If your idea of content distribution is to simply upload to a couple of popular article directories, and your site then things have drastically changed.
Due to Google's latest change, article directories seemed to have lost some of their oomph, that's for sure.
But it goes beyond that.
The fact is that the more places that you distribute your content to, the more eyeballs you'll have consuming it, and therefore hopefully the visitors to your site.
How You May Want to Change Your Content Distribution Strategy Now So how should you go about content distribution then? Where should you be submitting content to besides the normal everyday article directories.
Believe it or not there are tons of other places to submit your articles to other than the everyday article directories.
And believe it or not many of these places will get you TONS more traffic than you would with just the directories.
3 Places to Submit Content Other Than Article Directories First...
Your Own Sites It's unbelievable how many people just don't get this.
Content should always go on your site, and it should usually go there first.
This is because when everything changes, and Google decides to make changes to their algorithm's and your articles drop, your site still stands a chance of holding out.
Second...
Doc Sharing Sites If you haven't used sites like Scribd and Docstoc, then you're missing out on some good potential traffic.
These sites allow you to upload PDF's,Word Files, and many other types of content files.
They often rank nicely in the search engines, and you're not limited to where and how many links that you can ad within the files.
So take each article you write, or a series of them, and turn them into PDF's and add them to doc sharing sites.
Third...
Become a Guest Blogger Guest blogging has become sort of a buzz word, but it's still one of the best ways to get your content out to a new and huge audience.
You can not only reach a vast audience that you normally would not have gotten the chance to reach, but this can be an extremely targeted audience as well.
Guest blogging is also great because it's almost like the owner of the blog is giving you the green light to their followers.
In other words, it gives you instant credibility because it's like getting to know a friend of a friend.
It's a great ice breaker basically and you're not going in their cold.
So how do you become a guest blogger? First is to find blogs in your niche that you want to guest blog at.
Then you can start leaving some comments there that are useful and enlightening.
Then once you've done that for a couple of posts, and hopefully engaged the blog owner and become recognizable, then you can simply let them know that you're interested in guest blogging.
You can also simply type in the search query "become a guest blogger" or "guest blog here" + your niche, and you should get quite a few blogs that are actually looking for guest bloggers.
That's at least a great start.
So if you've been stressing about finding new places for content distribution, those three are enough to keep you busy for a while I would think.
Due to Google's latest change, article directories seemed to have lost some of their oomph, that's for sure.
But it goes beyond that.
The fact is that the more places that you distribute your content to, the more eyeballs you'll have consuming it, and therefore hopefully the visitors to your site.
How You May Want to Change Your Content Distribution Strategy Now So how should you go about content distribution then? Where should you be submitting content to besides the normal everyday article directories.
Believe it or not there are tons of other places to submit your articles to other than the everyday article directories.
And believe it or not many of these places will get you TONS more traffic than you would with just the directories.
3 Places to Submit Content Other Than Article Directories First...
Your Own Sites It's unbelievable how many people just don't get this.
Content should always go on your site, and it should usually go there first.
This is because when everything changes, and Google decides to make changes to their algorithm's and your articles drop, your site still stands a chance of holding out.
Second...
Doc Sharing Sites If you haven't used sites like Scribd and Docstoc, then you're missing out on some good potential traffic.
These sites allow you to upload PDF's,Word Files, and many other types of content files.
They often rank nicely in the search engines, and you're not limited to where and how many links that you can ad within the files.
So take each article you write, or a series of them, and turn them into PDF's and add them to doc sharing sites.
Third...
Become a Guest Blogger Guest blogging has become sort of a buzz word, but it's still one of the best ways to get your content out to a new and huge audience.
You can not only reach a vast audience that you normally would not have gotten the chance to reach, but this can be an extremely targeted audience as well.
Guest blogging is also great because it's almost like the owner of the blog is giving you the green light to their followers.
In other words, it gives you instant credibility because it's like getting to know a friend of a friend.
It's a great ice breaker basically and you're not going in their cold.
So how do you become a guest blogger? First is to find blogs in your niche that you want to guest blog at.
Then you can start leaving some comments there that are useful and enlightening.
Then once you've done that for a couple of posts, and hopefully engaged the blog owner and become recognizable, then you can simply let them know that you're interested in guest blogging.
You can also simply type in the search query "become a guest blogger" or "guest blog here" + your niche, and you should get quite a few blogs that are actually looking for guest bloggers.
That's at least a great start.
So if you've been stressing about finding new places for content distribution, those three are enough to keep you busy for a while I would think.
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