TOP CONTENT SHARING WEBSITES

Content Sharing
Websites for SEO
Marketing
Content sharing websites
are a Godsend for effective
and free SEO marketing.
They provide free traffic,
backlinks and many also
offer adsense revenue
sharing.
There are two main reasons
for wanting to promote
your articles, blogs &
websites on content
sharing sites. These are to
increase traffic and to
obtain oneway backlinks.
Both of these strategies will
improve click through rate
(CTR) - so more pennies for
you! Making some time to
work on increasing traffic
and getting back links will:
1. Bring more visitors to
your pages
2. Improve your
position on google
search (serps)
3. Increase your
pagerank
4. Earn extra adsense
income through
revenue sharing
programs
For the complete beginner
you'll see explanations of
each of these terms on the
right had side of the page.
For more seasoned internet
publishers read the left
hand side of the page to
see the top 12 content
sharing websites I've
identified with a review of
their pagerank and
usability.
Links Increase PageRank
and SERPs
One Way Back Links
A one way back link is
basically a "vote" for your
page. Google uses these
"votes" to help determine
how good your page is and
therefore, how high in the
search results your page
will be placed. Think of it
like this: if you write a
fantastically, brilliant article
on " How to Increase Page
Rank for Google Search
" then hopefully in a
natural way, over weeks
and months, other websites
and articles will post a link
to your page from their
page.
These links are "votes" for
your content. They say,
"Hey, this page is really
worth reading!" The
difficulty is this - who will
know when you have
published a fantasically,
brilliant article to even be
able to link to it in the first
place?
That's one reason why web
publishers make efforts to
create for themselves, one
way links to their content.
Google still sees the links as
votes even when you have
created them yourself! The
more incoming links to
your page the higher in the
search results your page
will be placed and the
higher the page rank for
your page. Both help
increase traffic to your
page and therefore click
through rate.
Click Through Rate (CTR)
An average click through
rate is just 1-2 % per
thousand. What this means
is that if you have a 1000
visitors in a given period, 10
- 20 of those people will
click on an advert. Not a
lot really! These figures are
just averages though. If
your page content is
targeted to people that are
looking to buy a product
or service you could well
have a much higher click
through rate.
SERPS (Search Engine
Results Positions)
When web publishers talk
about serps what they are
referring to, is what
position their pages are at
on search engines (mainly
Google) for particular
keywords or key phrases.
Getting on page one of the
results page is the broad
aim, and getting to be first
on the first page is the
ultimate aim. Why?
Because 70% of people will
click on one of the first
two results.
So for instance, my
HubPage, "How to Describe
Yourself" is at number 1 on
Google's first page for that
very same keyphrase. This
brings in a lot of visitors,
many more than if it was
on page two or three of
the results pages.
**If you're interested in
page optimization to
increase pagerank and
serps
check out my step by
step how to guide.**
PageRank
Pagerank is specific to
Google. It's a special
formula that google uses
to determine how much of
an "authority" a page or a
website is. The highest
possible pagerank is 10, the
lowest is 0. The impact of
pagerank is that generally
speaking, pages with rank
10 will outdo those of
lesser ranks in the search
results. Pagerank 4's will
outdo pagerank 3's and so
on.
It takes a few months
minimum for google to
asign your article a
pagerank, so don't worry if
you haven't got one yet.
Just for your info an
average pagerank is 2 or 3.
HubPages rank is 6 (which
is very good) which is why
our hubpages can get a
good position on the
search results quickly.
If you want to check your
pagerank or serps, here are
the best, free SEO tools I've
come across for doing that
as well as other important
tools.
Okay, so now that we've
finished the lesson on why
we should promote our
articles, let's look at where
we can promote them.
A List of Content Sharing
Websites
Where the best places on
the internet are to
promote your articles is a
HUGE topic, so I'm not
going to be able to cover
everything here, nor would
I want to! So I'm going to
focus on Content Sharing
Websites and provide links
to the best articles on the
other methods of article
promotion. Many of these
content sharing websites
also offer revenue sharing
which is a real bonus. So
not only do you get
backlinks and traffic, if you
add you adsense ID you
also earn from them!
12 Content Sharing
Websites
RedGage
At RedGage you can post
the link, title and
description of your articles,
blogs and websites. The
website has a nice look.
You can earn through
adsense. It's simple to add
your content. A negative is
that I find the site quite
slow. (I'm not 100% sure
that the backlinks are
DoFollow.)
shetoldme
Again you can post the
link, title and descriptions
of your articles. It's easy to
use. Add your adsense ID
for 100% of the ad revenue
on your pages. All links are
DoFollow. You can choose
to get involved in the
community but it's not
essential.The down side for
me is that the site has an
unfinished look and the
layout isn't great. I get a
decent amount of traffic
from this site so it's well
worth signing up for.
