Based on these, the top 10 article directories submission sites you may want or need for marketing your ebooks are

1.   Ezinearticles.com

2.   Buzzle.com

3.   Goarticles.com

4.   ArticleDashboard.com

5.   IdeaMarketers.com

6.   SooperArticles.com

7.   Amazines.com

8.   ArticleCity.com

9.   ArticleRich.com

10. iSnare.com

Bear in mind that this will likely change over time though, if more or less Alexa toolbar users visit each site or Google changes the pagerank of any one of the sites. There are lots of sites on the internet that provide for free, a listing of article directories with their Google pagerank and Alexa ratings on a weekly or monthly basis or so, you may want to use them to keep track of these information.

In addition to the Google pagerank of a site and its alexa ratings, for effective article marketing you will also need to figure out the specific targets each article directory focuses on. And will also have to find out, if the specific categories that are related to your niche are available on each directory. You may preview the top articles in your categories across several article sites to have an idea of popular article topics, you may create for your promotions too. You may also want to know the rules governing each article directory to know how to write for them.

You may submit your articles to the top 5-10 article directories first and then get a list of the next top 30 or more directories to submit to, too. You may get this list for free on the internet also. The more top article directories you submit to, the better your results are likely to be. Your ebook marketing efforts will greatly pay off, if you use article submission software with the promotion of your ebooks. With ebooks, just like any other product you will sell online, you may need to promote with lots of articles consistently for some time to get some good results, trying to do this manually may not be ideal. Article submission software will not only help you to get your articles to more sites quickly, it will also free you up for other tasks in your online business.

Marketing ebooks through articles can be effective if you create the right content, choose the best article directories for your promotions, automate your submissions and consistently track your article marketing results to know where to optimize next.

Tubemongul.com is a video submission service you can use to submit your videos to multiple video websites automatically. You may use it for free and/or pay for some of its premium services.

Tubemongul allows you to

1.  Post Your Video To Multiple Websites

The service will post your videos to some of the top video sharing websites like Youtube, Vimeo etc, on the internet. It can also post your videos to social bookmarking sites

2.  Post Your Video To Any Site

You can post your videos to anywhere you want too, including sites that are not on Tubemongul list of sites for video submissions, Tubemongul called this facility, destinations.

3.  Get Viral Analytics

As a form of viral marketing, the video sharing option on video sites allows your videos to be shared with others. And others may post the videos you made public on these sites, anywhere on the internet. Tubemongul will let you know where your videos are posted online, this is a paid service though.

4.  Get Video Tracking Statistics Across Multiple Websites

Tubemongul will also provide you with some basic tracking information across multiple video sites, that is the number of views, comments and ratings on your videos. This will let you know the sites your videos are being watched, and the videos others are watching the most on each site.

5.  Track Video Ads

As a paid service, Tubemongul also provides advanced metrics on video ads, that is if you choose to do some paid video marketing through Tubemongul network of content publishers and partners.

Marketing ebooks with videos, allows you to reach more targets. You can therefore use Tubemongul in conjunction with your ebook marketing efforts, to make more money.

While Tubemongul helps you to promote your videos more quickly and also give you some metrics on them, to be successful with ebook marketing through videos however, you will need a lot more than just submitting your videos and tracking them.

To make the sale, you will need to create relevant and targeted video content with the use of keyword search terms related to your niche. You will also need to use these keywords in the titles, descriptions and tags for your videos on the site you submit them to. Targeted keywords will allow your videos to be found by the search engines and the people on the video sites. You will also need to include the url links to your website/blog in your video content, those links are what your viewers will use to get to your website/blog to buy.

To get the right ebook products to sell, you will need to determine what the targets in your niche want first. You will also need to know the products and services available for targets in your niche. You will need to compare these products/services to know the best products to sell. You can use your comparison and your knowledge of the niche, to determine the real values, that should be offered to your targets. Those values will then be the basis for creating content (and sometimes ads) that sells, for the products you choose to promote.

Generally merchants will provide you with the ads and content to sell their ebooks. If these are not available however, you will have to create them yourself. Even if the merchants provide you with the ads and content for their products, you will still need to create your own unique content, to promote the ebooks you sell. Your unique content will help you to differentiate yourself from other affiliates. Some merchants may also provide you with a demo version of their ebooks, you can give away for free.

A demo ebook product may be a secure ebook, with locked pages that your customers will only get to see/view when they pay for the product, or it may just be a few sample pages of the main product. It is most likely that your merchant will provide you with a re-branding tool, you can use to add your affiliate links to demo ebook products you may be given for your promotions. You should be familiar with the ebook delivery methods used by your merchants for delivering their ebooks, so you can reflect this in the content and ads you use for your ebook marketing and promotions.

