Using Scribd as a source of traffic for your blog
I am sure many of you know Scribd right? Scribe in their own words: “Scribd is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that makes it easy to share documents online. You can think of Scribd as a big online library where everyone can publish original content, including you!”
Basically, you can upload your documents and it will be available to other members of scribd, as well as to anybody who searches for them online.
Scribd as a promotion tool
One thing you can use srcibd is - as a promotion tool. In fact, it can be a great promotion tool if you write
great, useful articles. Before I wanted to post about this, I gave it a try and uploaded 14 documents of mine to scribd. Eleven of them were photoshop related tutorials and 3 were blog articles. Documents were uploaded on 10th and 11th of February, so has been roughly one month.
As you can see, so far they have been viewed 2053 times. That translates to average 146 views per document. Most viewed article was 356 times, and the least viewed was 27 times. You can view list of all articles here.
Ways to promote your blog on scribd
- First of all, if you write good articles people will click on the author link on that particular article and view your profile. Therefore, you must have a proper profile page. What I mean is, try to put some info about yourself, your picture, and most importantly your blog URL. Start building your brand from your profile page.
- Secondly, end the articles that you published with your blog URL. You can have a one line sentence like “for more articles go to yoursite dot com“.
- Thirdly, try to join groups and communities that are relevant to your niche. If there is no group available in your topic, you can create yourself one.
But most importantly do not spam! Just share your best articles with other scribers and start building your repuation in scribd. start here scribd.com.
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By Sergio on Mar 14, 2008
Good job! Never heard of it but will give a try. I like that we can an online profile page to promote ourselves.
By Dining Tables on Mar 14, 2008
This is a very useful and timely post. Thank you.
By Make Money Online on Mar 14, 2008
Nice idea. There seem to be a lot of these popping up lately.
By Webmaster on Mar 14, 2008
I’ve never heard too, I will give it try.
By Futon-Matt on Mar 14, 2008
Sounds interesting, maybe I’ll give it a shot.
By Free-hdtvs on Mar 14, 2008
I’ve never heard of this site before, it would definately be something worth looking at, thanks for the post!
By webomatik on Mar 15, 2008
This is why I read this blog - I would never thought of Scribd as promotional tool, but it is quite logical to do it. Thank Ades, another good one.
By Nicole Price on Mar 17, 2008
I did try it a while back but without much luck. Will give it another shot.
By edunwa on Mar 27, 2008
This sounds pretty interesting .maybe i’d give it a trial then.
By Elections photos on Apr 3, 2008
I think it’s like posting to other wiki-like sites, but can be automated.
By Forumistan on Apr 8, 2008
Sounds nice, gonna try it…