Promote Your Site-Write a Free Ebook

Promote Your Site-Write a free ebook

Writing a free ebook can help you to promote your website or blog? I know, some of you are cringing at the thought. Why? Some cringe at the idea of writing more than 500 words. While others feel that they are giving away valuable information to their readers-which they probably are, if they anticipate getting any response from an their ebook. Those concerns can be quieted by knowing what a free ebook can do your you?


A Free Ebook-What It Offers

What can the free ebook give you in return?

1. Free Traffic
2. Expert status
3. If You have a newsletter-maybe new signups
4. If you include affiliate links-it can help you promote your affiliate links. Please note: the affiliate links should be relevant to what you are writing about. If the affiliate links don't match the topic, it not going to get any clicks.


Expert Status

If you create a quality free ebook-you have created, online creditability--you have the knowledge that they are seeking. This can keep people coming back to read or hear what you have to say in the future.


Free Traffic

If the ebook is of quality, word of mouth travels fast on the Internet and that brings traffic. Also, if you do a write-up on your blog or website, with keywords specific to your ebook's topic the search engines will find you, and thus, so will the people.

Knowing what a free ebook can accomplish, it's time to write. But be advised, proofread your work.


Proofread Your Work

Just because it's free-doesn't mean that you should haphazardly but the ebook together. If you have the mentality that, "Since it's free, I really don't need to be particular with grammer, spelling and formatting", you may have a problem.

Thus, I would suggest you do the following:

1. Do a spellcheck on your ebook.

2. Set the ebook aside for a couple of days. Why? Sometimes after reading and re-reading your ebook you become blinded by your errors.

In fact, you may read over some misspellings. Or you may have used the wrong word, but spelled it right-meaning spellcheck will not correct it.

3. Proofread your ebook again, but if you can con a good friend into reading your ebook, do it. You want your copy to be as clean as possible. Why? What if you decide to produce an ebook that you want your readers to pay for-how many takers will you get if your first creation-free or not didn't pass the "typo test"?

As you can see, I strongly encourage you to take pride in your work, because if you do not, the free ebook can decrease your online creditability in an instant, whether the writing is free or not.


Link Checking

Links, whether it is to direct them to other web pages or to an affiliate program. Make sure the links are hot and working. Nothing can be more frustrating than to click on a link that you are interested in, to only find a "Cannot display page".

Once your ebook is formatted, and you have did a thorough check of your ebook for any errors, it's time to put it into PDF format.


Ebook Covers and PDF Files

You have a choice between putting your working document into an "exe" file or a PDF file. I would suggest using a PDF file mainly because the PDF reader is accessible and free to all on the Internet.

Now comes the expense. Some of these PDF software programs do cost some money, while others are free. I know what you are saying, "Go with the Free."

Yes and no. You have to be careful which any free program you choose, some place advertising on each of your ebook pages-which can make your ebook look like an amateur creation. I've found two pieces of software, one for the pdf convertor and the other for your ecover that are reasonable.



Simple ways to publicize your free ebook.

Once you have your ebook created and placed on your website or blog, it's time to promote. Two of the easiest ways to promote your ebook is through the following:

1. Create a press release
2. Advertise it on your blog

As you can see, a free ebook can help you promote your website, blog and/or affiliate programs-and at a relatively low cost.