Below are some best content-hosting sites that regularly draw huge numbers of visitors. Whether you set up a free generic account or a paid branded one, you can immediately start posting your eBooks, white papers, podcasts, and other favorite content in places where people have a greater chance of finding them. Site Overview Best for Posting With over 25 million users, DocStoc is a document and resource-hosting site that allows you to post content in Videos, articles, productivity tools a variety of formats. As Apple’s best-known media player and content Podcasts library, iTunes is the best place to post audio content. Described as the world’s largest online library, Scribd Text-based content such as white is a free community content-sharing site that has a papers, case studies, and reports monthly audience of approximately 90 million readers. The world’s largest community for sharing presenta- Visual content such as presenta- tions, SlideShare garners more than 130 million page tions and eBooks with a landscape views each month. format A platform for creating data visualizations and info- graphics, Visual.ly also allows you to post the info- Infographics graphics you have created. Posting content to any of these sites, or to the many others that exist, will not only give you access to much larger audiences, but also create an opportunity to drive people back to your site where they can find even more content. One way to help ensure that this happens is to only include a portion of a large piece of content on a content-hosting site. For example, if you are publishing a 30-page eBook, you might consider posting the first 10 pages to SlideShare, and then includ- ing an 11th page with a button that viewers can click that takes them to your website to download the rest of the eBook. Some- one who has read the first 10 pages of your eBook may very well take the time to download the rest of it from your site. It Takes a Content Factory! | 33

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