Lilach recently posted 14 different ways to monetise your blog, and in a forum where we were discussing her in depth knowledge she mentioned she needed another tip. My comment was tip number 15, add your blog feed to Kindle. Kindle and Amazon are a great route to market for bloggers looking to extend their reach and at 99 cents per subscriber per month, it’s not a get rich quick scheme. It is however an excellent way to monetise niche blogs.
Why isn’t every blog suitable for Kindle?
To add a blog to Kindle you will need an RSS feed. Without this Kindle
will find it hard to pull your content through. The Kindle reader has
it’s die hard fans. Fans that love to use it to read all of their
content and find it more convenient to read their subscriptions on their
hand held device rather than via email or Google reader.
So if you blog about a niche topic and there is a small but devoted
audience for that subject you will find it easier to monetise your blog
through Kindle that if you had a blog on say Internet Marketing /
marketing for the web or blogging
for business. These niches are filled with bloggers who got their
first and that’s not to say you shouldn’t try it out, just that you
shouldn’t expect to get wealthy. A niche that is saturated will be very
hard work for you and not financially viable.
How to add your blog to Kindle
- Step one – Go to Kindle Publishing
Step two – see the Screenshots below - Step three add your bank details to your account, sit back and wait
for approval
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Amazon checks out every submission so you will have to wait a few days
to see if you are accepted. In the mean time add your bank details and
any other things you need to ensure swift payment.
Yay! My blog has been approved to Kindle, now what?
Get promoting! Share your links on your blog, on twitter and and in your
newsletters. Promote the fact you now cater for Kindle readers and ask
people to subscribe if they are interested.
Bookmark and link back to your Amazon page – help your items get found
in the search engines better
My blog hasn’t been approved for Kindle, now what?
Take a long hard, honest look at your blog.
- Do you have too much advertising?
- Is the quality of the posts somewhat lacking?
- Is there a problem with your feed?
trouble, go and take a look and see what people advise.
How to get your blog on Kindle
Sarah Arrow
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Another for the must-do list. Thank you for this, ladies. Essential reading and most of us wouldn’t even think about doing this.
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Hi Babs, I think the Blogmistress is ideal to go onto Kindle, you have nice style that will be popular with a lot of Kindle users
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A great very informative article. I wasn’t aware that you could get your blog read on Kindle. I write my blog every day now and it would be great to get it more widely read. I’m definitely going to give this a try. Thanks
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Glad yo hear you are going to give it a go, good luck and thanks for stopping by and commenting
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Good advise, and its great to find another UK blogger, not something i find very often alas
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Thanks Larry, Sarah is an amazing blogger and a credit to not only female bloggers but also UK bloggers.
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Thanks for this Sarah (and Lilach!)
Very useful info – in the process of adding mine now, if nothing else my dad will be able to read it regularly!
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Great stuff Gemma, it’s a fabulous tip that I’m also planning on using:) Best of luck with getting it published
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Great article! Didn’t know this could be done, what a good idea!
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Thanks Sue, appreciate your comment:)
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Wow, another great article, thank you so much ladies for sharing this with us. Once again, practical, helpful and do able, just the sort of advice I can use.
Thanks and here’s to a blog on webinars and joint ventures being published on Kindle!
Thanks Bridget. Best of luck with getting your blog on webinars and joint ventures being published on Kindle – let us know how you get on:)
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I really appreciate this post and am sharing the details with our subscribers linking to your Post…
Thanks again for the the information
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Thanks Chuck for your comment and share:)
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Thanks Sarah (Lilich too)
I have a new blog, so not a terrible amount of content to subscribe to. But someday.
Bob
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Thanks Bob. Well now is the time to start populating it so you can get it on Kindle. Best of luck:)
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Great article. Are you doing this Lilach? If so how’s it going?
Thanks Shanda. I must admit it’s on my to-do-list
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That’s pretty cool. I didn’t know that was possible. Thanks
Thanks Jesper, my pleasure:)
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Good post. I tend to read a lot of the articles I subscribe to on my Kindle. You can do this via a few 3rd party apps like Kindle Feeder- http://kindlefeeder.com/
Whenever I see a great article that I want to read later, I star it in Google Reader. Using my Google Starred items RSS feed I can then send this to Kindle Feeder and this sends me a daily collection of the articles I want to read. It works really well for me.
However, this doesn’t help with the monetisation of your blog.
Thanks Ian, appreciate your comment and tip on Kindle Feeder:)
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Can you add certain feeds too girls, such as a certain names blogs on BlokesOTB? No pint doing my own sites one, its too erratic!
It worked! I am so surprised and I feel like a kid with a new toy
What to do now? I spend time promoting blog posts and our main site on social media. Should I dilute the experience by promoting the Kindle version of the blog, or think that the more I have to promote, the better?
The Amazon page says it is available in the US, but not in the UK unless I change region. Mmmn, not sure what to do.
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It worked! I am so surprised and I feel like a kid with a new toy
What to do now? I spend time promoting blog posts and our main site on social media. Should I dilute the experience by promoting the Kindle version of the blog, or think that the more I have to promote, the better?
The Amazon page says it is available in the US, but not in the UK unless I change region. Mmmn, not sure what to do. What do you think?
very clear and straightforward, Lilach. I know what I’m going to be setting my sites (pun) on now!
Thanks Pete, pleased you found it useful. Look forward to seeing your blog on Kindle:)
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Thanks Sarah and Lilach! I’ve submitted mine!
A little tip for when people are filling in the bank details page – when it asks you for the country code, it just wants the country-specific numbers – ie not a ‘+’ or a ’00′ in front.
I also noticed that although it says .jpg, .png and .gif are allowed for the screenshots, it wouldn’t take my jpgs and wouldn’t even allow me to try .png – so readers are stuck with a low-quality gif…
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I am now reading this post, thanks Lilach for the way you syndicate your blog on Twitter. Thanks Sarah for this information. I am going to check if my niche market is saturated.
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Very cool tip – thanks! Just set up http://IDareYouRadio.com on Kindle – woohoo!
aloha -
Angela
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Nice post. My blog has just been accepted to the Kindle Store. I had no idea you could do this, thanks again.
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OK, a little mud on my face here. I have been monetizing blogs since the day we could on the internet and I didn’t realize Kindle was feeding blogs. Uuuurgh! And I already get a monthly Amazon check.
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Need help here. I’ve gone to my Kindle Publishing dashboard and I cannot find anyplace that says “Add Blog”. How do I find the area posted in the screen caps above?
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Never mind. Found out it’s Kindle Publishing FOR BLOGS (not simply Kindle Publishing)…and if you’re not a resident of the US or the UK you are shit out of luck.
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