Why Sharing Content?

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Have you jumped on the sharing content bandwagon yet?

If not, why not?

One fear many people have is that they feel by sharing other peoples content they are going to loose traffic and hence end up loosing money.

Nothing could be further from the truth.  If there is one strategy that really makes a world of difference in your blogging it is sharing.

What Is Sharing Content?   The basic idea behind sharing content is you are sharing videos, blog post or anything you feel is news worthy with your social networks (the people that follow you). 

There are many different ways and places you can start sharing content.

• sharing to social networks
• Trackbacks/pingbacks
• Sharing to your list

You want to share content for a few different reasons. One reason is to engage your followers/subscribers etc…People remember you when you share something with them that effects them.

Another reason why you want to share content is because other webmasters like myself may have high traffic blogs and your gesture of goodwill goes along way in shaking their hands and establishing a relationship with them.

Also remember the golden rule: Do Unto Others As You Would Have Done To YOU!

Sharing Content Ninja Tip #1

Are You sharing content with your social networks?

Only wire takes social booking marketing and content sharing to the next level. You can literally submit to 51 different social networks at a click of a button. There is a catch to using Only wire..

First -  A free member can only do 300 submissions a month.

Second – You have to go sign up to all social networking & bookmarking sites and it is time consuming.  The good thing is though you only have to do it one time and it’s finished.

Tip: Make sure to really fill out your profile and upload some pictures etc.. The more you brand your social sites the more people will notice you.

Sharing Content Ninja Tip #2

I recently learned that Facebook and Twitter both create individual urls when you post.  A creative way to encourage people to follow you is by sharing your actual url to your post or tweet.

Facebook Example: http://www.facebook.com/ProfitOnKnowledge/posts/152661564830192

Twitter Example: http://twitter.com/#!/LarryRivera/status/126363407657074688

What Other Blogs Are Saying

Five tips for sharing great content | content curation | It’s …

There is an art to sharing relevant content, or content curation. Here are my thoughts and a few tips and tricks I’ve discovered along the way.

Content Sharing: How, When, Where and Why [infographic] | Mindjumpers

In order to understand when people share content on the web, when do they click on content, the sharing pattern, the bookmarking and sharing service AddThis have on the occasion of their fifth birthday examined this. …

Do you share stuff online?  If you don’t why don’t you? If you do share content What do you consider share worthy?

Related articles

• Six Tips on effective sharing on social networks (jtdabbagian.com)
• Ten Tips to make your content more shareable [Alan Stevens] (ecademy.com)

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