Fun With Ebooks

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Before I proceed, yes, I am aware of Jon's decree:

No ebook promotions allowed. Period. Not in your sig, not as a new thread, not as a reply, not via PM, NOTHING. I don't care if you didn't write it, or if it's 25 cents, if it's not being listed as FREE, then it has no place on this forum. That's all there is to it.
Clarifications of this rule: If you are caught breaking this rule, you will be banned immediately, no second chances. It should be quite obvious by now that we are very against the sale of ebooks here. I don't care what someone else told you or what you read at a different forum, if you promote it here, you risk losing your account. If you are caught doing it on a different username, we will IP ban you. If you think that by logging on here with a proxy will protect you, you're wrong. We are using a new custom plugin that overrides proxies and shows us your genuine IP, and thus results in a lifelong ban.

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I am not here to sell you anything, just to provide some ideas to promote your aff mktg/CPA campaigns.

If you bundle this together with your viral marketing strategies, whether it's blogging, gaming digg, CL, myspace, or BH stuff, this could be very useful.

Let's put aside the anti-ebook sentiment for a second.

Why do people buy books?
To read for either information, a solution for a problem, or entertainment.
[The answers are: newspaper/news magazine, a how to guide, and trashy celeb mags/playboy/fhm/maxim/insert your favourite mag here].

So, what is you turned the tables and wrote the ebook.

What if you did something along the lines of:
"How To Raise Funding for Your Business"

You can then scrape or write some content about various types of funding available, then under "Recommendations" or "Resources", list 3-5 small biz CPA offers.

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Another idea, you can do a "Pick Up Any Girl You Want Online" guide, then list 5-10 ideas, then stick in links to AFF or some other adult CPA offer.

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There are a number of ways you can virally distribute this.

- Give it away on your blog, or sell it if you want.
- viralize it by giving it away on torrents/rapidshare
- list it on ebay, buy/sell sections on other forums


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You dont need to be Einstein to write a 5-10 page doc then make it a PDF.
blow up the font size and use double spacing if you need to.

If you have pics, insert them. It'll bump your conversion.
Buy photos from photo archives if you need to.

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Once your system is set up, just keep pumping traffic into it.
use free traffic, buy it from traffic exchanges, wherever.

If your stuff looks attractive, you will get sales, even from freeloader traffic.
 
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Good tips Wee, do you know of a good html or text to .exe converter which can also be used for such things as

For example, "download now the first ever software that will help you get laid" blahblabla. Of course it will be free with advice on going to Adultfriendfinder aff links included.
 
treat this the same as you would with any other aff mktg/ppc campaign.

create 5 different ebooks, seed them at different places.

test,test,test,test,test,test,test.

pick your top 2 or 3 versions, let them go head to head.

test some more.

pick the winner, use it to bank.

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doing only 1 ebook is like running a keyword campaign with just one keyword/keyphrase.
it's a pretty stupid thing to do.
 
Oh wonderful, you don't think Mac users (those without basecamp) would be possible leads?

Stick with PDF.

BeerHat said:
Good tips Wee, do you know of a good html or text to .exe converter which can also be used for such things as

For example, "download now the first ever software that will help you get laid" blahblabla. Of course it will be free with advice on going to Adultfriendfinder aff links included.
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I'm actually doing .htm. That way I can put a 1x1 iframe in it and track the books.

I wrote the book, put it in a folder, and then wrote a PHP program to package it up with every folder in a resellable package. And I'm going to be selling that reseller set.
 
chatmasta said:
I'm actually doing .htm. That way I can put a 1x1 iframe in it and track the books.

I wrote the book, put it in a folder, and then wrote a PHP program to package it up with every folder in a resellable package. And I'm going to be selling that reseller set.
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Could you elaborate on the iframe? Do you mean putting the aff link in that so the cookie is forced without the user knowing it type of deal --or is it something else?
 
I set up a custom PHP tracking system, put it on my server, and put a 1x1 iframe of it on each page of the book. I can see how many views each page gets, what links they click, everything.

Every link is cloaked, so it looks like this:

Code: 
http://www.domain.com/out/redirect-id/ebook-id/link-id
An example would be

Code: 
http://www.domain.com/out/adultfriendfinder/how-to-get-laid/sex-link1
When they click the link, it puts their session id (which matches the session id in the views table) into a table along with the redirect id, ebook id, and link id.

So now I have all the clicks tracked. But when they view a page in the ebook, the iframe shows session.php, and everything is logged.

