Promote Your AC Articles and Other Internet Content

Once you have an article published on AC or any other publishing platform you may be using, it's time to promote your work. You want people to read your work don't you? Or course you do, otherwise you wouldn't have spent an hour tweaking your title and subtitle to get it just right.

In this article I will write about three more ways to promote you online content.

Promote your article at Hubpages, a website where you can write and publish pieces about pretty much anything you want. Write a post about something that has to do with the subject matter of your article and somewhere include a link back. This may help you create some traffic when a reader wants to learn more about whatever you're writing about and clicks the link.

As an added bonus, you can also earn 60% of the revenue your "Hubs" earn from Adsense ads and ebay and Amazon product links that you can select yourself.

I recommend this site because you get some built in traffic because Hubpages is already ranked in the top 1,000 websites in Google's search engine and you may get some of that traffic. Look at it as getting a headstart in terms of finding readers. Always make the link relevant and don't just quickly rehash your article as a Hub, because it can annoy people to read something and then get led to another article that is basically a copy.

Look at this as more of a long term "link building" strategy as you aren't going to get a ton of traffic overnight. It takes time to build up a following (just like anything else online!), but if you put in the time and effort, you will position yourself to get a lot of readers. Also, there are some people earning decent money through revenue shares with this site.

Submit your article to social "other" bookmarking sites like reddit, stumbleupon, mister-wong, and friendfeed. I say other because in my previous article I wrote about some more well-known bookmarking sites. Expand and try new ones. These are all quite different in certain ways, but pretty much do the same thing.

They expose your work to other readers in a different forum other than search engines or just from someone finding it on Associated Content (or wherever it is you publish your work). You worked hard on your piece, now get it out there.

I will say, however, that these communities can be hard to "break into to," but if you have informative, well-written work, then you should be embraced wholeheartedly. Choose two of these sites to submit your work to as it can be overwhelming to feel like you have to promote your work everywhere. Trust me I've been there. But if you want to submit to all of them, go for it. Remember--the cream rises in these environments and the garbage, well, just never gets read.

Leave comments on blogs that deal with the subject matter of your article. I don't mean that you should leave a spam comment with a simple html link back to your article. You should contribute to the conversation by saying something about the post to which you are commenting on and add some information or some of your unique point of view. Often, you will be able to fill in fields for your name and your url before you publish your comment. Type your name and include as your url the link to your article.

This can be a very effective way of not only gaining traffic in the short term, but in building "backlinks" to your article, which will bring even more traffic to you in the long term. You may even make a friend or gain a colleague.

In summary, here are the three promotional methods I mentioned in this article.

1) Hubpages: A good way to promote your work to a new community and get a headstart in terms of search engine traffic. This should be a post very relevant to your article since you will be linking to it. Think long term with this site as it can take a while to gain traction. It's all about effort.

2) Submit to social bookmarking sites. Become part of the community and expose your writing to more people.

3) Leave comments on blogs that deal with the subject matter you wrote about. Have a conversation and earn a reader.

Remember that articles of high quality with useful or interesting and "evergreen" information (meaning they contain information that is useful today and will still be useful three years from now) are the pieces that people eagerly search for on the internet. If you can create this kind of content, you will have no problem getting readers and achieving internet writing success.

Read my first article about how to promote your writing or leave a comment below if you have anything to add. Thanks for reading and good luck!