Make It Easy
If you’re one of the almost 7000 authors who posts only an anchored text link only to your website in your article resource box with us, I have a question for you:
What do you think ezine publishers who reprint your article to their text only email newsletter do when they get around to figuring out how to give you a link back?
Answer = Most of them won’t give you a link back because you’ve made it too difficult for them to do so.
Solution: INCLUDE a URL in your resource box in VALID form, such as: http://Your-Company-Name.com/ and make that linkable. This should not be an optional thing, but a very article marketing 101 basics thing.
Hi Chris,
Why don’t you tell us exactly how one makes a link linkable? Do you mean HREF it? How about providing clear instructions for authors who don’t know what that is? Maybe you can refer them to your article that covers the basics?
I for one, was under the (perhaps false) impression that at this particular site, you’re not supposed to HREF your website link because it’s done automatically in the Author Resource Box.
I submit to other sites, and I work hard creating HTML tags throughout my articles… only to find that they’re stripped out after I click submit! Now, if no one tells me this, how am I supposed to know? Every site is different. I have no idea if linkable links are still going to be linkable after they get picked up elsewhere. It’s all a big mystery to me, and probably a lot of others. Please help us solve the mystery.
Thanks
-Dina
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