by Jeremy Rutherfurd

Created on: December 31, 2008   Last Updated: May 09, 2009

Are you happy with your Helium income? If not, I strongly urge you to start promoting your work on reddit.com, a media-sharing/social-media site where members swap links to interesting articles, pics, videos and more.

I've been a member of reddit for 11 months and regularly post links to my Helium articles there. As a result, my Helium shared-revenue income has risen significantly, from around $0.03 a day to more than $1.50.

Articles that were only earning pennies previously are now earning dollars. I have six articles that have generated more than $10 in income, two of which are now close to $25.

But this is only a small taste of what is achievable. I promoted a friend's piece yesterday on reddit and it earned more than $6 overnight.

Joel Stottlemire also a Heliumite, earned $64 in 24 hours after posting a link on reddit. (For more on this, see his "@@@@../594950-can-you-really-make-money-online@@@@@

Another">Can you really make money online? Heliumite friend, Peter Johns was able to generate $1246 in a single day from his article Credt cards: Dirty little secrets (For more on this particular example, see my interview of Johns and his tell-all article about his success.)

So how does one go about successfully promoting content on reddit? Here are a few tips:

Study the Site

Spend a few days just browsing reddit. See which articles are popular and try to figure out why. Pay particular attention to how titles to these popular links are written. Check out the different categories.

During the course of your day, try and look for and think of things that you could post links to on reddit. If you read something in the news you think redditers would like, post a link to it on the site. I often hear news items on the radio I think redditers would be interested in, then rush to my computer, find a similar news story online and quickly post a link to it.

You'll discover that not all news items will be appreciated. Sometimes it's because it has already been posted, sometimes because your title just doesn't grab them.

Write a Catchy Title

When you're ready to post links to your own Helium articles, note that the descriptor is key. Don't use normal titles. They tend to be boring, and redditers are well-read people who want to see something interesting, not SEO headers.

Often the best approach is to lift a full sentence or two from your piece. But make sure the sentences are controversial, interesting, or leave the reader wanting to know more.

For example,

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