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There are still some social bookmarking websites that are good, but most of them are not.

You have to pick them one by one which can be time consuming. It also means it is wiser not to invest your money in software that auto submit to these sites, if you are looking to get backlinks.

It does not mean these sites are totally useless. You can get tons of traffic, but not a useful strategy to get backlinks. This does not mean you should completely ignore social bookmarking websites, but you need to be more careful how you spend you time and money.

There are services who still do social bookmarking. There are software which still submit to these sites. The sales pages will not change to show the complete truth. The services want
to make money, they will not adopt to the change maybe because they do not want to loose clients or it can be any other reason.

Bottom line is, social bookmarking websites are no longer effective to get a ton of backlinks like they once was.

If you think about it, it is not their fault. It is an advantage for them to use the nofollow tag, so they get rid of spammers who constantly submit their website or useless doorway pages just to get backlinks. There was black hat software as well, to automatically create accounts in these websites and then get a ton of backlinks easily.

All these things effected the change.

Social bookmarking websites do not need this stuff. They are created to help visitors as a service to allow them to bookmark websites they like or frequently visit.

Spamming creates problems for them. It totally makes things ugly for them. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are 5 sizzling tips to help you on your way to creating a winning e-book.

1. The Easy Way

No matter what advice I might offer, there are some of you out there that just don’t want to write. The best thing to do is to find people that have already written a quality e-book and will offer you a resale license or agreement. Sometimes it is free if you buy the book which is what I do. And others charge a small fee for the complete resale rights. All in all, for most e-books out there, you can buy them for under $100 with resale rights. A business is born. Try and look for newer e-books and those that would be interesting to you. E-books that make the most amount of money teach you how to avoid pain or how to gain pleasure.

2. Another Great Idea

Go to the top article directories and search for articles in your subject of interest. For example, if you wanted to write a book that helps people save money on their taxes, go to several article directories and look up what articles have been written on that subject matter. If you see twenty great tips that can save people up to $1000 a year or more, you could compile a report that says something like
“20 Tax Saving Strategies You Can’t Afford to Miss.” Of course, you can’t use these articles word for word because that is illegal but you can write down your own thoughts and ideas about each of the tips and re-write them in your own words. Now you can market this on the internet and sell it for $39.95. Do you think some reasonable portion of the 265 million people that live in the USA are interested in tax savings? You bet!

3. The Born Writer

Some years ago, Reader’s Digest reported that some 70% of people acknowledge they had a book inside of them they wanted to write one day. Most of us have something we want to share but many times just don’t know where to get started or feel overwhelmed by writing a whole book. This is where e-books can be fun. Most e-books are about 50 pages long with 12pt type and paragraphs double spaced. They really aren’t that long. If you break your e-book down into tips or ideas, it is easier to write. For instance, if you generated 50 tips, you would have one page per tip. That’s not so daunting! And, for heaven’s sake, write when you feel like writing. I have found that I can write twice as much when I feel inspired. And the quality is oh so much better!

4. What’s Hot?

If you are at a loss of what to write about, go to Amazon.com and find out what the best sellers are. They are a wonderful resource for anyone. Let’s say your interest is in the top weight loss programs. Order the 3 best selling books, read them and then write your own e-book. If it is a subject matter you are interested in, you’ll breeze through the books and have lots of ideas and comments. Even if your interests don’t seem like you would have much of an audience, you might be surprised to find out otherwise. Going to Overture and typing in your keyword is always helpful. For most subjects there are thousands if not millions of people that want to know more. If you can provide them with quality information, they will buy from you.

5. Teach What you Know

Most of us have some kind of a specialty but don’t recognize our talents. “No talent lies latent.” It could be anything from raising a difficult child to coaching basketball. Or it could be related to a job you have held whether it is a mechanic for sports cars or a software developer. Your e-book could simply be teaching someone how to do it better. Or maybe it is how to save time, or money or enjoy life more or to live healthier. People want better lives and if you show them some solutions, you’ll sell your e-book. Remember, your e-book doesn’t and shouldn’t be a novel. Break things down into steps or ideas and the writing will go smoother.

I hope these 5 simple tips have ignited the fire in your brain and inspired you to write that e-book. A business opportunity will be born.

There are hordes of ‘gurus’ who just rehash and re-mash the stale information gleaned from the internet and present it in red and blue bold words in their sales letters to entice the tired and unsuspecting people and deprive them of their hard earned money.

I have been duped quite a number of time by the tall claims of such gurus. So might have been you too. The question is:

Who is qualified to write information reports that sell?

The best person who can advise on the art of writing e-books for buyers who are willing to pay for them is some one who himself faced some problem and wanted its solution desperately. He must have experienced the agony caused by such problem and was willing to pay for the report containing its solution.

Alexis Dawes is one such person. She once faced the problem of “how to get a bank account if you have been placed in the Chex Systems.”

She researched hard left and right to arrive at the solution. She contacted friends, experts and insiders and finally came up with a truly insider’s report on obtaining a checking account.

The “solution” by its very nature is never long. It is usually short and simple.

Those who have no real solutions for their reports just pad them with pages after pages of irrelevant stuff. This is sure way to disrepute and failure.

Alexis’s report comprised of just 6 pages and took her only one hour to write. It was priced at $24.95, too high indeed.

She has been making an average of $150-to-$250 a day on this report in a market where several sites freely offer lists of 100+ non ChexSystem banks.

Instead of wondering how she could profit from things that she enjoyed writing about, she began looking at things that had made the life miserable.

She asked herself: “What dreadful problems have I overcome, and could teach others to do in the same situation?”

This spurred her to think in a new way—out of the box. She considered the difficult challenges that the life had set up for her. This gave her clue to the tactic for efficient writing.

She made up her mind to write on how to solve very specific, very difficult to solve problems.

“If you have a problem that’s making your stomach churn day and night, causing you to lose sleep, get into arguments with your significant other, lose/gain weight, or just plain worry endlessly – it’s a serious issue. You want a solution, and you want it quickly.”

That is the type of audience you should search for. That is the type of audience who is willing to pay any amount for your e-book or report once they are convinced that it contains the solutions that they are desperate about.

Since then Alexis has written several information products for desperate buyers and has been generating sales on daily basis.

“I’m talking Christmas, holidays, everyday. The money doesn’t stop. As long as the problem exists, I make money,” she says in her e-book Desperate Buyers Only.

She is a 6-figure ebook tycoon. In a recent interview Alexis revealed that she earns anywhere from $200-$5K+ a day——-. Her yearly income exceeds 6-figures.

“I’ve been in this income range for a couple of years now. And I estimate I’ll hit the million dollar mark in two years or less.”

She is the one whose footsteps we should follow.