I am writing an ebook and will be designing a website for it soon. I read somewhere that to boost traffic to your site, it is wise to write 50 articles related to material in your ebook. Since I don't have that kind of time, i'm thinking of hiring a ghostwriter for the articles. When I put up my website, should the 50 articles already be on it or could I start with say 30, see how my traffic goes and then increase to 50 if i'm not getting enough hits? Please advise me on the best way to go about this.
50 articles? Where did you read that? If you give them too many articles, too much info., many will probably think that is all they need to know, which, in turn, will have them not buying your e-book. Give them quick tips, instead. Also have some of the articles incomplete, and at the end of them put in that they can read more of it by ordering right now. Wet their appetite so they will buy. Don't feed it so they go away no longer hungry. Go to http://www.thelist.fm/Dating-Site-Women.shtml for a rough idea. I give them less than a dozen. And even then it may be too much.
Thanks for the response Perry. Here is the article I read on guidetoebookmarketing.com Let me know what you think You can use my 6-step system right now to get non-stop surges of instant life-time traffic and credibility. 1. Create approximately 50 quality articles in your niche. Put a resource box below your articles with a 3 to 4 line ad of your product and a link to your website. 2. Post these articles on your site and submit your pages to top search engines like Google, Yahoo & MSN. 3. Now create a mini-ebook using these 50 articles. 4. Provide this quality ebook to your subscribers for free once they subscribe to your ezine. 5. Give them free resell and distribution rights to your ebook and allow them to pass it on to their friends or relatives. 6. Give them permission to post your articles on their site or publish it in their ezines or newsletters. Tell them to keep your resource box intact. Using this simple 6-step system you will start receiving quality traffic from... 1. Search Engines. 2. Your mini-ebook. 3. Other websites that post your article. 4. Ezines and newsletters that publish your articles. This system will get you some few visitors initially. But once these articles spread like wildfire you will have... 1. Hundreds if not thousands of incoming links to your site. 2. High search engine rankings. 3. Instant surges of free, lifetime, permanent, viral & lazer-targeted traffic to your site, that will not stop even if you want. So make sure you start pumping up this system today to enjoy complete 'traffic-freedom' in future.
hmm..looks very tempting..hasnt really explained how to market ur ebook so the steps provided is no use without it..i dont think u need 50 articles keep it at mayb 20 or even less..
No, you submit your domain. The spiders will find the rest of your pages on its own. If you have a lot of pages, cover all your bases by putting in a site map, and put that map's link on your home page. Very few will pass along an e-book to friends and relatives. I don't understand why he is saying this. Why not sell the e-book, period??? Some of the buyers will pass along your name anyway if they like your e-book. Right? #6 makes sense. Obviously. But you are better off going to the webmasters. You can get, say 10 a week, while it can take months, literally, if not longer to get that same amount from them stumbling onto your site. It takes thousands of daily visitors for every one webmaster to carry your articles in his site. Screw that noise. In addition to posting a message on your site to webmasters that they can carry your articles in their site, also go to them! Search engines are not gauranteed. Too many think that once you do the seo, you'll land on page one, two, or three, even. Nope. Everybody and their brother wants to get listed high, and since there are just so many placements per page... And not even many of the so-called seo gurus can get a high ranking. As for #2. SELL your e-book! You will get money, AND word of mouth because the ones who tell others will do so, regardless if they buy or it is given to them for free. Well, I can only assume on partly why he is saying that you should give it away. Because there will be more copies out there, thus increasing your odds in getting word of mouth. But the thing is, you will lose money because you are giving it away! Let's break it down: Say, 100 people sign up to get your free e-book. How many of them will actually tell others, or just one other person??? Maybe, maybe, 1%??? Now, let's say you have one kick-ass site, with some really good sample articles, with an ordering form directly beneath the articles. How many copies do you think you can sell to those same 100 people? Maybe 1, or 2??? $10-20 a pop, and it adds up! Do the math.