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How to Get Featured on SlideShare Home Page

Last Updated on March 12, 2018 112 Comments

NOTE: find a more current version of this post here

Slideshare Traffic Case Study: From 0 to 243,000 Views in 30 Days

Did you know you are missing out on a HUGE source of traffic?

This source gets about 60 millions visitors per month, has an Alexa Rank of 174, and is referred to as “The Quiet Giant of Content Marketing“.

AND you can get featured on its homepage without selling your soul.

This means that you can get lots of traffic.

There isn’t a real competition there, so you don’t have to worry about that.

This website is SlideShare and it’s one of the most undervalued social media platforms in the world.

Let me show you why you’ll love SlideShare.

Enormous Traffic Potential

This snapshot is of one of my presentations on SlideShare.

As you can see it received 31,436 views.

And the best part?

About 30,000 of those views came in in one day.

It received so many views because it was featured as Top Presentation of the Day by SlideShare.

Interestingly, when I was featured, I had neither a big following, nor a popular blog.

You can get featured on SlideShare homepage too.

What I Achieved with SlideShare

Before we go on, let me show you some numbers.

Take a look at my SlideShare channel, which currently has 5 presentations.

Each one has more than 1,000 views.

Two of them were featured as Top Presentation of the Day and one more was featured on SlideShare’s homepage in the Featured Presentations.

How to Get Featured

My experience taught me that you needed about 900-1100 views to get featured in the Featured box and 1200-1500 views to get featured as Top Presentation of the Day.

Update from Ana: since this post was published, Mauro and I have learned a thing or two about Slideshare and how to be featured on its homepage (the answer might surprise you).

You can find more information about it in this post: Slideshare Traffic Case Study: From 0 to 243,000 Views in 30 Days

Even though I don’t have any hard data to support my hunch, this is the conclusion I arrived at from experience.

Both “Top Presentation of the Day” and “Featured” will send you lots of website traffic.

However, there is a big difference between them.

With Top Presentation of the Day, you’ll get a five-figure number of views, while being featured will fetch you a four-figure number of views.

For this reason, our target is to reach the 1500 views in one day.

It may seem a tough task, but it’s not so hard if you know some “tricks” (and if you make a great looking presentation).

The Most Important Factor to Get Featured

Your presentation has to be great.

Don’t worry: it’s easy, if you follow some simple concepts.

You don’t need awesome content, but if you have something juicy, it’s even better.

The one thing that you can’t skip is the design.

If your presentation doesn’t look too good, there is no way it’ll get featured.

Some of the best guys who teach how to make phenomenal presentations work at Slides that Rock.

Watch their slides, follow their advice, and you’ll make great presentations.

Here are some simple guidelines:

1. Use Big Images

Beautiful images usually cost a pretty penny, but if you know where to look, you’ll find great images for free.

These are two interesting sources of stunning Creative Commons images:

  • Compfight
  • Creative Commons Search

Images are the cornerstone of your presentations.

They have to be wonderful and they have to be BIG.

Small images don’t work as well, as you can see from this example:

If you can communicate emotions with your images, it’s even better.

2. Less Text Per Slide

Remember that your presentation is a presentation, not a book.

Include only key points in your slides.

It’s best to break down lengthy ideas into several slides.

3. Don’t Use Bullet Points

Bullet points in a post are great.

Bullet points in a presentation are boring.

If you need those bullets, insert a bullet per slide.

4. Choose an Appealing Font

We see standard fonts everywhere, so they don’t hit us anymore.

Try other fonts, but don’t use unreadable ones.

5. Bonus Tip

In order to get featured on SlideShare homepage, we need to go one extra step: find a memorable cover shot.

Your first picture is the only picture that people see before they open your presentation, so you have to choose it wisely.

Get Help from Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn

If you carefully examine SlideShare homepage, you’ll notice the following right under featured presentations:

  • Hot on Facebook
  • Hot on Twitter
  • Hot on LinkedIn

Your presentation can get there pretty easily and once it makes it, it will get many additional views.

Naturally, if you have a great cover picture, your presentation will stand out and get extra clicks.

I don’t know exactly what the metrics are to have your presentation there, but if you promote it with all your social media power, there’s a good chance you’ll get there.

That’s the very least you can do to make it to the homepage.

IMPORTANT: focus on one social media network at a time.

