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With all of the great places to publish content online today, it very likely that you can secure multiple spots in the search engine rankings with your content. One place I’ve found that seems to be beneficial in terms of ranking in search engines is Slideshare.net.
Slideshare is a social media content site that allows you to upload, favorite, bookmark, tag, and comment on slide shows. Additionally, you can join groups, download slideshows, and are provided with code to embed or link to slideshows on your blog or website. Like any social media site, being an active networker on Slideshare by commenting, favoriting, joining groups, and linking to slideshows can boost your slideshow’s visibility and backlinks.
I stumbled upon the SEO benefits of Slideshare by accident after publishing a slideshow not for rankings, but for purely utilitarian purposes. Soon, I realized that the slideshow was ranking on page 1 of Google for a term with 1.5 million results. And that was without being active at all in the Slideshare community.
Once you begin brainstorming, you'll probably begin thinking of all kinds of reasons to use Slideshows to deliver content. Here are a few ideas:
The nice thing about Slideshare is that once the content is published, it seems to be indexed by the search engines very quickly. Another slide show I published was ranking on page 3 within just a few days of being published after linking to it once from my blog.
Have you tried Slideshare? What are some other creative ways to use slideshows in your marketing campaigns?
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Nathan Ketsdever (not verified)
April 5th, 2008Slideshare is great for learning what makes great design for powerpoint presentations. Consistently big visuals, lots of white space, and few words tend to win out with Slideshare presentations in terms of most views.
Following/friending people who make great presentations is an easy way to come back to your favorite presentations.
Getting in groups of types of presentations you create can help both in terms of learning content as well as networking.
replyBrian Gilley
April 5th, 2008Hi Nathan,
Thanks for stopping by and for the additional tips on using Slideshare to build traffic and rankings. It would definitely help by socializing as much as possible within the Slideshare website itself. The more users, groups, and commenting would likely provide a good return.
Anyone else using Slideshare and have additional recommendations?
replyoyun (not verified)
April 22nd, 2008Hi Nathan,
Thanks for stopping by and for the additional tips on using Slideshare to build traffic and rankings. It would definitely help by socializing as much as possible within the Slideshare website itself. The more users, groups, and commenting would likely provide a good return.
Anyone else using Slideshare and have additional recommendations?
replyraj (not verified)
June 3rd, 2008Is it possibility have this feature in drupal based website ?
replyBaby Dad (not verified)
August 10th, 2008Thanks, I've been using Simpy to store all of my marvelous SEO ideas from websites like this (this is the best btw) and this one will be duly added and utilized today, cheers :)
replymtatum (not verified)
September 2nd, 2008I think I will be using slideshare from here on out!
replymsn adresleri (not verified)
October 2nd, 2008using thi infos about my company which is intereted in this sector. so thanks.
replyjohn edwin (not verified)
November 19th, 2008It’s not that much of work, and if no time doing so (which can be understandable) they just could share the presentation and invite readers to exchange ideas and thoughts about it through email with the presentation author.
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Kari Rippetoe (not verified)
January 5th, 2009This is an excellent post! I was looking everywhere for some good tips for using Slideshare, and this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Don't forget - Slideshare has widgets so you can promote your presentations and profile from your website. Really important part of using it in your marketing strategy.
replyPotter (not verified)
January 30th, 2009I am a very keen user of Slideshare. And it is great for SEO - as you describe Christine.
It is also very good as Linkbait. Even though a user could just embed the PowerPoint, not all do. Considering using the Slidecast function to make it even better.
A great tool - Slideshare.
replyZafon (not verified)
March 5th, 2009Slideshare is good slide hosting portal, but i prefer use slideboom. Slideboom.com supports power point animations it make you flash-presentation more beautiful. And also slideboom has PRO accounts for buisness idea.
replyVim (not verified)
March 19th, 2009This is a good little app, I find that slideshare is easier to use compared to PowerPoint, the widgets feature is good extra that helps business's.
replybosch servisi (not verified)
July 9th, 2009I think I will be using slideshare from here on out!..
Thank
replyGreat Tips (not verified)
August 20th, 2009It's easily to create power point than Youtube Video. Using it for my blog from now on.
Thanks.
