e-Books For Free

These days it's easy to get e-books for free. Where to get those free e-books may be the big question, but not any more. This page gives you the ultimate guide in getting your free e-books online with just the click of a button. I've outlined the e-Books singly, then by categories. For your convenience, I've also included a few directories you can browse for a more general collection of e-books for free. 

Note: this list of e-books will keep changing as I add more to it. 





Free e-Books online

Popular, free e-books in various e formats

Feng Shui Assassin (fiction)

Of Water, Spirits and Tequila Sunrise  (non-fiction)

The Unsuspecting Mage: The Morcyth Saga Book One (fiction)

Minnie (fiction)

Smashwords Style Guide (non-fiction)

How To Get A Literary Agent (non-fiction)

Hostile Witness (fiction)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (fiction)

Little Women - series 1 (fiction)

Grimm's Fairy Stories (kids)





Where to get free e-books (top lists in categories)

10 Free e-Books for Web designers

Top 10 free e-Books For Bloggers

Top 10 Free e-Books on Parenting (for people with young kids)

Hottest Free, e-books on Weight Loss

Free e-books on Cooking

30 Free e-books On Personal Finance

Free e-books on Marketing

Free e-books On Health and Fitness





Download e-books for free (large directories listing free ebooks) 

An extensive range of free e-Books by Gutenberg. (Out of print books - general topics for you to browse)

Free e-book Directory 

Hundreds of Free e-books on Smashwords





My own e-Books

(These are not free)

How To Raise Kids To Be Responsible Adults

How To Really Lose Weight Without Dieting

How To Spend Less





If you have a free e-book which is presently available to download, please feel free to add it (with the link) below. If you ARE leaving your link, please add a link to my books on your blog or webpage in return. Thank you. 

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Earn With Your Blog: Blogvertise

With the growing number of people looking to earn extra money with their blog, more and more pay per post sites are making their services available for both bloggers and advertisers alike. 

Blogvertise is one such free site. I've written for them in the past, but this post is a personal share - not a paid advertisement - to show my subscribers and readers one other way of earning extra cash with your blog. Today I'm featuring Blogvertise. 





On the other hand, advertisers can with sign up with Blogvertise here.

Earning, blogging with blogvertise

You will be asked to register as a blogger or an advertiser when you sign up with Blogvertise. Fill in your details, including your profile information. You'll be asked to upload a picture of yourself too. This is to be placed beside your bio when writers are featured on the front page. 

A large part of earning money online is the willingness to put yourself forward, so be patient and fill in all the boxes. When you add a blog, supply a description, keywords and exclusions (sites you'd like to NOT get assignments from). The trick to earning more money with your blog on blogvertise is to make sure you accept or decline tasks on time. When you do accept a task, be certain to write the requested amount of words and add the links you're given. Payment for blogging is usually between $4.00 - 20.00 (each post).





Another very important point is to sign into your account at least twice a week, even if you have no assignments to complete. An active member is seen as one who's eager and interested in getting jobs.



How blogvertise helps you make money with your blog





1. Once your blog is approved, wait for assignments to be sent to you. (Or get grab bags - discussed below).

2. You will receive an email with your assignment stating in the brief, the number of words required, the amount you'll get paid for the blog post, and the links you should include in your article (usually 2 or 3).

3. Once you've written the post, there's a link to 'accept task' on the email you've been sent.

4. Copy and paste the url of your post into the appropriate panel and submit your task for approval.

5. Check back within a couple of days to see if your task has been approved.

6. Wait for payment.



Advantages of blogging with blogvertise





1. The Blogvertise site has self-explanatory, detailed help on every aspect of their system. You can find whatever you need to help you.

2. You can set your payout rate to whatever is suitable for you. You may still get offers lower than your requested amount, but you can always decline them.

3. The system allows for negotiation where payment is concerned, providing you're a steady blogger and does the tasks on time and properly.

4. You can log in to find 'grab bag tasks' on your account. This simply means you can find extra assignments if you log in and update your blog regularly enough.

5. Blogvertise offers prompt payment for tasks submitted. Earning money online can sometimes be problematic because clients take a long time to pay. Blogvertise pays up 30 days after the approved post went live.

6. Making money with your blog is not such an attractive proposal if your writing assignments roll on for ages before they're approved. Each post on blogvertise is approved (or declined) promptly.

