Promoting Other Peoples Content Will Benefit You As Well
June 26, 2008 by Tom Lindstrom · 2 Comments
If you are familiar with social news sites and have used them, you know that you can promote your own blog posts to get traffic to your site.By promoting other peoples content you will benefit by building your own profile and driving traffic to your site indirectly when people see who has submitted the post and want to learn more.The blogger who´s post you submitted will most likely return the favor at some point and submit your posts to the social sites as well.
Personally, I only submit the best posts to the services that adds value.No point in submitting a general post that does not help anyone in any way.An excellent post will most likely get a lot of votes on the social news sites, a lot of traffic, and has a better chance of getting to the first page of the social news site. Traffic from social sites is often targeted traffic, people who visit are interested in what you have to offer.Therefore, doing research to find interesting topics to write about is essential.
By sharing other peoples content on the social news sites will also protect you from being accused of spamming and the risk of getting your account shut down.So many people submit only their own content in order to get links back to their site but forget that social sites are communities where information is shared.Your friends and followers will see you as a valuable resource when you provide high quality and valuable resources regularly.
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What do you think? Let´s submit each others best blog posts to the services and get massive traffic!




Hi Tom,
I really think that social marketing is going to play an important role for all of us in 2009. I think a lot of people may not have fully understood the power it holds and we should learn as much as possible to leverage on it for our benefit.
BTW I got your mail and will be using this post of yours for my mini blog festival.
Peter Lee