Question? Do i need to use rel-"nofollow" for slideshare?
replyZoekmachinemarketing Gelderland (not verified)
December 3rd, 2009Thanks for this great post. I'll be using slideshare more frequently now for my seo clients.
replyBronson (not verified)
December 16th, 2009I read about recycling popular content as presentations in the SlideShare newsletter and decided to give it a whirl - the results were surprisingly good.
Both my presentation and blog post are ranking tops for the relevant titles - I kow it's long tail, but it's a winner for getting new life into popular old posts.
For the amount of work required, the results are great!
replyIntrinsec (not verified)
December 8th, 2010I found this article worthwhile. I do presentations and am often asked for the URL where people can download the slides.
Thanks!
replyMontreal Web Design (not verified)
January 18th, 2011yes, Slideboom.com is pretty decent too
replyBest DJ Software (not verified)
January 9th, 2012That's a great idea. I never thought that I can promote my website via slideshare. Slideboom.com aswell, a great thing.
replyKhaja moin (not verified)
January 17th, 2012So can I get a link from slideshare to my blog?
replyliam duffy (not verified)
January 27th, 2012Thanks for the guide.. having just started a new website I'm looking for any opportunity to help with my serp. Will see if my blog posts convert to slides well enough.
replyThomas Zacchi intoto (not verified)
February 1st, 2012The SlideShare service is absolutely a great slide hosting service and now also html5.
replyHave not tried Slideboom.com as some comments suggest, will give it a try.
Sigmund (not verified)
March 14th, 2012What are the main alternative for slideshare? I have found slideboom, but this is not for me.
replyTiffany (not verified)
March 26th, 2012Is there any alternative for slideshare.net?
replyThanks
Joseph @ SEO India (not verified)
April 18th, 2012Excellent Tips. I have also noticed that for moderately competitive phrases, a slideshare presentation often makes it to the first page.
replysam (not verified)
April 21st, 2012How many files can you upload to slideshare? Is there somekind of limit? I planned to put all my school work in there, but im curious about it.
replySam
Jerry (not verified)
August 19th, 2012As far as I know there is NO limit for uploaded files. I highly doubt that some kind of school project will be ruined by slideshare. You can also check for slideboom as an alternative.
Jerry
replyMan and Van Guildford (not verified)
July 22nd, 2012This is great. Keep up the good work
replyLilBowWow (not verified)
July 31st, 2012Don't forget to mention boomshare. It's quite good as well in terms of ranking in google ;)
replytham tu tu sai gon (not verified)
August 12th, 2012That o good idead . Tham tu tu sai gon thank you
replyDhawal Barot (not verified)
August 31st, 2012I Know the Articles What We Publishes in Slide Share Quickly Comes in 1st Page of Google and It Happens to Me Also !!
But For Example if I Have Some Hyperlinks in My Slide Presentation and Uploaded them to SlideShare Successfully ??
Than Will I Get Backlink from that Slide ??
And Will it Make any effect in SERP of My Website URL ??
replyAnonymous (not verified)
September 2nd, 2012SlideShare is an excellent site for sharing. As an alternative, with SlideSpeech presentation tool we can convert speaker notes into voice-over with a good accuracy. It suits someone who want to deliver a remote presentation with powerful voice-over
replyJill (not verified)
September 11th, 2012Hey Sam,
It should be unlimited as far as I know. Well it was at least year ago. So go ahead, I doubt you will ever cross the limit.
replySteffan (not verified)
December 13th, 2012Slideshare seems like a great tool. My company will plan on putting up diy tutorial guides for phone and tablet repairs as good step by step instructions for our customers to use to repair their devices. I really dig the concept.
replyEd (not verified)
December 22nd, 2012But is there anyway to make backlinks on slideshare? Or is it just for search engine visibility?
replyRoofersvirginiabeach (not verified)
December 30th, 2012I found that this works very well better even when you use top PR social bookmarks. Top ranking in local results everytime. Awesome method.
replyDragon (not verified)
January 3rd, 2013Slide share is good way to promote your web site. I am usin it for log time , and get lots first pages with them.
replyDragon (not verified)
January 3rd, 2013It s good way to promote web site or blog. I have lot s first page results with this poresentations.
replyImane (not verified)
January 15th, 2013Slideshare are doing a great job, and I'm kinda grateful for the audience that you can drive from there.
replyRakhi SEO Consultant Mumbai (not verified)
January 23rd, 2013Finally I found something useful to me. I have been looking for information on this particular topic for a lot of time now.
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