7. You also get the chance to edit your post if it's declined. You're told why it isn't, and what to do in order to get an approval.

8. Payment is by Pay Pal.





Disadvantages of earning with blogvertise





1. The site does not offer a referral programme, so even if you were to sign up with Blogvertise and start earning money with your blog today, I would get nothing from it even though I told you about their site. 

2. The earnings can be slightly less than other pay per post sites.

3. You have to write all posts directly on your blog. If for some reason, the advertiser rejects your post completely, you've already given them a link which has been on your site for perhaps a couple of days.

4. Blogvertise, though a great way of earning money with your blog, does not send out a lot of offers.



If you're a writer/blogger and want to start making some money with your blog, Blogvertise is a great way of doing so. There are precious little writing opportunities out there, so we have to make the best of sites like these which can significantly add to our online earnings. 

Earn With Your Blog: SocialSpark

A lot of people are looking to earn some extra money online. Bloggers and website owners are continuously looking for, and writing about the best ways to make money online. Today I just want to look at one way in which small-time Bloggers can make money with their blogs online: Socialspark. 

Ins and outs of earning with your blog

In two days I'll be receiving $50.00 from SocialSpark, with another $30.00 in my account to be withdrawn at a later date. So far I've written 5 posts for SocialSpark on 3 different blogs. I went away on holiday just before another 2 posts were due, so I've missed out on about $20.00 worth of earnings from that particular site.

Now there are lots of other ways to make money online. As most of us know, making money with your blog tends to be about writing lots of posts for a small amount of money. Some pay-per-post sites will even offer as little as 0.50c to write a post of a hundred words. I won't even consider taking these, but the fact that they're still on offer means that someone is. Other sites will offer highly rated blogs as much as $10.00 for one link in their post - but your blog is not yet highly-rated.

Note: I haven't been paid for this post. I've written it to help my readers and share some inside knowledge about Socialspark - one of the best ways to make money online for small-time and new bloggers.



How socialspark helps you make money with your blog

1. Join the site (link below).

2. You will be asked to submit a few details and some information about you and your site(s). Make sure you fill these in to the best of your ability. This is what will get you jobs - or not.

3. Choose how much you wish to be paid per post. I advise using their guidelines which are based on your traffic.

4. You will need to verify your site. This involves placing a bit of text on your page or joining it with your Google Analytics account. The latter is simpler and more straight-forward.

5. Your blog will have to be approved.

6. Once your blog is approved, you will start to receive relevant leads.

7. Log in, write your post (include the links they give you) and submit for approval once finished.

8. You will receive an email once your post has been approved, telling you it will be posted to your site.

Advantages of  working with Socialspark





Before you start making money with Socialspark, make sure you take care of the following steps. It may take some time for your blog to be approved, so make sure you provide all the information you're asked for upfront. Tagging your blog and putting it in the right category will help tremendously. There are several advantages to you as a blogger (below) and in addition to making you money, your blog will be more visible because big companies use Socialspark.

1. The work you receive does not depend on your Google rating. You can have low-rating blog, but as long as you get a decent amount of traffic, you'll get work.

2. Your blog will earn more money on SocialSpark (per post) than on most other pay per post sites. You can expect to be paid at least $10.00 for 200 words.

3. Social spark offers a referral program. You can make a little more extra money by getting other people to write for them.

4. Socialspark pays you the money you make through paypal.

5. If you do your job well, advertisers are allowed to rate you and your work. Good ratings get you more jobs. More jobs of course, makes more money for your blog.

6. The support team is always prompt, personal and helpful.

7. Each post is your personal opinion with no influence from Socialspark.



Disadvantages of blogging with Socialspark





There are advantages of making money online. However, hard you work, and however much money you make with your blog, there will always be little, nagging things about how you go about doing so. There are a few disadvantages of blogging with socialspark. And even though they do not outweigh the advantages in the least, I thought I should mention them to you to give you the complete picture of this site.

1. You have to wait 30 days after your post has been approved before you get the payment. Keep in mind that your advertiser may take days to approve your post.

2. You have to wait until your balance has accumulated to at least $50.00 before you request payment. If you did request payment before the balance is at least $50.00, you have to pay a 'penalty' of $2.00.

