Make Money on Wikinut, Promote your Article
By Mark Gordon Brown, 24th Jul 2010 | Follow this author
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It is not enough to write, if you want views you must promote your article further. This will help you make more money.
Good Writing will get More Views
Good writing is an important first step, write on topics the people are searching for and they will find you through various search engines. Have a strong title with at least two key words. Write and interesting summary, no more than two sentences long. Tag your article well and correctly, always using at least six tags. Here you may note that poems and stories generally are not something people look for on the Internet so you must do more to promote these yourself.
How to Promote
There are many avenues of promotion available, some allow you to promote anything, while others label over submitters as spammers. In general before you submit your article to any of these sites you should have been a member for a while, submit other things to gain followers. Without followers your article may not be seen. Not all sites allow followers, but those such as Facebook, Digg, and StumbleUpon, do.
When you have followers then gradually submit your own sites. Keep in mind that over submitting of your own sites on some sites (notably Digg, Reddit, Webtoid, and some of the lesser known social sites) will get you banned and have your sites labeled as Spam, making them unpostable.
I suggest submitting no more than one of your Wikinut sites per day to any one site, and making sure you also spend time supporting other peoples submissions. You may note that by supporting other peoples submissions you will get more followers too.
Some sites allow you to spam, Twitter, being an example, but when you spam, you risk loosing followers, so use these systems as tools but be restrained about it.
For those of you who use Twitter, my wife has found some success on a site, Twittley.com but cautions you to only submit one wikinut link per day and to also retweet a few other users links that you like. Tagging your Twittley submission (tags you give to Twittley as opposed to those in your article) is important, they should be rather general tags. For example my article on Pet Skunks, I would tag pets,animals,nature rather than skunks,cute,smelly. (use no spaces on twittley).
Pages that are well written, formatted correctly, and have at least one picture in them, tend to get shared and passed around more.
E-mail your link to family and friends, and ask them to pass it along if they like it... Again do not overwhelm these poor people, send them no more than 2 or 3 links a day, and not every day or they simply will not bother to click anything.
Special Features of Wikinut
You will note that Wikinut gives you two URL addresses for every link you write, use the long one when submitting generally, and the short one specific for submissions to sites like Twitter, Twittley, and so forth were your characters have a maximum.
Promote your STAR PAGES first, these are the pages the moderators have rated highly and as such these are the ones people are more likely to find amazing and share further.
Wikinut has a Facebook feature at the bottom of every article. If you use Facebook click the Facebook thumb up button at the bottom of the page, and do so to other good Wikinut links that are similar to yours as they may bring others to your site indirectly.
Wikinut allows for Comments. If you leave a comment on one persons site, they may return and do you the favor of reading your link, however this will not account for huge views, so only read things you are interested in.
Links on Promotion Systems
Using Twittley
Using Reddit and Webtoid
Using StumbleUpon
The Link on Pet Skunks that I mentioned earlier.
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24th Jul 2010 (#)
Amen brother! Well written practical advice.
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25th Jul 2010 (#)
This is really helpful! Thank you!
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25th Jul 2010 (#)
If anyone is interested, my wife is on Twittley, at
http://twittley.com/user/Exotic12
she trys to retweet submissions of those who have retweeted her submissions IF they are worth it.
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25th Jul 2010 (#)
I like to digg articles and do so frequently for my friends. I'll digg if you twit:) Social me, I'll social you...
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25th Jul 2010 (#)
Ha, ha, I feel like I'm baby talking with the tweets, twitter, twittley and retweeted. I'm still getting acquainted with twitter. I've tweeted and twittered it's sort of fun:)
Thanks for your article Mark, there is so much useful info there that I can use. I'm still trying to navigate myself around all the social web pages:) I'll tweet your wife. Hope I can find her:)
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25th Jul 2010 (#)
Thank you for the advice.
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25th Jul 2010 (#)
Very valuable information. Thanks a lot!
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26th Jul 2010 (#)
wow...this is nice...glad to see you here, I saw you in RedGage too. thanks
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21st Aug 2010 (#)
Thanks. Very interesting article
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