4 Easy Ways to Share Your Online Content

With the number of websites and blogs being added to the internet each and every day, the importance of sharing links online has become even more crucial. If you want to have a chance at being ranked on the first few pages of Google for your keywords, you must start to build up your incoming and outgoing links so the search engines will find and index you.

Here are some free, reliable ways to share links and build your presence on the web. And the best part – you can get started with these methods right now!

Using the Retweet option for Twitter

Everyone is getting involved with Twitter, from celebrities to common housewives. If you would like your information and comments to be passed around to more people, encouraging others to “Retweet” your post is a great way to go. If you are sharing a link, and someone Retweets your post, your link is then passed on virally for even more to share and click on. You can ask your Twitter friends to “RT” or “ReTweet” your post by just adding “Pls RT” to the end of your post.  And of course, you want to always return the favor.  Anytime you see something of interest that your friends on Twitter have posted, ReTweet it for them.  They will most likely return the favor for you.

Sharing on Facebook

You can share on Facebook using several methods. Write a post in the “what’s on your mind” box, otherwise known as “The Publisher” on your wall, or write a post on your WordPress blog and submit it to Facebook using the Notes feature or even better, using Networked Blogs to import your post into Facebook.  Not only can you post your website and article links right on your Facebook profile, but you can also create Fan Pages for sharing even more relevant links that will all point back to the pages you would like to rank for in the search engines. Encourage your friends and fans to share your links with their online friends who can benefit or enjoy what they read, this can propel your links to even more pages and websites online.

StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious

These are social bookmarking sites. It’s just like marking your place in a book, but you’re doing it online. With these sites though, you simply share a link, others will then find it, like it, buzz it or rate it. In this way, your link is kept out where it can be found and not buried, in turn giving more people the option to read it and pass it along. There are many links shared on these types of sites every day. The more people end up linking to you, the more opportunity you have for your pages to be indexed quicker in the search engines.

Commenting on Blogs

Commenting on blogs can be both fun and beneficial. When you comment on someone else’s blog, you are given the opportunity to leave your website address or URL. This gives you another link that the search engines will find leading back to you. The more incoming links you have, the more Google will keep coming back to index you. Writing guest posts on other people’s blog works in much the same way except that you often will get more people clicking over to your link to see what you are all about after enjoying your blog topic.

There are also other means you can use for link sharing online today. Write articles with links to your website, blog or Squidoo lens and put them in article sites such as HubPages and Ezine Articles. Participate in forums and benefit from link exchanges in more than one way. You receive backlinks by putting your website address in your signature that is placed at the bottom of each post you create.  Also, look around the forum and see who has a blog that would work well with your information, products or services and ask if they would be interested is exchanging links so you each benefit.

Building your web presence through link-sharing and backlinks is an ongoing process, but if you follow these tips, it will make the task much easier.  And by the way, I hope you will leave a comment below and share this blog post with your online friends.  I’ve made it easy for you, just click the links below which will link to your social media profiles.

About the author

Terri Brooks helps entrepreneurs “overcome the overwhelm” of using online and social media marketing for their business. She understands their fears and feelings of confusion when it comes to marketing on Facebook, Twitter and blogs and shows them ways of Tasting The Internet…One Byte at a Time.

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