Bio Box of Article Sites Help Please

I deliberately don't treat the "bio box" as a separate entity. I simply write it as if it were the final, closing paragraph of my article. It provides a far better flow to the structure and thus, it forces more people to read it because it becomes part of the whole item.

Hi Kathryn,

Four quick things to say, here:-

(i) First, I strongly endorse and agree with Annie's post above, which will help you a lot;

(ii) Secondly, if you use the search function, and search only for threads with the word "resource" (as in "resource box", which is what we call a "bio box") in their titles, the results will bring up a lot of very interesting and helpful threads like this one, most of which contain some pretty good answers to your question: it's a very little bit of research for maybe a big reward ;

(iii) Thirdly, don't assume that increasing the click-through rate of your articles in directories will necessarily lead to more sales. I consistently earn a lot more now, with an average click-through rate of 18%/19%, than I did a couple of years ago when I had an average click-through rate of 38% - they're different people clicking. Quantitative approaches can be very misleading. It's easy to imagine that "more is necessarily better" but it isn't always true, and sometimes even the opposite can be true;

(iv) Lastly, you'll think me pedantic, perhaps, but try not to think of the resource-box as a "bio box": people tend not to click on "bio boxes". Very few people are interested in the author's "bio" - and the ones who are mostly aren't customers anyway. Look at it as the natural continuation of the article itself, and the link to something valuable.