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When you write an article, Biznik automatically provides a link to your profile at the top and bottom of the article. And until now, we haven’t allowed additional footer information, because it conflicts with our business model (we want visitors to stay on Biznik as long as possible). However, we’ve had many requests from article authors that they would like to include what’s called a “resource box” in the footer of their articles, which allows them to give a brief bio and provide a direct link to their own website.

We’ve listened, and today we’ve added the resource box as a special benefit to supporting members only. The neat thing about the box is that, once you’ve added it on one of your articles, it will appear on all of them retroactively, providing you an inbound link to your site on every article you’ve previously posted.

Here’s how it works: At the bottom of every article, you’ll see a text area that you can edit, where you can provide your bio info.

After you’ve saved it, this is what it looks like:

The fact that we provide this for supporting members only fits within our tiered membership approach, in which Active members get enhanced profiles, and Supporting members get enhanced promotion. This provides a link to your own site, which amounts to enhanced promotion. You’ll also get a nice boost to your SEO from including these, too.