Facebook box will get you the most of views because its location right under the featured box.

In my experience, Twitter is the easiest box to get featured in.

Timing Is Everything

WHEN you upload your presentation is critical.

If you upload it in at the wrong time of day, you’ll miss out on a big chunk of potential views.

You don’t want to split your views into two days; you want to get them all in one.

Upload your presentation about 20-24 hours before SlideShare changes its Top Presentation of the Day.

I noticed that SlideShare changes its Top Presentation of the Day at about 12-2pm EDT (8-10 pm EST).

Upload your presentation at 3pm EDT (11pm EST), so you’ll have about 20 hours to collect your views.

How to Direct Traffic Back to Your Blog

If you skip the following part, you won’t get much traffic from SlideShare.

Insert a call to action at the end of your presentation.

Insert a link back to your blog in your last slide.

It’s a little known fact: you can add LIVE links into your PowerPoint presentations.

You can’t have live links in the presentation description (like on YouTube), but you CAN have them in the presentation itself - go figure.

Also, given that many people don’t know that those links are live, you should also include your blog URL.

This way, if your viewer doesn’t realize the link is clickable, they can at least type your URL in the navigation menu of the browser.

Your Turn

Getting traffic from SlideShare is one of the most under-utilized traffic strategies.

If you have any specific questions on how to make SlideShare work for you, just ask in the comments, I’ll be happy to answer.

Also, I want to help you to make a great presentation: tell me your idea and I’ll do my best to help you with it. 😉

Mauro D’Andrea

Mauro D’Andrea is the founder of Blog Growth, the fresh blog that treats internet marketing in the complete way. Take his free guide Increase Your Conversions and turn your blog in a successful business.

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112 Intelligent comments · espresso yours below

  1. himanshu says

    July 22, 2013 at 1:07 am

    Creating awesome presentation is really difficult especially if you are doing it for the first time. Got some courage to make my first loving slideshare presentation.

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      July 24, 2013 at 7:22 am

      Let me know how it goes.

      Reply
  2. Steve F says

    July 5, 2013 at 2:03 pm

    Great post. Very informative and procedure oriented. Nice tips on how to maximize traffic. The little things, like timing, can make all the difference. I’ve used SlideShare a bit, but never really focused on it. Should get much better results now.

    Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      July 6, 2013 at 11:44 pm

      I love Slideshare, Steve - one of the best referral traffic sources for me.

      Reply
  3. Scott says

    May 10, 2013 at 2:23 am

    Excellent and under used strategy here. Thanks for sharing. I’m off to make some slideshow presentations!

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      May 13, 2013 at 9:34 am

      You are very welcome, Scott.

      Reply
  4. Dave Thomas says

    April 29, 2013 at 9:00 pm

    I think I wanna try this Slideshare presentation to get more traffic.
    Good job!

    Reply
  5. Joe says

    April 27, 2013 at 7:20 pm

    Hi Mauro and Ana

    What day do you believe is best for uploads? Or what day would be worst?
    Thanks

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      April 29, 2013 at 6:57 am

      I’ve been experimenting with uploading my Slideshare presentations on different days, Joe, but so far haven’t found much rhyme or reason as to when they get more reach.

      Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      May 21, 2013 at 12:33 pm

      Hi Joe, I agree with Ana: there aren’t significant differences among the days of the week.

      Reply
  6. Dave Thomas says

    April 22, 2013 at 9:46 am

    Interesting topic about SlideShare Ana, When I visited your profile and checked some of your slideshows I really like it. Though, I do not try this for now but I appreciate your presentation how this SlideShare works to get traffic.

    Reply
  7. selva says

    April 8, 2013 at 9:49 pm

    Hi Ana,
    This blog is simply amazing that how use the slideshare and how much reputation can create using the slide share and with generated traffic in high peaks.

    Reply
  8. tony franklin says

    April 8, 2013 at 3:58 pm

    ana what i am going to say is i love you. thank you so much for the post just recently stumbled upon it and i wondered if it would be a good source of traffic. this post definitely confirms my expectations thanks once again.

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      April 9, 2013 at 6:18 am

      You are very welcome, Tony.

