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I would like to share with you my experience writing for Triond, Associated Content and Bukisa, and how I promote my articles on line, after they are published by one of the article directories. More promotion means, more article views which means you make more money writing articles on line. Here is an article I wrote comparing the three writing directories.

I began with Associated Content, simply because it was the first writing directory that I found where you didn’t have to be a US citizen. Then I discovered Bukisa which pays more, and began writing for both. Later I read a comment by another writer where he said that he writes an article, publishes it on Triond, and then on Bukisa and Associated content, thus profiting from three sites. I have got into a rhythm of writing and promoting which you may find useful.

*I write an article. Like this for example, including links to other articles of mine.

*Publish on Triond.

*Then make slight changes, although it is not required, and publish on Bukisa and Associated Content. I try to give the articles a different title, twist or keywords, and sometimes publish an article only on one of the sites.

Then the promoting starts.

*I have a Blog which has the Bukisa, Triond and Associated Content widget.

*I comment on about 15 “friends” articles per day on Triond and Bukisa, and a few less on Associated content as my network of friends there is not as strong.

*Associated Content sends out my article to a list of Followers e-mail addresses for me, so that also promotes.

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* I send e-mails to friends and family with my links.

*Then I register/bookmark all three articles on:

Stumbleupon

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Diigo

Delicious

Yahoo Buzz

Yahoo Bookmarks

Digg – I received a comment a while back warning me that Digg doesn’t like people to self promote, but so far no one has said anything.

*Then I “Ping” the articles on Pingoat.

*I go onto Twitter and leave several Tweets about the articles together with a link.

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*Another useful tip is that on Trion and Bukisa you can see where your traffic has come from, and then try promoting at that source. I noticed I had traffic from Outbrain, so I went to their web site to find out what it is. It is a rating system that you can put on your posts on a blog. So I added it to my blog (http://unique-travel-experiences.blogspot.com).

*I also had traffic from Plurk which is a kind of Twitter. So I joined and I am in the process of adding friends and Plurking links. So far I haven’t seen a change in the traffic from that source.

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*I also have traffic from Total Fark. I investigated that site and before I knew that they don’t like personal promotion, I started leaving my links there too. Now I only do it on the articles I think are really good.

*Other traffic sources which I haven’t thought up how to optimize yet are Scroogle and fastbrowsersearch. My main traffic is from Stumbleupon.

I hope this gives you some ideas and if you have any to pass on I would be glad to hear about them at https://www.triond.com/users/Petalm on Triond; http://www.bukisa.com/people/Petalon Bukisa and http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/538457/petal.html on Associated Content.