Why is the author resource box essential to Article Marketing?

December 8, 2009 by Dorian
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing 

The author resource box is the material that you include at the end of every article that you write for submission to web directories. Article marketing heavily relies on this kind of information because the resource box includes details like the author’s name and the link to the website that you want to promote. This leads us to understanding the importance of reference points online: people need a name and a website to refer to for additional info, and that is the objective of the author resource box in the first place.

The author resource box differs a lot: some people choose to include a brief history of their activity, others prefer to have not one but two links mentioned in the paragraph, one to refer to more work belonging to the author and another referring to the main website. What types of links are you using in the resource box? This question should always preoccupy you when writing this part of the material.

Article marketing becomes most profitable when you rely on anchor text links that are built around regular URLs and relevant keywords. This is a supplementary form of search engine optimization with higher chances to attract good traffic to a certain website. The problem is that many web directories do not allow anchor text links. Before you move on with the creation of the author resource box, you should find out where you can use anchor text links and where simple URLs.

Always follow the requirements of the directories in order to have your articles approved. If you cannot use anchor text links in the author resource box, you can incorporate them in the content, and you will still get something out of it. Thus, you manage to comply with the rules of directories and at the same time you have the chance to build a good ranking with such forms of article marketing.

Know your options well enough before aiming at the optimization of your author resource box. You can even try to create different types of paragraphs, some with simple URLs and others with anchor text links and see for yourself which works better. The system we have mentioned here remains valid not only for original content, but also for the articles you spin, creating versions of the initial material. As for the rest of the author resource box, there are no rules to tell you how to organize it.