Patsi Krakoff writes:

Thanks, Chris. Just a point of clarification while on this topic, what about urls in the body of the article? I know I should go look this up, but I’m lazy! A url to a non-self-serving source is of course a requirement when citing resources, okay, but is there a limit on these, and what is considered ideal? Also, when is is okay to refer to your own previous article or research on a topic in which case the url is a referral source, AND self-serving.

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Ed Howes writes:

:-)

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Michael Russell writes:

In my opinion there should be only one link allowed in the resource area :-)

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Lance Winslow writes:

This makes sense really. I actually agree with Michael. BTW Michael, wow, are you writing a lot of articles. And I must say I have been reading all your aviation articles; total 5-Star Articles. Great to read, awesome stuff, keep them coming. I second Ed’s “happy face” too.

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Ed Howes writes:

I can’t agree with Michael about one link in the resource box. I recently decided I;d be just as happy if folks came here to read my articles as my own site so I decided to recommend an author search at EzineArticles. I was doing that before but not with a live link. I do this on the few other directories I support. Please don’t make me choose just one. :-)

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Tony Wilton writes:

I think 3 URLs in the resource box is plenty.

We are in the business of submitting articles…not blatant self promotion.

Tony

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adwin writes:

Hi, personally I find one good URL is enough. I am sure if you got a good piece of article, you wont want your traffic to have a chance to get to diverted.

1 Targeted link is enough.

Adwin

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Chris Knight writes:

Patsi, it’s 3 self serving URL’s in the entire article including the BODY and the RESOURCE BOX. The ideal when citing resources that are not self serving is to not do it at all. This is not blogging. This is writing for personal exposure. If you want to ‘give’ more to your reader with helpful links, do it on your website instead of in a syndicated article. — We’ve allowed others to refer to their own articles, but usually frown on this because it’s a gray area…and we’d prefer to not see very author referring to other EzineArticles articles within each article.

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Marco Terry writes:

Actually, I like having three links. Many of my articles cover two or three related related subjects, and having multiple links allows me to direct traffic to the right area of my site.

Why two or three related subjects per article? Well, I write about commercial finance and usually like to provide two to three approaches (e.g. a/r financing, purchase order financing and LOC’s….. they are all very related but different).

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Telefon Mann writes:

I think only one link is more than enough to explain something and its preventing from massive comment-spamming

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Jennifer Carter writes:

I agree with Marco – I often want to.. refer readers to find out further information from my sites about a particular subject; but also want to get them looking at other related content too.

For example, people looking to build traffic to their websites might also be interested in making more money from them too – that’s not too unrealistic to expect – so in this case, I would include links to both.

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