Promote your Web writing with Scribd, and make money too

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Promotion is everything (well, not everything, but MONEY anyway) to a Web writer. The more people who know about your Web writing the more income you will make.

So I’m fascinated with the release of Scribd, which TechCrunch calls “YouTube For Documents”.

I haven’t played with the site much, but it offers intriguing possibilities. At the very least, it gives you another backlink to your Web site - and potentially many backlinks. You get your own Profile page, so this is a bonus.

There’s an option to “Support The Author” by offering a printed copy of a document via Print(fu), so this is a potential money maker as well as a way to promote your Web sites and Web writing: if you upload something that thousands of people are interested in, this could translate into very nice pocket change.

My (fast) first impressions of Scribd

Scibd should be on your radar. It’s free, so experimentation with it costs nothing, and potentially it could be a nice source of income. Note that this is a new site, and has just received some investor funding, so it may not be around for long if the business model doesn’t work. However, there are some nice features to the site (choice of downloads etc) so if good content is uploaded, it may just hang around.

A tip - promote your offerings on this site. Nothing promotes itself online, you’ve got to do yourself. Yes, I know - it’s a roundabout way of thinking: you promote yourself via Scribd, and then you promote Scribd… but this is the WEB, remember. Everything links to everything else. The person with the most links wins.