How To Get Your Book Published For Free
How Google Indexes Your Webpage
Author: Norman McIver
When understanding how Google indexes webpage’s is to think of the web as a large book and which has an impressive index which identifies where everything is located. When you query a search on Google, it checks their index of webpage’s they have compiled and determines the most relevant search results to be returned back to the user.
The three key processes in delivering search results to you are:
- Crawling: Does Google know about your site? Can we find it?
- Indexing: Can Google index your site?
- Serving: Does the site have good and useful content that is relevant to the user’s search?
Crawling
Google use a process where automated software known as Googlebot skewers the internet for new and recently updated paged to be added to their index.
Google use a vast set of computers to fetch (or “crawl”) billions of webpage’s. The program which performs this amazing job is known as Googlebot. Other terms it’s also known as are robot, bot or spider. Googlebot uses an algorithmic process: computer programs determine which sites to crawls, how often, and how many pages they fetch from each site.
Indexing
When Googlebot begins to the crawl the internet it starts with a list of URL’s from previous sessions, and augmented with Sitemap data provided by webmasters. When Googlebot lands on a page it takes the links from that page and adds them to its list of pages to crawl. New websites or updates to new ones are noted and updated on the Google index.
The good thing to note here is that you cannot pay Google to crawl a site more frequently and is not part of their revenue generating services.
Googlebot processes each of the pages it crawls in order to compile a massive index of all the words it sees and their location on each page. In addition, Google processes information included in key content tags and attributes, such as Title tags and ALT attributes. Googlebot can process many, but not all, content types. For example, we cannot process the content of some rich media files, dynamic pages or iframes.
Serving results
When you query a search on Google, it takes your query and matches to relevant pages within their index and then displays the results in the order Google feels most benefits your query. Relevancy is determined by over 200 factors, one of which is Pagerank. Pagerank is based on the importance if the incoming Links from other sites. Each link from another site your own contributes to how well your page will rank. But don’t think you can go out and get 1000’s of incoming links by automatically submitting to sites. Not links are equal in Googles eyes. Google is working hard to ensure that you the user are provided the best result for your search by identifying spam links and other practices that have a negative impact on search results. What this means in simple terms, if you have a site which provides information on pet care and products, then your page rank will increase when getting incoming links from websites with similar interests and content.
Before Google can index and rank your site well in search results, you need to ensure that Googlebot can crawl and index your site properly. Broken and dead links will have a negative impact on how your site ranks. It’s important to ensure that you use Google webamstertools to not only ensure your site can be crawled but to also ensure you comply with Googles guidelines and improve your sites ranking.
Caching your Site
One of the major advantaged I find with Google caching the content of your website is that if you ever mistakenly save over your index.html page on either your main website or one of it’s subfolders your can retrieve that data without to much hassle through Googles Webmaster Tools.
1. Log into your Webmaster Tools Account.
2. Click on Statistics on the left hand side panel.
3. Click on Index Stats.
4. Then on
cache: The current cache of your site cache:yourdomain.com
From here it will show you a screen shot of the last time Googlebot crawled your webpage.
What you want to do from here is save that page.
1. Go to ‘File’ at the top right hand corner of your browser.
2. Go down to ‘Save As’ and save it as index.html or index1 whatever you choose.
3. Use your FTP program to transfer it over to your Hosting Folder.
4. Using your Website Design Tool modify it from what Google has Cached then save back over your index.html file.
By this point you should your original Website which was lost should now be restored. At this point you may want to make a back up of it.
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hate to be the one to say this to you, but will find it is next to impossible to publish poetry. The odds of someone making a living as a poet are astronomical – worse than astronomical. Poetry is Just not a big seller anymore.
Prove it to yourself. Go to the biggest bookstore you know and ask to see the poetry section. After you dust the books off, count them. There won’t be many and most of them will be from established and old poets.
Now go to the New Fiction section and see how many books are there. About 50 times as many as poetry. Because they SELL.
Stores cost money to rent. A bookstore has to ration its selling space accordingly to what they can sell to meet their overhead. They simply cannot devote a lot of square footage to books they aren’t going to sell rapidly.
