Content Caboodle Blog » guidelines http://www.contentcaboodle.com/blog Useful information and resources for authors and publishers Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:39:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Links In Articles – The Do’s and Don’ts http://www.contentcaboodle.com/blog/article-marketing/links-in-articles-the-dos-and-donts/ http://www.contentcaboodle.com/blog/article-marketing/links-in-articles-the-dos-and-donts/#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:14:40 +0000 Editing Staff http://www.contentcaboodle.com/blog/article-marketing/links-in-articles-the-dos-and-donts/ Content Caboodle was created to be as friendly as possible to writers who use articles for marketing and promotional purposes, however to ensure the quality of content in our directory we also have to maintain some guidelines over content to serve the interests of readers and publishers too; and we have tried to strike a fair balance in our submission guidelines towards those goals.

When it comes to links in articles we believe our policy is very liberal for authors. We allow up to 3 links within the body of an article, and an additional 2 links in the author’s resource box.

We also allow direct affiliate links to be used in the author’s resource box. Our position is that if you, as an author, wish to promote a product or service by developing quality article content that is informative for readers there is no reasonable cause for our policies to penalize you by forcing you to use additional domains or redirecting links in your resource box.

However, the Ying to that Yang is that the article itself must be informative to readers and not purely intended to sell them on any product or service. Articles that appear to be nothing more than a sales letter are declined during review.

Any links included in your article text should be for informational reference and/or add value to the article for readers. Our editors are checking them to verify this during the article review process once you submit an article for publishing.

We understand the desire of article marketers to include sales links in their article text, but we have to meet and serve the interests of readers and publishers as well as authors; and our guidelines have been established to be as fair to all as we can be.

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