Give Away Books To Get Traffic?

Send through emails, if the book carries real good amount of information and interest then make a targeted list and give it through email marketing. Ask people to register with you on your website and then get a free e-book. If luckily you made a good opt in you can further use it in future.

Sending through email... provided I have a list in my email account. I believe farox is looking for way to create his own list by giving away ebook.

So he is looking for the best way to create a list.

The usual landing page with opt in need optimization and time consuming. Furthermore, it may not work due to competition.

Any good suggestion?

I'm also searching for creative and productive methods to create my own list.

No, don't do it.

Don't just submit your e-book to free directories, instead, create a squeeze page and offer the ebook in exchange for the visitor's email address, collect optins and start building a list.

If you're referring to eBooks that you created yourself, then you could try to post them on document sharing websites like:
Scribd.com
Docstoc.com

There are a lot of document sharing websites... if you run a Google search for "document sharing sites" you'll be able to find a lot more.

If you're referring to eBooks that you got elsewhere, like free rebrandable eBooks or PLR eBooks that you slightly modified... then document sharing sites may not be the appropriate solution. Submitting these types of eBooks to document sharing sites are problematic because:
-someone else may have already submitted that eBook
-it leads to "spamming the sites" with copies of the same document
-if someone else already submitted the eBook that you want to submit, the doc sharing site may think you're uploading another person's copyrighted work.

So, if you want to give away an eBook that you got from somewhere else, (i.e. rebrandable eBooks, PLR eBooks) then it's probably best to give it away from your own site or email list.

As far as using the eBook to generate traffic... I think that would depend more on the quality and usefulness of the eBook, more than having the eBook all over. Just having an eBook available for free won't guarantee more traffic.

If you want people to share and talk about your eBook, then I'd say the focus should be on creating a high quality eBook. Once created, spend some time on the usual traffic generation techniques to draw attention to your free eBook.

Once a few people have seen and downloaded the eBook... and the eBook is really good, then the hope is that those people will share it with others. That's how your eBook will get more traffic.

Sure you can upload it to eBook directories and document sharing sites... but I don't think that's enough to get traffic. There are loads of other sites creating documents and eBooks that are also uploading to these sites.

Which means that you can't assume that if you upload it to one of these sites, it will automatically get noticed.

I wouldn't spend alot of time on ebook directories. A good one is free-ebooks .net. But host it on your site, drive traffic, and get people to sign up to get your free ebook.

Instead an ebook directory why not submit your ebook on Amazon or Apple Store Places that have a chance to get decent traffic. You can also have free kindle version and have a link to your site in the book . When they land on your site give them the option to optin for more content. Plus you can have some nice decent content on your blog as well.

This is a good way to get a source of traffic.

The other way is to buy solo ads but I like leveraging Amazon and the Apple store.

It's an option

Use mediafire or dropbox directories
instead of itunes,
I think it will be helpful for us all.

PPC and media buys to a squeeze page

I don`t think submitting to ebook directories will get any traffic for you. Instead as other suggested create a squeeze page and ask users to enter email ids to get the ebook.

To promote this squeeze page you can try paid services or try starting a simple blog. And then promote that blog by guest posting on popular blogs. (As many blogs don`t allow link to squeeze page)

hope this will help!

Be careful of using squeeze pages and google adwords. You account may be banned, or may be rejected. Google does not like sites whose primary goal is to "harvest emails."

Yeah I think getting it out on Kindle is a good idea since you may also get good reviews and then you can start charging money for it later on

Giving away e-book is a great way to get traffic but the content should be good enough.

Using give away ebook then drive your prospect to your squeeze page is still a great way, build your email list then you can promote your own product or someone else's product as an affiliate.

Create a squeeze page , make them opt in , give them the free ebook then you can email them to go to your site for some traffic

This is a good idea to drive traffic. Try to include a keyword in your book title and description. Sites like Scribd.com, ebookjunkie.com, free-ebooks.net are a great source of traffic if done correctly.

Would you like to give your free ebook to me...I am building a website...partially ready..(check it in my signature link.)

The title explain itself. I will review it and put it into my website in exchange for a backlink to your website.

Cheers!

BR,
Victor.

The best thing to do is to create a squeeze page then give the e-book in exchange for a subscription, and this is the key to internet marketing, you can then promote to these emails.