Comments on: Resource Box Rule Number One

By: tolga savas

tolga savas — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:33:34 +0000

dear Chris thank you for enlightening me, I am only 4 months old as far as internet web design is concerned, I recently learned the benefits of article writing, although at the moment it takes me a long time to write one, I am seeing the benefits already, it is driving me forward with passion. I would like to take this opportunity to thank for your email and teaching me the tricks of the trade, I really appreciated, kind regards and best wishes Tolga Savas

By: Lynne Lee

Lynne Lee — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:41:25 +0000

Simply flowing into the resource box with a call to action and then telling the reader my name and a little about me has been working fine. Some articles have a 27% click through rate.
I think you have to give people a reason to carry on reading and click through before telling them about you.

Lynne Lee

By: Chris Ralph

Chris Ralph — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:42:38 +0000

I’ll have to side with those who disagree. I write an article as an information sales pitch. Its obvious what should follow the pitch:

a. If you want more info on topic X – see my website at (URL)

b. Hi, I’m Chris Ralph, and I have experience (A), education (B), I represent (C) and I am a good guy, etc.

No question that the pitch needs to be followed by the call to action – choice a. The reader cares some about who I am but is far more interested in the topic than who I am. I may be proud of my articles, but I am more interested in making the sale.

Chris

By: Vern

Vern — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:33:13 +0000

Hi Chris and My Article Writer Buddies,

Thanks so much for your encouragement and your advice. It really brings light to my understanding. I have recently added an additional reprint rights statement to all my latest resource boxes.

There isn’t much I will do to my other previously released articles so it will have to stand the test of time.

As a conclusion, the only resentment I have is that it makes my command of english look bad but thats about it.

Probably these “adsense spammers” do not have good copy paste technical know-how as well – so obviously they got a blackhat SEO e-book and just went out and do it.

I forgave them (in my heart) , we have to move on. Thanks again for the sharing guys.

Your Article Buddy,
Vern

By: Ann L.

Ann L. — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:38:44 +0000

Chris,
You have the habit of stating the obvious and generating a lot of discussion, nonetheless.

Vern-Copyright is granted with or without a statement forbidding change. The article directory itself says don’t change anything. If someone is hell-bent on changing your article, they will.

As far as Google, hopefully the real author won’t end up punished for duplication or other such stuff, after all, it’s only a robot.

By: Christopher M. Knight

Christopher M. Knight — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:11:21 +0000

Vern,

You can add any type of reprint rights statement in your resource box as long as it doesn’t conflict with our posted author TOS.

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All,

We have yet to see any content thief rise to traffic power…so while they are annoying, Google and other forces are ensuring that they never rise to significance.

By: joe Shaw

joe Shaw — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:45:55 +0000

Vern – I’ve been seeing the same thing.

I’ve seen my articles posted on websites after the webmaster ran my article through some kind of word meatgrinder that made my article really poor.

I’ve also seen them not post my resource box, which makes me angry.

There’s probably a plagarism forum here somewhere or a blog thread that has this already. Could someone point it out if so?

At this point, my only hope is that google figures out how to identify people doing that and then ban them for their black hat tricks.

Joe Shaw
The Family Business Guy

By: Vern

Vern — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:26:58 +0000

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the tip. If anyone can help me in this manner it would be great as well.

lately, there has been some form of plagiarism on some of my articles. Probably you’d say that “hey, vern… bad publicity is publicity nonetheless!”. But the problem is there are people out there copying my articles and putting my sig box and then… changing certain texts (that makes my english look awful).

Moreover, the signature box just does not contain my URL. Just my name thats it. So clearly the “publisher” wants to only generate revenue on his AdSense CTRs.

Do you suggest that I add this in my signature box?

e.g.

“I grant permission to you (as a publisher) to use my article for syndication or distribution as long as none of the text or content and signature links is not changed in anyway.”

Thanks for some advice,
Vern

By: Lance Winslow

Lance Winslow — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:58:27 +0000

One interesting thing that makes this point so timely to me is that I am noticing so many people not capitalizing “i” in their emails, as if they are afraid to look conceited. When I ask them about this they say that they do not have an ego problem and yet, in my professional opinion there is nothing wrong with ego as long as it is earned.

There is nothing wrong with standing up for your words or writing. I met a fellow EzineArticle online author today and they admitted that they were proud of their articles. And they are quite good and they should be proud and stand by their advice. I think that one should proudly display their name and show a sense of confidence. – Lance

By: joe Shaw

joe Shaw — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:12:03 +0000

I understand what the last few posts were about, and why you may think that way. Your thinking about the reader saying ‘what’s in it for me’. And if I understand you correctly, you’re saying that telling them our name isn’t really a bennifit. I get that. My opinion is a little different.

Yes, your resource box should be bennifits driven. But part of the bennifit for the reader is that they are getting advice from you the expert.

Telling the reader our name is not is not so we can brag, we’re telling them because our branding ADDS VALUE to our invitation for the reader. So what I’m saying is that telling them our name and our title increases the perceived benefit of our offer. And that IS about the reader. You have a website, You’re a published author, and they’re reading your article.

If I may add just one more thing, 10% of the readers of my articles click on my bio. That tells me that a lot of people really want to know more about me. Who am I to argue with that.

You all are great. Thanks for the intelligent discussion.

Joe Shaw
The Family Business Guy