3. You write all your posts on the Socialspark site. Therefore, the format your text is eventually published in may not be up to your usual standard. Paragraphs and lines are not always where you think they'd be.



Sign up to Socialspark here This is my link, so you'll be signing up through my page as my referral. 





So, are you ready to make some money with your blog? If you are, I can recommend Socialspark. It's upfront and the payment is real. 

Have You Enabled Adsense For Feeds

Adsense for feeds allow ads to show with your feeds. You can choose if you want them to appear at the top or the bottom of your posts. They're always relevant to your topics and appear in small windows (just like on your blog). You earn money when visitors click on or view these ads. A feed, simply put, is a plugin that offers your reader a way to get regular updates every time you publish something new. 

You have enabled targeted Google Adsense on your blog and you've burned your feeds. If you haven't targeted your Google adsense on your site you may be losing lots of money. Go to the link and you will see a very simple tutorial of how to make your Google adsense work better for you.

On the other hand, if you want to burn a feed here's a super, step-by-step article showing you how to get a feedburner account for your blog.

After publishing Google adsense on your site, you may think that your Adsense for feeds are automatically enabled, but  this is not so. However, there is great news! You can enable adsense for feeds with just a few clicks. Please note that you need to have a feedburner account before you set up adsense for feeds. The above, linked article will help. 

Enable Adsense for feeds on your blog

1. Go to your dashboard.

2. Click Monetize on your chosen blog.

3. In the top panel you'll see Adsense overview, Adsense For Feeds, and Amazon Associates. Click on Adsense for Feeds.

4. You will be brought to a page that guides you through the Adsense for feeds set-up. It will show you the address to which all your feeds are being directed.

4. Choose your ad type (picture and text is ideal). Frequency and Position.

5. Click on Next and see your results. There, you're done!

Adsense for feeds earn you extra money, so if you've already enabled Google adsense on your blog, it would be a shame not to also enable Adsense for feeds. With just one click, you could potentially earn yourself some extra cash. 





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Net 10 Unlimited

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Net10 for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

Isn’t it amazing how cold callers expect the right to all kinds of private information about you, just because they called you up?  In no other area of life, will a stranger expect you to tell them about your expenses – phones, electricity and otherwise – simply because they asked. I received one of these calls the other day and was slightly irritated to be called away from my work by someone I didn’t know, just to be asked some stupid, private questions about my phone bills.

The caller wanted to know what type of phone I had and how much I paid a month. I told him I wasn’t interested in a new phone, and that I was perfectly happy with the phone I’m using, without wondering how much each phone call was going to cost me. However, this was before I'd heard of Net 10 Unlimited and seen this Cute NET10 commercial from a Real NET10 customer online.

They have  excellent deals, and have cut many a cell (mobile) phones bills by half, leaving you the freedom to spend a bit more on the finer things of life. Net 10 Unlimited doesn't have to offer contract and uncomfortable credit checks. You get unlimited talk, text and data for only $50.00 per month. Their coverage is nationwide and the reception is twice as good as many other mobile phone companies. Airtime can be purchased online as well as from stores and directly from your phone. This is perfect for people who work unusual hours, have their own businesses, or make overseas calls to contacts abroad. After all, Net 10 Unlimited provides a long-distance service to more than 75 different countries.

 Their choice of phones is also excellent. They use LG, Motorola, Kyocera, Samsung and Nokia (which is the phone I have). Nokia takes remarkable pictures for a phone. I take all my blog posts pictures with my phone nowadays. It’s very handy and does the job.



If you would like more details and information, why not pop over to their twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/Net10_Wireless

or Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/NET10Wireless You can also see this video of what What Rob has to say here. 

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How To Get Blog Traffic: September Update

I've recently been scouring the Internet to find good articles to improve my sites and increase my blog traffic. I know that high blog traffic translates into better impressions and higher earnings for blog owners. Blog traffic is not something which can be increased over night, but there are steps we can take in order to gradually get the kind of traffic we deserve. 

There are several articles on this blog, aimed at new bloggers, about ways in which we can write better to increase our traffic and quality of content. I'm not an expert so I constantly need to teach myself new ways to make my sites better and improve traffic to all my blogs.

This new page has a collection of great articles dedicated to helping new bloggers improve their blog traffic in areas of content, settings, gadgets and customization: Get Blog Traffic: 20+ Articles For New Bloggers. 

