Taking Your Promotion to a Higher Level

Writing articles to promote your site, get backlinks and traffic is a great thing, and it works. While submitting to ezinarticles.com is great, today we’re going to take it to the next level.  Today we’re going to target some high profile content sites.

What’s a high profile content site?

It’s a site with a lot of traffic and popularity in your niche or market.  In every market there are sites that allow readers to contribute ~ they may be a community site or a blog. This week your challenge is to look around, find some high profile places you can submit content to.

How to find high profile content sites.

In your regular journeys through your niche or market keep your eyes open. You may be hitting high profile sites and not even realize YOU can submit content! Look for a “submissions” link or something similar. Follow the links, see what you need to do to submit an article.

Isn’t this just guest posting?

It’s similar ~ however, if you were thinking about guest posting what kind of blogs are you looking at? Are you looking at the biggest baddest sites out there in your niche to post your content on? My guess is you’re playing it safe and looking at smaller blogs ~ less intimidating blogs. That’s ok, and that’s what makes high profile content submission a little bit different than guest posting. We’re going for the big guns!

Got examples of High profile sites?

Sure…

Here’s a few.

Sports

If you’re in the sports niche you might try bleacherreport.com ~ it’s one of the most popular sports sites online, and they take contributors.

Moms

Momsnetwork.com

Mothering.com takes articles submissions, both for the magazine and online content publication. (and they pay for articles lol)

Life:

Then Life Happens ~ they accept contributors as well as featured contributors, which means you can contribute once or twice or you can contribute regularly. (this is where I did my guest post last week)

Tiny Buddha ~ this is a huge site that takes contributions.The waiting list is long at this point, but the exposure would be worth submitting an article. Make sure you read the guidelines for your post because you need to base it on one of the daily quotes they publish.

Finances:

Istockanalysis.com

Also keep in mind company websites. I recently read a story of someone in the finance niche getting a regular writing position for the TurboTax blog. Companies need great content so keep them in mind.

Photography:

Digital Photography School This is Darren Rowse’s huge photo site ~ they accept articles, tips and images from photographers of all levels ~ talk about high profile!

I hope you’re getting the idea, and ideas are starting to turn in your head. You know your niche, you know where the popular sites are. It’s time to get out there and get your content shown.

On Wednesday we’re going to discuss what to write, but for now I want to stress that as long as you have some posts on your site go ahead and get started. The faster you can get some posts on sites other than your own the faster you can grow your own readership!

Let’s do a little brainstorming in the comments section ~ what high profile content sites do YOU know of? Tell us the niche and shoot us a link. Let’s work together to find some great places to submit our content!