Here's the code I use....I'm not going to explain it, but if you know what to do with it cool. Sorry it's not commented, this is one of those things I whipped out in a couple minutes. Make sure to change the DB names and shit. Obviously it supports multiple ebooks.

iframe code
Code: 
<iframe src="http://www.domain.com/session/ebook-id/page-id" width="1" height="1" style="border:none;"></iframe>
session.php
PHP: 
<?php
// sess/pic-ebook/page1/
session_start();
if(empty($_GET['ebook']))
    die('no ebook');

$ebooks = array('pic-ebook');
$ebook = $_GET['ebook'];
if(!in_array($ebook, $ebooks))
    die('invalid ebook');
    
$sub_id = (!empty($_GET['sub_id'])) ? $_GET['sub_id'] : '';
$sess_id = session_id();
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

mysql_connect('localhost', 'DB USER', 'DB PASS');
mysql_select_db('DB NAME');

mysql_query("INSERT INTO sessions (`id`, `ip`, `ebook`, `sub_id`) VALUES ('" . $sess_id . "', '" . mysql_real_escape_string($ip) . "', '" . mysql_real_escape_string($ebook) . "', '" . ((!empty($sub_id)) ? mysql_real_escape_string($sub_id) : '') . "')") or die(mysql_error());
?>
out.php
PHP: 
<?php
// toptenhosting.net/out/hostgator/pic-ebook/link1
// toptenhosting.net/out/hostgator

session_start();
$sess_id = session_id();

if(!empty($_GET['ref']))
{
    $refs = array(
        'ebook-id' // you can put as many as you want in this array, but be sure to add some when you make a new ebook
    );
    $ref = $_GET['ref'];
    if(!in_array($ref, $refs))
        die('Invalid referrer.');
    $sub_id = (!empty($_GET['sub_id'])) ? $_GET['sub_id'] : '';
}
$id = (!empty($_GET['id'])) ? $_GET['id'] : '';

$links = array(
            affiliate1 => 'http://www.affiliate1.com/chatmasta',
            affiliate2 => 'http://www.affiliate2.com/chatmasta',
            affiliate3 => 'http://www.affiliate3.com/chatmasta'
        );

if( ( empty($id) ) XOR ( empty($links[$id]) ) ) 
    die('No ID.');

mysql_connect('localhost', 'DB USER', 'DB PASS');
mysql_select_db('DB NAME');

mysql_query("
    INSERT INTO 
        out 
    (`out_id`, `ip`, `referrer`, `sub_id`, `sess_id`) 
        VALUES (
            '" . mysql_real_escape_string($id) . "', 
            '" . mysql_real_escape_string($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) . "', 
            '" . ((!empty($ref)) ? mysql_real_escape_string($ref) : '') . "', 
            '" . ((!empty($sub_id)) ? mysql_real_escape_string($sub_id) : '') . "', 
            '" . mysql_real_escape_string($sess_id) . "'
            )
") or die(mysql_error());

header('Location: ' . $links[$id]);
?>
.htaccess - probably could be done better but whatever
Code: 
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^out/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ out.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^out/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ out.php?id=$1&ref=$2
RewriteRule ^out/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ out.php?id=$1&ref=$2&sub_id=$3

RewriteRule ^session/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ session.php?ebook=$1
RewriteRule ^session/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ session.php?ebook=$1&sub_id=$2

DB structure
Code: 
-- phpMyAdmin SQL Dump
-- version 2.9.0.2
-- http://www.phpmyadmin.net
-- 
-- Host: localhost
-- Generation Time: Jun 09, 2007 at 03:14 PM
-- Server version: 4.1.22
-- PHP Version: 4.4.2
-- 
-- Database: `DB NAME`
-- 

-- --------------------------------------------------------

-- 
-- Table structure for table `out`
-- 

CREATE TABLE `out` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `out_id` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
  `ip` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
  `referrer` varchar(100) default NULL,
  `sub_id` varchar(255) default NULL,
  `sess_id` varchar(255) default NULL,
  `time` timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=24 ;

-- --------------------------------------------------------

-- 
-- Table structure for table `sessions`
-- 

CREATE TABLE `sessions` (
  `id` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  `ebook` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
  `sub_id` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  `time` timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  `ip` varchar(20) NOT NULL default ''
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
I haven't made any kind of stats system for this yet, but maybe I will when I need one. It's very very very raw and could be improved. Like I said there's no comments or anything and it's too much of a hassle to answer a bunch of questions - so if you know what to do with it, cool. It isn't too complicated, you can figure it out. :xomunch:

EDIT: Someone really should change the style of the PHP boxes. eww. make them white or something.
 
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+rep for andrew and chatmasta

Now let's see if all of that PHP I learned last week did any good... :rasta:
 
BeerHat said:
Actually it was my post, but yeah that's what I'm looking for. I'll give it a try. Let you know how it goes.
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I'm sorry man, credit where credit is due. I guess the dyslexia was kicking in when I hit the quote button.

Oh well, as long as you got what you were looking for, eh? Good luck with it.
 
In regards to distributing the ebook, what precautions did you take when using P2P and torrent sites?

I've always been afraid to use them and wasn't sure if firewall, antivirus, anti-spyware was enough protection.
 
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