Thanks for these early comments.

@urn357: I understand where you're coming and you do raise some legitimate concerns. I'm not claiming these techniques will work for everyone, but I have certainly noticed a higher CTR on most of the articles I submit using these strategies. I'll upload some screenshots when I have a chance, but it's not uncommon for me to get CTR around 20 - 30% on my SA articles.

Part of a high CTR also has to do with the article topic and the quality of the article. Some topics are just not going to give you a high CTR for various reasons (e.g. not something people are passionate/emotional about).

In response to SA not coming up in webmaster tools, I have noticed a similar thing as you sometimes. However, webmaster also doesn't show ALL of the links going to your website. Just because it doesn't come up in webmaster doesn't mean Google doesn't recognize it. And no, SA has not changed their links to NF.

I agree and disagree. I agree that this is the best way to get people to click your links on SA because what other way can you get them to on SA with their strict guidelines? Though,I also disagree that this will work as well as you say for everyone because I wrote around 30 articles for them and I was very cautious and put a lot of thought into where and how my links were posted in my articles just like you said here (was very subtle, yet gave the reader the clue that this is where more info lies), but my CTR is still nowhere as good as Ezine. I know Kyle and Carson are against call-to-action links, but I have proven time and time again on my own personal articles that a simple " you can find more information here yada yada" or "you can find the cheapest or best reviews here" has always gotten me more CTRs.

And I've said this before in the forum. Google webmaster tools no longer recognizes my links from SA. They used to about 6-10 months ago, but nope not anymore. So if you are looking for Google to recognize your links from SA, then good luck on that. Yeah, your article may rank high in their search engine, but I think SA changed their links to NF or something. I will think this way until they clarify and show me I'm wrong anyway.

I agree and disagree. I agree that this is the best way to get people to click your links on SA because what other way can you get them to on SA with their strict guidelines? Though,I also disagree that this will work as well as you say for everyone because I wrote around 30 articles for them and I was very cautious and put a lot of thought into where and how my links were posted in my articles just like you said here (was very subtle, yet gave the reader the clue that this is where more info lies), but my CTR is still nowhere as good as Ezine. I know Kyle and Carson are against call-to-action links, but I have proven time and time again on my own personal articles that a simple " you can find more information here yada yada" or "you can find the cheapest or best reviews here" has always gotten me more CTRs.

And I've said this before in the forum. Google webmaster tools no longer recognizes my links from SA. They used to about 6-10 months ago, but nope not anymore. So if you are looking for Google to recognize your links from SA, then good luck on that. Yeah, your article may rank high in their search engine, but I think SA changed their links to NF or something. I will think this way until they clarify and show me I'm wrong anyway.

This is an awesome resource. I have been struggling with SA and now I can try these techniques out and see what happens. Thanks

This is an awesome resource. I have been struggling with SA and now I can try these techniques out and see what happens. Thanks