I just thought I’d let you know about this subject since I’ve heard about it and decided finally to check it out.

First off, the concept I’ve read about is that you can take your free lead-gen ebook and post it all over a bunch of free ebook directories in order to get easy one-way links pointing back at you.

Sounds great, right?

There’s even a few big-time gurus who say you should do this.  But if you spend an hour looking into it, you’ll find the whole concept doesn’t even exist.  Well, the concept exists, but the practice doesn’t.

Don’t believe me?  Just do a search on “ebook directories” or something like that; even adding “free” won’t help you.  Start clicking on the sites that come up and look around on them.  It won’t be long until you find that you cannot find a single site that fits into the concept.

After a while, I found this page http://www.ebookfreeway.com/p-ebook-directory-list.html

It’s awesome.

They break down the list of sites into “good”, “conditional”, and “not worth your time”.  Of the “good”, there’s only one worth your time.

Most of these sites, if they are what they say they are (sites that will list your ebook with a link back to your site), will require you to link back to them!  Those are OUT.  Others charge.  Those are out.

At the end of that page, they say they get lots of traffic from those sites, so if you can handle some fees and having to do reciprocal linking, it might be worth a try.  I won’t be trying it any time soon…..