Rank for harder Keywords with slideshare

Another great feature is you can actually integrate a lead capture form to your slide with their paid membership although we haven't tried that yet.

However the SEO benefit is a real plus

Thanks yes this works well, but how to you bulld backlinks to drive traffic, do you use social bookmarks?

Thanks

Thanks for letting me know about Slideshare, I was not using this.

In most cases if you do it right, you can rank a lot of keywords in about 2 minutes. the harder keywords are ranked the same way "on page" as it were, but take some good quality backlinks and then they'll rank. It's mostly about the optimization. Most of the slides I've ranked are 200 words or maybe a little less; and the descriptions are usually 20-40 words without the url. You can do the same thing with other properties, but slideshare you can rank in literally minutes for a whole lot of keywords. It also matters what types of keywords you are going after. If you do a quick google search for the keyword, you can tell in about a minute about how fast it will take you, and how many backlinks, if any at all, you will need to build to take the top ten spots. It is also generally a good idea if you want the ranks to stick, to build a few backlinks at your slides even if they show up really quickly. They will tend to slide away over time if you don't. If you see similar properties in the top ten, marketing type properties, you will be able to hit that keyword fairly quickly in most cases. If you don't, then it will take you longer. I know and learned from someone who is very, very good at this method. He has two different slide shows ranked for two make money keywords that most people think are unattainable, but its' really not that tough. a few thing to keep in mind:

these things seem to help,in testing:
(i even put my keyword in the email address i sign up with. Not sure if that helps, but i do
main keyword phrase ( or two) in the title.
main keyword phrase (or alternate) as the title header of each slide.
main or one keyword at least ONCE per slide. If not twice.
Links made with main keyword
I have had luck with as few as 100 and as many as 500 words of content in slides.
main keyword phrases (at least twice) in the description. again, i have put description word counts as few as 20-30 (not including the url) and as many as 100. like you say above.
best luck with backlinks i have seen include high quality bookmarks and high pr blog comments.
This is an excellent tool to use in two scenarios i have found:
-getting people on a slide show that is an affiliate review and /or building a list.
-getting leads for seo service, and /or closing leads. If someone contacts you about seo, and you find out their niche and keywords, and then rank a slideshow their info and call them back, you can pretty much count on them signing up

Great share, Ben. this is a viable seo technique. Good to see you again!

I have to agree, slideshare has made it much easier for me to rank especially long tail keywords. It used to be that way with DocStock as well, but lately its not working so well.

Something I am not understanding

I took parts of my article and made a three slide gig. I had a link at the bottom of each slide saying to read the whole article, and my link. The link works fine on my computer, but it doesn't work on Slideshare. WTF

Please advise. What did I do wrong, other than pick a crummy key word.

Why are you guys trying to rank 3rd party pages (slideshare pages)?

Your forcing traffic to make extra clicks to your money pages on your own site.

EZA anyone?

Interesting article! Thanks.

As timpears said; you can rank easier for keywords on Slideshare (1). You can be less concern about over doing things (2). It has less investment and faster set up (3).

As mentioned you can slide up a slide in a couple minutes and a content base easier to rank than a site with more visuals for lead capture. While you have good content, also can obtain a good CTR as the slides maintain the user attention better especially if you display your call to action early when they land....when they click next slide you engage your user

Something you might want to consider: long tail keywords are good to rank with your fresh sites as they help build your site authority and are easier to rank (you can get good ROI still because they dont' take as much time to rank where as trying to rank a competitive keyword on your less establish site takes longer and more work) Use slideshare to complement your traffic stream and also add more authority behind your site.

This way you Get the benefit of more traffic (you're limited to keywords you can optimize on site...with this method you can push multiple keywords at one time) while also helping your site to grow over time


Just link of why people would use youtube to get traffic instead of their own site?

It allows those to capture traffic from more competitive keywords and you can then funnel them through your site.

(if I'm not making much grammatical sense, my apologies)

I have a question. I saw the html code of my slide but i dont saw the link (<a href=""></a>) so, how the slide on slideshare give the benefits to my money site?

Guys here's where I was going with the comparison of EZA & slideshare.

This is Google deindexing a page (screenshot below, source).

My point is, don't spam out slideshare & connect it to things like a legit money site, etc...

Good luck, considering Google is telling you what they don't like.

BTW, that screenshot is directly from Googles own web page, not something on some random web page.

Slideshare not increase your website ranking, slideshare rank itself form promoting keywords. You check it the cache version of your slideshare, & chose Text-version you see the difference.

My Google cache slideshare page is

http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...elease-writing

Text Version only below -:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&hl=en&strip=1

you can see google not cache the SlideText & links i use in slide, they just cache the heading of my slide. Below the text in present, but their is no link is present.

So, my question how slideshare is helpful to increase my website ranking ( W.R.T) in SERPs.

Yukon has pretty much said it but I just wanted to add another voice of reason in this crazy thread.

You're all talking about the advantages of abusing a system which is currently working to some extent.

If everyone follows the advice being given in this thread - you will kill the value of the platform and have it filtered out by Google as a source of spam content and all the links to your site will at best be ignored, at worst work against your site and mean other efforts you've made to market your site will be a waste of time.

Do people not learn that creating content which is just reprinted versions of other content in order to get a cheap link from a different platform is exactly what is getting penalised.

EZA is a good example already mentioned by Yukon - abuse of EZA effectively killed it's value when it used to be the defacto best place to put your good content.

If you keep looking for cheap tricks to get Google advantage you will ultimately hurt your business.

Sure - use these types of platform, but just throwing up squeeze pages and affiliate links is NOT the way to create an income which is going to last, so don't kid yourself you're being clever by doing this stuff.

And telling others to do it means even if you're using it effectively and have great content there - others will be lazy and throw up crap and ruin the system for everyone.

Why don't people just try and rank pages from there own site? Why try and rank other sites such as slide share, scribd, etc. Seems like a waist of time. Plus, at some point the only pages going to show at the top of SERP's are these sites and the select few that choose the other direction.

I've experimented with scribd a few year ago. Upload about 50 pages of the exact type of content I would on my own site. It made me a whole 1-3 sales a day.. that sucks!. The same content on my own site would bring in roughly 50 sales a day for the same amount of pages.

Seems that the more people have to click through to find what there looking for, the more likely there going to give up. Needless to say, I deleted those pages. I do better adding the content to my own website. Why help gain strength to other sites when you can do it for yours.

Manual link building really isn't worth your time unless you only have 1 site or less

I would check out SENuke if I were you.