Blogging isn’t like the movie Field of Dreams. If you build it—your blog, they—your readers—will not come. You need a plan to attract a blog audience, and you must work that plan. In this post, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer and blogger, offers several audience-building strategies that work…and work well. When […]
3 Key Elements to Building a Blog Audience
Many writers begin blogging for one reason: to build an audience. They need a platform to publish books successfully. But to build a blog audience you need to do more than blog. Today, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer and blogger, offers a three-step strategy to help you attract an audience for […]
5 Ways All Bloggers can Improve Blog Post SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plays an enormous role in helping you garner readers for your blog and blogged book. However, search engines, like Google, constantly change their algorithms. Reader preferences change quickly and often as well. That’s why it’s important to know something about current SEO trends. In this guest post, Mike Dane (@mikedane7) a […]
4 Uncommon Content Marketing Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
Every post you write and publish, whether part of your book or a singular entry to promote your work, represents an effort to use content marketing strategies. However, there’s more to content marketing than writing and publishing blog posts. In this guest post, Mike Dane (@mikedane7) a digital marketing professional and PR manager at TruConversion.com, helps […]
What Is SEO and Should Book Bloggers Care About It?
Bloggers and website owners seem to obsess about search engine optimization (SEO). As a writer or book blogger, you might be wondering, “What the heck is SEO and should I even care about it?” You do need to know what SEO is and care about it to some extent, but if you write a good […]
How Often Should You Publish a Blog Post?
One of the most common question new bloggers or book bloggers ask is: How often should I publish a blog post? You may get different answers to this question, but here’s mine, which is based on my own experience and the advice I have been given by a variety of successful bloggers and professional bloggers. […]
How a Blog Creates Visibility for Your Book
One of the primary reasons to blog a book revolves around creating visibility for you and your book. You want lots of potential readers to easily “see” you, or find you, on line so they will purchase your book. How do you create this visibility? Here are the three primary ways to increase visibility for […]
Are You Blogging a Book? List it here!
Gaining readers to your blogged book represents the keys to success. Whether you plan on self-publishing your blogged book or want to be discovered by an agent or publisher, you must have a successful blog–one with many unique visitors. (If you don’t understand that term, read this post.) That’s your author platform or fan base, […]
Boost Your Publishing Business by Becoming a Speaker
Congratulations on blogging a book or even considering writing and publishing a book. You gain a lot of credibility as a published author. But now the real hard work begins. Unless you are a celebrity with a large publicity and marketing staff—and a huge following of fans, the burden will be mostly on you to […]
Jonathan Fields on Blog Traffic, Subscribers and Content
Yesterday I published a blog post on my other blog, Write Nonfiction NOW!, based on a very interesting interview I conducted with Jonathan Fields. In that post, Jonathan and I discussed what it takes to create a bestselling book: author’s platform, a business model, hard work, great release strategies, and a great book. (You can […]
