Get More Click on your Articles - I tell you How!

[GeorgR.]

This has nothing to do with Keyword research, although keyword research is most crucial for your article.

This is a little trick to increase your clickouts:

* Most people use a typical line in their article or resource box like
"If you want to know more about X visit XYZ"

However, you can use a better "call to action" than this, for sure! I have no problems getting articles accepted where i say "According to our tests XYZ is the best product and we highly recommend it if you want to [insert whatever problem solution here]. (For sure beats "if you want to know more about X...")

* Resource Box:

Don't use a resource box with non relevant information and links like your home page or blog. Every additional link which is not related might decrease your CTR/sales.

Use the last two sentences with your recommendations and links in the article body, NOT in the resource box.

BAD EXAMPLE:

"Michael X. is the owner of someblog.com and anothersite.org as well as xyz.com". Unless you want to build backlinks such is bad, the user wouldn't even know where to click!

[Truffle]

thanks for sharing,
will try this one out soon

thanks,
jobic

[Kerrib4]

Hi GeorgR

I'm a bit confused as someone else in another post has told me to put my links in my bio box and not so much in the article. I have been adding them into my articles, and I have been kicked off two article sites and I don't know if that is why. You have written in your post to put them in the articles, so I'm not sure which way is better to do.

Also, would some blog/article sites not kick you off their site and say that was advertising by putting - "According to our tests XYZ is the best product and we highly recommend it if you want to [insert whatever problem solution here]. (For sure beats "if you want to know more about X...")? Maybe I am wrong but I don't really understand why those two blog sites kicked me off their site.

Thanks,
Kerri

[kempos]

Thanks for sharing and ideas. Really appreciated.

[Michael Franklin]

I'm always researching the different context that people use in their resource box....What I like to do is go to EzineArticles and lookup a niche that I'm interested in. Then, I look at articles for that niche that are "most viewed". Most viewed articles usually consist of articles by article marketers. Sure enough, I find all sorts of effective copy in their resource boxes that I can emulate.

I will also click on these author's and check out their other posts....Article espionage at its finest!

[talfighel]

Originally Posted by GeorgR.

Use the last two sentences with your recommendations and links in the article body, NOT in the resource box.

Some article directories like EzineArticles does not allow anyone to have their website in the article itself so this could be a challange but this is a good idea for other directories who do allow this.

Tal

[Aljiro]

Oooooh Article Espionage.

Anyways, Thanks for the share. I agree with the better call to action part.

[nuz]

Thanks GeorgR.

Sometimes we need a little push in the direction of creativity.

[Don-James]

Nicely done! I'll remember this tip going forward. Never really crossed my mind before.

[jimfurr]

Hi,

Putting your contextual links in an article is a very good move.
However, not all article directories allow them.

As stated above, Ezinearticles is very picky
but GoArticles.com allows them.

TIP: GoArticles.com is getting better love from Google
these days than EzineArticles, without all the
waiting to be posted

Jim Furr ><>

PS: It never hurts to refer to your bio box link
in the last line of your article

[sf_Imtiaz]

not many people actually realize it but a good creative call to action really helps increasing your conversion rate. Thanks for the tip.

[jimfurr]

Here are two examples from GoArticles.com:

Home Based Entrepreneur: GoArticles.com
Online Home Based Business: GoArticles.com

And two from EzineArticles.com:

Online Home Based Business - Way to Go!
Home Based Entrepreneur

Notice how I handled the links and bio boxes.

Also: Notice all the distractions on EA and
how clean looking the layout is at GA.


Jim Furr ><>

[marmo]

Originally Posted by Kerrib4

Hi GeorgR

I'm a bit confused as someone else in another post has told me to put my links in my bio box and not so much in the article. I have been adding them into my articles, and I have been kicked off two article sites and I don't know if that is why. You have written in your post to put them in the articles, so I'm not sure which way is better to do.

Also, would some blog/article sites not kick you off their site and say that was advertising by putting - "According to our tests XYZ is the best product and we highly recommend it if you want to [insert whatever problem solution here]. (For sure beats "if you want to know more about X...")? Maybe I am wrong but I don't really understand why those two blog sites kicked me off their site.

Thanks,
Kerri

I too would like an an answer to this as I do not relish the thought of being kicked off of a site , I have never been kicked off anything .... I think I would feel..... dirty .... after being booted / kicked / banned from a site.

[Valorie]

Affsphere is a PR2 article directory, and they are very affiliate friendly. Put those links in your article wherever you want.

With ezine articles, the author resource box is not separate from the article body, so I put my last 2 or 3 paragraphs in that area. Links are ok there, and you can get them higher up than the last paragraph without getting in trouble that way.

[GaryEarle]

Many might disagree with me here, but Ezine gives you a LOT of words that can be used in the resource box. This to me is where you do your .."Soft selling" ..and make it look just like its part of the article.

Just an idea that might be helpful...USE as much of the resource box as is allowed

Only my opinion

Gary Earle

[Kerrib4]

Originally Posted by marmo

I too would like an an answer to this as I do not relish the thought of being kicked off of a site , I have never been kicked off anything .... I think I would feel..... dirty .... after being booted / kicked / banned from a site.

I've not been banned from the site, I am able to make up another profile and blog on it if I like which I am going to do. I think the problem is that my links are to my online store, and because it is a store they may see it as advertising. I think if I used the line that GeorgR wrote, I would definately look as if I am advertising my products. That is just my opinion though. It's definately a good tip if you can get away with it.

Kerri

[GeorgR.]

Originally Posted by Kerrib4

Hi GeorgR

I'm a bit confused as someone else in another post has told me to put my links in my bio box and not so much in the article. I have been adding them into my articles, and I have been kicked off two article sites and I don't know if that is why. You have written in your post to put them in the articles, so I'm not sure which way is better to do.

Also, would some blog/article sites not kick you off their site and say that was advertising by putting - "According to our tests XYZ is the best product and we highly recommend it if you want to [insert whatever problem solution here]. (For sure beats "if you want to know more about X...")? Maybe I am wrong but I don't really understand why those two blog sites kicked me off their site.

Thanks,
Kerri

nope..i do all my articles that way and none of them got rejected. And yes, i am talking about ezine articles. As long as you still make it sound legit, aka "we tested many XYZ and think that X is the best Y". Or... "We highly recommend XYZ, it is the best Anti Virus Program at the moment. Simply click here to get a free trial." <--- i don't have any problem whatsoever with that and i also see many articles using that kind of style.