How To Use Your Signature To Increase Your Online Business Income
Copyright 2007 © Cynthia Minnaar

You may well ask what your signature has got to do with your online business income. It is one of the most effective methods of internet marketing used to promote online home business opportunities resulting in an increase in online business income.

Highly Effective Ways To Use Your Signature:

The most effective ways to use your signature to increase your online home business income are in the Author`s Resource Box or Bio Box as well as the Author`s Profile page when you write articles and submit them to the article directories and in your signature when posting in Forums.

By setting up your signature correctly you can tell the reader a little about yourself as well as anchor your keywords and the url of your website, thereby creating back-links to your website. This is all part of optimizing your articles for the keywords you have selected. Ideally you should write articles based on the theme of your website and place your keywords in the title of the article, the body and in the bio box.

How To Set Up An Author`s Resource or Bio Box:

The rules pertaining to the Author’s Bio Box differ, so be sure to check the Article Directories` Submission Guidelines to establish how many links you are allowed to put in the Bio Box. Most authoritative article directories accept html and three links, so here is an example of how to create a signature when you submit your article to the article directories that accept html:

Your Name (first and last) and a few words about yourself. You can find more information on <~a href="http://www.your-url.com">Add your own keywords here<~/a> and<~a href="http://www.your-url.com">Add more keywords here<~/a> by visiting<~a href="http://www.your-url.com">Your own website url<~/a>

You must remove all the "~" from the example above, to have it work for you.

By creating back-links to your website from the article directories via your article will not only increase the placement of your article in the search engines but will help your website gain a higher placement too, especially if you are submitting to article directories with a high Google page rank. It is far easier to get your own article on the first page of Google than it is your website, if you choose and use your keywords correctly. So if your article is really interesting and holds the readers` attention to the end, they will click through to your website from the Author`s Bio Box.

How To Set Up An Author`s Profile or Bio Page:

Some article directories give you the option to complete an Author`s Profile Page, which is like a large Resource Box. This gives you the great opportunity to write quite a lot of detail about yourself and your business as well as being able to anchor a lot of your keywords and the different urls of your website. This profile page link is placed on each of your article pages, so there is a good chance that if the reader found your article informative and interesting he will click through to your profile page to find out more about you and your online home business opportunity.

Utilizing A Forum Signature:

You also have the opportunity to set up your signature when you join a Forum although the code is normally different to that of the article directories, but you can find instructions for setting up your signature under the FAQ (frequently asked questions) Section in the forum. The forums are frequently crawled by the search engines so when you make a post in a forum your signature will be providing back-links to your website, leading to increased traffic and ultimately increase your online home business income.

The Rewards Of Fully Utilizing Your Signature:

The search engine robots crawl the article directories often so by submitting articles on a regular basis will ensure that the search engine finds your back-link and in turn will crawl your website regularly too.

If you are in the fortunate position of having your website appear on the first page of Google for certain keywords, then write an article optimized with the same keywords, it will be no time at all before you will occupy at least two slots on the first page of Google.

You can achieve some incredible results and an increase in home business income if you go one step further. Instead of submitting the same article to a few directories, take that article and change it around a bit and optimize it for other keywords that your website receives high placement for and submit a different version of your article to each directory. Be sure to redo your signature with the new keywords. In other words you will be submitting a unique article to each directory thereby supplying fresh content. You could then see different versions of your article from different article directories all appearing on page one of Google along with your website!

Another great idea is to save one totally unique version of your article to place on your own blog or build a new page around this fresh content on your website. Then you are able to add links within your article pointing to other items on your site. For example, if your article is about selecting keywords and you are promoting a keyword program like Wordtracker, then anchor the appropriate keywords and your referral url in the body of your article. As this article is on your website you are free to add as many links to your article as you like and build a brand new web page with totally fresh content.

It can take a while for the results of article marketing to kick-in before you start seeing floods of free organic traffic to your website, but once you start submitting articles regularly and consistently you will be gaining valuable, free and targeted traffic to your website and in turn increase your online business income..

Your articles will spread far and wide on the internet and stay around for years, so it is a very solid and rewarding way to increase your online business income.


About the Author:
Cynthia Minnaar is the owner and webmaster of www.cyns-home-biz.com, the site for online home business opportunities, free internet income training, as well as ideas to start an online home business and make online business income. Get your own income generating site set up free today.
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