Want to get published? Here’s the secret!

You might have nurtured for long to write a book..get it published…be known as an author… you have the talents but not the publisher.

But you know the world awaits your talents to bloom and is more than willing to pay for it.
Do you know what the blockbuster books “The Celestine Prophecy,” “The One-Minute Manager” and John Grisham’s “A Time to Kill” have in common?
All these best-sellers were initially self-published.

At one time, self-publication, or the “Vanity Press,” as it’s called, had been glared upon by most. But now, the arrival of print-on-demand publishing has virtually revolutionized the publishing world. Today, it is the self-publication which has become the perfect low-cost solution for writers. Through self-publication, you can aim a specific audience and maintain complete control over your books.
Lulu.com charges $5.81 for one book of 64 pages (A5 B&W, Saddle Stitch) whereas it would take as little as $3.5, to get your professional-quality book of the same specification published by www.writer4me.com. And, your published book would be ready to hit the market around the world in only a few weeks.

Once a rarity, self-publishing, has almost become the order of the day. Today you can find numerous aspiring authors like you footing the bill and getting their own creations printed.
According to the figures available from the Publishers Marketing Association, of the 165,000 titles published annually, 40,000 are autonomously published. This results to more than $26 billion in sales. And with the launch of new technologies, there had been a sharp cut in book-making costs.
So, as an would-be writer, you simply do not need to knock the door of any traditional publisher. Instead, you do everything… from choosing a cover and financing printing to selling and managing publicity.

Some facts for you
•Robert Kiyosaki, of Phoenix and his co-author, Sharon Lechter, sold 1.5 million copies of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” in three years, their self-published work before they graduated to Warner Books.

•Natasha Munson of Atlanta sold over 20,000 copies of “Life Lessons for My Black Girls: How to Make Wise Choices and Live a Life You Love!” , a book that was published by her through an Internet-based company.

•Dan Poynter, of Santa Barbara, Calif., has written and published 29 books, including “The Self-Publishing Manual,” which has sold 175,000 copies over 25 years.

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How your self-published book can meet the professional standard?

To start with, here are some facts for you:

• Just in America, there are more than 50,000 new copyrights every year.
• Even some years back, less than 5% of all books written were ever published.
• In the year 2003, there was 1, 75,000 new releases and a record number of these books were self-published

As Calvin Reid, an editor at Publishers Weekly says.”…Self-publishing is much easier now. Before, you had to spend thousands of dollars. Now you can have your book wonderfully published for several hundred dollars and print on demand.” Add to that, “conscientious, relentless marketing,” Mr. Reid said, “and you have a recipe for success.”

If you look at the present scenario, you will find that authors who prefer self publication bypass the conventional channels to promote their books and sell directly to readers. They make use of the professional services offered by leading organizations like www.writer4me.com or www.power-publishers.com through live events, internet and other lucrative outlets. These are the areas that are often ignored by the conventional publishing industry. Let me tell you here that these “non-traditional” channels are ten times more effective than mainstream book trade outlets.

Even today there are experts in the publishing industry who tend to look down on self-published books, for repeated writing slip-ups, clumsy layouts and cover designs. But believe me, today there is absolutely no reason why a self-published book can’t meet professional standards.

For you here are just a handful of bestsellers that were originally self-published:

• What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson

• In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters

• Real Peace by Richard M. Nixon.

• The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
This book was a bestseller in 1996. Till now it has sold more than 5.5 million copies.

• The One-Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
Since 1982 it has sold more than 12 million copies and been translated in 25 languages.

• A Time to Kill by John Grisham.

• The Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer
This classic was self-published in 1931 .Today it sells more than 100,000 copies each year.

So you can see here..self publishing is very much a don’t tell me that self-publishing isn’t a way to get in print! You basically need four traits within yourself to get it done. Yes, I am talking about your zeal, talents, self-belief and grit.

Are you sure you have that? Okay, fine..let’s now go over the some of the most important things you must do to see your self published edition in the list of best-sellers:-

• Do your homework!

