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In article marketing, there are many factors that will
affect your articles' ability to promote your website in
the most effective manner. In this article, we will briefly
discuss a couple those factors, before we dive into how to
create an effective Authors' Resource Box, also known as
the About The Author Information.
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Four Tips For Creating An Effective Authors' Resource Box
Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Bill Platt
Writing Puzzle
http://WritingPuzzle.com/
In article marketing, there are many factors that will affect
your articles' ability to promote your website in the most
effective manner. In this article, we will briefly discuss a
couple those factors, before we dive into how to create an
effective Authors' Resource Box, also known as the About The
Author Information.
Before the Authors' Resource Box
Hands down, the most important element of a successful article is
its title. Your title must serve three masters: the publisher,
the reader, and the search engines.
Before anyone can see your article, you must attract the interest
of a publisher. Your title will determine how many publishers
open your article, in the process of determining whether your
article will answer the needs of his or her readers.
Unless a publisher decides to publish your article, your article
will be forever confined to a few article directories - very few
article directories have any real traffic, beyond the writers who
go to that site to get their own articles submitted.
Your article title is essential to getting your article opened by
publishers first and readers second. You need publishers to open
your articles, so that they can consider them for publication.
Once a publisher has decided to publish your article, you need
readers to open your article and read it. Better than that, you
need readers to reach your resource box and a visit your website,
so that they can consider purchasing what you sell.
The third master that your article title serves is the search
engine algorithm. Once your article is published on a third-party
website, you want the search engines to find it, to index it, and
to present it in its search results. But, as an individual who
plays the search engines, you also want the search engines to
credit your website as being related to the anchor text that you
used in your links.
After The Title
Once a publisher has opened your article and began reading, you
want that publisher to decide that the article content is
appropriate for his or her audience.
Your title will only ensure that your article will be opened.
But, it is the body of your article that will determine if a
publisher actually uses your article. Your article must answer a
need of people in the publishers' target audience. If the
publisher determines that your article content is not relevant to
his or her audience, it does not matter how good your article
might be.
Beyond relevance, the publisher must consider the article to be
interesting and useful to his or her audience. As an article
writer, you serve the publishers' needs and the publisher serves
the needs of his or her audience. Ideally, your goal when writing
the article should be to answer the needs of a publishers'
audience. In doing so, you can gain the approval of the
publisher, who stands between your article and your intended
audience.
Your first master is the publisher. Without the support of
publishers, your articles cannot be exposed to a much larger
audience.
Your second master is always the reader. The reader must
appreciate what you have written. If the reader appreciates the
story that you have told, then your reader will want to read your
resource box, to determine whether you can offer them more... A
satisfied reader, who is also intrigued by your resource box, is
someone who will be very likely to visit your website, through
the link in your resource box.
Your third master is always the search engine algorithm. Once
again, you want the search engine companies to acknowledge the
link from a third-party website pointing to your website, and
also the relationship of your anchor text keywords to your
website.
The Money Shot
The publisher is seldom concerned with your actual Authors'
Resource Box. The only time a publisher will shoot down an
article, based on its resource box, is when it contains offensive
language or links to offensive websites.
When you construct your Authors' Resource Box, there are four
goals that you should seek to accomplish with every single
article you write.
First, you want to define an author. People, who have read your
article, want to know about the person who has written it.
Some marketers want to leave a name off of the Authors' Resource
Box. This is frequently done for one of two reasons.
First, companies may want to separate its content from the people
who have written content. Companies rightfully consider the
article to be part of the intellectual property of the company;
therefore, no individual should be given credit as the author.
Second, individual website owners may want to hide behind the
anonymity that the Internet offers to them.
Articles do have the capacity to deliver real people - shoppers -
to your website. If your goal is to attract real people -
potential customers - to your website, it will be imperative to
allow your reader to connect to an individual author...
This is not to say that you have to use a real name in
conjunction with your article. In fact, many marketers utilize
multiple pen names, with the articles that they publish online.
For example, I utilize article marketing to promote dozens of
websites online. In doing so, I utilize a new pen name with every
new website I promote. Anson Werner writes about travel. Barry
Prouty writes about WordPress blogs. Emerson Lockwood writes
about home improvement.
Anson Werner is not real, but he is one of my alter egos. Anson
lets me write about other topics that interest me, without
watering down my online persona.
Anson's most important role is to give readers a connection to
an online personality, a name through whom they can find other
articles of a similar nature, written by the same person.
