Many people write for on-line sites, they make Blogs, or post pictures, all in hopes of views. Some have their works published on sites that pay them per view. Most of these writers then struggle to get views on their links. They resort to various tactics such as submitting their links to search engines and sharing sites, such as digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Twitter (among others). It is important that these people understand one thing, it is good to not only promote their own things, but that of other people too, and there are many reasons why, here are three of them:
1. Related Links may bring Readers to Your Links
A lot of the sites people write for have multiple users and the links generally have links on them going back to similar or related articles published by other people on the same site. In other words if you wrote something about Art on Triond’s site quazen.com, by promoting an other link on art by another Triond author published on the same site it might link back to your article. Suppose if even 10 % of people who see the site you promoted click further to see your link, you could gain many views in proportion to how well you promoted the original link. If your link is any good it could take off and surpass the one you initially promoted because people will enjoy and promote your link.
2. Return of Favor
People who are paying attention will notice that you have promoted their site. You can even say “Hey, I loved your site on Naked Mole Rats and promoted it on Buzz” just as a friendly nudge. If that person sees something of yours they feel is worth promoting hopefully they will return the favor on their own.
3. Attracting Readers
Most of the sites used to promote links, including Twitter, allow other people to link to you. When you submit good and interesting things others become interested in you to see what new things you are sharing later on, as such when you submit one of your own links you already have people waiting to see it.
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Rules of Promoting
- Do not promote junk. If something is poorly written, or contains wrong information, do not promote it.
- It is not good manners to offer an exchange of promotions, in other words you should never say “Stumble mine and I will stumble yours”.
- Don’t go crazy making new submissions It is easy to get excited and go crazy promoting many things in one day. While it is okay to “thumbs up”, “digg” or vote already submitted items up, one must be careful about submitting too many new items from the same source to a site. Even if you were to make multiple submissions from a site like Wikipedia, eventually you will come to look like a spammer. Try to limit yourself to submitting no more than two new items to the same site in a day. For example you might only submit two items published on Trionds Quazen site to Digg in one day. Ideally less. But you can vote up, “digg”, many things already submitted to the site (and should).
Good points.
Inna
Great Work
Well Done
Very informative and helpful article. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, yes, and yes.
So this is what you were doing last night when you ran to the computer and begin typing so frantically….. Good Write B.
Wise words.
That late night run to the computer for frantic typing. For some reason, that always seems to produce the best work. Great article.
Wonderful writing.
great article
Good post.
Thanks to share this one.
Very good stuff *:)
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
very well informed post
What you said is very true and good points you had given here.
Wonderful Post…well done…
Good points… thanks for the advice. I’ve been away from Triond for awhile and I’m glad to see familiar faces are still here.
Good advise for everyone,
Thanks for the good advice and information.
UI so agree it is not just about yourself,:)
Wow…a great article. Gr8 advice. I’ll follow them sincerely.
These are interesting tips to supporting other peoples work. I always support the people who support me.
Some excellent points here. I know that there are many supportive people in the Triond community but the one thing I cannot get over are the expectations of many. Among the things I dislike are…
1. People leaving a comment on your article with a link to their most recently written piece of trash with the full expectation that I will then visit it and make a positive comment amd leave their original comment where it is. Wrong on both points.
2. People spamming my Triond inbox with thinly veiled threats that if I do not read their articles then they will cease to read mine. My reaction? I De-friend them (love that term) and never read one of their articles on purpose ever again!
3. People posting obvious links to their Triond referral account all over their latest piece of trash and then acting all innocent when it is pointed out that they look like money grabbing spammers.
4. 90% of everything that is published on Triond. They should really just get rid of about 90% of their so called writers if they do not care to check the quality of the English and of the articles they are posting up.
I feel I have no loyalty whatsoever to the bulk of Triond writers as their only expectation is ‘if I click on yours, then you must on pain of ex-communication click on mine’. Good relationships between writers are built up slowly and naturally and without expectations.
I agree with everything you say here – sorry this comment has turned in to a little rant of my own!
Beware of Trolls and Spammers! Haha! Great article! I kinda revised a lesson I’ve learnt before and I thank you for that.
Another well presented post. Well done as always.
makes a lot of sense, especially the promoting rules. I’ve saturated Digg and Stumbleupon with so many of my articles that I hardly get any traffic from those sources anymore, so I’ve been exploring other social bookmarking sites recently in the hopes of getting some mass traffic.
thanks B another great read and i agree with R J, triond should review some articles that are trash or make a button that someone can click and when that article has gotten so many clicks on that button triond checks out that article then delete it if it is trash
I never visit any of the sites you mention although I get views on some of them. I have trouble keeping up with Triond.