Usually what most writers do is, they write a book first, and then search readers for it. Just reverse this convention. Remember, it’s the market that drives a product. So, delve into your readership before you begin to write. You can do your research by studying other books on your subject at libraries, bookstores and even in the internet. The subject you choose should either fill a need that isn’t met so far or you can even write on a popular topic if you can keep the quality better than other writers. Make sure that your book has a clearly-identifiable audience.
Normally, it’s easier to identify readers for a specific, practical topic.

• Study your competitors

Now with the topic ready, you know you must make your publication competitive. So, you need to make a study about the similar books. The study you do may feature whether comparable books are paperbacks or hardbacks, number of pages they contain, the pricing, and yes..this is very important..the packaging.
Remember, even your first novel or book can do a super-duper business, if you really work smart with clinical precision.

• Read works by experts

This is one of your keys to make your publication successful. Even before you start writing, make it a point to read books by renowned experts of this field. You must know that experts write from their experience. So, their books provide you an insight into it which you can absorb in a week or two. It goes without saying that a single good tip from an expert can save you from many disasters.

• Join trade associations

To gain expertise, you can also link yourself to associations like Publishers Marketing Association, Small Press Action Network, Small Publishers, Artists and Writers Network and Small Publishers Association of North America. From these groups you can get wonderful opportunities for education. And, most important… they are exceptionally warm to newcomers. As a member, you can attend highly useful workshops and seminars which would be ideal for a new publisher.

• Your book designer and printer

To prepare your script in the best possible way, you need to talk to a book designer and a printer. Only a qualified designer can explain you why each chapter should start on a right-hand page, or size of faces in a photo. He can even tip you to save money by telling you to fill your book with a particular number of pages in a particular trim size, or suggesting you to avoid color printing inside a book. Remember, such information can steer you in preparing your copy for superior results.

• Get professional help

Though you call it self-publishing, but that doesn’t mean that you need to do everything yourself. There can be areas which are beyond your knowledge and grip. Like do you know that today, you can produce a quality book at a cost which is fraction of your budget, if you compare to traditional publishing. So, never hesitate in availing professional assistance from a specialist site like www.writer4me.com which would take as little as $3.5 for one book of 64 pages (A5 B&W, Saddle Stitch). You must bear it in your mind that you should never throw away your time and money by refusing to pay for qualified help in key areas, and end up with a shoddy book. Like if you’re the general contractor in charge of building a house, you’ll always hire an electrician to do the wiring, instead of trying to do it by yourself. So, it’s imperative for you to hire out specialists in editorial work, typesetting and printing.

• Begin with the finished product in mind.

Make sure that you know and enjoy your subject well. Be sure that this will make your experience not only pleasant but also profitable. So, start writing with a specific plan which should be based on your homework you did, a study of the comparable books and getting professional input from a designer and printer. Keep your goal specific and focused, as for example: your objective can be to write a paperback book about floriculture that you’ll sell for $20.99 at various flower shows and horticulture clubs, from your website and direct mail. It will be about 20,000 words (or 150 pages) in length, 5.5×8.5″ with a full color cover and black-and-white interior with a few illustrations. Clear?

• Your style manual

Pick up a style manual and follow the guidelines. Your manual can be anything from the AP Stylebook to Chicago Manual of Style. But ensure that your manuscript is 100% consistent throughout.

• Economy of your style

This plays a big part of your writing well. The points you express must be clear, simple and crispy. You can use as many words as needed, but not a single word more. It’s very important for you to remember that your “economy of style” will later transform to “economy of budget” by affecting a slash in your typesetting, layout, printing and even shipping costs. For instance, writing 10 extra pages will not only add to your publication costs but also make your readers yawn.

• Your editor or proofreader

Even when you are a gifted author, you need to hire an experienced editor or at least a qualified proofreader and work with him. This is to keep your work free from spelling and grammatical errors.

• Close before typesetting

Remember to finish the entire writing and editing before even a single word is typeset. Do you know why? Making changes after typesetting starts is much more expensive and lengthy than polishing the manuscript beforehand.

• Take your time

Last but not the least…do take your time to write. You need not have to rush your copy to typesetting as that can almost always result in slips and lapses that you as an author might regret later.

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Why go for self-publishing?

