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Hello Everyone,
Welcome to The Ebook Cavern Newsletter - March 2008. In
this month's newsletter:
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Results of the
February 2008 Ebook Cavern Poll!!
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An 'eBay Ebook
Success' article entitled 6 Creative Ways to Generate Traffic
for your Blog!!
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Free Ebook!!
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Special Offer
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Aweber Review!!
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March 2008
Ebook Cavern Poll!!
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Final Words!!
1)
Results of the February 2008 Ebook Cavern Poll
This month I posted the first of what
I hope to be many polls to
The
Ebook Cavern Squidoo Lens. My intention with these polls is to
base my 'eBay Ebook Success' articles on the results. Anyway, this
month's poll asked the question “Do you have a website to complement
your eBay ebook business?” Ideally, I would have liked a few more
responses but the initial results did surprise me with 66.7% of
readers actually having their own related website. Well done to
those people. However, the survey also suggests that 33.3% of you do
not have a related eBay ebook website. If you are one of those
people I advise you to get a website online as soon as possible.
Ebay is becoming increasingly competitive and having your own
website provides you with some leverage. Next month's 'eBay Ebook
Success' article will followup on this poll and provide readers with
a number of ways to get their first eBay ebook website online.
2)
6 Creative Ways to Generate Traffic for your Blog
In my last few articles I discussed
how to create your own blog. Blogs can be a great way to represent
yourself and your eBay ebook business online. However, if nobody
reads your blog then all the potential benefits are lost. In this
article I discuss six creative methods you can use to drive traffic
to your blog.
1) FEEDBURNER:-
Feedburner
is a free service that helps you create Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
feeds for your blog. RSS feeds are basically a summary of your blogs
latest posts. People can subscribe to these RSS feeds and read them
using a special piece of RSS Reader software. Whilst I haven't
noticed any substantial traffic from Feedburner I do have some
subscribers to my RSS feed. Plus, it's free traffic so there's
nothing to lose by creating a feed and giving it a try.
2) SQUIDOO:-
Squidoo is an
interactive platform similar to a blog but not exactly the same.
With squidoo you create a free page called a lens which consists of
various modules. Each module contains a different element such as
text, YouTube videos, eBay products etc. One of these modules is an
RSS module. You can simply copy and paste your blogs RSS feed
(created using Feedburner) into this module and hey presto, your
latest blog posts will appear as part of your squidoo lens. If you
want to see this in action check out The Ebook Cavern Newsletter
section of
The
Ebook Cavern Squidoo Lens. Again, it's free traffic so you have
nothing to lose by creating your own squidoo lens.
3) TECHNORATI:-
Technorati
is a huge blog tracking service with over 100 million blogs
registered as part of their network. You can register your blog with
Technorati for free and once registered all your blog updates will
appear on their network. If fellow Technorati users like your blog
they can favourite it. Alternatively, if they like your post they
can tag it. The more tags you get, the more authority your blog gets
on the Technorati website.
4) BLOGCATALOG:-
BlogCatalog
is a huge social blog directory. To begin you register your blog in
the relevant category and create a profile for yourself. Then you
can browse through the blogs and add them to your favourites. Plus,
you can add blog owners to your friends list write on their walls,
send them messages etc. I've not had a chance to fully explore all
the options provided by BlogCatalog but it has the potential to be
an amazing promotional tool and a great way to network with owners
of similar blogs.
5) SOCIAL MARKER:-
Social Marker
provides you with a simple
method to submit your blog to many of the social bookmarking
websites out there. Social bookmarking websites are basically
websites that display articles, videos, blog posts etc submitted by
users. If visitors to the site like the content that is submitted
then it will receive a positive vote. If not it will receive a
negative vote. The idea behind this is that the good content will
receive prime positioning whilst poor content will be removed from
the websites.
6) YOUTUBE:-
Although I haven't tried submitting a video to
YouTube to
promote The Ebook Cavern Newsletter,
I have had some success using YouTube videos to promote one of my
other blogs. If you can't create your own video then consider paying
someone to create a video for you. If you shop around you can get
quite a good deal.
As you probably know blogs are a lot
more flexible than traditional websites. As a result there are many
more creative methods available to you when promoting your blog.
Traditional promotional strategies such as article marketing are
still effective but implementing these six creative methods can
boost your blog traffic to new levels.
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About the Author:
Tom Parker is an eBay Ebook PowerSeller who has been selling ebooks
and software on eBay for a number of years. He trades under the
eBay ID: EbookCavern and runs
The Ebook Cavern Ebay Store. If you want to learn Tom's top
eBay ebook tips subscribe to
The Ebook Cavern Newsletter.
(You may reprint this article on your blog, ezine, newsletter or
website providing the article remains unchanged and the ‘About the
Author’ box is included and unchanged.)
3) Free Ebook
This month's free ebook is Ebay
Ebook Success: Volume 2. This is the second collection of 'eBay
Ebook Success' articles I have released in ebook format. It comes
complete with master resell rights, a ready made sales page and
professionally designed graphics. Plus, I've not started selling it
in my eBay store yet so if you act fast you could be one of the
first people to get this ebook on eBay.
Click Here to download Ebay Ebook Success: Volume 2!!
4)
Special Offer
If you download and read Ebay Ebook
Success: Volume 2 you will see an offer on the back page for a
brandable edition of Ebay Ebook Success: Volume 2. This
usually sells for $9.97 but I have put together a special, time
sensitive offer for all subscribers to The Ebook Cavern
Newsletter. If you purchase using the special link below before
10th March 2008 you can grab a brandable edition of
Ebay Ebook Success: Volume 2 for the low, low price of $4.97.
The brandable edition allows you to:
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Place your Name on the Front
Page of the Ebook!!
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Place your Link on the Front
Page of the Ebook!!
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Place your Link on every Page
Footer of the Ebook!!
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Remove my links from the Ebook!!
Remember, this offer will expire on
the 10th March 2008 so if you want to secure a copy use
the link below to purchase right now.
Click Here to purchase a copy of the brandable edition of Ebay Ebook
Success: Volume 2!!
5)
Aweber Review
This month I have reviewed Aweber, the
third party autoresponder service I use to organise The Ebook
Cavern Newsletter plus all my other newsletters too. Aweber is
one of the first services I purchased online but it is honestly some
of the best money I have ever spent.
Click Here to read my full review
of Aweber!!
6) March 2008 Ebook Cavern Poll
I've got a brand new poll ready for
March 2008 and it will be online all month. This month's poll is
about squidoo, a website that I have only become familiar with very
recently. I want to know how many of you have squidoo lenses of your
own. Please take the time to vote using the link below.
Click Here to vote in the March 2008 Ebook Cavern Poll!!
7) Final Words
Well it was quite a jam packed
newsletter this month. I hope you enjoyed it. I would love to hear
your opinions on how I am using The Ebook Cavern Poll in the
newsletter. Do you like it? Do you hate it? Whatever you think
please leave me a comment on the blog. Also, any feedback on Ebay
Ebook Success: Volume 2 would be greatly appreciated. I will be
back in April with more of the same.
Regards,
Tom Parker (Owner and Creator of The Ebook Cavern)
http://www.theebookcavern.co.uk/
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/theebookcavern
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