It’s that time of year…the holidays. You want to take time off from work. Maybe you want to go on vacation or visit family. That means time off from your blog. But your readers don’t expect your blog to go dark for two weeks while your computer is turned off. They are on vacation, too, […]
11 Essential Elements of an Author Website
Every author needs a website. Your blog serves that purpose whether you choose to blog books or blog about the topic of your books. To create an effective author website, however, your blog needs some key elements. 1. An author bio You want visitors to your site to know who you are. If they know, […]
How to Create Your Best Blogging Year
Whether you’ve been blogging for a while, began this year or are setting up your blog for a New Year launch, I know what you want. You want to create the best blogging year possible. You want to attract lots of visitors, gain tons of subscribers and even make some money on your services and […]
Where to Find (and How to Use) Photos for Your Posts
As an expert blogging a book or blogging about your book, you know the importance of valuable content. Without it, your blog won’t succeed in today’s noisy world. However, the visuals you include with each blog post are almost as important as what you write about in that post. In fact, the photo or graphic […]
Copyright: How to Protect Your Blogs and Blogged Books
I frequently get asked legal questions, such as “If someone blogs a book—actually composes it in the form of blog posts they publish on the Internet—do they need to worry about a copyright issues?” Or “Is my blog content safe from copyright infringement?” Well, I am not an attorney—let alone an intellectual property attorney—so I […]
10 High-Performance Tips for Bloggers
An enormous amount of people around the world want to become bloggers. Many of them start blogs, but after just a short time, they abandon them with promises to return “someday soon.” Someday never comes. According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracked at […]
How to Create a Blog Plan
Before you begin blogging a book, you need a blog plan. Even if you don’t think you are going to use your blog to write, publish and promote a book post by post, you need a blog plan. And if you begin your blog with the idea that you might blog a book (or more […]
24 Ways to Keep Your Blog Alive After You Stop Blogging Your Book
You’ve spent the last six to nine months—maybe more—blogging your book, and you’re manuscript finally is complete. Now what? How will you keep your blog alive now that that you don’t have a book to write post by post? Good question…and one you should have answered before you began blogging. When you begin blogging a […]
Great Tool to Get More eBook Sales
By Ben Murray (@akbooster) Many people think it’s easy to produce an ebook. You can just slap something up on the Amazon Kindle platform and hope for the best. It’s better, however, to do your research first. That includes finding the right niche, the correct keywords, and later, when the ebook has been released, some […]
Essential Plugins and Widgets for Blogs and Blogged Books
A WordPress.org blog comes with the essentials. You might call these the basics—some widgets and plugins. To make your blog run smoothly and efficiently with less work on your part, add plugins. If you are blogging a book, also install specific plugins to help your visitors read the book. Plugins add features to your site […]
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