Let’s take this simple fact. With a highly competitive environment in traditional publishing, many worthwhile authors cannot find a publishing home although there may well be an eager and receptive audience for that book. And, that’s one of the reasons why self-publishing is getting more and more popular with every passing day.

Let us first see what are the services you need to produce and promote your book, which is in fact your long nurtured dream:

• Typeset your copy: This for the layout of your book. Using a word processor or page layout, your typesetter will do that for you.

• Printers- for self publishing: Here the thumbrule is that the less copies you print the higher goes your cost. So, ideally you should negotiate for at least 1,000 copies of your book. Make sure that you print what you are confident of selling. And remember, you can always print more in a second printing.

• Bookbinders: To produce a hardcover book, you need to look for a binder.

• Book distributors: You also need to find distributors to get your books listed in their catalogs. Keep it in mind that your distributors are wholesalers to the local book stores.

• Publicity and marketing: Bear it in your mind that you are your salesman when you go for self-publishing. So, you need to work on every possible thing that encourages your retailers to carry your book and the readers to buy your book. For this purpose you need to be read with press-releases to get media coverage, obtain reviews and .When self publishing you are responsible for encouraging retailers to carry your book and the public to buy your book. You will write press releases, get media coverage, obtain reviews, and organize book signings.

• Book Cover Design: This is another very crucial factor, if you want to see your book selling.

• CIP Data: A Cataloging in Publication record or CIP data is a bibliographic record prepared by the Library of Congress for a book that has not yet been published. When the book is published, the publisher includes the CIP data on the copyright page thereby facilitating book processing for libraries and book dealers. You need it if you feel like selling your stuff to the libraries.

• ISBN Number: It’s a 13 digit commercial book identifier you need to sell your book anywhere.

• SAN Number: The SAN the Standard Address Number recognizes your publishing address and is available only in the United States.

Self publishing could really be your big break as a writer. Let’s now see the advantages of self publishing…

• Always in your control: Self-publishing keeps you in firm control of your book. It’s all you who take the decision how your book will turn out…whether to add some more color or use thicker print stock..it’s all up to you. Also, since you are in control, you can offer book returns to please retailers. So, with such ultimate control, self-publishing puts you at par with any publication house. But this isn’t the case when someone else is sponsoring your publication. In that case you can’t take any decision about just anything. Whether it’s the editing part, the cover-design, the title or even the marketing. it’s always your sponsor who would have the last word.

• Higher return: As because the competition is fierce in printing industry, you can reap in greater profits by self publishing. Because the printing industry is highly competitive you can achieve better profits than traditional publishing.

• It’s faster: If you go for traditional publishing, it might take you more than two years to release your book. Whereas self publishing is much faster.

• You retain your profits: This is a real benefit Self publishing allows you that. Here, you do not have to wait for months or years to see your takings. In traditional publishing you get royalties only once or twice a year. And royalty is only a small percentage of the book price. Whereas, when you self publish your book then everything you earn is pure profit once you have covered the publications costs.

• You can switch over: Finally, in self publishing you always have the option to break into print, but never the other way round.

• It’s affordable: Besides everything, it’s affordable and very much within your reach…and it has been never so before. Renowned organizations like www.writer4me.com and www.power-publisher.com offers top-class self publishing services at a rate that suits everyone.

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Tips to market your self published book

You can always write a book…that’s one thing. You don’t have to do much for that. But what’s the use, if your book doesn’t get readers, though it carries some excellent contents. As an author don’t you think it’s your duty to see that whatever you create reaches to the maximum number of people? Yes, you know you’ve got to make your self published editions marketable and it’s high time you get to it.

But how? You know it’s a million dollar question.
In this article, you get some very useful tips as how you get your self-published book hit the market.
Here are your tips:-

1. Start early-Even before you complete the manuscript, you should be ready with a concrete plan to promote and market your product. Remembers, many authors falter here, and by the time they start, it’s just too late.

2. Press release-This can be one of your most effective tools. Make sure that your press release is transparent and vivid and clearly spells out the ‘who, what, where, when, and why.’ This method of promotion is getting more and more as publishers discover the prevailing benefits of using press releases.