Anson gives identity to the person responsible for the creation
of the content, for the reader.
The flipside is suggesting that "Business Name" wrote the
article, but that is such a disingenuous method to identify the
person, with whom the reader had felt a connection.
The only thing worse than trying to convince the reader that a
"Business Name" wrote the article, is to try to convince the
reader that "No One" wrote the article... If you try the "No
One" approach to taking credit for the authorship of the
article, you will have stepped beyond the obvious, little white
lie and entered into the territory of convincing the reader that
you have a good reason to hide. If you must hide from your
audience, then why should they trust to give you their money?
The second thing you want to is to provide a strong
call-to-action to your readers. If you got a reader to open your
article and read it to its conclusion, then you should absolutely
be interested in getting that reader to visit your website to
consider buying what you are selling.
But so many people lose the race right here, by providing either
no call-to-action or an ineffective call-to-action.
The people who have just read your article are primed to do what
you want them to do. But you have to tell them what you want them
to do and why.
Don't miss this opportunity to encourage your readers to visit
your website and buy what you are selling.
The third item is a plain text copy of the link to your domain,
which is your opportunity to brand your website with your
articles. This is an opportunity that is overlooked by most
article marketers.
Many article marketers make the mistake of believing that the
only thing that article marketing is used for is to influence the
search engine algorithms. They quickly forget that before the
search engines find value in a page, people will be reading the
articles.
By only providing anchor text links, your readers will not know
which website supported the development of an article. But, if
people know the name of your website and why they would want to
visit your website, then people will be more inclined to type the
name of your website into their browser bar, rather than to look
for you on the search engines.
35% of my global traffic comes from people who type in the URL of
my website into their browser bars.
Additionally, you want to include a plain text copy of your URL,
as a matter of self-protection, if the publisher does not publish
your article with your anchor text links.
The fourth and final item you want to include in your Author's
Resource Box is your anchor text links, which explain to the
search engines what keywords best define your website.
If you use more than one anchor text link in your Author's
Resource Box, then you should point each one to a different URL,
to maximize the value your website will receive from the search
engines. This will show the search engines that more than one URL
on your website is worth consideration, and it will help your
overall ability to find visitors from the search engines.
In Conclusion
Too many article marketers have the idea that article marketing
will only serve one master - Google. But Google will find your
articles hard to appreciate if real people do not also appreciate
your article...
When publishers appreciate what you have written, they will put
your article into their website, giving you access to their
audiences. The more publishers, who appreciate what you have
written, the more of them who will publish your article, which
will give you even more links from your articles.
When readers appreciate what you have written, they are very
likely to visit your website to see what else you can do for
them.
If you desire only to chase search engine rankings, then that is
your business. But wasn't the original purpose of chasing search
engine rankings to attract potential customers to your website?
So, why not chase publishers, readers and search engines with
your articles?
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You can become a better writer, with the right training. If you are
looking to improve your writing skills or learn how to better market
your writing projects, visit Bill Platt's website to see how he can
help you: http://PlattPublishing.com/ If you are looking to buy or
sell writing services, check out Bill's Freelance Writer Marketplace
at: http://FreelanceWritersReview.com/
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Clean links should point to the Author's links without
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* You are not allowed to Change or Delete any Words or
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must be retained with articles. You can change where
the paragraph breaks fall, but you cannot eliminate all
paragraph breaks as some have chosen to do.
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proper display of the article in your website or in your
ezine, so long as you can maintain the author's interests
within the article.
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for any software that steals sentences from others in
order to build an article with software. The copyright on
this article applies to the "WHOLE" article.
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Article Title:
Four Tips For Creating An Effective Authors' Resource Box
See TERMS OF REPRINT to the end of the article.
Article Description:
In article marketing, there are many factors that will
affect your articles' ability to promote your website in
the most effective manner. In this article, we will briefly
discuss a couple those factors, before we dive into how to
create an effective Authors' Resource Box, also known as
the About The Author Information.
Additional Article Information:
===============================
1669 Words; formatted to 65 Characters per Line
Distribution Date and Time: 2013-08-27 12:00:00
Written By: Bill Platt
Copyright: 2010-2013
Contact Email: mailto:comm...@thephantomwriters.com
Bill Platt's Picture URL:
http://www.thephantomwriters.com/x-images/bill_platt-2006.jpg
For more free-reprint articles by Bill Platt, please visit:
http://www.thePhantomWriters.com/recent/author/bill-platt.html
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Four Tips For Creating An Effective Authors' Resource Box
Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Bill Platt
Writing Puzzle
http://WritingPuzzle.com/
In article marketing, there are many factors that will affect
your articles' ability to promote your website in the most
effective manner. In this article, we will briefly discuss a
couple those factors, before we dive into how to create an
effective Authors' Resource Box, also known as the About The
Author Information.
