Ah Torrent sites, home of pirates and vagabonds!
Well, not exactly. They do also offer legal distribution of content (or distribution of legal content depending on how you look at it).
Mininova used to be a pirate site but then they got smacked and so now they’re a legal torrent site.
The good news for content producers (a term I don’t like much but then “creatives” sounds wankerish) is that you can upload your own content and have it distributed for free around the world!
Some tips first!
Do your keyword research. If you are putting up a book of poetry then go to Google’s Keyword Tool and find a bunch of relevant terms to put in your title and body copy. Instead of “Lovely Poems by Author McAuthor” go with “Free Online Poetry eBook volume 1 by Melbourne poet Author McAuthor”.
Fill your body copy with these terms but make it readable. Don’t randomly fill the text with keywords but be sure to use enough of the top ranking ones.
Put in links to your websites, sale sites or whatever else you want to promote.
Name your file – instead of Lovely Poems.pdf call it Free_Online_Lovely_Poems_eBook_Author_McAuthor.pdf.
Recheck your titles and your text because once you uploaded you’ve only got one chance to get it right.
Once you have uploaded your torrent, other torrent sites around the world will add your torrent to their listings. This results in a massive number of links. Get your keywords right and you can push your ebook or song or movie to the top of the search results.
That one chance to get it right? You can edit your titles/body copy later but the changes don’t cascade through the network.
If you are uploading a pdf make sure you embed links back to your sites in it. Add a footnote and also an author note, for example.
If you google Flash Fiction eBook you can see the very small pdfs I released to promote Two Sentence Stories take up much of the first few pages. The website has also received a lot of traffic from these eBooks.
Torrent sites – not just for pirating movies any more!
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