{"id":1464,"date":"2008-05-20T21:50:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T21:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2025-06-07T19:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:42:05","slug":"bad-resource-boxes-landing-pages-can-confuse-article-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/online-marketing\/bad-resource-boxes-landing-pages-can-confuse-article-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad resource boxes, landing pages can confuse article readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a great <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ezinearticles.com\/2008\/05\/landing-page-tips.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>\u00a0by Christopher Knight\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EzineArticles.com <\/a>on how incorrectly using the author resource box at the end your articles, or leading readers to bad landing pages,\u00a0can shatter your credibility.<\/p>\n<p>For example, in one article about how to be a deejay,\u00a0written in English, Chris\u00a0clicked on a link in the author resource box and landed on a page with copy written in Japanese. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>Take note of the six mistakes he mentions. Are you guilty? If so, he offers tips on how to correct them.<\/p>\n<p>During the teleseminar I conducted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Write How-to Articles,<\/a> I mentioned that the author resource box is the most important part of the article. That one paragraph can\u00a0lead readers to your website&#8212;or not. It can force them to pick up the phone and call you&#8212;or leave and walk the dog.\u00a0It can encourage them to give you their email address&#8212;or ignore you.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the rules, however, and you can end up with a customer for life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a great article\u00a0by Christopher Knight\u00a0of\u00a0EzineArticles.com on how incorrectly using the author resource box at the end your articles, or leading readers to bad landing pages,\u00a0can shatter your credibility. For example, in one article about how to be a deejay,\u00a0written in English, Chris\u00a0clicked on a link in the author resource box and landed on\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/online-marketing\/bad-resource-boxes-landing-pages-can-confuse-article-readers\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":612,"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[607],"class_list":{"0":"post-1464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online-marketing","7":"tag-promotions","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41550,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/41550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}