So I'm writing my SEO-related ebook and am now at page 301. It will be at least another 50-100 pages. Do you think it's too much? Am looking into alternatives, like making it a subscription service and publishing chapters in a blog or something. Or just separating into 5-10 smaller ebooks. Or should I just keep it that large?
The largest SEO book I know is 300 pages, which is quite long compared to others. Think about, if you got only NECESSARY stuff there, without too much "blah blah blah". The average length of SEO ebooks is about 100-130 pages. I wouldn't make it a subscription service or hundreds of smaller ebooks. What I would do is divide it into 2 or 3 parts.
Way too big. Most ebooks are about 50 pages. Many are less. Split up into several ebooks, parts of it could be bonuses for your ebooks.
Duh. You're talking about lame-ass ebooks that are OMG DO THIS AND GET MILLIONS OF TRAFFICZ! I'm talking about real SEO that is served to multi-million dollar websites. The full version is going to get printed, but there is really no way to slice and dice it into being smaller for online distribution. And the price point would have to be at least $100 (the print version will retail for $150).
If your project is that ambitious, then I don't know if Clickbank is the right place for it. Maybe you'd be better off just printing it off and selling it to small businesses.
I've been using CB for that sole purpose for years now (targetting small businesses). Many of you (especially those here on DP) don't know where most of CB's sales come from. It's serious affiliates, real businesses - not lame landing page sales letters. So yes, I think CB is the right place for it in terms of online distribution. CB or Commission Junction that is.
I'm not talking about "lame ass ebooks", I'm talking about most ebooks. If you want to deliver SEO to multi-million dollar websites you are better of creating a printed ONLY manual, private consultations and doing all your own marketing. I would not use Clickbank or its affiliate program to promote this kind of offering, it will cheapen it in the eyes of your multi-million dollar target market. As will your gmail email address
That's what I meant, mynameisdi. And plus, you come on here to ask for our opinion, then get aggressive at each response. Since you know more than me apparently, why are you even asking the question here?
Was just about to say that themanbeast9, it seems from your responses that you're not after our opinions but just bragging about how big your book is ...
Man, really don't come here asking for help if you're just going to be aggressive and insult everyone, it's like your other thread LOL you remember? where your amazing money making guide was exposed to the entire world for FREE, and yet you dare to come and ask for advice and when someone kindly posts something for you, you start acting as if you were more than us, you're wrong man, you're nothing but a noob, even when you say you're not....because that's what you're going to do because you feel like you're an expert and all that, and yet you ask dumb question. Please get out of here.
Oh, you mean that fake 5 page ebook I put up in the RSS feed just so that people like you would "talk" about it, spreading the word? Yeah, that was a total fail!
A 300-page ebook is long. Even fiction paperbacks have 200-250 page on the average. But if that 300-page ebook isn't just text, and only photos occupy most of the pages, then I guess 300-page isn't that long.
Actually it's a bit of both, there are a lot of pictures and a lot of text. And the final 50-something pages will be all about resources.
300+ is too big for an ebook. It is definitely too big for an SEO ebook. If it's that long, the chances are it's either a) full of screenshots, or b) full of waffle. Now I haven't read it, so obviously I may be wrong, but I'm willing to bet that you can condense it by making your writing more concise. Perhaps a glimpse at the chapter index might give us an idea of why it's so large, and how you might be able to merge chapters/shorten it somehow. Oh, and I agree with the above posters. You asked for our opinions, and were given them. If you're going to sell to multi-million dollar companies, you're better off scrapping the book and simply doing personal consultations. Companies with that much money are unlikely to hire an employee, buy an ebook and then use that employee and the ebook as their SEO strategy.