| The article resource box is the advertising area placed | | | | chance of your site appearing in the keyword results. |
| at the end of an article. For a writer supplying content | | | | You can also improve on this approach by varying the |
| free of charge to an article directory, this is their | | | | keywords that you use every time you repeat the site |
| reward for the hard work that has been put into | | | | - for instance, if you are writing multiple articles, you will |
| writing that article. There are many different techniques | | | | end up with multiple resource boxes. This will potentially |
| that you can use when writing a resource box. But | | | | give you more keywords to rank for. |
| some of these techniques work better than others, or | | | | As you are generally offered two links in every |
| are suited for different situations. This article looks at | | | | resource box, another option would be to choose one |
| the options so that you can make an informed | | | | of each of these types of urls. In order to match the |
| decision. | | | | conditions associated with resource boxes, you should |
| The first choice is to put in a link without any attempt | | | | generally make certain that you are linking to two |
| to link it to keyboards. This is just going to be a direct | | | | different sites, or, alternatively, two different pages on |
| link to your site. So, for a totally fictitious site, you would | | | | the same sites. Remember that these sites have to |
| just put in a url that led directly to the site in question. | | | | be ones that you personally own, as it is bad practice |
| This type of link works well if you want people to learn | | | | to put an affiliate link into a resource box (and some |
| your brand identity as they are reading your article. | | | | articles directories ban this in its entirety). |
| However it also suffers from not being search engine | | | | Do make sure that you are putting effort into the |
| optimised. | | | | resource boxes you submit with your articles, as this |
| The second choice is to give a link with associated | | | | will help you to get better results from them. After all, a |
| keywords highlighted. In this case, the fictitious site listed | | | | resource box will stay with an article for a long time. |
| could be linked directly to the keywords "fictitious site". | | | | So choose your strategy for linking urls carefully, |
| This is a better choice from the point of view of | | | | whether this is keyword based, direct link based, or a |
| search engine optimisation, as now when people | | | | mixture of both of these. |
| search the keyword phase "fictitious site", there is a | | | | |