A few would be "women or women's self care," "healthy women," "young women and self care," "mature women's self care," "working women with children self care." Use other words for self care,

Think of benefits your book gives these women. Include those in key words--"regain childhood energy", "reclaim youthful vitality." Submit several key words.

Then visit Web sites to see their layout and whether or not they have a regular ezine that needs tips, excerpts, or stories.

If their site puts up new articles up regularly, your information has a chance to bring you increased product sales.

Step Six.

Write a note to Web master or content person, submitting titles of your articles or stories. You may want to send an article along as a sample of your writing.

It may be a complimentary chapter from your book, or an excerpt that solves a problem for their visitors. Think benefits when you submit.

What can your material do for their site-their visitors? Before you send anything out, after several peer edits, have it professionally edited.

Step Seven.

Place your book and other products on as many publishing sites as possible. One I use is InfoPost.com. Now, authors can be in control of their promotion, with far less effort, and get respect, support and sales they deserve.

When you submit your book to them, whether by print or ebook, they will accept credit cards, fill customer orders, take their commission (far less than a traditional publisher) and send you royalties every few months.

Each publishing Online company has its own contract, so choose non-exclusive one for your biggest benefit.

Multiple sites equal multiple sales. You don't even need your own web site to sell your books!

Step Eight.

Organize your research. Start a file called "Web sites to Link With." If you don't keep track of your promotion contacts, you will not be able to follow up.

Professional people always follow-up. They develop relationships with people they want to do business with. Start a communication sheet for these people either on your computer or in a physical file.

For instance, for publishing sites, list contact person (Web master or content person), their email and web site URL. Include your note to them.

Keep track of what you offer, what they like, what they take. Date your communications.

Not everyone will respond, but with your persistence, many will!

At end of your note, ask that they include a link back to either your site or other publishing sites where your books are offered.

If you are like me, not a technical person, hire a person who can do research for you. Remember, people who visit top sites are looking for free information and entertainment.

They will appreciate your articles, may even pass them on to friends and associates. Many will go to your site or other sites to check out your book--even buy it. Web sites want your information. It seems like a marriage made in cyber heaven.

It's called a tree because it's supposed to grow from one site to two, to four, to eight and so on, much like a tree grows from a single trunk to many branches.

Like I said, I was very naive and this really seemed like a good idea. I created my page using automated tool and obligingly added it to my site.

A few years later, after I had moved site to a paid host, I looked at page again and realized that it was plastered with affiliate links. I did not really want a page on my site making money for someone else, so I started looking for a script to do same thing.

It took some doing, but I finally found a place that sold script for a few dollars. I purchased it, installed it on my site and before long had my very own, highly configurable hits tree running. I changed links to my own and promoted page accordingly.

Here's page:

http://www.internet-tips.net/hits/index.html

One of major reasons why I wanted script running on my own site was so that I could get a log of how many of these pages had been created. I was very curious to see if this method of promotion was effective.

The script logs all creations of new pages, regardless of whether or not it was done from my own site. This is because script must be executed from my site to create a new page. Thus, log is a very accurate accounting of when and how many new pages were created.

So now I have my answer. Yes, hit trees do produce some traffic. Not a heck of a lot of it (less than a hundred hits a month), but they do get people to visit my site. It seems that about a dozen new pages are created each month, and what amazes me is this is a steady number. According to logic, number of pages being created should be increasing, yet it stays same.

So is one of these hit pages worth time and effort? Well, I definitely would not recommend purchasing script - there are better ways to spend your money.

It's probably worth a few minutes to create a hit page, add it to your site and submit it to search engines. The nice thing about these pages is they tend to just run automatically, producing a few hits now and then without any effort from you at all.

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