Instead of having
readers come to your website to check out your latest, you blast it directly to their cell phone inboxes.
When
a reader comes to your website you have 5 seconds to hook them.
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It may sound surprising but many of the reviewing sites you will find on the internet these days are paid by dating companies
to write positive reviews about them, and reading their reviews could grossly mislead you into joining the dating
website you will not like but you need not worry about this when it
comes to our site, as we adhere
to no practices that will misinform our
readers.
How do you keep your
readers coming back
to your
website?
Your
website may be where potential
readers come to decide whether they want
to buy a copy.
In the traditional publishing industry, where everything takes longer, a
reader might be able
to purchase an eARC four or five months before the actual book
comes out (I did that with Lois McMaster Bujold's latest this summer, dropping $ 15
to download the ARC from the Baen
website).
The package gets you a 2 day front page feature on 8
websites where
readers come to discover new books.
Your best chance
to build an email list, and
to offer your
readers other ways
to buy into your brand — readings, courses, events, merchandise, etc. — are all going
to come through your
website.
It brought traffic
to my
website and exposed me
to new
readers, but it was also a lot of work
to come up with fresh material at each tour stop.
This new six inch Android Tablet
comes with the Hive
Reader, which allows customers
to download thousands of ebooks directly from the Hive
Website.
Turn your
website into a place where
readers can actually stay up
to date and interact with you, and they'll keep
coming back for more.
Having your one author
website based around your brand acts as your central hub for all your books, allowing
readers to discover your other books available as they
come back
to visit from purchasing your book from Amazon.
Readers who
come to these
websites and others like them won't have
to wonder whether they're being given reliable information about the books and the authors.
She provides an exploration of the elements and content every author
website should provide in order
to keep
readers coming back.
Their
readers (which are also your target market) will
come to your
website to view the interview.
Japanese poll
website Goo put a question
to 500
readers about what other manga they'd like
to see
come to an end.
It might be a ploy of traditional publishers,
to keep
readers coming back
to their wonderful
websites filled with books.
As a
reader I know I enjoy
websites that are beautifully designed, visually appealing, easy
to read (no weird fonts or jarring colors) and which offer lots of value added information that keep me
coming back.
Once
readers look for topics that are related
to your book, your
website would
come up higher in the search results than author
websites with no fresh content.
Sure, I have all the obvious tabs: Author bio, appearances, book news, links
to blogs, excerpts / readings and «what's new», but what I really need is
to focus on what additional elements that truly add value
to my
readers (and yes, I also know I need
to update my news / appearances too...) As a
reader I know I enjoy
websites that are beautifully designed, visually appealing, easy
to read (no weird fonts or jarring colors) and which offer lots of value added information that keep me
coming back.
To keep readers engaged and coming back, it's important to give your website the occasional makeove
To keep
readers engaged and
coming back, it's important
to give your website the occasional makeove
to give your
website the occasional makeover.
A big part of your ongoing blogging success, whether on your own author
website, or guest blogs you offer up
to others, will depend on you quickly connecting with
readers and enticing them
to come read what you have
to say.
And that's the key point here: You're not receiving individual data about Jane Doe, but about all the
readers (who allow cookie sharing in their internet browsers) who
come to your
website.
Thanks for writing such a comprehensive post, and please do
come back with another closer look at how
to help a fiction writer maintain a
website that makes
readers want
to come back.
You can even promote your ebook on our
website, with a link
to your Amazon Author profile
to showcase your other works, after all, if a
reader enjoys what you have written they are likely
to come back for more.
To keep on track, have a clear goal for your author
website (sell books, build a platform, connect with
readers), keep your author brand in mind while you design, and create great value for your
readers so they can't help but
come back for more.
10 - 20 % of your
readers come to your author
website just
to find you on their favorite social network.
The second reason
readers come to your author
website is
to find out about the books you write.
Unfortunately, the answer's far less dodgy, and far more dreary, than
readers might like
to imagine... Most of the time, my source is a footnote buried 50 pages deep in the back of an annual report, an old & random news article, a snippet from a six year old press release, or maybe it
came from a forgotten corner of the corporate
website.
linking this up
to your
website allows you
to keep track of how many people have visited your blog, where they are
coming from, which articles they visit, and a bunch of other interesting statistics
to help you get
to know your
readers more.
I write this
website to humor, entertain, and
come up with a set of ideas about the places I visit for my
readers to think about.
For those unfamiliar, can you provide some background on how this
website came to be and what
readers can expect
to find?
We do not pre-moderate or monitor
readers» comments appearing on our
websites, but we do post-moderate in response
to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem
comes to our attention.
If you have more
to say than the print space allows, then try
to find a way
to get
readers to come to your
website.
That's right, even though we're a BlackBerry - focused
website we realize we have a lot of
readers coming to us from Android devices and much like we have in the past with our forums apps, we're spreading the CrackBerry love with a new app built specifically for Android devices.
We do not pre-moderate or monitor
readers» comments appearing on our
websites, but we do post-moderate in response
to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem
comes to our attention.
Our copyright - free real estate articles will help you keep your
readers engaged, and
coming back
to your
website time and time again.
Just wanted
to come by and invite you and your
readers to visit my friend Tricia's new
website that's launching tomorrow!