A high body count Dean Koontz thriller sells. Poetry doesn’t.
As for selling poems to magazines, let me explain it this way. Recently the Poet Laureate of the United States sold a five line poem to a magazine. He got a check for 25 dollars – 5 dollars per line. If that is all the Poet Laureate can get, how much do you think you could get? The answer is probably nothing. They would be published free.
If you want to self publish, you need to understand Uncle Jim’s Law “The money should flow TOWARD the author, not away from him.” In the case of Lulu and other self publishers, the money flows AWAY from the author and at a rather large clip. It will cost and cost and cost you. You will pay and pay and still your books will not be for sale on shelves in any bookstore in America. Unless you pay for an ISBN number, they won’t even be for sale on Amazon. And now, Amazon says they are removing all BUY buttons from books that aren’t self published by their subsidiary BookSource. They will only carry your book for sale if you pay them 29.99 annual fee, plus 55 % of your cover price, plus you have to purchase the books yourself from your own self publisher and mail them at your expense to Amazon so they will stock them. That will put most self published books in the red REAL fast. Especially if the average sales for a self published book is 100 copies – or roughly 2/3 of your family and friends. You will lose money big time.
And the question is, without paying for publicity and promotion, how is anybody going to know the book is out there to buy it? Nobody actually surfs Amazon looking for interesting books. You can’t. There are millions there.
I know that is not the answer you want to hear, but that is the cold, hard truth. Poetry is not a big seller. No major publishers are reading poetry so no agents are interested. They won’t bother with something they can’t sell. Sorry, but true, and a visit to your local bookstore will prove it to you. Pax-C
Just to prove it to you – Random House – the largest publisher in America currently has ZERO poetry books in their line. Harper Collins – the #2 publisher has 368. About 85% of those poets are deceased and about 10% are celebrities. Not much chance for a new poet to get published by them.
If money is your only motivation for finishing your manuscript then your heart is not in it. Nothing is worse than a writer who sees the paycheck over the gratification of finishing something so challenging and time-consuming. Finishing your novel should be not only your motivation, but your greatest achievement.
Forget about money and focus on the completing your work. If your heart is no longer in it and all you care about is that paycheck then give up now.
Writers with passion and love for their craft are becoming a dying breed thanks to those who love money more than a good story. Please, don’t be one of those. I write because I love to, not for the paycheck.
if it was half the world would be famous by now
It is VERY hard to get a poem published, and it is even harder to get a book of poems published. What I did was, I started with online journals…then worked my way up. I recently had a poem published in “Strange Horizons,” and that is a VERY hard magazine to get into…plus, they only publish scifi poetry, but they do pay you twenty dollars per poem.
I had my chapbook published with these guys: http://www.foothillspublishing.com You don’t get any money from them, because the publisher is so small, but you do get ten free copies. Or there’s lulu.com, but I would not recommend them.
Just start sending out your poems to anyone and everyone you can think of. Here’s a good online directory: http://www.clmp.org, they have a listing of magazines and publishers that you might want to try.
Good luck!!
1. Yes, but anything you say has to be factual or they could sue you for defamation. If you can prove your facts, you’ll be alright.
2. My mother had several childrens books published by a company no longer in existance. Publishers are hit and miss. There are thousands and you need to take the time to send a portion of your manuscript to all of them. Even a good book, sent to all these publishers, could still fail to get published. It’s like winning the lottery. Better to get your name recognized through magazines and such ahead of time.
3. Your first book, you should check yourself or hire an editor. If you land a contract, they may or may not edit it again. Once you establish a relationship with a publisher, they will hire an editor for you… sometimes.
4. That is determined by the cost of the print run, multiplied by a minimum profit margin, usually 145 – 165%, and then multiplied again for retail pricing, maybe another 120%. The retail price is printed on the book and the final distributors, like amazon or barnes and noble, will pay that minimum profit price and decide to use the full retail price or something in between. Amazon is so cheap because they make most of their money by selling in bulk and not having a lot of customer service employees and brick and mortar buildings for them to walk through. Their overhead is just plain cheaper.
