When writing your bio box, you need to keep it short. Make it no more than three or four lines. Otherwise, you run the risk of the most important piece of contact information getting chopped off.

You absolutely want to include as many methods of contact as possible—your email, your phone number, your URL, whatever it is—but definitely the three basic ones.

Here are a couple tactics to keep in mind: when you’re writing in your email, make sure you write the words, “Mail to:” and then your email address. This is the code that when you submit an article, it keeps your email address hyperlinked. It’s friendlier to your readers. Do the same with your URL. Write the code “http://” right before your URL, which keeps the hyperlink through the uploading process.

For more tips on how to efficiently use your bio box space (no matter how large or small), check out How to Submit Online Articles That Pull Traffic to Your Website.