Though we put in every effort to market your columns, we ask you to go for self-marketing of your columns as well. Doing this could bring lot of traffic to your columns that you have never thought of.
We know your specific purpose of joining this site is to earn some descent money by working online. If you have joined this site keeping in mind the above mentioned purpose then I ask you to please read our marketing guidelines given below, so that more and more visitors can reach your columns and you make much more money than from any other network. I am quite confident that if you follow the below mentioned guidelines, you could easily make in three figures after little bit of efforts.
Marketing Guidelines:
- Submit to Article Directories: There are thousands of article directories where you can submit your columns which will not only bring more direct traffic to them but will also rank them better in search engines. You can search in Google for "List of Article Directories" and you will find hundreds of them. Don't submit to all of them but to the most important and relevant ones.
- Social Bookmarking: One of the precious ways of getting quick traffic to your columns is to do social bookmarking. Social bookmarking means submitting your columns to sites like digg, scribd, twitter, facebook etc where others can come and read them. Do remember to link back your columns to the original page at ExpertsColumn or you will simply loose these visitors. Use "Share This" link to submit your column to various social bookmarking sites including those referred above.
- Comments on related articles on other sites: This is also very well tested method that works. Whenever you find article related to your column, don't forget to comment on it. While commenting use the important keyword or title of your column as a name and your cloumn link as your website link. Write some good comment and submit it. Please don't spam on those sites. Just note down that not every site allows you to comment this way.
- Tell Your Friends: The tested and vested funda of bringing visitors to your columns is to tell about it to your friends. This is the time tested method and is highly successful. Use "Share This" link at the end of your column and check the "Email" from there. Fill in the email ids of all of your friends using comma and tell them about your columns. Ask them to forward it to their friends if they like it.
- Social Networking: Along with the creation of infopedia, we have also created a space for our columnists (members) where they can add friends, chat with them, bookmark their columns, comment on their columns, profile and all that. Just do social networking and you will intuitively develop loyal reader base for your columns.
These are just some of the methods that can help you in making columns more popular on the Internet. There are many other methods as well including offline promotion, word of mouth etc. We suggest you to use variety of methods to promote your columns instead of the single method to be used as it will help in creating varied audience for your columns.