5. If you self publish, like with lulu.com, the cost will depend on the print run you order. They have helpful charts. If you manage to get a contract with a publisher, it should cost you NOTHING and never sign anything where it does cost you something. If you become well known, you could even get advances for books you haven’t even written yet, because the publisher will want exclusive rights on your future books. In your first book, you’ll want to sign a contract that gives you a minuscule portion of the profits of every book sold, so it will depend on the number of books sold. When you get more books out, you’ll renegotiate the contracts to give you larger and larger portions of the profit. Definitely not something you can live off of when you first start out.
6. Don’t know what you mean by this one. If there’s one you want, make sure you send a copy to a reviewer and they may or may not award a medal.
Well, there’s a little hitch here. Since you are 11 (not that there’s anything wrong with it. I applaud you for getting into writing so soon), when it comes to publishing, you would not be able to enter into a publisher’s contract as a minor. You would have to have the permission of your parents or guardians, and they wold have to sign the contract on your behalf.
That being said, there are scholarships out there for young writers. http://www.fastweb.com is an excellent site for this. You will need your parents to help you with this, as I believe you need their information, and their permission on the site in order to retrieve the scholarship information. If they have doubts about getting you into scholarship competitions at your age, have them talk to your teachers and guidance counselors at school. Sometimes the earlier you get started on obtaining scholarships, the more you can receive.
Good Luck!
woow this is a beautiful poem, this is very well writen, you have a natural talent and it is too good for y/a. You should get that published i would give that a perfect 10, i think the way you write is very creative and this poem flows very freely,
please post more of your poems i would love to read them
I hope i helped good luck in the future xx
Publishing should ALWAYS be for free, if your work is quality. If you have to pay for it, it is either a scam or print on demand/self publishing, which makes it VERY hard to sell and to be taken seriously.
Is that your entire story? It’s okay…not horrible, not great.
Firstly, breathing in smoke does not make you unconscious, it’ll irritate your lungs, but you won’t pass out unless you’ve been breathing it in for a long time- and in your story, it says that your characters jumped away from the car quickly, doesn’t it?
You have some grammar issues- your vs. you’re and feint vs. faint.
I can’t think of the likelihood that this would happen, but I guess it’s up to you and your story. If you want to get this published, I’m sure you could find a place, but it’s not quite up to par yet. Develop your characters more- right now, this is your story. ‘My sister can’t drive very well, she crashes, and I get hurt…and she gets punished.’ Tell us what happens to her and her mum, because as of now, it ends kind of choppily. Were you in a hurry to finish it?
Well, that’s my opinion -_-
~SKS
It is matter if your can promote it well. I find it tough
To any published (poem) writers….?
How easy was it for you to get your poetry book published? Any tips on how I could get MY poems published? Also, do you know any good agents/ publishers that focus mostly on poetry? Please help- I would really appreciate it (feel free to email me too!)
How do you publish a book?
i’m writing this book, and my friends think it’s really good and they keep telling me i should publish it or submit it into a writing contest or something. although i’m not done with it. the thing is, i’m only 11 and i haven’t told my parents about the book publishing. it’s actually more like a diary, and i kept it as a diary, and i got bored over the summer and reworked it just for fun so it was really easy to write and my friends think it sounds so “natural”. anyway, how would you be able to publish a book by being only 11 and not telling your parents and for free?
How does it work when your trying to get a poetry book published are you supposed to pay someone to?
edit and all this stuff is there someone who will do it for free and you just pay them off your royalty checks.
Getting Published – is it easy to get your book or article published?
Do most authors have to deal with bureaucratic crap to get their writing out in the public? Why don’t more authors strictly go online and use their own blogs rather than have somebody determine your fate through a publishing company?
Found this on CareerCritique
“Hours/Week: 12
Education level: High School
Percent of time on travel: 0
Years of Experience: 7
Job Security (Rate 1 to 10): 6
Comments: I have been writing for seven years now. Most days I work as a mortician (creepy, I know) but whenever I have free time I have written magazine articles, novellas, short stories, and even some novels. All of the writing only represents less than half my income and I do not consider writing my “true” career.
