Every website or blog needs an About page, which is sometimes called an About Me page. This is not just your professional bio or CV. In this guest post, Jennifer Brown Banks (@PENPROSPER1) discusses how to write a compelling About page that will ensure your readers stick around for more than a few seconds. “Getting […]
5 Deadly Landing Page Mistakes to Avoid
Beyond basic blog pages, you need landing pages if you want to sell anything, including your blogged book or booked blog, or build an email list. However, your landing pages won’t do much good if you don’t know the basics of how to create ones that convert visitors into subscribers, book buyers, customers, or clients. […]
4 “Book Page” Essentials for Your Blog
Your blog provides an essential tool in your book-marketing toolbox. However, to use your blog to help promote your book, you need a “book page” on your website. Not only that, your book page needs some essential elements to help it effectively sell books. What’s a book page? It’s a page on your website or […]
12 Essential Blog or Website Pages
Once you have included the essential Home page elements on your website, it’s time to turn your attention to other pages. Pages provide an enormous amount of information to your site visitors as well as an organizational and navigational tool. Don’t confuse pages with posts. Pages are used for specific purposes and send visitors away […]
Point Readers to Your Blogged Book with an “About This Book” Page
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 20 Most blogs commonly include an “About” page. Typically, this page describes the blog, the blogger or both. When you blog a book, however, consider including an “About This Book” page. The content you provide on this page alerts your readers to the fact you actually are blogging a […]
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 […]
Creating Your Blog: You Need Pages
Before you begin writing your blogged book, I suggest you take a little time to create some additional pages on your blog. This is especially important if you plan to use your blog as your website; in other words, if you don’t have your blog hosted on a website and it serves as your website, […]