Top 10 Document Sharing Sites for SEO,Backlinks & Affiliate Sales

Whenever you have made a query on google search for any kind of document(ppt,pdf) websites like slideshare.net and scribd.com displayed on top results, some of these documents have got excellent SERP positions leaving every other content websites behind.

Content is nevertheless is an important part of digital marketing and so as the brand, many companies issue press releases and other documents just to promote there brand and bring awareness to masses about there products and offers, Whether you are a blogger or internet marketer or PR,  benefits of document sharing website’s  cannot be ignored.

Today i will tell you little secret about document sharing sites which had helped me gaining some SEO benefits over the time. Most people prefer regular approach for traffic generation and SEO which starts from article directories and end at blog commenting, but my friend all these tactics are dead now, with google new algorithm – panda update the regular and most often used seo strategies wont help anymore.

off late i jumped into document sharing sites to find out how they can benefit me in terms of SEO, As i was looking for alternate solution to article directories(which is useless now) where i used to submit hundreds of articles every month, i landed to document sharing sites, when i was experimenting things, i was not sure if i would be able to get any benefit of my hard work, but today when i saw my blogs getting huge traffic from such sites i though to share it with others. So i am going to share untold way of traffic generation through document sharing websites like slideshare.net,scribd.com etc.

Top 10 online document sharing websites are :

1. Scribd.com
2. Docstoc.com
3. Slideshare.net
4. Calameo.com
5. crocodoc.com
6. yudu.com
7. diwshare.com
8. docshare.com
9. issuu.com
10. edocr.com

These websites allows you to upload document of  various formats which start from power point presentations(ppt) to microsoft word (.doc) to PDF(.pdf)

Without wasting much time lets have a quick look what you will get in terms of seo and traffic when you will post a article in document sharing sites.

• Probability of getting position in SERP is very high, the url of the document gets indexed very quickly.
• You can add images displaying your logo/copyright text inside article attracting visitors attention which will help you to enhance your CTR.
• Create single document and upload it to multiple document sharing website, dont worry about duplicate content and document here because every site has its own SEO strategy and placement, and for google they are documents not traditional content.
• You can add your affiliate links inside articles to get some conversions.
• Write SEO optimized articles depending upon your main keywords, rename document with your main keyword at the same time place primary and secondary keywords inside the article.

If you are aiming to play big with such sites, then i would like to tell you that you would be wasting your time, while it has got immense potential if you really want to earn from affiliate marketing or else would like to promote your brand online.
If you can devote your 1 hr time on daily basis for writing seo optimized articles and uploading it to document sharing sites,  then you may get high conversion and increase in traffic and sales.
Now i would like to admit it the fact that Getting little traffic and huge sales with various document sharing sites that are available online is not so much difficult when compared with time invested. Well researched, low competition keyword as an title can do a magic for you, which can shoot your article to the top 10 results on main page of Google in couple of days.