Affiliate marketing (that is marketing as an affiliate) is one of the best ways to sell for free online and/or earn commissions or fees on other people’s products and services. You should however know what to look for when selling for anyone. Your merchants must have adequate tracking systems, you will want to get paid for every sale you made. And you should try to get merchants that will allow you to include your own custom tracking code too with your referral links, you will need that to create tracking reports that will give you good reports on the effectiveness of your own promotions. To avoid being scammed, you should also do a thorough research of any affiliate program you may want to join, find out from online forums if such programs pay their affiliates, problems others may have had with them etc.

All in all ebook marketing is a good way for affiliates to make money and can yield great dividends.

MyEbookMaster ebook management software can be useful for you if

1.  You are just starting out

2.  You want to sell with a blog

3.  You do not want to deal with ebook delivery and its security technicalities

4.  You want an affordable affiliate program and ecommerce service and

5.  You need a push-button ebook management software

With MyEbookMaster software you will be able to do or use

(a).  Ebook Compilation

For ebook creation you will not need to learn html (Hypertext Markup Language, the programming language used for creating web pages), and you can use the software to add sounds, videos and pictures to your ebooks. Using sounds, videos and pictures with your ebooks will increase their values and also help you to create professional looking ebooks.

(b).  Ebook Delivery

MyEbookMaster will instantly deliver your ebooks automatically and give instant access too to your customers as soon as they pay for your product.

(c).  Ebook Marketing And Ecommerce Service

You may choose to sell your ebooks through the MyEbookMaster website or you can link to your ebooks order page from your site or blog. And you do not need to worry about receiving payments; MyEbookMaster will take care of that for you.

(d).  Ebook Security

To avoid losing money on any of your products, you will need to use ebook security with your ebooks to prevent illegal duplications. MyEbookMaster monitors how your ebook is being used, and if the software detects any suspicious activities or logins on any one of your ebooks, it will lock the ebook and send a new key to the legitimate buyer, thereby preventing illegal usage.

(e).  Affiliate Program

An affiliate program will help you to make more sales. When more people sell for you, your income and profits increases, ebooks especially work very well with affiliate programs because you do not need to create more copies of your product (incurring more expense/costs), for others to sell for you. A lot of people may find it difficult to set up affiliate programs with their products because of the technical skill involved, the cost of outsourcing it to others and/or the cost of paying for it as a service with a provider. With MyEbookMaster your affiliate program comes pre-packaged with your ebook creation service, you will not need to pay more, to set up affiliate programs for your ebooks.

If you are on a shoe-string budget or for whatever reason only want to sell your ebook with a blog or you only have an opt-in list and not a website, MyEbookMaster is ideal for you. You will pay low monthly fees and will be paying for several services as one packaged deal.

You can create profitable online businesses for yourself through ebooks, and MyEbookMaster can be your tool of trade for accomplishing this.

To know what other people want enough to pay for on the internet, you will need to do some keyword and market research on the niche you are interested in. Every skill, hobby, topic etc belong to at least one niche, and the niche may be narrow or wide. For example if you are a mechanic or you have some mechanical knowledge and skill, this may go under such niches like mechanics, engineers, or engineering. If you create hand-made shoes, this may also go under niches like shoes, crafts, handiwork etc.

Keyword research will let you know what others in your niche are looking for online. To do your keyword research, you will need a keyword tool like the Google Adwords Keyword tool, available for free on Google website. You can type in any phrase or term that is related to your niche and the tool will give you a list of keyword search terms relating to your niche used by web visitors online and with some other statistics. You can use this to know if your possible targets are searching for anything at all on the internet and what they are searching for specifically and how many times (in relative terms) they search for it. To get a list of sites (competitors) providing content, products or services that may meet the need of those searching for these terms, you may have to use third party tools online.

You will also need to do some market research on the internet too, to know what products and services exist for your niche online. You should specifically do some ebook market research too to know what other ebooks are available for free or sale in your niche online. You may also want to research available government statistics to have an idea of revenues made in the niche in previous years. You want to know how profitable your niche has been over the years. You should also research more than one niche, so you can have the option of creating ebooks in niches where you can make more money.

Your research efforts will let you know if you will need to acquire more knowledge or skill in order to create valuable and competitive ebook products that will sell in specific niches on the internet. If you can afford to, you may also outsource the creation of your ebooks.