However, I'd like to link to 3 other extremely helpful articles which can help you get blog traffic in totally different ways. 

Three different ways to get blog traffic

Comment on dofollow sites to get traffic (and backlinks) to your blog 

List of 51 DoFollow Blogs To Comment On

The above article is a fabulously useful list of dofollow blogs you can comment on. 'Do follow' simply means that when you comment and leave your blog ID, this link counts as a backlink to your site. (No need to spam them with your extra links. A simple comment with your blog ID will do). This is good for SEO and Google ratings. Backlinks, simply put, are links from other sites pointing to your blog. 

Someone who clicks on your linked comment (providing it's approved) goes straight to your blog. This is a potential for you to attract new and regular subscribers/readers.

Use backlinks on the web to get new traffic

101 Ways To Get Quality Backlinks To Your Blog

The above article is a gem. It gives you more than a hundred ways to build backlinks to your blog. Backlinks seem to be the 'in' thing this year when it comes to increasing your Google rating. Building backlinks, however, does not only positively affect your site's ratings, it also gets you free traffic to your blog. This article tells you to build links on forums etc. What this does, is bring people to your site through your comments and interaction. 

Optimize your page for blog traffic

How to Optimize A Page For Keywords

This is another fantastic article. It shows you simply how to properly place keywords on any page of your blog. Great keyword placing means you get traffic from people using search terms on search engines. This means you don't have to place links anywhere on the web or become active in forums. Merely taking care of the stuff on your own site results in blog traffic, because people can find your posts better and more effectively.

So, getting blog traffic doesn't seem to hard after all. Of course you have to work constantly at it, but if you start with the above three points, these should see you on your way to attracting more free traffic for your blog. The only question is, which one are you going to try first?

• Comment on great sites to get blog traffic


• Build backlinks on forums and other parts of the Internet to get free traffic


• Or learn how to choose sound keywords to attract traffic to your site?

The rest is up to you. Please leave your comment for A Blogger's Books subscribers if you have other tried-and-tested ways of getting free blog traffic. Thank you.

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Free Blog Gadgets For Blogspot

Free Blogger gadgets are always in demand for both new and more experienced bloggers. New bloggers naturally grab hold of all the gadgets they think look pretty on their blogspot site. They (the free gadgets) get weeded out as bloggers become more experienced, but more often than not, most of us keep quite a few on our site for years. Google blogs (Blogger) has provided an unlimited amount of free blog gadgets for us to sink our teeth into. Writing blogs like A Blogger's Books have enjoyed gadgets to increase page views and other useful, fun, free blog gadgets that make writing sites more productive and satisfying.

To share this with you, I'm featuring a collection of favourite gadgets for blogging. The list includes tutorials on adding the free blog gadgets (for brand new bloggers) and a brief description of them. More importantly, I explain how and why these gadgets are important to your blog and the ways in which they can be useful to you. Why not check it out! This page will be updated regularly, so drop by again to see what this writing blog has put together for you. Click on the headings to go to the individual articles. 

Fun Gadgets For Your Blog

These include: Event, Flickr photostream, The Daily Puppy, 'Twitter Follow Me' buttons and more. Blogging for many, is about sharing life's experiences, having fun and making friends. If this is you, then you'll certainly like one or more of these gadgets.



Free Gadgets To Improve Page Views

These include: Blogger Play Gadget, Recent Post Gadget, 'You May Also Like' gadget, etc. The last thing a blogger wants is to be the only person who visits her/his site. These free blogspot gadgets will help you gain more views and have visitors returning to read your new posts.



Free Gadgets To Monetize Your Blog

These include: Pages, Search box, Adsense and Amazon Deals. These gadgets can seriously add to your income while doing something you love.



Blogger's Most Useful Gadgets

These include: Get answers, Recent posts, 'Share This' and Popular Posts. Fun, earning, and lots of new followers are great, but sometimes bloggers need a bit of creative help to give back to the people for whom they write. These free gadgets are just what you need.

Top Gadgets

These include: Followers, Pages, HTML/Javascript, Recent Posts etc. Generally, bloggers have their best (top) gadgets which are almost standard on all the blogs we visit. This list gives you the favourites of the thousands of gadgets available.



If you know someone who could benefit from this article about free blog gadgets please share it with them and on your favourite networking sites. As always, thank you for your visit and your comments.