Before the Authors' Resource Box
Hands down, the most important element of a successful article is
its title. Your title must serve three masters: the publisher,
the reader, and the search engines.
Before anyone can see your article, you must attract the interest
of a publisher. Your title will determine how many publishers
open your article, in the process of determining whether your
article will answer the needs of his or her readers.
Unless a publisher decides to publish your article, your article
will be forever confined to a few article directories - very few
article directories have any real traffic, beyond the writers who
go to that site to get their own articles submitted.
Your article title is essential to getting your article opened by
publishers first and readers second. You need publishers to open
your articles, so that they can consider them for publication.
Once a publisher has decided to publish your article, you need
readers to open your article and read it. Better than that, you
need readers to reach your resource box and a visit your website,
so that they can consider purchasing what you sell.
The third master that your article title serves is the search
engine algorithm. Once your article is published on a third-party
website, you want the search engines to find it, to index it, and
to present it in its search results. But, as an individual who
plays the search engines, you also want the search engines to
credit your website as being related to the anchor text that you
used in your links.
After The Title
Once a publisher has opened your article and began reading, you
want that publisher to decide that the article content is
appropriate for his or her audience.
Your title will only ensure that your article will be opened.
But, it is the body of your article that will determine if a
publisher actually uses your article. Your article must answer a
need of people in the publishers' target audience. If the
publisher determines that your article content is not relevant to
his or her audience, it does not matter how good your article
might be.
Beyond relevance, the publisher must consider the article to be
interesting and useful to his or her audience. As an article
writer, you serve the publishers' needs and the publisher serves
the needs of his or her audience. Ideally, your goal when writing
the article should be to answer the needs of a publishers'
audience. In doing so, you can gain the approval of the
publisher, who stands between your article and your intended
audience.
Your first master is the publisher. Without the support of
publishers, your articles cannot be exposed to a much larger
audience.
Your second master is always the reader. The reader must
appreciate what you have written. If the reader appreciates the
story that you have told, then your reader will want to read your
resource box, to determine whether you can offer them more... A
satisfied reader, who is also intrigued by your resource box, is
someone who will be very likely to visit your website, through
the link in your resource box.
Your third master is always the search engine algorithm. Once
again, you want the search engine companies to acknowledge the
link from a third-party website pointing to your website, and
also the relationship of your anchor text keywords to your
website.
The Money Shot
The publisher is seldom concerned with your actual Authors'
Resource Box. The only time a publisher will shoot down an
article, based on its resource box, is when it contains offensive
language or links to offensive websites.
When you construct your Authors' Resource Box, there are four
goals that you should seek to accomplish with every single
article you write.
First, you want to define an author. People, who have read your
article, want to know about the person who has written it.
Some marketers want to leave a name off of the Authors' Resource
Box. This is frequently done for one of two reasons.
First, companies may want to separate its content from the people
who have written content. Companies rightfully consider the
article to be part of the intellectual property of the company;
therefore, no individual should be given credit as the author.
Second, individual website owners may want to hide behind the
anonymity that the Internet offers to them.
Articles do have the capacity to deliver real people - shoppers -
to your website. If your goal is to attract real people -
potential customers - to your website, it will be imperative to
allow your reader to connect to an individual author...
This is not to say that you have to use a real name in
conjunction with your article. In fact, many marketers utilize
multiple pen names, with the articles that they publish online.
For example, I utilize article marketing to promote dozens of
websites online. In doing so, I utilize a new pen name with every
new website I promote. Anson Werner writes about travel. Barry
Prouty writes about WordPress blogs. Emerson Lockwood writes
about home improvement.
Anson Werner is not real, but he is one of my alter egos. Anson
lets me write about other topics that interest me, without
watering down my online persona.
Anson's most important role is to give readers a connection to
an online personality, a name through whom they can find other
articles of a similar nature, written by the same person.
Anson gives identity to the person responsible for the creation
of the content, for the reader.
The flipside is suggesting that "Business Name" wrote the
article, but that is such a disingenuous method to identify the
person, with whom the reader had felt a connection.
