The resource box is one of the most common area where people forfeit potential article marketing benefits.
See if you can relate:
You’ve just slaved over your article and are finally ready to submit it. You’re tired of dealing with it, so you hastily throw together a resource box without giving it much thought. You’re on a mission at this point–you just want to get the thing submitted!
Who hasn’t felt like that before? I think we all have!
Even those of us who know the power of the resource box are tempted to focus all of our attention on the article and overlook the power of the little box that sits below it.
I’d like to remind you that as unassuming as it looks, the resource box is a powerhouse! Not only does it have the power to boost the search engine ranking for your website, it also is the one spot in your article submission where you can convince a reader to visit your website.
Yes, you can get website visitors directly from your articles.
The goal that these simple tips are trying to accomplish is to use the resource box to entice the reader to click the website link. When a reader reads your article, clicking the link to your website is the best affirmation of “I like your article!” that you’ll get, not to mention you’ll be generating traffic to your site and drawing the reader further into your marketing net.
Here is the first of these mysterious tips:
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Some people think that being a perfectionist is the best way to be–what could be wrong with having high standards?
There’s nothing wrong with setting goals for yourself and always trying to improve, but a line can be crossed that actually hurts your ability to write productively. Did you know that getting hung up on being perfect can actually bring on writer’s block?
I realized that the other day when I was looking over the comments from some old posts. Several years ago I had written an article on overcoming writer’s block, and I asked readers to tell me how they dealt with it. I was intrigued to see “perfection paralysis” noted by a few people as the reason why they have trouble writing sometimes.
I’ve heard that other places before–writer’s block is not that you’ve lost the ability to write. It’s just that you are afraid that what you write won’t be up to your standards.
So, instead of doing a post about how to overcome writer’s block, I thought it might be helpful for some of us to hear some tips on how to overcome perfectionism.
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I found this video and thought it was pretty cool and potentially helpful to anyone who is trying to learn how to become a better writer (that’s all of us, right?).
This is a time lapsed video that bestselling writer Scott Berkun created to show how he writes a 1,000 word essay.
The video is only about 5 minutes, but it’s going 30X faster than real life. Take a look at the video, and let’s see how we can apply Scott’s teachings to writing articles for article marketing.
(You can make this video bigger by pressing the “full screen” icon in the bottom right corner of the screen):
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If you’ve ever been in the market for a new house, you know how important the curb appeal is. You can decide whether you might want to live in the house simply by looking at the outside, and many houses are ruled out for lack of curb appeal.
Did you know that the same holds true for your articles?
For articles, your title is the curb appeal, and the article is the inside of the house.
Just like the object of sprucing your house up on the outside is to draw buyers inside, so the object of constructing a great title is to lure readers into reading your article.
What kind of title works? It’s very simple–the kind that makes readers want to read your article.
Here are 5 types of titles that are great at catching readers’ attention:
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It was only a couple months or so back that we had Panda, now there’s Penguin (read all about it)… Google’s increasingly clamping down on sites that they believe are higher up the rankings than they really should be, and Penguin certainly won’t be the last update in that regard.
I’ve had a few inquiries asking what it all means, specifically in relation to article marketing activities, and so now that the dust has settled a bit I wanted to put together a post that gives my own thoughts on the latest updates…
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Many people who are starting to do article marketing are just “regular people” who have an average knowledge of computers (which means just knowing how to turn one on and get on the internet). So, if you’re feeling like you’re technically out of your comfort zone, you’re not alone.
Have you been intimidated by the thought that you are responsible for marketing your own website? You may have thought that you don’t have the training or that you’re too far behind everyone else to catch up.
When you hear people talking about things like “keywords”, your brain starts to hurt.
“Oh, no,” you think, “here comes more information that I don’t understand!”
I always like to try to take a technical concept and teach it in a non-technical way, and that’s why I particularly like this post from Lorelle where she explains keywords by comparing them to a library card catalog. Here’s the gist:
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I get the best questions from clients and from people who are interested in article marketing in general. Here’s one that you might have an interest in yourself:
Over the last 6 months I’ve submitted 19 articles, and I can see from my statistics that I have over 1000 viewings total. However, I have not seen an increase in traffic to my website, nor sign ups to my newsletters etc. What can I do in regards to writing my articles, how many I submit etc to increase my traffic and article marketing success?
Thank you for getting in touch–you ask such a good question. There may be a little bit of a misunderstanding though on how article marketing works…
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So, it’s the first day of our Wake Up & Write challenge, and the getting up early part actually wasn’t that hard, (or at least I can say that now that I’m sitting at my desk). It feels great to know that in a short time I’ll have completed my writing goals for the day. I hope that you’re first day of early morning writing is going well!
Today we’re going to be talking about the HTML resource box. Now, as a member of the article submitter SubmitYourArticle.com, I’m sure that you’ve noticed that you have two resource box fields. One is for the plain text resource box, and the other is for the HTML resource box.
The text resource box is required–every publisher that we submit to will accept a text resource box. On the other hand, not every publisher will accept the HTML one.
Entering an HTML resource box is optional. If you provide both an HTML resource box and a text one, then we will submit the HTML one to every publisher who accepts that type of resource box, and we’ll use your text resource box for the publishers who don’t accept the HTML one.
What is the difference between the HTML resource box and the text resource box?
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I’ve already told you about a few common habits of professional writers–they tend to write in the morning and work in quiet and secluded areas. Next week we’ll be starting our “Wake Up & Write!” challenge where we work on implementing the early morning writing part.
Here are a few more tips of professional writers that you’ll find useful. These tips come from a research project I found at the blog Study Hacks where they compiled all sorts of data from a group of professional non-fiction writers.
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Professional writers face the challenge of writing every single day on a myriad of topics, some of them unfamiliar to them. They do this week in and week out, year in and year out.
Due to necessity, they’ve not only honed their writing skills, but they’ve also honed their writing routine so that they approach the task of writing in a strategic way.
Whenever you’re learning a new skill, it really helps to look to those who are super experienced. They know tricks that they’ve learned the hard way. They have secrets that have taken them years to learn. They can pass along valuable knowledge that saves those who are less experienced oodles of time.
That’s why it caught my attention when I learned that a very high number of professional writers do their writing in the morning.
Would writing in the early morning help you? You’ll never know unless you give it a decent try. That’s why we’re starting the “Wake Up & Write!” challenge in exactly one week, where we’ll do a month long experiment with early morning writing.
In preparation for this challenge, I’ve been doing some research on other writing routines/habits of professional writers. I found this very cool post in which they compared the writing habits of professional writers. The study used information from 10 professional non-fiction writers, and the results were eye-opening. I’ll sum them up here:
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