Doing it this way, will let you select the right niche and, you can also use the information gathered through your research, to create ads and content that sell, for the promotion of your ebooks.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with social bookmarking, it’s basically like bookmarking a website in your browser, only it can be viewed by anyone on the net, making it “social.”  You can of course specify privacy levels only allowing certain groups or networks to to view your bookmarks.

Why participate in social bookmarking?

Well, if you’re trying to market your ebook or other digital products, you need to start building traffic on your website.  You can submit every post and page from your website or blog to social bookmarking sites like Delicious, Reddit, Digg, etc thus creating an all important backlink to your site.  These backlinks will help drive targeted traffic to your site, and improve your search engine ranking.

It’s really pretty simple.  All you have to do is go to a social bookmarking site, enter the url,title, summary, and tags about a post or page and voila, you have created a new social bookmark and back link to your site.  Now repeat for all the social bookmarking sites you can find!

Ok, I know this sounds really time consuming.  Truthfully, it is. Luckily there are some online services and software that allow you to enter all the information for a page or post once and blast it to all or most social bookmarking sites, saving you tons of time.

I’ve used the online service Onlywire to promote some blogs.  They’ll let you use the service for free if you add the Onlywire button to your blog or webiste (allowing visitors to your site to bookmark your pages or posts).  You can also pay for the service if you don’t want to use their button.  I honestly found the Onlywire system a bit tedious, but I read some other reviews where people had like it.

I’ve recently started using the offline software, Social Bookmarking Demon, by Edwinsoft.  It was about $150, but I think in the long run it’s worth it.  Really easy to use, quick, and efficient.   It has a lot of other features as well that can pretty much put your social bookmarking campaign on autopilot.  Well worth the money in my opinion.

There’s a plethora of  other sites and software that offer similar services as the aforementioned.  If you have had any good or bad experiences feel free to leave a comment.

To tap into the level of income you can make by marketing ebooks, you will need to promote your ebooks on the internet. You can promote online through free and paid advertising. Free advertising allows you to reach your targets without having to pay, while with paid advertising, you will have to spend some money to get to your targets.

Some paid advertising methods/media are PPC (pay per click) advertising, classified ads, ezine ads etc. While some free advertising methods/media are blogs, article marketing, video marketing, viral marketing, social bookmarking, ebooks etc.

You can actually start your promotions with either free or paid advertising or you may use the two together. If you want quick traffic for example, you may do a small test run (that is you spend less than a hundred dollars) with Google Adwords (a PPC advertising media). The test run will let you know how effective your ad is and what appeals to your targets, amongst other things. You may want to do this though, after you must have planned your promotional strategies. Paid advertising is not something you can just jump into if you don’t want to lose a lot of money, you will therefore need to consider the cost and understand exactly how any paid medium will profit you before making use of it.

To plan your promotional strategies, you will choose and list the free and/or paid ad media, you will want to use for your ebook promotions. You will learn how to use each medium and then create the content and ads to use on your chosen media. You will be able to automate your promotions on some of these media, while resorting to manual promotions on the others. For example, you can promote your ebooks through blogs, article marketing and video marketing automatically, while with classified ads you will have to do your promotions on a one-to-one basis.

The results you get from each ad media you use, will let you know where your ebook buying targets are, you will therefore know where to focus your attention on next. You can then create similar ebooks to what is selling and look at other areas of the niche you can create ebooks for. This is how you unlock the potentials for making money by selling ebooks. You may also create and market more ebooks to other niches too, if you want, expanding your reach.

Marketing ebooks will be a lot easier for you, if you create valuable and unique ebooks your targets want and if you understand you may need to promote consistently for a while, before you can get as much as you want, through them.

Ebook management software/services with security options, protects your ebooks from illegal copying. It will be extremely difficult and virtually impossible to track and control all the illegal use of your ebooks on the internet, without the use of a security-based ebook management software/service.

There are different levels of protection you may use on your ebooks. Some of these include password protection, copy protection, ebook encryption, disabled screen capture, printing and right clicks on ebooks, and locked pages.

Password Protection – Your ebook may be protected with a password to allow only people with access, to read it.

Copy Protection – You can prevent your ebook text from being copied or edited with this protection. You can also make it impossible for your readers to use more than one copy of your ebook at a time and restrict your ebook copy per user to one computer only.

Ebook Encryption – This allows you to encrypt your ebook content, that is, the codes, text and graphics. It produces unusable content for anyone advanced enough to extract your ebook content from its compiled form.