      Reply
  9. Peter says

    April 7, 2013 at 10:51 am

    Hi Anna
    just tried 3 slides on slideshare and withing a few minutes they were on first page Google for the key words selected, nearly or even equal to Youtube in attaining position on G.
    Thanks

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      April 9, 2013 at 6:08 am

      Not bad at all, Peter.

      Reply
  10. Rose says

    April 7, 2013 at 6:24 am

    Ana… you are so good I could just shoot you! Okay, that may sound a little crazy, but let me explain some things & I promise you’ll get why I say this and you will smile at the end….

    I’m very new to blogging & internet marketing. My previous career was in sales & management held in traditional positions. I’ve always enjoyed sales but my creative side was drawn to creating and implementing marketing campaigns. I find internet marketing to be a good fit for my interests & skills.

    Late last year, I decided to ditch the rat race and to earn my living online. I just launched my first blog this past March, and I am constantly checking for helpful references to help me make it a success.

    All my research & digging for information had led me to your site. Wow! Your material has been ever so helpful – probably THE BEST resource I have come across. My sites are only a few weeks old, but I am seeing growth. Some of which is a direct result of implementing your ideas.

    With the cornucopia of stuff I am doing to make my sites successful - you know, writing content, building backlinks, posting on all the social media…etc… now you ‘ve thrown out another stupendous idea. Ah! I’m already such a busy bee and now here’s another shiny new thing to attract my attention. SQUIRREL!

    But really – I don’t want to shoot you – Ana, I’d hug you if we were ever to meet �

    Thank you so much for sharing your quality ideas in a format that is always a pleasure to read.
    All the best, Rose

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      April 9, 2013 at 6:06 am

      Loved it, Rose; thanks for making my morning.

      All the best with your sites and look forward to seeing you around!

      Reply
  11. Ben says

    April 7, 2013 at 3:59 am

    Hi Ana, just read this post and watched your video on converting posts to PDFs. I just wanted to say thanks for the tips, it sounds like a great way to promote your content and get traffic to your website. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      April 9, 2013 at 6:01 am

      You are very welcome, Ben.

      Reply
  12. Harleena Singh says

    April 7, 2013 at 2:03 am

    Hi Ana,

    This was simply an awesome post, and something that’s coming up in a big way. I’ve seen so many people come up with SlideShare and it does sound promising. I’ve seen a few of yours and they grab attention for sure.

    Thanks for sharing these great tips with us, which I’ve just bookmarked for the time I get started to make mine. You couldn’t be more right 🙂

    Have a lovely weekend 🙂

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      April 9, 2013 at 5:57 am

      I assume you saw this one as well, Harleena: https://trafficgenerationcafe.online/slideshare-homepage-traffic/

      Thanks for coming by!

      Reply
  13. Blanca Mathews says

    March 21, 2013 at 12:23 am

    Hi Ana, I just drop by to your blog and found this topic interesting. I got useful ideas. Though I have not tried SlideShare but want to try this one so will know the outcome. Thanks for sharing this one.

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      March 23, 2013 at 3:48 pm

      I’d definitely recommend you check it out, Blanca.

      Reply
  14. Gerald Weber says

    March 3, 2013 at 12:43 pm

    Thanks for the excellent tips and the inspiration. I am now planning to give this a go.

    This reminds me of back in the “good ol days” when we used to pop stuff on the Digg.com home page.

    I have a question about the Slides that Rock folks. It definitely looks like they have some awesome slides, however it looks like they are looking to be hired to make the slides for people? Which is cool, but you mentioned that they teach people how to make slides? Did I understand this correctly? Because I am defintely going to need some kind of help.

    Thanks again! 🙂

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      March 3, 2013 at 9:13 pm

      They do have a few slide decks that explain how to go about making the best Slideshare presentations, Gerald. I learned a lot from them.

      Check out this one: http://slidesthatrock.com/2012/07/08/design/, and others under their “Portfolio”.

      Reply
  15. Kathleen @BloggingMarathon says

    March 2, 2013 at 7:13 pm

    Great tips but how do you actually MAKE a slideshow if you don’t have Powerpoint?

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      March 3, 2013 at 9:01 pm

      That would be difficult, Kathleen.

      Doesn’t PowerPoint come with Microsoft Office? I think buying a copy might be your best bet.

      Alternatively, you can do some research to see if there are free options online you can use.

      Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      March 4, 2013 at 2:48 am

      Hi Kathleen, I don’t have PowerPoint 🙂

      I made all of my presentations with OpenOffice which is free- it’s like PowerPoint, but free.
      You can easily find it on Google and download it.

      Reply
      • Ana Hoffman says

        March 4, 2013 at 6:42 am

        Thanks for the suggestion, Mauro; I never had the need to look since I do have PP.

        Reply
  16. Tyronne Ratcliff says

    February 8, 2013 at 7:57 am

    I’m an SEO guy myself and I’ve seen a lot Slideshare presentations ranking rather well, I’ll have to check it out,pretty powerful stuff!

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      February 8, 2013 at 1:24 pm

      That’s what I am hoping to achieve, Tyronne, aside from referral traffic.

      Reply
  17. sally brown says

    February 7, 2013 at 8:19 pm

    Hi Ana & Mauro,

    I enjoyed this post and have a question. Can you use Slideshare only for technical or marketing websites or can you use it to promote things such as healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, or how to love and live fully?

    Just wondering cause I see you are both technical and marketing bloggers. I would love to utilize this to promote some of my own interests with link back to my site.

    Thanks for sharing this. Sally

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      February 8, 2013 at 1:51 am

      Hi Sally,

      I guess it can work, but it’s not as effective as technical or marketing presentations.
      Anyway, if you approach the right angle, you may get interesting results. For example you could make a presentation on how to organize well your working life together with your private one.

      Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      February 8, 2013 at 1:18 pm

      That’s the beauty of Slideshare, Sally - it’s anyone’s platform.

      And it’s owned by LinkedIn, which makes sense, right?

      Reply
      • darren says

        February 10, 2013 at 5:16 am

        ah - that’s why my LI contacts are connecting with me there!! Now makes sense - duh!

        Reply
  18. Walter says

    February 7, 2013 at 1:07 pm

    Awesome awesome read. I should try out slideshare and see the results.

    Cheers 🙂

    Reply
  19. Nischhal says

    February 6, 2013 at 1:26 am

    Great read indeed, thanks Mauro for an excellent piece! Never thought Slideshare could be this useful as I am not a frequent user of it. Turns out I should try my hands upon it soon because its simple and effective if your instructions are followed thoroughly.

    Reply
  20. Robert says

    February 5, 2013 at 9:04 pm

    This tip is really awesome 🙂 I didn’t know you can manage to find the best time to upload for most exposure on Slider. Probably the killer slideshare tip of the year 🙂 Thank you so much.

    Reply
  21. Chitraparna says

    February 3, 2013 at 9:29 pm

    Great read Mauro!

    I didn’t know Slide Share could be so powerful. Getting featured anywhere is a tough job since thousands of people are already using it to gain traffic but I will surely implement your tips.

    One question - do the chances of getting featured increase if you are a paid member? Just curious to know.

    ~ Chitra

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      February 8, 2013 at 1:46 am

      Hi Chitra, glad to be helpful 😉

      No, it doesn’t influence it. As a paid member you “only” have the chance to better convert the visitors on your stuff.

      Reply
  22. Brandon Halliburton says

    January 30, 2013 at 10:14 am

    Great read Josh!

    I set a Slideshare account a few weeks ago. I found this to be very helpful and I will defintely be using this for my business. I am in the process of writing an E-Book. This would be a great platform to use to promote my E-Book and website!

    Thanks for sharing this information!

    Reply
  23. Jeremy Page says

    January 26, 2013 at 2:44 pm

    Slideshare is great, my slide yesterday was a “facebook’ featured slide and it garnered 900+ views…its a start 🙂

    Crazy, I have read everywhere that you cannot get a link in the presentation description but I have found an exception:

    Literally all of Rob Fore’s Slideshare documents and presentations have a hyperlink in the presentation description.

    Is this a pro feature or a cool loophole?

    Anyone have an idea?

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      January 27, 2013 at 8:47 am

      As it was mentioned in the post, Jeremy, Slideshare does allow active hyperlinks in presentations.

      Reply
      • Jeremy Page says

        January 27, 2013 at 11:57 am

        Presentation DESCRIPTION. Not in the presentation.

        This post stated, “You can’t have live links in the presentation description” and I am telling you that I see a Slideshare user that has hyperlinks in the descriptions.

        His name is Rob Fore, look it up on Slideshare.

