Article marketing is really pumping its way up. Almost all of online entrepreneurs and bloggers are considering this option to get more traffic in their blogs, and possibly getting from this traffic potential readers that they can deal with.
To get their blogs noticed, these bloggers submit their article to different article directories. In exchange of accepting these articles, directories are allowing the authors of such articles to take account of information with regards to their sites in a resource box. It is normally found below of each article. It is usually limited to about 5 to 6 sentences, depending upon the preference of the directories’ administrators.
Maybe you will ask what is the importance of such resource box. As mentioned earlier, it takes account all the information about the author of the article. It some sort of a free advertising. When somebody got interested of your article and want additional information, they will click that link directed to your blog. It gives chances to visit your blog.
It also increases your blog’s link popularity in search engines. It is a common knowledge that these search engines love blogs with good link popularity.
Although the article will give the reader the enthusiasm to visit your blog, it is also important that you supply your resource box with the same enthusiasm that you have given in your article. Remember that there is a limitation in advertising your blog in the box (as aforementioned, 5 to 6 sentences only). Make it as interesting as possible, for it will serve as the link between you and your potential readers or leads.
So what are the things that must be included in your resource box? Here are the key elements that must be included in it.
First is your name, of course. Article directories are such powerful promotion tool that they let you establish yourself as an expert in that particular topic that you have written about.
So, for the first line of your resource box, make it a short yet convincing sentence. State your name and tell your readers what you usually do online.
The second line of your resource box is your blog URL. Just stating it means only one thing – you are inviting your readers to visit your blog. But there is also another reason why you must include it in the box.
Aside from being published in article directories, it can also be provided to other well-known blogs (especially if the bloggers love your masterpiece), often with a link directed to your blog. As mentioned earlier, most search engines love blogs that high link popularity. If you have that, then you are on the edge against your contemporaries in their search results.
The third is your newsletters subscribe address. Maybe the reader will not buy your product or click the link going to your blog, but it is still imperative that you left an alternate contact address. Maybe you can capture his e-mail address and have a deal with him later on.
The last element that you must include in your resource box is something that you can offer for free. It will increase the chance of having your reader click that link going to your blog.
Now you have the key elements that you must include in your resource box. But how can you make it highly responsive in order to catch attention? Maybe you can try the following easy tips.
• Use keywords in your resource box. It will give the reader an idea that what you have discussed in your article can also be found in your blog. For instance, if your article is about diet pills, you can include in your resource box that your website also contains articles on green tea diet pills.
• Always consider the needs of your reader. What are the things that your readers are looking for? Are they looking for some recipe ideas or product reviews? Tell them the things they can expect when they have visited your blog.
• Create an enthusiastic tone in your resource box. Use the words like “check my blog and see the difference” or “gain that profit that you want to get through my program”.
• Provide an incentive if they will be clicking that link going to your blog. Offer them something free, for instance. You can also state that a surprise is waiting for them on your blog. This will help you to persuade these potential buyers to visit your blog and check out your stuffs and freebies, if any.
Make you resource box work for you. Although small, but as they say, it’s terrible. It can provide you that big opportunity you are looking for.
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It seems like email list building, people always need an incentive to click, its not easy as use to be in the old net days, nobody trust anyone anymore. I will try yur tips and see if I can bring more traffic from article marketing.
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True to a certain extent.. People tend to subscribe if you giving away an ebook instead of just signing up for newsletter.
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A free offering or something that generates excitement is always a good trick to draw attention to one’s offering. The fact that you can put your keywords and URL into the resource box also means that you’re gaining another backlink to your web page, and that is gooooood!
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Yeah but actually most of the article directories has strict rules on it.
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The idea of giving the reader some type of freebie is a very useful one to use. Also this can give you more useful backlinks.
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Have you tried it?
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Not yet, but I hear from others that it has helped them a lot.
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That’s an interesting topic – I’ve never seen anyone cover the resource box before!!
On a side note, did you get my email and reply on my blog?? Let me know what you think!
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Yeah sure. Thinking through it =)
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Man, i have been so slack on writing articles for my niche sites.. or having them wrote rather..
Ben, i’m going to go put this on my mind maps RIGHT NOW so it won’t slip my mind..
Thanks for the reminder and the tips!
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Lol sure.. Go Go!
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I only hear good things said about article marketing. But currently I’m putting it on hold as it takes too much time and for the moment I prefer to focus on blogging and blog commenting. But I may do some outsourcing later.
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Yeah actually I find it rather time consuming. It takes me almost a quarter to half a day on commenting already..
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Good information. I am working on some article marketing myself currently. Giving readers a freebie back is a good one. I can see how that can help with backlinks.
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Thats good GP! Keep working on it ya?
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the resource box can help with building back links, one of the basic 101’s of SEO.
This was actually one of the things i listed to get free traffic on my blog as well.
i’m glad i saw your post on this. very detailed and informative with how a resource box should be properly used.
YOu’ve been pushing out posts after posts, after posts lately Pei! keep up the good job!
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Nice post.
Ahhh… yeah nothing is better than good copy + good call to action term. Then again I have seen many people who leave only their website in the resource box and then complain why their CTR is near 0.
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Far too often I see articles with no resource box at all! This always amazes me.
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Seriously dude, what’s up with your commentluv?
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I am not sure dude, I don’t see anything wrong with that!
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hey Ben,
Great suggestions for making the resource box count. As I see it, if someone is going to put the work into writing a good article and submitting it, they ought to put the work into the resource box as well.
I think the idea of offering something free would definitely increase click-through rates, but does everyone have something free to offer? Have you written another post on things you can give away free?
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Good primer on article marketing and resource boxes. I think that the important thing is to remember to always track and test your boxes. After all, everything can be improved and different niches sometimes respond differently to different call-to-actions.
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“Create an enthusiastic tone in your resource box” I totally agree with this point, you really have to sell the benefits of a reader visiting your link and in order to do that you need something upbeat, positive and catchy. I regularly post to article directories and to date have publsihed over 500 articles and I find that despite all the stick it gets from SEO experts, it can be a very effective way of getting traffic.
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Great suggestions. I always need help with my resource box. I like the tip on using your best info at the end of the article, and the second best at the beginning. I hadn’t thought about using that info to funnel people to my blog.
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The idea of giving the reader some type of freebie is a very useful
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