The only thing worse than trying to convince the reader that a
"Business Name" wrote the article, is to try to convince the
reader that "No One" wrote the article... If you try the "No
One" approach to taking credit for the authorship of the
article, you will have stepped beyond the obvious, little white
lie and entered into the territory of convincing the reader that
you have a good reason to hide. If you must hide from your
audience, then why should they trust to give you their money?
The second thing you want to is to provide a strong
call-to-action to your readers. If you got a reader to open your
article and read it to its conclusion, then you should absolutely
be interested in getting that reader to visit your website to
consider buying what you are selling.
But so many people lose the race right here, by providing either
no call-to-action or an ineffective call-to-action.
The people who have just read your article are primed to do what
you want them to do. But you have to tell them what you want them
to do and why.
Don't miss this opportunity to encourage your readers to visit
your website and buy what you are selling.
The third item is a plain text copy of the link to your domain,
which is your opportunity to brand your website with your
articles. This is an opportunity that is overlooked by most
article marketers.
Many article marketers make the mistake of believing that the
only thing that article marketing is used for is to influence the
search engine algorithms. They quickly forget that before the
search engines find value in a page, people will be reading the
articles.
By only providing anchor text links, your readers will not know
which website supported the development of an article. But, if
people know the name of your website and why they would want to
visit your website, then people will be more inclined to type the
name of your website into their browser bar, rather than to look
for you on the search engines.
35% of my global traffic comes from people who type in the URL of
my website into their browser bars.
Additionally, you want to include a plain text copy of your URL,
as a matter of self-protection, if the publisher does not publish
your article with your anchor text links.
The fourth and final item you want to include in your Author's
Resource Box is your anchor text links, which explain to the
search engines what keywords best define your website.
If you use more than one anchor text link in your Author's
Resource Box, then you should point each one to a different URL,
to maximize the value your website will receive from the search
engines. This will show the search engines that more than one URL
on your website is worth consideration, and it will help your
overall ability to find visitors from the search engines.
In Conclusion
Too many article marketers have the idea that article marketing
will only serve one master - Google. But Google will find your
articles hard to appreciate if real people do not also appreciate
your article...
When publishers appreciate what you have written, they will put
your article into their website, giving you access to their
audiences. The more publishers, who appreciate what you have
written, the more of them who will publish your article, which
will give you even more links from your articles.
When readers appreciate what you have written, they are very
likely to visit your website to see what else you can do for
them.
If you desire only to chase search engine rankings, then that is
your business. But wasn't the original purpose of chasing search
engine rankings to attract potential customers to your website?
So, why not chase publishers, readers and search engines with
your articles?
---------------------------------------------------------------------
You can become a better writer, with the right training. If you are
looking to improve your writing skills or learn how to better market
your writing projects, visit Bill Platt's website to see how he can
help you: http://PlattPublishing.com/ If you are looking to buy or
sell writing services, check out Bill's Freelance Writer Marketplace
at: http://FreelanceWritersReview.com/
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* If you publish this article in a website/forum/blog,
You Must Set All URL's or Mailto Addresses in the body
of the article AND in the Author's Resource Box as
Hyperlinks (clickable links).
* Links must remain in the form that we published them.
Clean links should point to the Author's links without
redirects having been inserted into the copy.
* You are not allowed to Change or Delete any Words or
Links in the Article or Resource Box. Paragraph breaks
must be retained with articles. You can change where
the paragraph breaks fall, but you cannot eliminate all
paragraph breaks as some have chosen to do.
* Email Distribution of this article Must be done through
Opt-in Email Only. No Unsolicited Commercial Email.
* You Are Allowed to format the layout of the article for
proper display of the article in your website or in your
ezine, so long as you can maintain the author's interests
within the article.
* You may not use sentences from this article as an input
for any software that steals sentences from others in
order to build an article with software. The copyright on
this article applies to the "WHOLE" article.
*** Author Notification ***
We ask that you notify the author of publication of his
or her work. Bill Platt can be reached at:
comm...@thephantomwriters.com
*** Print Publication Reprint Rights ***
If you desire to publish this article in a PRINT
publication, you must contact the author directly
for Print Permission at:
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.....................................
If you need help converting this text article for proper
hyperlinked placement in your webpage, please use this
free tool: http://thephantomwriters.com/link-builder.pl
Would you like to learn how to improve the performance of your
article marketing campaigns? Download our F.R.E.E. 108-page
Article Marketing Ebook at:
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