3. Nonstop mailing-Merely designing a good press release and posting it to one or two sites is not going to suffice. Make sure that your press release reaches at least 1000 print and broadcast contacts before you publish your title. And repeat the process again even after you publish. Also, remember to mail the press-release to all the trade journals in your field. Ideally, you should send at least 10 press releases to the print and broadcast media in your area every month.

4. Use software– It will be quite a smart idea if you invest in press release submitting software. Again, every week you can set aside time to send out a press release online to the press directories. You can also have at least one good press release, written in AP style which you can send out for the lifetime.

5. Articles-Make sure that your articles are submitted to online article directories. Your such articles must have a focus on your book’s topic so that it pulls traffic to your website. A good idea is if you have a website that It’s important to publish a website that centers on your title. Once you do it, you can refer all interested people including editors and your prospective readers to your book information with the click of a mouse.

6. Testimonials-Get in touch with the renowned experts of the subject you are writing about. Obtain as many testimonials as you can from them about your book, and use on your fliers and back of books.

7. Telephone calls-Yes, even this is crucial..use telephone to market your book. Make it a point to make five calls a day that relate to marketing your book.

8. Internet-You cannot overlook this either. Make sure that you’re interviewed or profiled for sites both about writing, publishing and about the topics covered in your book. You can even give away your book in a sweepstakes at any local function. This will sure to give you more recognition for your book.

9. Headline-An eye-grabbing headline in your sales letter can be of immense help to catch attention of the buyers.

10. The non-bookstore sellers-Contact them and offer to leave your stuff on consignment.

11. Online contest-This is another very smart idea. Design an online contest and list it in online contest directories to drive traffic to your website.

12. Get it listed-You must ensure to get your book is listed in Books-in-Print. Your mere assumption that it’s already listed isn’t enough.

13. High quality sales letter-Remember that it’s our sales letter or flier that’s going to promote your title formally to the prospective buyer. So, make it of top class.

14. Your website-Build a site which should be like an online press kit. You can exchange links with those sites that relate to your topic and subject. Let me tell you that your site could provide another avenue for ordering.

15. Women’s market-Another very smart idea is to ensure that your stuff fits into the women’s market. If you go by a survey, women do buy more books than men.

16. Online and offline promotion-Make sure that you market your books in both ways. When you see that your book fits into a particular sphere, you can look for a store that sells your type and offer to leave books on consignment. Do you know that many publishers have minted money this way?

So, why do you want to delay?
Don’t ever loose your focus..apply yourself and make it a point to promote your book everyday. Remember that how good you might write, but unless you can sell it, you won’t be known as an author..many a talents die as they’re never noticed.

So, don’t fall by the wayside, do some smart marketing of your stuff and soon you would see yourself reaping in the profits you deserve.

You can always check-in with renowned organizations like www.writer4me.com or lulu.com who are there to take you through.

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Tips to prevent content theft

The pilfering of contents had been one of the burning issues of recent times…a real sizzling topic on many business-related discussions. The stolen stuff could be texts or graphics that have caught the eye of others and who feel to use them as their own.
This practice of claiming authorship of someone else’s creation without sufficient acknowledgement is technically known as plagiarism, which is a serious wrongdoing.

Here are some tips to prevent your content from getting stolen:-

Place google alerts: Set google alerts for key phrases that relates your content.

Copyscape: This is one of your key tools to detect plagiarism and is a free service.Copyscape is very easy to use. What you need to do is to simply enter your web address. Once it is done, copyscape will search the entire web for copies of your content straightaway and show you the results for your search. You can then click on a result and see a word-by-word evaluation with the content on your site. To make things easier for you, copyscape uses colors to show up blocks of text that match the text on your site. Here, each matching block is tinted with a different color.

Message through your feeds: You can add a copyright message to your RSS feeds. The message would ask the viewer to email you in case the content isn’t being served from your site.

Fingerprint: You can also create a thread of exclusive characters that will add to your feed. Then you can go for plagiarism searches like Google Alerts or Copyscape and detect this fingerprint.

AntiLeech WordPress Plugin: This is another way. You can make use of this plugin to detect and offer the sploggers a fake content.

Offbeat file names: Create file names that you seldom see. This will make it easier for you to search your stolen content.

