.

Tip 7) Use good anchor text in your links.

The anchor text itself should contain the keyword phrases that are used on the page the link goes to, so strengthening its link reputation.

Author’s note: Although this post is about syndicating your article content, it is not itself available for syndication!

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