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Article writing and article marketing can be an excellent strategy to promote your website or product if done correctly. When effectively written an article can bring highly targeted traffic to your business.

Most internet professionals write articles for two reasons. We like to bring valuable and informative information to our niche market, and to entice them to use the link we have provided in our authors resource box. More clicks mean more sales or subscribers.

The whole idea is to bring targeted traffic to your website. In order to accomplish this you need to put as much thought into your authors resource box as you do in writing the article itself. Everyone knows, or should know, that your name, your real URL, and a few sentences about you or your product should be included in the authors resource box. There are other things that you can to do turn an authors resource box into a top notch lead gathering machine.

Here are X tips to writing a Killer authors resource box

1.) Use Third-Person

Always speak of yourself in third person in your resource box. Take a look at the authors credentials in a book by your favorite author. I am sure that you will find that third-person was used.

Writing in third-person will help you gain credibility and result in more clicks.

2.) Speak of your expertise in your field

Suppose that you are writing about online gaming. Your might want to use something such as this:

Your Name has been an avid online gamer for the last 10 years and has participated in beta testing for seven online games and played many, many more.

A statement such as this will lend itself well to establishing your knowledge of your field and your credibility.

3.) Include a call to action

Human beings are conditioned to accept being told what to do. We have been told exactly what to do since birth. First our parents, then our teachers, and finally our boss has always been there to tell us what to do. Use this conditioning to your advantage.

It can be something very subtle such as please visit: Your Website name or it can more bold and direct such as Click Here for More Information

If you do not include a call to action you will be missing out on a great deal of traffic.

4.) Give away a Freebie

If possible offer the reader something for free if they click on your link.

A great tactic is to offer something for free but require that the reader exchange their name and email address for it. This will opt them into your list and you can market to them at your leisure.

While this will not work 100% of the time (nothing does), it will allow you to grow your marketing list rather easily.

The authors resource box is a valuable marketing tool and it boggles my mind that more internet professionals do not make better use of it.

Lee Ruleman is an article marketing professional specializing in assisting others in achieving their goals in the internet business marketplace. To get Lee's brand new product A Complete Internet Business in an Easy Open Can! please visit http://www.successfularticlemarketing.com