Writing is extremely rewarding. If you are interested about how the realities of the pay:
The nature of the publishing business is structured so that you receive pay anywhere from 6 months to 1 year after acceptance of an article or book. In some cases it is split into 2 – 3 checks: one at signing and review, another on delivery and acceptance, and one after publication. In other words it can take a while from when paperwork is submitted to when the paycheck is recieved. You may want to consider having another dayjob during this phase. Once Royalties begin coming your way from past books, depending on how well your books have sold, you will start to see money. A steady, livable income usually will not happen until 5 years of dedicated effort.
For all young authors out there – writing can be very rewarding, but dont quit your day job just yet!”
http://www.careercritique.com/addcomments.php?cid=22
You can submit your own reviews at the bottom, or hit the “back” button to browse the list of careers
How much is a newly published book gonna make? 10 pts, experienced authors please!?
Okay I’m 17. I started writing a book when i was in 7th grade. I am still writing it, but I am working on finishing over the summer and my goal was to finish it in a month from now or so, My book isn’t awesome, I suppose I’ll let the readers decide if it is ever lucky enough to become published. It has its weaknesses(more so than its strengths at the moment) and its strong points, but I am not asking on whether or not my book is good.
I am wondering how much a book will make a new author when they are publishing their first book. If it is worthy of getting published and I can find myself an agent and everything, I was wondering how much a first book would make per month and any other comments you other more experienced authors has.
Anyone is free to comment, but I was just wondering how much a book can make to give myself motivation to finish the book. Please feel free to comment on writing books or how much they make or the blessings and negatives of book writing. For any experienced authors of sort out there please feel free to tell me all the hardships you ran into and how good it was to get your book published and how gratifying/depressing it was to recieve your first “paycheck”. Thanks!
!!!!!!writers help!!!!!!?
if your book was published then please help !
ok,, im the kind of person that everyone says should write books , if someone has a problem they come to me to ask for advice. how can i (attempt) to get it published??? like who do i send it to? is there any ways to get it published for free? i would be willing to pay but the thing is what if i spend all that money and dont make any off of it. please help. any links?? thx
Publishing a book. A few questions.?
1. Am i alowed to use others names in my book? It is a Non-Fiction book.
2. Does anybody have any experiances with publishers? If so who is a good one? Also if you got a book published how many did you sell and what was your book called? (give me a link to the publisher.)
3. Who do i get to check my book for errors?
4. Who choses how much your book is sold for?
5. How much is it to publish a book? Can you get somebody to do it for free? If so am i still going to make a profit?
6. How do you apply to get medals for your book?
do you think my poem will make it far, i realyyy want it published into a book, but dont know a way thats free?
she was born, a cold Sunday afternoon
a miracle, a heaven sent, my daughter
she was a healthy 7 lbs
with beautiful big blue eyes
“My princess, i will protect and love you forever” i told her
i stayed up all night, just too look at her,
her tiny hands and feet.
“hey princess, I’m your mother”
I’ve been waiting 9 month for us too meet
lien there, in a hospital bed,
holding her in my arms,
not many words can be said.
ill never let her come to any harm
i was never scared,
always calm.
amazed always though,
how her head could fit in my palm
when she got sleepy,
id stroke her face
her delicate skin
the love within
that i could never replace.
1 year on
not a day is took for granted
ill never forget the day of your birth
you’re all i ever wanted
This poem is dedicated to my sweet daughter, georgea. i love you sooo much baby xxx
Is the Ebook market a good market to get into?
I want write and I was wondering if the Ebook market is a worthwhile thing to get into. Can you make money off of it? Do you have to just write how to books or can you write fiction too? Also can you write Young adult/children books for Ebooks? If the answers are yes, do you know of a good site that you can publish your stuff for free? I really want to work on making some money from my writing and I just would like to know the best way. Thank you to all the people who help!
Is my book good enough to get published? Am I old enough?
I’m 12, and I LOVE to write. I want to become an author – but I can’t wait until I’m twenty-odd. I’m so passionate about writing, and it would be the best thing that has happened to me if I could get my story published.
Thank you x
PS: This story isn’t yet finished. Please feel free to correct anything. Thanks again!x
The Emergency
Whack!
