Link Building with eBooks

December 21, 2008 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: Link Building 

While browsing the web today I came across a website that had a ton of free eBooks available for download that were submitted by users. This page also had a dofollow link to the author of the eBook’s personal blog. This got me thinking that anyone could make a simple text-filled eBook with simple information about the niche that they are in, and then publish the eBook to many free ebook directories with the hopes of free traffic and links. I have not done this myself yet as the creation of the eBook may be a little bit time consuming, but it has been awhile since I have come up with any advanced link building strategies and thought I would share this one.

I did some Google research for free eBook directories, and here is the list I have come up with that you may start on:

http://www.thefreesite.com/

http://www.bizzydays.com/

http://www.buildebooks.com/

http://www.ebook2u.com/

http://www.ebook88.com/

http://www.ebooks4free.net/

http://www.ebookbroadcast.com/

http://www.ebookheaven.co.uk/

http://www.ebookgallery.com/

http://www.ebookjungle.com/

http://www.ebookleads.com/

http://www.ebookslibrary.com/

http://www.ebookpalace.com/

http://www.e-book-zone.com/

http://www.ecourseweb.com/index.php

http://e-library.net/

http://www.free-ebooks.net/

http://freeebookminers.com/index.php

http://www.free-ebooksonline.com

http://www.free-n-cool.com/

http://www.freeebookdirectory.com/

http://www.jogena.com/

http://www.mushroom-ebooks.com/

http://www.powerbusinesspublishing.com/

http://www.sharewareebooks.com/

http://www.ebookdirectory.com/

http://www.virtual-ebooks.com/index.htm

http://www.websuccesscentral.com/index.shtml

http://www.witguides.com/

http://www.wisdomebooks.com/add76.html

http://www.ebooksearchengine.com/

http://www.ebooks.biz/

http://www.emarketingparadigm.com/ebooks/publish.html#submit

http://www.jogena.com/ebookdir/ebookdata.htm

http://www.mindlikewater.com/

http://www.brandable-ebooks.com/

http://www.maxebook.com/

http://ebooks.searchking.com/

http://www.ebookgiveaways.com

http://dlb.netfirms.com/ebooks.htm

http://www.ebookbillboard.com

http://www.download.com

http://www.ecourseweb.com

http://www.para-ti.info/e-books

http://warriornetwork.com/links/directories.html

http://www.zdnet.com/

http://www.memoware.com/

If anyone knows any other free eBook directories (preferably that link out), let us know in the comments.

Comments

13 Comments on Link Building with eBooks

  1. David on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 2:08 pm

    2. You are the man! I was searching for this the other day, but this list is much better than what I found.

  2. BusinessX on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 6:50 pm

    3. One more reason to develop an eBook. Incentive to join a newsletter was my main reason. Now to be able to distribute so broadly (even just for the link juice), makes this a must do.

  3. Niche Titans on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 9:43 pm

    4. Adding “make a small 2-3 page ebook this weekend, and distribute.”

  4. Houston search engine optimization on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 9:51 pm

    5. I find this interesting because I am planning on writing my first E book soon. I’m going to bookmark this page. Thanks for doing the research and finding the list of E book directories.

    -Gerald Weber

  5. charles palma on Mon, 22nd Dec 2008 2:52 pm

    6. Did you check this ebook directories one-by-one? What if one of it is blacklisted. I hate being penalized by google search engine.

  6. Amazon Kindle on Tue, 23rd Dec 2008 1:47 pm

    7. Thanks for the tip Collin. Always looking for a new place to get some good links.

  7. MWYS on Fri, 26th Dec 2008 4:49 am

    8. Cool list. Here’s a variation on this tactic:

    1) create series of ebooks
    2) put link in ebook to the mother ship where the rest of the ebooks live
    3) distribute ebooks

    You won’t get any PR, sure, but you should get some traffic.

    Make sure you state that you do not want your content rebranded / reseller rights given away.

  8. marblehost on Sat, 27th Dec 2008 12:17 am

    9. I will get these ebooks and i must try these.

    Thanks for sharing

  9. Gerald Weber on Sun, 28th Dec 2008 10:39 pm

    10. I’m going to go through the list and che3ck them all out one by one. I’m planning on writing an E-Book this year. Thanks

  10. Sacramento Weddings on Thu, 1st Jan 2009 1:15 am

    11. Another great idea from one of the all time SEO Masterminds…….my site would never have made PR 4 without The Link Building Cookbook from Collinlahay.com!

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  12. daniel on Wed, 17th Jun 2009 4:18 am

    13. thanks for sharing… its a very interesting list…
    hadnt thought about this when doing link building…

  13. Moneyjibe Personal Finance on Wed, 4th Nov 2009 5:08 pm

    14. That’s a great list…didn’t know there were that many eBook directories and this technique seems like a great way to get free traffic and links.

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