Thiefinder: This script will help you to find possible bandwidth thieves.

Subscribe to news feeds: You can also set up feeds for your name, your blog’s name and content terms with search engines like PubSub,Technorati etc..

IceRocket: You can place a small and see-through image at the bottom of your post and find out the sites that use it.

RSS Footer: This is a plugin from Joost de Valk. It slots in your copyright text into RSS entries.

RSS Signature: With this tool you can put a link back to your original content.

Copysentry: This will help you to automatically detect your stolen content. Through this, you can keep a track when plagiarism takes place. This service keeps scanning the web for copies and informs you by email whenever a new copy appears.

TagRight: You can use this tool to curb a way in to your images and text.

Feelimage: Through this search engine you can look for your images using filenames and tags.

Offer headhunter rewards: Another effective tool is to offer award to any of your reader who finds someone stealing your content.

Conclusions

So, the bottom line is..you post anything to the web, and the chances remain that your hard work will be “taken”. To stop this, you need to learn about it. And to learn, you need to know where to look.
To post a content/ image/ design/ logo free from plagiarism, you can always rely on a renowned organization like www.writer4me.com , the top ranked ghostwriting company as per the alexa ranking.

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Leading ghostwriter-hire organization launches E-book Marketplace that has NO fees

An announcement!

Leading ghostwriter hire organization Writer4me.com launches their ebook marketplace where anyone can sell their e-books for no setup cost.

Opening a new door to its service, writer4me.com, the premier ghostwriting platform today introduced their e-book marketplace that allows anyone to sell their E-books with zero set up cost.

“It’s another value added to our service; very easy and effective, practically for all…even someone without an E-book can avail the service, we shall get it ready for them including the cover design. Else, anyone can upload a book including the cover design from our site, set the price and buy, sell or share his or her work.” says Peter Power, spokesman of the company.

For the first time, customers participating in an E-book marketplace have the opportunity to get the entire set ready by the company and reach the fast growing market of E-book readers.

For just $5 one can avail featured listing to showcase her/his ebook to the maximum number of visitors.

As Power says, “Our intention is to provide our users with the most useful tools to help them profit from their creative works…as the market for E-books continue to flourish, we want to give power to our users to utilize this valuable market in the best possible way.”

E-book marketplace is one of several recent augmentations to the wrter4me services. A fortnight back, the company has launched its self-publishing division which empowers ambitious authors all across the globe to get their work published at a price which is believed to be the lowest ever. Writer4me.com also offers ghostwriting services at the most affordable rates; making them the “people’s ghostwriters”.

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How to set up your own e-book business?

Ok, so you want to earn money online from your e-books?

Here are some very useful tips you can use to set up your own e-books. Let’s go step-by-step and learn how you can sell your e-books online…I’m sure you will find it damn simple and easy to follow.
Now, let’s get started…

Use your Knowledge- Think about your passions…hobbies…your likings…and the subjects you are you well-informed about. Start thinking laterally.

Do the research- Find out whether there is a market for your product. Do this before you start writing. Be aware whether people are really searching online for the subject you have selected.

Particulars of your target customers- Know who your customers are, their ages, pastimes, needs, desires and loathes.

Keep in your mind the following points-

Purpose of your e-book.

The way it will work.

The cost.

Whether there is any free information with it?

Features of the book.

The paybacks.

What’s In It For Me (WIIFM)?

The problem(s) it solves.

What is exclusive about it?

Your prospects.

For consumers, what are the main interests it appeals to?

Demographics…age, gender, income level, countries, cities/suburbs etc.

Psychographics: interests, way of life, hobbies, buying history, associations they belong to.

Your secondary prospects: Know about your competitors… compare your product, service, price; terms etc…and find out your strongest and weakest point.

Ideas-If you’re struggling for ideas, head along to clickbank.com and click on the marketplace link to start looking through the categories of e-books. Keep in your mind that there is no point writing an e-book which lacks quality. So, work hard on good quality content. Doesn’t matter even if you don’t have time to research and write it yourself .You can always hire a writer from www.writer4me.com the topmost ghostwriting site as per alexa, which offers you this service at an unbelievably low price.

