When I wanted to add my own WIP Progress Bar onto my WordPress powered
author website I searched for plugins that would allow me to do this easily.
Not exact matches
If you
search for the phrase «social media and SEO» you'll still be inundated with quite a few «low authority»
websites that have been written by
authors who know how to max out their
search rankings without necessarily gaining an organic following based on their expertise.
I was not convinced that a member of the public had taken the time to
search the Ipsa
website for my expenses and then
authored an inaccurate attack which matched the attack by the newspaper journalist.
In an article on the UK
website, The Guardian,
author Tanya Gold asks the question, Are Britons who are
searching for love online, looking in the wrong place?
A
search of «OpenSyllabusProject.org» (a
website which collects over one million syllabi from across American, British, Canadian, and Australian universities) was used to gauge how widely used were the works of various
authors.
It allows you to «share» the audience of a more popular site, generate links and references back to your
author website (which helps your
search engine rankings), and often gives a you a big boost in traffic for a few days after the post goes live (the better you've done at optimizing your
website above, the more of these new visitors you'll retain).
Images or photos that you use on your
website or
author blog can provide another way to rank in
search results, so optimizing your images to take advantage of valuable SEO traffic related to the images you use is just smart.
Building or refining
author platform through a personal
website with
search engine optimization (SEO) using specialized keywords and key phrases, as well as accounts with Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, etc..
First of all, if they come to your
author website that means they are interested in finding out more about you and your books, so they are already in
search of more.
Competition: through the
Website, we propose to run a writing competition in order to find a new, unpublished or self - published
author to be called «
Search for a Bestseller» (the «Competition»).
You can do this by going
searching to Google.com or another
search engine to look for information about an
author website.
When you combine the
website - related responses with «email list» and «
search engines,» you see that almost half of an
author's traffic and sells can be credited to their
website (s).
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) something we're really good at and do for not only our own
websites (Sanfranciscobookreview.com, Tulsa Book Review, Seattle Book Review, and kidsbookbuzz.com), but also for a few
author clients, such as Kevin Christofora, and even (surprisingly) non-book-related clients, such as Locus Technologies.
If someone types into a
search engine «best practices
author website,» I want this series to come up.
Using these keywords is important because it increases the chance that someone's random Google
search for information about a topic related to you and your book might pull in your bio from your
author website, Amazon etc. and lead this searcher to you.
Your PR will go to anywhere from 3 - 10 thousand different outlets all over the world, with links to your
author website included in the release to boost your
search engine rankings.
A good
author bio introduces your potential reader to you and also helps
search engines pull your
author website more easily by using keyword - rich descriptions when you enter your book metadata.
David Gaurghran: If you are thinking about signing up with
Author Solutions,
Author House, or any of their subsidiaries, please do yourself a big favor and
search through David's
website.
You're also not implementing SEO basics for your
author website, such as keyword research and including keywords in your titles so Google can start ranking you for
search terms.
When
searching for back - end profit ideas, use a simple worksheet like Published & Profitable's
Author Profit Tracker to keep track of the author websites you've visited, and the ideas you might want to apply on your own we
Author Profit Tracker to keep track of the
author websites you've visited, and the ideas you might want to apply on your own we
author websites you've visited, and the ideas you might want to apply on your own
website.
Adding keywords that are related to a particular book in the metadata, or using those keywords as a marketing strategy in blog posts or
author websites has the ability to boost a book's discoverability, as well as helping to rank among
search engines.
Virtual assistants can also implement
search engine optimization tactics for your
author website and blog, increasing the likelihood that readers will find your content.
It's the
website of Victoria M. Patton, an indie
author who holds a BS degree in Forensic Chemistry, and served a stint in the Coast Guard as a
Search and Rescue / Law Enforcement Petty Officer.
But you definitely want your
author website to have a high ranking on
search engines like Google — in other words, to appear at the very top of the list of results that a
search engine compiles when a user does a
search.
A book trailer will add content to your
website, facebook page, GoodReads / Amazon
Author pages, and will increase the Google
Search results of your book (s).
About a year ago Google discontinued Google Authorship, a program meant to help writers improve their
author website's
search rankings.
Generating these backlinks is a core component of improving the SEO and therefore the ranking of your
author website for key
search terms.
If you have your own
author site and your own point of sale (POS), would - be customers should be able to find your work either by
searching for your name, which will lead to your
website, which should have links to the POS for each of your works, or by
searching for titles directly, which should lead to the POS for that work, which should also include a link back to your
author site.
Some indie
authors use «keywords» (for
search engine optimisation (SEO)-RRB- on their
websites, blogs and social media pages so their books will pop up first in the particular
searched for genre.
I can't count how many
author websites I've visited where I've wanted to share their entertaining or industry related content, and have spent several minutes
searching for social sharing options!
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And I need those powerful links to start ranking well on Google when people
search for «
author websites» or «book marketing.»
Editor's Note: Make a point to also
search each of these sites for your own
author website and if it's not listed, follow that site's instructions to add it to the directory!
What this means is that if your
author website is not mobile friendly it will be less likely to show up in relevant
searches.
In fact, «
search» is still the single most important component of discovery and
author websites are crucial for Google to «know» who the
author is and to have a contextual understanding of their expertise and their audience.
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Literary journal editors and literary agents often
search for
authors on Google and visit
author websites and social media profiles when reviewing submissions, so a strong
author platform is key to an
author's success.
Search engines like Google, Yahoo!, and Bing don't look through entire books or
author websites (or any other web pages for information (yet).
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And, click here to check out our other
website to help
authors searching for a list of Christian literary agents at Literary Agent Undercover.
Here are ten strategies that can help make your
author website more visible in
search engine results.
Your
author website should have an intuitive design that gives readers all the information they are looking for without doing a lot of
searching.
-- but it can help you rank higher in the
search engines and bring more people to your
author website or to your book sales page.
Explore and review
author's current «digital footprint» including
website, blog, social media sites, Google
search ranking
An
author website lets you compile all of those links in one convenient online hub, so readers won't have to go
searching for ways to buy your book!
I don't know of any standard place to find this information, but you can try the acknowledgements page of the book, the
author's
website,
searching by
author on AgentQuery, or simply Googling it (comb through the results carefully, though; see below).
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In order to overcome obscurity and be discovered,
authors can use the principles of
search engine optimization when writing text for their
websites, and independent
authors in particular can participate in Google's book
search program, which indexes books» entire contents to make the titles easier to find via
search engines, as well as making the books searchable.
The first hit is the
author's
website, which makes sense if we're
searching their name.