In my previous post about how to write an E-book in 5 hours, I also mentioned that you need to create a link on your RSS Feed so people will be able to download the E-book only if they subscribe to your blog via e-mail.  (also check out the 1-day results of the E-book phenomena)

Well, to do this, you need a little bit of hacking but it’s simply as I will outline it for you.

First, you will need to create an XML file that FeedFlare needs to recognize.

I create an XML file like this:

<!DOCTYPE FeedFlareUnit SYSTEM "FeedFlareUnit-1.0.dtd">
<FeedFlareUnit>
    <Catalog>
        <Title>Download FREE Zedomax DIY HOWTO E-Book with 300+ Pages of Electronic Projects</Title>
        <Description>Download FREE Zedomax DIY HOWTO E-Book with 300+ Pages of Electronic Projects</Description>
    </Catalog>
    <FeedFlare>
        <Text>Download FREE Zedomax DIY HOWTO E-Book with 300+ Pages of Electronic Projects</Text>

		<Link href="http://zedomax.com/diy/diyebook.pdf"/>
    </FeedFlare>
</FeedFlareUnit>

(UPDATE: If you have hard time seeing the code, try opening up http://zedomax.com/diy/diy.xml and right-click->View Page Source)

Now simply copy and paste above code and save it as “sample.xml” or whatever you want to name it with .xml extension.  Of course, you might want to change the wording to whatever you need.  (Change the Title, Description, Text, and Link href.)

Then upload this file onto your website.  (I uploaded to http://zedomax.com/diy/diy.xml, you can click to see)

Second, go to FeedFlare, which is under the Menu->Optimze->FeedFlare in your Feedburner dashboard.

Simply past in your xml http address.  For me, I simply plugged in the http://zedomax.com/diy/diy.xml address like this:

Once you do that, you should see the following:

Make sure that the checkmark is checked and you are pretty much done.

When reader subscribe via E-mail, they will see something like this:

(NOTE: It might take couple minutes or a new post before this change appears on your feed.  If you don’t see it, try writing a test blog post.)

and the link will of course lead to the Link href I set in the beginning of this blog post. (http://zedomax.com/diy/diyebook.pdf)

Of course, this is a very “crude” method of actually knowing how many people downloaded your E-book.

Next time, I will show you how to add statistics to track how many people are downloading your PDF E-book.  (And I will show you how to do this without paying for any statistics services)

I know how to do it, just haven’t implemented it yet.

Although there’s not much traffic and subscribers yet on this blog, I will be soon making another E-book from the content on this blog to try the method.

Stay tuned and connected folks!  (Networking is major key to bloggin success) blog, Blogging, checkmark, copy and paste, dashboard, description text, doctype, e book, e book, e mail, electronic projects, link href, little bit, lt, Make Money Online, marketing, phenomena, sample xml, title description, xml file, zedomax

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