Content

Content is the answer to making money online. Think of this list as a graph, follow it down.

Content brings:

Traffic

from:

Search Engines

The more content on your site, the more pages, keywords, etc. get indexed in the search engines. When people search for something you’ve covered in your site, it’s a potential hit to your site.

Social sites.

After you write content, submit it to social sites, this will get readers to your site, and hopefully some of them will stick around and subscribe to your RSS feed and maybe even go to your site daily to read.

Here’s a list of social news and bookmarking sites you can submit your content to:

Digg.com
Digg, founded by Kevin Rose, is a social news site where users “Digg” stories, if a story has enough “diggs”, it gets bumped up to the front page of the site.

Twitter.com
You can use twitter to notify your friends when a new post is up.

Pownce
Send a link to you all your friends letting them know you have new content.

Netscape.com
Netscape came after digg, I know what you’re thinking… A little similar huh? Oh well, just another traffic source.

Reddit.com
I prefer reddit a little bit over digg, although you may not receieve the numbers you can get from digg, the users are a little more mature. (Oh, c’mon digg users, you know who you are.)

Del.icio.us
Delicious was one of the first, if not the first social bookmarking sites out there, it allows you to tag bookmarks and see how many other people have added the same bookmarks. It was bought out by Yahoo. It also has a frontpage where popular stories that have been bookmarked by a lot of people are displayed.

Stumbleupon.com
StumbleUpon is a social site that allows its users to “Stumble” onto sites they may be interested in. Don’t expect huge spikes of traffic from StumbleUpon, but expect slow but steady traffic, which most people actually prefer.

Technorati.com
After you write a new post, you’ll definately want to ping technorati. This will let them list you in their blog search. Wordpress usually automatically does this.

Indianpad.com
Similar to delicious and digg. Decent source of traffic.

Socialogs.com
A Digg clone, but another source of traffic.

Wirefan.com
A digg/delicious hybrid.

Myweb2.search.yahoo.com
Similar to delicious, I’m not sure why yahoo has it, seeing as they own delicious.

Furl.net
Like delicious, more traffic.

Blinklist.com
Another social bookmarking site.

I’m tired of writing descriptions. (I’m only human.) But there’s more.

Smarking.com
Blogmemes.net
Bluedot.us
Simpy.com
Backflip.com
Spurl.net
Newsvine.com
Blinkbits.com
Shadows.com
Ma.gnolia.com
Scuttle.org
Netvouz.com
Folkd.com
Grupl.com
Blogmarks.net
Plugim.com

..I forgot where I was going with this, but heres the short version:

Content = Traffic = Advertising Revenue (Money)