Your hosting account-Now, you have either engaged a ghostwriter to write your e-book or authored it by yourself; your next step is to decide the title of the e-book and register a domain alike the title and set up your hosting account. As for example, if your title is “How to start up your own e-business?”, your domain name could be howtostartupebusiness.com.

Create your graphics-There can be numerous ways to do this. In the internet, there are plethoras of free resources if you want to do this yourself. And if you really intend to turn your product into a highly specialized looking package, you can always take into service a professional organization like www.designer-india.com that will do that for you at a price very much fitting your bill. You can also add one of your images to your e-Book to brand it and turn it into a PDF file.

Make your sales copy-After you finish your research; the next most important step is to grasp a credible and swaying sales copy. You can do it in two ways.
Either, you can write it by yourself or hire a copywriter. If you get it right, you could easily make $20000 by selling an e-book. Sometimes even more!

So, here you are! Your e-book, domain name, website and fully finished product. is now ready to launch. Now, you need sell it.

Find affiliates to promote your e-book-You can enlist the help of sites who will sell your e-book for you. As for instance, clickbank.com has publishers and affiliates who look for e-books and new products to promote. Remember that, you need to pay a one off fee to activate your digital product and get yourself listed in their market place before you can sell your product through clickbank.

Now, you got to find your affiliates. You can do this manually by typing out the keyword of the industry you want to find affiliates for in the Google, scan through all the websites in the search results and send them an email asking whether they wish to become JV (Joint Venture) partners. As you find your e-book reaching out to more and more people, it will be found by other websites and webmasters, who will start promoting it for you. Here, you pay a charge every time someone makes a sale for you. Another way is by getting a copy of Affiliate Elite. This software can help you in finding affiliates and sites to promote your e-book.

Here are some advantages of using clickbank…
An already set up Shopping Cart
Get paid via check
Battery of affiliates is geared up to promote your product
A well-established brand name
It uses PayPal which is widely accepted.
It directs the customer to your product page automatically
On your behalf it handles any refunds for your product

Free vs. paid e-books

Let’s explore the advantages and disadvantages of both.

Some advantages of free e-books-

It’s free to the customer.

It can get hold of names and email addresses for future mailings.

Helps in building relationships with your customers.

You can offer backend offers through it

Free e-books spread like wildfire.

At the bottom of your book, you can add your website URL to pass on your marketing message.

Build up a list of people who are interested in your specific niche.

The disadvantages…

You cannot earn directly from it, as it’s free.

It’s expensive, if you have paid for the graphics and sales copy.

Here you have to do all the promotional work because you can’t use affiliates to drive traffic to your sales page.

People may doubt your contents as it’s free.

Advantages of paid e-books

You can use affiliates to do the advertising.
Every time it sells, you can earn money.
You can reinvest the money you earn from the e-book sale to your future ventures or even to enhance traffic to your offer.
You can use Clickbank to manage with all sales and dealings.

Disadvantages of paid e-books

If in case your e-book doesn’t meet the standard, you may have to give back a high refund

If it’s too expensive, chance is that people won’t buy it because they can get the information in another place, maybe without parting with a single penny.

Sell it at the right price-This is very crucial and holds one of the most vital keys to see our e-book through. Do lots of research on the available e-books on similar subjects and the price they sell it. Make a meticulous study of the price vis-à-vis the quality including the design and the number of pages.

Build-up a marketing hype- This is another key factor of a successful e-book campaign. Just do it and see the result by yourself. You are going to sell many more copies than you would have without the hype…that’s for sure.

Use autoresponders- Remember, this saves a hell lot of time and effort of yours in the long run. Just write an email once and get that uploaded to your autoresponder. Once you do this, it will reach each and every customer, once he/she enters your mailing list. This takes place automatically. It’s all up to you to set the frequency of your emails. It can everyday, weekly or monthly.

The above tips coupled with a well turned-out research from your end, can really be helpful to shoot up the sale of your e-books within no time.
There are some clickbank affiliates who are getting more than $30,000 per month selling e-books.
What they do is, they spot a “slot”, do a detailed research and then write the information product or e-book exclusively to crack a problem for that “slot.”