        I would like to know how to get links in there if anyone can discover how he is doing this…

        Reply
        • Ana Hoffman says

          January 27, 2013 at 5:40 pm

          Let me look into it, Jeremy.

          Reply
        • Mauro D'Andrea says

          January 28, 2013 at 3:44 am

          Hi Jeremy, I have never seen it before.

          I used SlideShare Pro, but it didn’t allowed me to do it. The same applies for my peers who have it.

          I’m guessing two chances:
          1) The Platinum Plan of SlideShare allow you to do it (they say that you may insert link, but they don’t say where).
          2) There’s a side way to get it…maybe the descritption read HTML.

          I have to indagate further.

          Reply
          • Mauro D'Andrea says

            January 28, 2013 at 1:40 pm

            It’s not the code, therefore I guess it’s the Platinum Plan of SlideShare.

  24. Gel Maine says

    January 22, 2013 at 7:05 pm

    I hear from my friend who use slide share to get genuine traffics but i haven’t use it yet. I’m glad that i stop by and read your post for it will help solve my blog problem. I guess presentation is better than just doing blog alone.

    Thanks for your post :d

    Reply
  25. kevin vincent says

    January 19, 2013 at 4:26 am

    Well i was having no idea about the slide share.I am now aware of it & your post looking very useful to me now.I am gona check on your blogs now everytime 🙂
    Thanks!

    Reply
  26. Anne says

    December 20, 2012 at 11:32 am

    I haven’t used slideshare yet, but this post has really encouraged me to do one. My first one may take loads of time and may not be very good, but at least it will be a start and the next will be easier.

    I’m on a semi-blogging break at the moment, Ana (only actually blogging on one of my blogs and trying to sell 2 of them). So am not around on the internet that much. If I don’t see you again before Christmas, have a great time with your loved ones!

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      January 3, 2013 at 9:04 am

      Thanks so much for coming by, Anne; Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well!

      Reply
  27. Kumar Gauraw says

    December 14, 2012 at 11:12 am

    I had started working on creating slideshare presentations and linking them to my blog. I also got a few hundred clicks and then I took it easy. But I just learnt how to get featured and that, IS AWESOME!

    I think I am going to work this weekend to create a short attractive presentation to try this technique and let me see how much traffic does it fetch for me. Just a trial 🙂

    Anyways, thank you for yet another awesome post. Since I landed on your website, I have learnt some great things about SEO and traffic generation. This is indeed a terrific blog to visit often. Thank you again!

    Regards,
    Kumar

    Reply
  28. Brian says

    December 1, 2012 at 11:45 pm

    I’ve heard great things about Slideshare, and I’ve wondered how hard it was to get featured on the front page. If it only takes 1,000 views or so, that doesn’t seem to hard. I think it might be time to work on a presentation this week and publicize it.

    As a random aside, one of the things I like about Slideshare (as a teacher) is that you can sync audio to the presentation. Great for informational presentations (class lecture, test review, etc). Any idea how audio would effect engagement and shares if you’re producing a presentation to promote a website?

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      December 5, 2012 at 2:31 pm

      Hi Brian, I don’t know about the audio, but personally I don’t like to insert it: if I have to insert an audio, I’d prefer to make a video instead of a presentation.

      Anyway, if you think it’s an interesting option, you can make some tests and see how it perform.

      Reply
  29. Mauro D'Andrea says

    December 1, 2012 at 6:51 am

    Hi Steve, my last but one presentation got about 60,000 views in one day, so we are not kidding 🙂
    Of course not all of them will come to your blog…but I’m working to discover how to get AMAZING results SlideShare…and I’m on the right road.

    Well, it depends.
    Anyway I guess that 30-70 slides are the most common in the “Presentation of the Day”.

    Reply
  30. Kent Chen says

    November 28, 2012 at 11:06 am

    I must really say that this is mind blowing! I have been using slideshare for a long time but I’ve never got that much traffic. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I must pay attention to details now! 🙂

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      December 1, 2012 at 6:45 am

      You are welcome Kent.
      Well, SlideShare is pretty cool if you know how to use it 🙂

      Reply
  31. Lindsey Rainwater says

    November 26, 2012 at 6:27 pm

    Thanks for this! I bookmarked this and I’m going to study every link in here.

