Most people have presumably listened to the verse about how a kingdom was lost because of a missing nail in a horse-shoe.

Article marketing is similar, which depends on many seemingly trivial factors for its success. Make a mistake with any of these, and you could invite certain failure.

The article's Resource Box, also known as the Article Bio, can prove crucial. A poor spinning effort, apart from directionlessness in submitting articles, can ruin the end result of your efforts. A poorly devised Resource Box may also hurt your prospects.

1. Inform, Don't Hype

The main aim of article writing is purely to impart information. In this, article writing lacks resemblance with an advertisement, which aims at publicizing your product or service, with the intention of selling it. An article performs a function the same as what's done by an editorial in a journal. A prospective customer imbibes the article with a completely different mindset compared to what people have in respect of an advertsiement. Article writing has its main objective of informing the reader, making him or her curious to read the Author Bio.

The Author Bio should state interesting facts about the author, and state clearly what way you could help in teaching prospective customers about the niche. The Author Bio introduces the author, and includes ter details with respect to the article writer calculated to enamour readers involved in the same niche. The article writer could rely on the Author Bio to give pieces of advice to readers, but the accent should be on soft-sell, but to explain how you as the author can help a prospective customer.

Most importantly, insure that the Author Bio isn't all hype and noise.

2. The anchor text must vary with the directory.

SEs give importance to links, side-by-side with the anchor texts. Supposing similar anchor texts are used in different versions of the article, SEs will probably view your content as part of a mass-submission process by the site owner. They could refuse to credit such links and send them to a supplemental index. Even in the most optimistic scenario, the back-links you have included wouldn't earn the credits you targeted. Search Engines want to see different anchor text with every version of article to enable them to believe there is natural linking. Therefore, it makes sense to create multiple (atleast two, preferably more) variations of your anchor text, along with original articles as well as titles, for directory-submission.

Also, if your intention is to wax eloquent on a host of subjects to submit to directories, completely differentiate the Author Bio that goes with them.

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