How to Blog a Book

Inspiring You to Build Visibility, Boost Authority and Become an Author Post by Post

Inspiring You to Build Visibility, Boost Authority and Become an Author Post by Post

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Tie Into the News to Make Your Posts Timely

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 16 You can improve your blog in a variety of ways by tying your posts into the news. This keeps your content timely and relevant to current events. It also drives additional traffic to your site as people, searching for articles on these hot topics, find your posts and […]

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Create a Content Plan to Ensure You Blog in an Effective Manner

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 15 As a writer, you may worry that if you begin blogging you will run out of material. Even if you blog about your book, you may think you have little to say to help promote your work. If you blog your book, of course, the manuscript provides the […]

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Engage Your Readers with a Call to Action

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 14 Every blog post should have a goal. You should want to accomplish something with that post—to get your readers to think, feel, experience, or consider. If you accomplish that goal, you also should be able to ask you readers to do something. You should be able to provide […]

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Move Your Readers Emotionally to Get Them to Take Action

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 13 It doesn’t matter if you are blogging a novel, a memoir or a nonfiction book, if you want to convince your readers to think or act a certain way, you must hit them in the gut. (Not literally, of course.) If you can make them feel something, you […]

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Create a Table of Contents to Help Your Readers Navigate Your Book

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 12 It’s important to make it easy for those who visit your site to read your blogged book. Since the last post you write is the first one they will see when they visit your site, you want them to be able to find the beginning of your blogged […]

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Use Blog Analytics to Stay Focused on Your Blogged Book’s Performance

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 11 Like any blogger, book bloggers need to pay attention to blog analytics. However, if you are blogging a book, the statistics garnered from your analytics might seem more important than to some other bloggers. Large numbers of unique visitors (readers ) and page views can lead to a […]

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Use Photos to Enhance the Visual Appeal and Shares of Your Posts

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 10 You can improve your blogged book quite easily by adding some sort of graphic to each and every post you write and publish. It’s not that difficult to do this, and it not only enhances the look of your posts, it also improves the visual appeal of your […]

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