    I heard of SlideShare awhile back, but even though I was being told “it’s awesome” I WAS NOT being told how to make cool slides, or how to get a lot of views. I could see the potential, but the source I heard about it from kind of went “it’s over there - have fun.”

    And right now, I only know how to make slides that won’t make you gag. I don’t know how to make epic slides. 😉

    So having the extra resources that you linked to here, and the examples you provided is great. That got the wheels turning. 🙂

    Thank you again, and I hope we see you around TGC again!

    Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      November 30, 2012 at 8:18 pm

      Slides that don’t make you gag are a good start, Lindsey - there are way too many of those out there. 😉

      Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      December 1, 2012 at 6:54 am

      You are welcome Lindsey.

      With Ana’s permission I’d like to give you the link to my last post on KISSmetrics where I treat about other interesting aspects of SlideShare: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/marketers-guide-to-slideshare/

      Reply
  32. Cristian Balau says

    November 25, 2012 at 11:28 pm

    I doesn’t seem to be that much work in getting featured on SlideShare, the potential traffic can be worth the effort.
    This is the first time I hear about SlideShare, first time I hear about a slide hosting service in fact. Nevertheless seems very interesting and I already have something in mind for one of my websites. Thank you again for the tip!

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      December 1, 2012 at 6:57 am

      You are welcome Cristian.

      In fact, SlideShare is one of the most undervalued social media…for now 🙂

      Reply
  33. Ruth says

    November 22, 2012 at 4:22 am

    Hi Ana, great blog post. I have used slideshare and gotten some good results from it too. It’s definitely a uesful resource for more traffic.

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      December 1, 2012 at 6:58 am

      Thanks for sharing your experience, Ruth 😉

      Reply
  34. Akram says

    November 21, 2012 at 10:52 pm

    i have been using slide share but what i shame i was not using the key points like call of action , i was not taking care of posting timinings, my images are not too much large usually. Thank you for correcting people like me who cannot use a resource fully.

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      December 1, 2012 at 6:59 am

      It was my pleasure, Akram 😉

      Reply
  35. Rick Noel says

    November 20, 2012 at 2:36 pm

    Excellent post. Just starting using Slideshare again. I picked up a lot of useful tips from your post. Now you can also embed YouTube videos on Slideshare which is cool when you have a video capture of your presentation and then link back to your slideshare from your YouTube video description to drive views. Embedding presentation in a high traffic blog or webpage would do the trick as well. I am going to make it a goal to get on the featured list perhaps with a guest blog on an awesome site like TrafficGenerationCafe 🙂 @eBizROI

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      December 1, 2012 at 7:02 am

      Hi Rick, you got the secret point!
      You can insert your presentation on guest posts 😀

      Reply
  36. Jennifer Woodard says

    November 19, 2012 at 6:50 am

    Anna,

    Thanks for the great post. I have been thinking about giving slideshare a try and after reading your post I realize that I would have gotten it all wrong. So glad I came across your post before I decided to actually give slideshare a try.

    Jenn

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      December 1, 2012 at 7:03 am

      I’m glad to help, Jennifer - although I’m not Ana 🙂

      Reply
      • Ana Hoffman says

        December 4, 2012 at 5:22 pm

        And just for the record: I think I am cuter.

        Reply
        • Mauro D'Andrea says

          December 5, 2012 at 2:27 pm

          I guess so, Ana…but to be sure I would make a survey 🙂

          Reply
  37. Alex says

    November 16, 2012 at 5:02 pm

    Mauro.

    Honestly mate, THAT was one of the best posts I have read in a long time. Refreshing to find a post that lays out the steps, processes, hints and tips in such a way that I can just follow along and repeat myself.
    Have been creating some slides and videos lately for a new project and you have just saved me a tonne of time and shortened my learning curve considerably!
    Thanks again for such a brilliant piece of content, and thanks Ana for having him 🙂
    Totally sharing this with - EVERYONE

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 17, 2012 at 4:10 am

      Thank you Alex!
      I appreciate a lot your kind words 😉

      I’m glad you found my post useful.

      Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      November 17, 2012 at 2:53 pm

      Whoa there, tiger - too much excitement and enthusiasm! Lack of sleep? 🙂

      Reply
  38. Tania Belkin says

    November 16, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    Thank you Mauro,
    This is really a great tip! I appreciate your step by step guide. Thank you.

