I’m always amazed about how many author bio views I get. So it really pays to set up a good author page. Especially if you submit many articles, the author views alone can add up to a several hundreds or thousands of views. Imagine what you leave out if you have nothing there.

Gunter

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Useful. Relavent. Doable. Thank you – you model what you teach.

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It should be original and creative — more information about idols, hobbies, projects, & awards.
Greetings
Alejandro Guevara Onofre
Lima, Peru

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Is the a limit to the number of links?

I seem to remember not being able to put all my social networks.

Matt

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Nice video! I need one or two for my site. Can you refer me to the company or person that created the video?

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Great article! I just updated my author bio.

Swayze :)

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Owen,

We created it in-house.
…and we’re not in the video production biz for others.

You might want to look for a local video agency near you.

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Great tips! Now I realize how important those points are. Thanks for a very detailed information!

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Matt Prados,

I think you may be referring to the link limit we have in the article itself. This limit is 4 which includes 2 non-self-servings links and 2 self-serving links.

As for your author bio, you have the option of including the following URL’s:

3 Business URL’s
Personal URL
Blog URL
LinkedIN URL
FaceBook URL
MySpace URL
Twitter URL
FriendFeed URL

You can also add you ISBN/ASIN (up to 3 of them) for books on Amazon.

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Exteneded author Bio sounds like a valuable addidtion to your profile and other testimonies show how much this can drive referral traffic to your websites. I’ll be updating mine today!

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It’s all about crossing all the T’s & dotting all of the I’s isn’t it. Thanks for the reminder. I have added some additional information to my Bio.

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Ok. I’m sold.

Quick question. The is a powerful compact “how to” video. Is it alright to download and use it on my blog article? Or do I need to just link my article on “how to create and extended author box” back to ezine.com?

Thanks for all your work and kudos to the producer of this “in house” video.

Paul

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I am a new author at ezine articles, this information is gold to me I will be happy to put it use it. Thanks and great video!

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Great video – love how it was presented … it really does say a lot about your company and the image you portray … professional, fun and creative. Nice work!

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Paul,

Our preference is that you link back to our blog post to view the video. The link is:
http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2009/07/create-a-great-extended-author-bio.html

If you’re not in a hurry, you can embed any EzineArticles video in your blog using the embed code on our EzineArticles YouTube Channel. Videos are typically posted there about 10 days after we debut them in our blog.

Either way, be sure to acknowledge the source of the video as EzineArticles.com.

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Love that video! Great info.
I’m going to go and make sure all my
info is filled up.
Thanks!
Gina

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Exciting information – but I can’t remember my login details?
GB

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Excellent topic. The more a viewers gets to know about the author of a post, the more the viewer is likely to continue reading from this author.

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Kudos for the video, great production and information.

I haven’t had my photo taken in . . . oh, I don’t know how many years. I could aim my camera at myself and hope for the best but doubt the result would be brilliant.

Guess I’ll have to bribe one of my grandchildren to take a few snaps.

What do you do when you have more than one author name, I use different names for different niches. Would the same photo do?

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If you use the same photo for multiple author names that are clearly unrelated, we’d consider this a user-trust-violation.

If you used the same author photo for multiple variations on your name (example: Chris Knight, Christopher Knight, C. Knight, etc.).. we think this is ok.

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Thank you for the rapid response Chris,

“If you use the same photo for multiple author names that are clearly unrelated, we’d consider this a user-trust-violation.”

Fair enough. But then a different photo of the same person would also violate user trust wouldn’t it?

I guess that you can only have an author photo for one author name.

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Right.

You should assume that it’s ok to stretch one human to fit multiple related author names, but it’s not ok to use one human in multiple un-related author names.

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Great tip, should be done by every writer here. But what if the author does not wish to be know? Just think the author could have made the greatest work and does not even want to be known for it. I think its a really great tip for the author. Ezinearticles is one of the many places where you could get a amazon amount of information. I wonder will Ezineaticles do something like video bio that would be nice, right? Maybe, maybe not, just putting it out there.

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Chris,

Thank you for helping me to give people hope. Writing is one thing, getting the message out and who we are is another.

Clear, interesting and helping video.

Mary Jane Hurley Brant, M.S., CGP
Grief Specialist
Author of When Every Day Matters
Simple Abundance Press, Oct. 1, 2008

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I agree that the extended bio page is very good, I’d like to see 100-words added to the word limit.

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