How to Link With eHow Articles of Your Friends

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By Vikki Albers
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Link With eHow Articles of Your Friends

My eHow friend BlakeXRain is the inspiration for this article. He approached me a couple of days ago about an interlink between his 'How to Get to Sleep at Night' article and my 'How to Feng Shui: Energize Your Master Bedroom' article. This is an easy way to drive additional traffic between two articles increasing views. I hope it works for you!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

eHow Friends and members who have written articles compatible with yours

Step 1

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Feeling so inspired by BlakeXRain's suggestion to interlink and after reading his article about generating more traffic I wanted to get started. You can too! Begin by reviewing the articles from your eHow Friends List - or any article you happen to read. Look for articles that are a complement to an article of yours. Because eHow is such a wealth of information, this is easy (and fun!) to do. You will be amazed by the amount of information available and the wisdom of this capable community! If you find articles you would like to link with, but the author is not yet your friend: Ask! (Who you link articles with does not have to be a Friend... but it's the eHow neighborly thing to do. Don't ya think?)
Step 2

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After sending messages to a few of my friends requesting we interlink certain articles I was on my way! Well... sort of. The responses were favorable: "Sure, let's interlink - great idea! Uh... just how is that done?" Oh. Silly me.
Step 3

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It's easy! A piece of cake! My suggestion, based on experience, is: When you write to a friend requesting an interlink arrangement (at the same time, in the same message) provide the link (i.e. http://www.ehow.com/how_2353072_generate-more-traffic-ehow-articles.html) and also the title: 'How to Generate More Traffic for Your eHow Articles'. This is all the information they need to add the interlink in the Resources section (Step 3 in the article writing/editing process) of their article. Easy, eh? This saves some unnecessary back-and-forth time that could be used to set up the interlink and find more.
Step 4

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Specifically: Access your article writing/editing mode. Go to Step 3, the bottom of the page. See Resources? Click to add one and two side-by-side fields appear. In the left-hand field paste the link to the article you want to reference. In the right-hand field type in the English title ('How to...'). Click on 'save and preview'. How does it look? View-number impacting? Good. Go back to edit mode, Step 4. Click on 'Publish'. Voila!
Step 5

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One more suggestion. When you find an article, please do check in with the author to assure an interlink is appropriate to their vision of compatibility as well. We don't want to just willy-nilly forge ahead into interlinking bliss when it may not be bliss to all.
Step 6

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Once you've made arrangements to interlink articles with another author, be sure to take it upon yourself to follow up. It only takes a moment to add the link but it can take quite a while for some to get around to it. Also be sure the title of your article is displayed correctly and that it does indeed connect to your article. Don't take anything for granted.
Step 7

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Thank you, BlakeXRain, for bringing this to my attention before I read your generating-traffic article. Here is yet another example of our inability to give Good away. We can't. It just keeps coming back to us in one form or another! Life is Good.
In gratitude and with an intention to serve.