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 18, 2012 at 2:10 pm

      You are welcome Tania!

      Reply
  39. Theodore Nwangene says

    November 15, 2012 at 6:59 pm

    I don’t have much to say Ana, but i can’t just read all these and go without telling you that your post Fabulous.

    Please keep giving us things like this.

    Thanks for the share.

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 16, 2012 at 2:30 am

      Thank you Theodore!
      I’m glad you loved this post 🙂

      Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      November 17, 2012 at 9:37 am

      Glad you liked it, Theodore; now I wish I actually wrote it. 😉

      Reply
  40. Austin Briggs says

    November 15, 2012 at 3:29 pm

    This is awesome. I’ve been living under a rock, and had no idea about this tool.

    I’ve spent a few hours browsing… absolutely get the potential of this. Superb.

    Sorry for being all emotion and no logic - I’m just really excited 🙂

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 16, 2012 at 2:27 am

      Hi Austin, I’m glad you liked it.

      It’s normal: the first I was featured on SlideShare’s homepage I was super excited because I knew I was discovering something big 🙂

      Reply
  41. Larry Lourcey says

    November 15, 2012 at 12:54 pm

    Amazing- I can’t believe I have never even heard of this site. Thinking I might take a few of my more popular YouTube videos and rework them into slideshows. Thanks a bunch for the info!

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 15, 2012 at 1:13 pm

      Hi Larry, you are right: you can convert your videos into slideshows and vice versa.

      You are welcome 😉

      Reply
    • Ana Hoffman says

      November 17, 2012 at 9:26 am

      Seriously, Larry? I might’ve just lost some respect for you…. Alright; I got over it. 😉

      Reply
  42. Arwin Adriano says

    November 15, 2012 at 6:56 am

    Love to see this post. I actually using Slideshare as alternative traffic source and it definitely works if done well.

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 15, 2012 at 1:10 pm

      Thank you for sharing your experience, Arwin.

      Reply
  43. Leon Altman says

    November 15, 2012 at 5:04 am

    Love the level of detail you provide in this article. For instance: “Upload your presentation at 3pm EDT (11pm EST), so you’ll have about 20 hours to collect your views.” That’s very helpful.
    btw: since slideshare is a featured app on Linkedin, you can embed slideshare presentations in your linkedin profile.

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 15, 2012 at 1:09 pm

      I’m glad you like it, Leon!

      I don’t have a LinkedIn account, but if you have one, I’m pretty sure that you’ll get some help from it.

      Reply
  44. Slides That Rock says

    November 14, 2012 at 8:12 pm

    Yo Mauro!

    It Rocks! Great article and thanks for sharing the goodies about design and SlideShare. We are honored to be included. Thank you! Rocking!

    Keep saying no to crappy slides!

    Go Rock!

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 15, 2012 at 1:22 am

      I’m glad you liked it!
      You are welcome.

      I had to include you: you taught me how to bring my presentations to the next level 😉
      You are doing a really great job with your presentations!

      Keep Rocking!

      Reply
  45. Niveen Salem says

    November 14, 2012 at 5:51 pm

    Thanks Mauro for the step by step method on slideshare. I’ve been reading about it more often lately but did visit the site several times prior. As a matter of fact, I was just reading anther post about it on Social Media as a marketing tool to use.

    So basically you put together the slides on Power Point and just upload it to slideshare?

    Thanks again!
    Niveen

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 15, 2012 at 1:15 am

      You are welcome Niveen 😉

      You put together the slides on PowerPoint and you upload your presentation, but you also need to promote it at your best (ask to your friends to share it, insert it on your blog, share it on social media and so on…).

      Reply
  46. Carolyn says

    November 14, 2012 at 10:35 am

    I’m reading more and more about slideshare, so definitely need to spend time working out how to produce great presentations. These tips are a great start. Thanks Mauro.

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 14, 2012 at 4:49 pm

      You are welcome Carolyn.
      Yes, you can give it a try and see if it’s a good tool for you.

      Reply
  47. Amit says

    November 14, 2012 at 5:56 am

    WOW Such a great tips to get traffic and increase our pageviews. I think i need to work on SlideShare more to get into with it. Thanks for bringing attention to use it more to get better results.

    Love your post and your blog 🙂

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 16, 2012 at 2:10 am

      I’m glad you liked it, Amit!

