Become Part of an Ebook – Free Link

Part of online business is online marketing. Ebooks are a great way to get your name out there. You can create your own ebook or become part of others as you add something substantial to their content.

Creating your own ebook is one way you can become well known as an expert in a subject.

Over at AimforAwesome.com I started an ebook about “What is the Point of Life?” Why that topic? Good question. I was increasingly aware that over the past 2-3 years that post was getting more traffic than any other on the entire site. It doesn’t get crazy amounts of traffic – there aren’t that many people searching on the topic, but there’s obviously a lot of interest in it. I don’t think my post was particularly well-written, and I think there was a lot more to talk about.

Hence the ebook, “What is the Point of Life?“.

If you want to be part of it – you can add your idea about what the point of life is by writing me at AimforAwesome@@@gmail…com and follow this post to send me your idea.

Contributors to the ebook will receive a credit with name, site (personal or business), email, phone – whatever info you want – and a free copy of the ebook, “What is the Point of Life?“.

3,993,221 Page Views in 30 Months

Over last 30 months my main 6 sites have had 3,993,221 page views.

I’ve written over 1,700 blog posts and another 2200 pages and articles on traditional websites.

Over on my YouTube account – the main account anyway, I’ve had 1,900,000+ views. At our Thai Food account – almost half a million.

We started a lot of projects over the last two years. Quite frankly I’m interested in many different areas and no one area is more interesting than any of the others. Though there are 6 main sites, I’ve started over 30 websites in the last 3 years. Now I have a good idea what is working and what isn’t working and know better where to focus.

Sometimes you have to start many projects to see – what is going to work. Other times, you’re interested in just one thing – maybe two, and you knock those out because you have the passion to focus there and really kill it.

Where will I be mainly in 2010?

I’m looking at two areas: video and ebooks. I love to do both and I’m wondering if I should go ahead and tie them together and make a run at it. Ebooks by themselves can be boring – no doubt. Dry topics are boring. Video is THE wave of the future and now – and I think tying ebooks together with video is going to be time well spent.

Why?

Apple’s itablet – if/when it materializes is probably going to be moving this direction. Apple likely doesn’t want just an ereader device. It wants a device that does it all. It wants a device that works for the magazine industry as well as ebooks and video. Some are saying it will tie it all together to bring video into the ebook. This is the space I want to be in. I want to create fun to read ebooks that are unique written and video content that my affiliates can sell for me.

The hardest piece of the puzzle for internet success is finding the traffic to look at what you’re selling. It’s ungodly difficult to create a site and either ramp it up in Google and social media sites, or just pay for traffic straight out and hope you are able to make sales.

It’s better by a factor of 100+ to just create your own content – whatever it is, and go out and find websites that have traffic and don’t know what to do with it – or, that fits your niche well and is a good match for the products and services you have to sell.

Where will you be in 2010?

How I Added 150 Visitors Per Day Instantly

You may in the same situation, you may not be. You might be able to add 150 or more unique visitors per day to your website in just one day just by making a simple change.

Here’s what I did…

I have a number of ebooks available for free download. These are my books that I created, and yet, this trick would work with someone elses material as well.

I noticed in my stats that I was getting about 200 unique visitors per day downloading my PDF ebook at one of my sites. They were hotlinking to the page from another site that must have posted the direct PDF link. Well, many sites were linking to it, as it turns out.

This is fine, and I allowed for that when I created the ebook because the ebook has some advertisements for other ebooks that cost money, as well as links to some of my other sites. If someone downloads it through a hotlink I’m still a winner because they’ll see these other ads and site links.

Oh, I should mention, this particular ebook has had 128,000+ downloads – most of them from hotlinks not originating at my site. Free ebooks are hot – if you have the right subject.

Anyway.

I wanted to turn these ebook downloaders into visits at my site to see what impact I could have on my stats, so I tried something.

I updated the ebook with even more great information and changed the name and dropped it in a new folder on the server – effectively killing that hotlink for all the sites that linked to it.

I then created a one page Word Doc that I converted to a PDF with the same name as the old ebook and put it in the same directory on the server.

The one page PDF loaded instantly when someone followed the hotlink to it. The one page said,

This eBook has been updated thoroughly on 11/09, and now has 139 fact-filled, illustrated pages. Go here to grab your copy:

[Link here ]

That was it.

At that link I created an information page for my ebook and had an order button for $2.

There have been solid sales from day 1. More importantly, I’ve gained 150 new visitors per day ever since that would never have become visitors.

Try it if you have a similar situation… or, create a similar situation.