Bukisa
Bukisa is great! With a
pagerank of 5, at Bukisa
you can write a minimum
of 250 words and provide
one external link in your
sources box at the end. All
links are DoFollow and
they also use a revenue
share model. The revenue
share is based on page
views and the Bukisa index
that your article is given - it
sounds a little complicated
but it's not really, it's just
different to what you
might be used to. A nice
site, with a good layout
and easy to publish on.
Well worth signing up for!
DoFollowDigg
All links are DoFollow
(hence the name!). A fairly
new website with a
PageRank of 4. Quick and
easy to use.
Spicy Page
I have used this content
sharing website a little and
their links are definitely
DoFollow. They want you
to post links to your
content. Content is then
rated by site users. No
revenue sharing on this one
though. PageRank 4.
TipDrop
I have written a whole
article about this one
called " Free Google
Backlinks". It's another
revenue sharing site
offering 75% revenue share
(they're just giving it away
aren't they!) and you write
a short 255 word summary
of your article to answer
the question, "What do you
know about that?" You
also get 25% revenue share
on any tippers that you
refer. Page Rank 4.
yousaytoo
This is a website where you
can share any of your
blogs. You get a 50% share
of adsense revenue and
can also sell through
amazon. A favourite for
hubbers.
Snipsly
Another site like shetoldme
and redgage, but newer.
Post a short description of
your article with a link to
the full article and away
you go! Another backlink!
Also offers 80% revenue
share on adsense.
Xomba
Same as above! Post a short
desciption of your article
with a link to the real deal
and increase your traffic
levels. 50% revenue share.
Regarding backlinks - they
seem to start off as
DoFollow and then revert
to NoFollow pretty quickly
afterwards. Bukisa is a
much better option in my
opinion.
Zimbio
Add your blog feed here
for some backlinks and
extra traffic. PageRank 6.
You can also write wikizines
(short articles) and full
length articles. No revenue
share.
Qondio
Qondio is the newer
version of Qassia and
actually encourages you to
promote your websites,
articles and blogs. They
offer 100% adsense
revenue! The more content
links you add the better.
There is a $5 charge to sign
up.
Esnips
eSnips is a social content-
sharing site with a
PageRank of 6, where you
can publish and share any
media type. You get up to
5GB of web space. I haven't
used this one so tell me
what it's like!
Free Backlinks, Increased
Traffic and Revenue
Share from TipDrop
This site is well worth
checking out as it now has
a PageRank of 4 (a pretty
impressive result in only 4
months!) You get 75%
revenue share as well as
some good backlinks to
your articles, blogs and
websites.
Other Methods of
Improving Traffic and
Getting Oneway
Backlinks
Social Bookmarking
Most of these websites can
be accessed through the
"share this" button at the
bottom of your hubs.
When you click a share this
button you can post the
link to sites that you are a
member of which could
include:
Facebook, Facebook
Group, Stumble Upon,
Delicious, Digg, Twitter
For a massive list of
bookmarking sites
have a look at this hub by
Hal Licino.
Article Sites
Article marketing is very
popular for a good reason
- it works! But it is time
consuming. It basically
involves writing articles to
promote your articles! Here
are just a few of the places
you could write for:
HubPages, Ehow,
ArticlesBase, Ezine, Info
Barrel, Experts Coloumn,
Squidoo, Xomba, Senserely,
Scribd
Here's a hub which explains
which writing sites offer
what
from Marian Swift. And
another from Darkside
called HubPages Traffic
Bonus.
(Click here if you want to
SIGN UP to HUBPAGES.)
Other
RSS Feeds
Here is a wonderful hub on
the benefits of creating
and distributing RSS feeds
for beginners by
Kmackey32
YouTube
Many people create videos
to upload to YouTube to
market their websites or
affiliate interests. Here's a
hub on how to do it
from Karthickjck.
Yahoo Answers
Last but not least, I would
reccommend answering
questions on Yahoo
Answers. You can browse
through questions and find
ones that your hub or
website answers; post a
response and then add
your link in the "sources"
box. I've found this method
good for traffic.
Well that's about it for
now - I hope you've found
this article a useful
resource. Content
sharing websites really
are an excellent way to
promote your articles
and increase traffic to
them. It may be a little
time consuming at first,
but once you've added all
of your articles, blogs
and websites to each of
the content sharing
websites, it's a quick and
easy process to add your
new articles.
Good luck!