      Thank you! 🙂

      Reply
  48. george t mathew says

    November 14, 2012 at 4:45 am

    I had heard about slideshare from Zac johnson but didn’t quite know that it was such a great traffic magnet.

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 14, 2012 at 10:51 am

      Hi George! It’s a really interesting source of traffic and it’s even more interesting that it’s a little known one 🙂

      Reply
  49. Chimezirim Odimba says

    November 13, 2012 at 7:51 pm

    This is the second time I am reading something about the power of Slideshare within the space of an hour. That means I need to pay attention to it.

    Please, Mauro, what is the clickthrough rate like for a typical presentation? You know all those views on Slideshare mean little to most of us if we can’t get them over to our sites. Please, share!

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 14, 2012 at 12:36 am

      The clickthrough rate depends on many factors:
      - the utility of your message to who watched
      - the strength of your call to action
      - where do you insert your call to action

      There can be huge differences for each presentation.
      In my experience you can go from 0,5% to about 10%.

      Reply
  50. Annabel Candy, Successful Blogging says

    November 13, 2012 at 3:47 pm

    Hi Maurio,

    I never thought of using Slideshare to get new traffic before. I’ve got at least one slide show up there - time for me to make another and give this strategy a whirl:)

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 14, 2012 at 12:40 am

      Hi Annabel, it’s a great idea!

      There are many people who do great on SlideShare, but they don’t use it to drive traffic.
      I think that we have a big opportunity there and we shouldn’t miss it (soon or later SlideShare will become too competitive).

      Reply
  51. Justin Mazza says

    November 13, 2012 at 3:29 pm

    Thanks for sharing Mauro. I had never heard of Slide Share before but I am heading there after I type this comment. 🙂

    It sounds like a great way to get some traffic to your site even though it looks like there will be a slight learning curve in the beginning.

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 14, 2012 at 12:44 am

      Hi Justin, it’s pretty normal: very few people talk about it.

      Totally! It’s great that even after the peak of views, there will be others. So you’ll get some passive traffic to your blog in the long run.

      Reply
  52. Jacqueline Steudler says

    November 13, 2012 at 2:29 pm

    Thank you Mauro for the great advise. It sounds like a great possibility to have your message seen and at the same time connect the viewer back to your blog or website.
    I was wondering about the last slide with the clickable link. You could add a nice arrow that tells people that this is acctually a clickable link.
    Thanks again!

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 14, 2012 at 12:51 am

      You are welcome Jacqueline!

      You are right: SlideShare give us the chance to get two birds with one stone.

      Of course! I used that idea in other parts of my presentation but I have never thought about that. Even though I’m a big fan of the arrows XD
      It’s a great idea, thank you! I’ll try it next time and I’ll share the result 😉

      Reply
  53. Eugene Farber says

    November 13, 2012 at 1:57 pm

    SlideShare is freaking awesome. I don’t use it as much for my main blog, but I do have a niche blog where I just posted a couple of PDFs that have received thousands of views without me even touching them…pretty much completely passive exposure.

    I’m going to do a little shameless self-promotion here, and include a link to a write-up I did about SlideShare:

    http://www.contentstrategyhub.com/slideshare-marketing

    Essentially you can get some extra eyeballs on your content without really doing any extra work.

    Of course, I was focusing on just uploading PDFs - but it’s a platform centered around presentations. So I should really focus on those a bit more.

    Plus I never really even attempted to get featured. Might be worth trying now…especially with your tips in my back pocket :).

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 13, 2012 at 3:14 pm

      Hi Eugene!
      Thank you for sharing this.

      I agree with you: one of most interesing aspects of SlideShare is that it will send you passive traffic.
      Also, you can use its power together with Google’s one: presentations on SlideShare rank pretty well on search engines.

      Of course, you can give it a try. If you want to talk about this further, just tell me 😉

      Reply
  54. Josh says

    November 13, 2012 at 1:46 pm

    Love this idea. Smart, effective and simple to execute. The hard part is developing a good presentation, but it appears to me it is worth the time and effort.

    Reply
    • Mauro D'Andrea says

      November 13, 2012 at 3:16 pm

      I’m glad you like it, Josh.

      It’s easier than it seems. Give a look at Slides that Rock, it will be a great help to make an astonishing presentation.

      Reply

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