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 […]
The “Queen of Snark” on Booking Blogs and Promoting Books
I met Rachel Thompson not long after the release of her second book. She was teaching classes on how to go blog-to-book on Triberr.com. Since then, she’s written and published a third successful book. Although she hasn’t blogged a book, she knows how to book a blog and how to successfully self-publish a book. As […]
Why You Need to Own Your Blog Site
Over and over again I repeat the same advice: Own your blog site. Let me explain what I mean by this statement and why this is so important. How to Own Your Blog You own your blog by purchasing a URL, paying for hosting and using a blogging platform like WordPress.org, which is technology (or […]
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