Promoting your articles
By iakulchen
@iakulchen (615)
Singapore
August 28, 2008 11:59am CST
What sites do you use to promote your articles? Myself, I use Qassia and have joined (though not very active on) Stumbleupon, Digg, Furl.net and Delicious and while I have also heard about Twitter, Hubspot and reddit, I haven't gotten around to looking at them yet.
4 responses
@gitfiddleplayer (10362)
• United States
29 Aug 08
All those sites are available to promote your articles but you have to monitor them daily, it can be a pain. If you write for AC you can promote through friends and family. If you write an article about a particular place you can e-mail the company and ask them to link your article.
@iakulchen (615)
• Singapore
29 Aug 08
Oh, have you e-mailed a company and done that before? I am quite interested to know, especially if anyone of them has ever asked about AC's nofollow links.
@gitfiddleplayer (10362)
• United States
29 Aug 08
I did e-mail a couple of them, I don't know if it worked but at least I gave it a shot.
@Xdrowninghavocx (3117)
• United States
29 Aug 08
I've used Digg, but I haven't gotten anything positive from that. I don't know how people gain a lot of readers to their stuff. I find it confusing. I've also tried Delicious and reddit and I didn't see a dent with my earnings on Helium or Associated Content. I honestly don't know what kind of magic people are using, lol.
@iakulchen (615)
• Singapore
29 Aug 08
It seems to me that you have to build up your contacts at Digg and Delicious for it to work for you, which is part of the reason why I'm not active on those sites. Reddit I haven't looked at, as the idea of going to each and every social bookmarking site to social network doesn't seem very appealing to me. You'll probably need a few votes on a URL to get it noticed by the Digg/Delicious community, but without getting noticed by the Digg/Delicious community, you'll be unlikely to get votes. So those initial votes will likely have to come from your friends and contacts. That's what I have concluded anyway. So now I'm using Qassia. Qassia's more about building backlinks, rather than posting a link and getting the community to vote on it. Qassia doesn't even have a friends list, lol. (though it could be because it just came out of beta)
Here's a link to my profile( with all it's default text :P)
www.iakul.qassia.com
And if you want, you can add me on Digg and Delicious. I'll drop by every now and then to look at what you are promoting there, though I have to warn you that I don't see myself getting very active on both of these sites in the near future. My username on both is
iakul
@nishdan01 (3051)
• Singapore
29 Aug 08
I use only digg and that seems to work for me in some ways. Others I haven't tried and so I am not sure about it. If you have tried others and it really works ,please let me know. E-mailing friends to promote the work seems waste of time and not of much use.
@cocoyip (86)
• China
30 Aug 08
I should say SORRY to you,iakulchen.
I see your response in my discussion which been posted yesterday as "how do you think a cattle farm?how do you think the love?".I'm sad for your words but maybe there's real something wrong with my website.Honestly,that's just my company's homepage but not privately.I really don't know what happen to the web but your reply reminds me of one thing-My boyfriend also caught such warnings from his anti-virus software before when he opened our company's web-at that time,I didn't realize the ponderance because my computer won't warn me this!
That's a Chinese website which make by network company.I don't know whether my customers would suffer SUCH bad things or not-I hope it won't!
I really feel sorry about what you said!Sorry to bring you such inconvenience!But I just want to say it's not a virus program for me to do what "on purpose".
When I open my mailbox and check the discussion on MyLot,unluckily,my disucssion is deleted by MyLot-the system warns me:This discussion no longer exists or has been removed due to a discuession guideline violation.
I do feel SAD.I don'know why it should like this!NOW i cancled my website.I really don't want the same things happen again.I'm heart-struck becoz of this.