Disabled Screen Capture, Printing And Right Clicks On Ebooks – You may also want to disable screen capture when your ebook is in use by the user, to prevent the user from taking screen shots of your ebook, which may be converted to text later on. You can also disable printing from your ebook and right clicking on your ebook pages (to disallow your readers from viewing your ebook page source codes).
Locked Pages – This protection allows you to lock any page in your ebook. This is usually used for demo products you may want to give out for free but with limited access, your potential customers will receive full access to the pages of the ebook, when they place an order.

Your ebook compiler may come with some of these security features, but if there is a feature you want and your ebook compiler does not have it, you may have to use another software/service to provide it.

Ebook services on the internet may provide you with online ebook management, security, ebook compilation and several other ebook management services, just like their desktop ebook management counterpart, you may therefore choose to use these services too, for your ebooks.

You may also use secure ebook delivery for your ebooks. With this service, the url link for your ebook download is protected in such a way that your targets/customers cannot reuse the link for more downloads, hence it cannot be given a way for free to others.

Secure ebooks will help you to maximize your profits and create more income for you, always use it for your paid products.

To make money online, you will promote your ebooks on available ad media on the internet. If you are on a shoe-string budget, you may want to start your promotions with free advertising methods/media like article marketing, video marketing, viral marketing and social bookmarking.

As a product owner, you will need to create the ads and content you will need, for the promotions of your ebooks, and if you have set up an affiliate program for others to sell for you, you will also have to create the ads and content for your affiliates to use for the promotions of your ebooks too.

As an affiliate, for marketing ebooks, you may get an ad/content to use for the different ad media you may want to use for promoting the ebooks you choose to sell, from the product owner.

Article marketing is the act of using articles to market and promote your ebooks. You will use keywords related to your niche to create targeted and relevant articles, you can post to other websites allowing you to post your articles for free on their sites on the internet.

Video marketing is the use of videos for promoting your ebooks. You can create videos and post them on free video websites like Youtube to drive traffic to your website or product.

Viral marketing involves encouraging people to pass your messages along to others. This is most commonly done with the use of free ebooks containing links to your website or product.

Social bookmarking is the act of bookmarking web pages on social bookmarking sites. To promote your ebooks then, you can create content on your own website and bookmark them on the social bookmarking sites too.

Whether you are an affiliate or merchant, you will need to create the content (articles, web content, video and ebooks) you will need to use to promote the ebooks you sell, through these advertising methods/media.

You should also create targeted content on all the media you use (not only targeted articles), for your promotions. You can do this by getting keywords (or search terms) related to your niche through the use of a keyword tool like Google Adword Keyword Tool and use them in the headlines, body text, and descriptions of the content you created for these media. Doing this will help you to get better search engine ranking on the internet.

You should also track the results you are getting from each one of these medium, you can use a free software like the Google Web Analytics software to do this. Tracking your results will help you to know what is working for you.

To create ebooks, you will need a text/word processing software, an ebook compiler, reader, and converter. You may also need ebook security and/or professional graphics. The text/word processing software will let you type in your text, while an ebook compiler will compile your text and convert it to the format you want to use, for distributing your ebook. You will also need an ebook reader to view your ebook. And if you wish to distribute your ebook in multiple formats, you will need a software or online service that can convert your ebook to the different formats you want.

Your promotional ebooks may not need a lot of graphics, the usual text fonts and colors may be more than enough. But if you are creating your ebook as a product to sell, you will also need professional graphics to go along with it. And though you may not need security for the ebooks you give out for free, you will definitely need security for your paid ebook products, if you do not want to lose money and some sales through illegal ebook copying.

However, creating ebooks to profit is more than just putting a series of text together. To make money with ebooks, as a product for any given niche, you will need to research that niche to know what the targets in the niche are likely to buy. You will also have to compare the value competitors in the niche are giving your targets, and then create your ebook as a product that will give more or better value. This is how you create ebooks that sell, online.

Writing ebooks for your promotions too, will require more or less the same. The additional value you can provide for targets in the niche, will be your unique edge for selling/promoting your products/services (even if you only sell as an affiliate). You will use that value in your promotional ebooks, to get better results in your niche, than your competitors.

A lot of niches have huge potentials for instructions, how-tos, tips and information you can create as an ebook – lifestyle coaching, gardening, insurance, child care, weight loss, cellphones etc, are very good niches to sell to. You can therefore start on your own ebook now, by simply selecting a niche.

You can create your ebook yourself or outsource it. There are lots of ebook authors on the internet, ready to create your ebooks for you without retaining their rights to it, these are called ghost writers. You may get ebook authors on freelancing websites on the internet.