I watched the mixture of dust and smoke rise into the clean summer air. There, halfway through a brick wall lay my father’s pride and joy. What would he say when he found out that the love of his life had burst up in flames? My sister was horrified! She knew Dad would go crazy; I would, if it were me. Dad’s car had cost him practically all the money he had. Ten years of savings, burning in the middle of the town. That car was the centre of his life. Sometimes, I think he loved it more than us! Now, there it was; hotter than the hottest day in Egypt.
It all started when my sister Amy promised to take me to the farm. She had just passed her driving test, after failing six times. My mum was relieved, as all those tests had cost her a fortune! She was desperate to make sure Amy didn’t lose her license. It would probably take her another six or seven tries for her to get it back again. Mum was so scared Amy would mess up and get her license taken off her, so she came with us.
“Clutch, check your mirrors. Change your gears. YOUR GEARS!” shouted Mum.
“MUM!” snapped Amy. “I know how to drive – your putting me off!”
“Bear in mind, Amy, you’ve only just passed your test. Remember how long it took you?” Mum replied. They argued for a few minutes more. A few minutes too many. Amy hadn’t been concentrating on the road, and the next thing we knew, we had crashed
After then, everything happened so quickly. From what I remember, we jumped out of the car very fast. I landed awkwardly on my leg, and I couldn’t move much, but I managed to shuffle away from the burning vehicle. My sister must have breathed in smoke, as she was unconscious. I wanted to help her. I really wanted to help her, but I couldn’t. I was in far too much agony. I tried to get up to help my sister, but I fell straight back to the floor again, feeling excruciating pain. I was crying hysterically, and to make matters worse, I didn’t know where my mum was – or how she was. I had my back to both Amy and Mum, but, suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw someone walk past me. I didn’t know who they were, because I didn’t manage to catch a glimpse of their face. I was really anxious and started to struggle. Once I managed to twist myself around, I saw a woman in a floral dress, a man with a long moustache and about eight or nine fire brigades. In the distance, I heard feint sounds signaling the last of the police cars arriving. The last trace of toxic smoke drifted slowly up my nose, and the firemen put out the fire. I then awoke in hospital, and apart from the unbelievable pain I was in, all I could think about was Mum and Amy. I wanted to know where they were. I wanted to know if they were O.K.
A friendly nurse turned the corner, and wandered into my ward. She stopped at everyone’s bed – whether it was to give them their medication, or just ask them how they were feeling. With a friendly smile on her face, a clipboard and a bag full of prescribed medicine at hand, the nurse went along the line of patients. When she finally got to my bed, she asked; “How are you feeling, love? Is there a chance I can take your name for my chart please?”
“Hallo.” I groaned. “I’m feeling a little better, thanks; do you know where my mum and sister are?”
“I can find them. I promise. What did you say your name was sweet?” was the nurse’s reply.
“Jessica Watson. Please, I need to see my mum and Amy. Are they O.K?” I said, before starting to well up again. Through my blurry, tearful eyes, I looked at the nurses name tag. I wanted to know if this woman could keep her promises. Nurse Kayleigh.
“Yes. I’ll take you to see them. Just sit in this wheelchair first – I need to take you for an x-ray.” answered Nurse Kayleigh.
I did as I was told, and sat in the wheelchair another nurse had placed carefully by the side of my bed. Nurse Kayleigh wheeled me along the corridors, and chatted contentedly all the way. I had never had an x-ray before, and was quite nervous. What would it be like? Would it hurt? I was soon to find out. On the way to the room where I was to have the x-ray, we passed the waiting room. I caught a glimpse of my dad. ‘At least Dad’s here, he’ll look after me’ was all I said to myself.
The x-ray wasn’t so bad, after all. The nurse may have caused slight pain, but at least now, I would know exactly the damage my mother and sisters arguing had caused.
The overall damage was; I had a broken leg, which led to 3 months off school. Amy lost her license and was grounded for the whole 3 months I was off school – only being allowed out to go and wo
work with Mum (who would keep a very close eye on her). Mum got off pretty lightly really, she only suffered from whiplash and a few bruises. Dad bought a new car with the money Amy paid back, and as she didn’t bother attempting to obtain a new license, only he ever did the driving from then on!