Therefore, once you are done with your pre launch phase, what remains is to build up your Joint Ventures and Affiliate partners to keep up your sales.

So, if you’re serious about starting a lucrative home business, you can opt for earning through e-books, and this article is surely going to help you in that.

Remember, not many online businesses make you money while you sleep!

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Top SEO tips

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the procedure by which you can boost up the volume and quality of traffic to your website from search engines through “natural” (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results for targeted keywords.

The thumbrule is…the earlier your site is accessible in the search results; the more searchers will visit it.

Google, Yahoo and MSN are the three out of thousands of search engines that will bring you most of the traffic.

But BEWARE!
Don’t bark up the wrong tree!
When it comes to generating search engine traffic, you have to remain careful not only about the plethora of outdated information being circulated so widely but also of those ideas which if acted upon, can result in your site being banned.

Here are the tips below that would help you in figuring out a basic perceptive of how you can craft user-friendly web pages, easily understood by the most popular search engines:

1. Once or twice in maximum, use the <b> </b> tags around some of your keywords on each page.

2. Use links of other websites in most of your pages. When you do it, the search engine gets the message that you have lots of valuable content. Make sure that all your links come in to your home page. Anyone doing it simply tells the search engine that the site is a shallow one of little or no value.

3. Get yourself a business address in a foreign country like UK and Canada. These two nations have many directories for websites of companies based in those countries.

4. Submit worthwhile articles to some top rated ezine publishers who keep a store of their ezines. Remember, in their archives, the links stay live often for many years.

5. Include text links, alongwith your image links. As search engine robots go after the first link they find to any particular page, you need to make sure that the text links show up first in the source code. The robots won’t follow the added links to the same page

6. It can happen that you have several subjects that could each prop up their own website. In that case, use multiple domains. There are two reasons behind using multiple domains. First, for any given search, search engines more often than not list only one page per domain, and you might need two. Second, using multiple domains, you can get more directory listings.

7. Exchange articles…yes, they are really useful. You know why? When you bring out someone else’s article with a link back to their site, they too are going to do it with a link back to your site. So what happens? You both have the content and get high quality links.

8. Use heading for your links. Remember, your links can get titles, too. This helps not only the visually impaired surfers, but also some search engines who outline this into their relevancy for a page.

9. Never do too much with the anchor text. Else, all your inbound links would look similar…like automation. Mind you, this is something not accepted by Google. Rather, using your organization’s name and URL is a much better idea.

10. Use site map if your website is a big one. Link the map to and from every page on the site. Once you do this, the search engine robots find every page with just two clicks. You need a map called the navigation bar if your site is a small one.

11. Inside the title tag, slot in the keywords to let the search engine robots know what your page is all about. Remember, inserting a keyword or key phrase enhances the chance of driving the targeted traffic to your site.

12. Treat your title tag like a headline. Do keep in your mind that it’s the text within the title tag which shows up in a search result.

13. If your site contains many pages, use the same keywords as anchor text that would link to the page from other pages on your site. The more keywords…the better.

14. Ensure that the body of your page includes the title tag. When you do this, a relation is formed between the headline and the title of your page. This is preferred even by the search engine robots.

15. Shower your keywords. Do it all through your article. You can also color the most important ones. Doing this once or twice at the top of your article and in the sub-headings can be a good idea.

16. Never use the same title tag on every page. This might lead to non-indexing of your pages.

17. Never stuff your site with hollow and meaningless keywords just to spam the description or keyword metatag. Just put your headline once within the keywords and description tags.

18. Never link your site to link-farms or other search engine unfriendly neighborhoods.

19. Search engines prefer to index human friendly pages. So, never go for doorway pages which are essentially designed for robots.

20. Like the alt tag for images slot in the title tag within the HTML of your text link. This will add weight to the link and the page where the link resides.

21. Let your images be described with the use of the alt tag. This will help not only the search engines to find your pages and but also the readers who use text only web browsers.

22. Last but not the least…never use a submission service or software; rather do that yourself. Else, your site could get penalized or even banned. And submit only once.
Remember, robots follow links and if your site has a nice link trail, you can be rest assured that your entire site will get indexed.

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