Method Three: Turn Your Archives into an Ebook

With a blog that focuses on a narrow, popular theme, you could be sitting on a gold mine and not even be aware of it. Whether your blog contains tips for newbies in your field, expert advice for veterans, or success strategies that build on each other, you could be in position to supply a demand for needed information.

There are a couple of tricks you’d have to learn to convert your archived blog posts into an ebook, but you’d be surprised about how easy this process can be.

Method Four: Make Your Entire Blog Into a Printed Book

I know what you’re thinking. “Why would anyone pay for my blog as a book when it’s free at my site?”

Under certain circumstances, you’d be surprised to find how many people would rather have a portable collection of your blog posts when quality is consistent. The online version of your blog is ultimate free trial. Many sites have been using this logic long before web log came along to allow users to preview their services.

For example, sheer volume of free traffic generation tips on my site was repeatedly described during my informal poll as “overwhelming”. It’s one thing to try and read 2000 web pages in front of your computer, but it’s not as daunting to peruse a 400 page book in comfort of your home.

Converting your blog into a yearly volume may be a viable solution if consuming amount of data in your archives is a daunting task. And there are ways to accomplish this that have no start-up costs.

If you’re still not convinced that it’s not worth set-up to convert your blog into a periodical, ebook or printed edition, consider this.

On Monday morning I issued a press release regarding transformation of my blog to a book, as a test to measure interest. It’s almost 4 a.m. Pacific time as I write this, and so far it has been read over 23,000 times, resulting in a distinct increase in general traffic, not to mention best initial sales debut of any product at my site since this past summer.

Just imagine what that kind of interest could do for your site - and how much money you may be leaving on table right now. Making your blog available in other formats is worth a look.

This is yet another reason to opt for articles advertising instead. Apart from fact that you do not pay for clicks that end up at your site as a result of an article, good articles that end up enjoying viral effect of being re-posted at various other sites, will last for years.

And click fraud does not work with articles because you do not pay for traffic. You simply post your useful articles in as many high traffic web sites as you can and then seat back and enjoy attention and profits.

Granted, click through rate per single article is not as high as that of a strategically placed link on a search engine. Still, if you ensure that you constantly increase volume of articles with your links out there, even as viral effect takes place, you can end up with a sizeable amount of free traffic pointed at your site.

There is one other important advantage posting useful articles all over net has. The traffic generated is usually highly targeted and much more likely to buy when they arrive at your site. As opposed to traffic from ad links at search engines where people read a few catchy lines and then click through, many times just on impulse. People who arrive at your site after reading an article will have much more information and will know exactly what they are looking for.