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Would you put a non-clickable link into an article? Maybe it's worthwhile?

by madison_avenue
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I have some articles on article directories.

I have noticed some of my articles have appeared on websites without the "live link' at the bottom. I believe some of this could be because webmasters are coming to an article directory and simply copying and pasting the text of an article-perhaps even unaware of the need to put an active link.

So why not put the link to your site as text -not a clickable link but just the text address.

Traffic should come by people seeing the address and typing in the non-clickable text link; Links like this could even be placed in the main body of an article.
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  • Profile picture of the author sparckyz
    I have to put non-click-able links into press releases and yahoo answers at the moment, though the press release ones are just no-anchor. Still unclear how google and other SE's treat them
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  • Profile picture of the author Mangozoom
    Really any webmasters who do this are not acting properly.

    However in my experience and I use article marketing a lot it is rare and therefore not worth worrying about.

    If you are concered you could contact the webmaster and point out the issue but in many cases I doubt that you will even get a response.

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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      I try to provide both an anchored link and a text url. As you've seen, some people who use your article may not even realize/care whether your anchor link is live or not. The url allows interested people to copy/paste, and some software (like this forum) converts text urls into live links.

      I think it makes the best of a less than desirable situation.
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  • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
    I also try to include one anchor text link and one plain url.

    A lot of times when someone copy/pastes the article into their own site the plain url automatically becomes a live link. (No anchor text, but still clickable).
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  • Profile picture of the author madison_avenue
    Thanks for your replies guys. My thinking on this is similar; by not including text links in your article you are losing out on potential traffic. It is not always about links but about traffic too. I wrote a guest article which included a text link and am still getting traffic from it 12 months later.

    If your content is compelling enough and you a have a text link people will find you.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      I also have one link as an anchor link and one written as a url - I know that one will be active if someone lazy copies the article.

      I've tried using link in articles and find they don't get picked and syndicated as much so aren't as long term as other articles for me.

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      • Profile picture of the author tpw
        Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

        I also have one link as an anchor link and one written as a url - I know that one will be active if someone lazy copies the article.

        I've tried using link in articles and find they don't get picked and syndicated as much so aren't as long term as other articles for me.

        kay

        I also do both anchor link and plain text url in my resource boxes...

        As others have stated, it allows my domain name to follow my articles, even if someone copies and pastes from one site to another... And depending on the software used to host that site, when pasted, the URL may become clickable...

        I have found that not all publishers / directory owners have the restriction against url's in the body of the article...

        I am willing to give up some syndication in order to do that sometimes, because the sites that matter to me generally don't care about that extra link...

        If the url just goes into the article -- non-clickable -- that is fine too...

        It will give me Domain Name Recognition...

        Others may copy-and-paste URL to a browser...

        And there have been hints that Google and the other search engines to count that as a Citation Reference...

        p.s. I am not going to argue with anyone about whether Citations exist in the search algorithms... I like to believe so, but I have never tested it...
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