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Article submission/Press releases aren't really about link strength imo, granted they may get picked up elsewhere, but as far I'm concerned its more a case of building trust/brand awareness/establishing credibility etc.

One of the easiest easy way to increase the traffic on your blog site is to link share between the related blogs. Link sharing or link swapping is a perfect way to increase the readership on your blog. These readers once finding the useful and important content on your blog, comes frequently to your blog providing your blog more visibility and authority. is also very helpful tool that boost up the marketing of your business blogs.

You may think that for getting a Link you may only need to just send out email to every Webmasters, that's out there related to your niche. But most of you forget that exchanging the links and getting quality backlinks is not as easy as you imagine.

You should be very careful when you exchange links with other sites. The biggest Mistake you can make is linking to sites that are not relevant to the theme of your website. Link share could only be beneficial to you if you link to other websites with similar content.

But if you are diverted from your topic you have the chance that your link share may have adverse affect and you get penalized from the search engines. This way of link sharing will lead to the negative results when you are actually expecting for some positive results from it. By doing this type of link popularity you are exposing to risk of being penalized and banned from the search results. So be careful and wise in doing the link swapping so that you can get best results that are worth for your blogs.

If you are selling an eBook, studies show that having an image of the book creates an increase in sales. A 3D cover gives the customer the feeling that they are actually getting SOMETHING for their money, not just a bunch of digital 1s and 0s.

There are several ways of creating an image for you to use. The first is to pay a designer to create one for you. The advantages of this are that you can usually receive an image or collection of images (in various sizes) that really looks nice. However, these custom images can be costly...between $50 and $200. And frequently it takes several iterations before the designer makes a 3D cover that matches exactly what you need.

The second method is to buy Adobe Photoshop and an Action Script. An Action Script is like a macro or mini-program within Photoshop. In the case of creating a 3D book cover, it involves converting the flat image and giving it effects like depth perspective, reflection, shadow, etc. There are existing templates and scripts for Photoshop that produce some really beautiful images. The difficulty is that both Photoshop and the Action Scripts are fairly pricey and have a bit of a learning curve. Photoshop costs $300 and the popular scripts for the 3D covers run about $50 to $100.

The third method is to use GIMP. GIMP is a free graphic software package that is as close to Photoshop you can get. There are some technical differences between GIMP and Photoshop which high-end graphic designers will argue about. But for the purposes of designing your own 3D book cover, GIMP can produce the same quality image as Photoshop.

GIMP is 'open-source' software. It is not owned by any one company. It is available freely on the internet.

There are several steps to creating a photo-realistic 3D cover. First, the image actually consists of several smaller images: the face, the spine, and the top edge. Reflections are created for the face and spine layers. Highlights are added to give texture to the book, especially at the bend and top edge. Those 'layers' are then wrapped around a box within GIMP.

One of the best things about mastering the GIMP technique is that GIMP can open . There are free book cover templates available on the internet, but they are all in PSD files, which is Photoshop's format. Those free files can then be opened by GIMP, and the technique for wrapping can then be applied to those files as well, all without having to pay for Photoshop!

In addition to being fun, designing your own 3D Book covers can be profitable. Many internet marketers are looking for graphics to go with their products. Once you learn how to create those graphics, you then have the ability to sell them! Search Internet Marketing forums for people looking to buy graphics, or sign up with one of the many freelance design websites on the internet.

However you choose to create your 3D book cover, always strive for top quality results. A poor image, such as those created by free websites, can hurt your eBook sales. It is better to have NO image than to have a bad one.