As part of this blog’s new focus, this is the first of a series of posts I’m going to publish during January based upon interviews I conducted at BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Los Angeles, CA, in early November 2011. While there I had the opportunity to speak with Chris Garrett, Darren Rowse, Liz […]
Four Ways to Promote Your Blogged Book
As you write your blogged book, or as you try to drive traffic to your blog so you land a book deal (and can book your blog), the Internet provides you with many effective promotion tools. Here are four tried and true methods for achieving your promotion goals with online activity—activity most bloggers can do […]
Propel Your Blogged Book With More Content
One of the thing writers do really well is produce content–especially bloggers, who produce content all the time. That’s a great thing in today’s online market, because the best way to promote blogged books comes down to producing great content and lots of it–and placing it on the Internet. By strategically using content in cyberspace, […]
Using Video to Drive Traffic to Your Blogged Book
An increasingly popular way to drive traffic to blogs these days involves video. YouTube has become a huge source of information and entertainment. You may find that by posting videos to YouTube you can drive enormous amounts of traffic to your blogged book. Most computers, especially laptops, have video capability, and flip cameras are pretty […]
Using Contests to Generate Interest in Your Blog
Every once in a while my dance-related blog, My Son Can Dance, gets voted “best” in its category. This generates a bit of traffic to the blog. I also then get to put special icons or banners on my blog home page saying the blog is the best in its category. Kinda nice, huh? More […]
Content is King…So Get Writing!
In the blogging world, wisdom has it that content is king. That means, they ultimate way to drive people to your blog (or website) involves producing great copy. The more superb and useful content you produce, the more readers and traffic you will see coming to your blog or website. So it’s time to get […]
Increasing Traffic by Commenting on Blogs
Another way to publicize your blogged book or blog involves commenting on other bloggers’ posts. You know how you love it when readers leave comments on your blog posts, now it’s time to do the same. Go out and read other blogs that have related content. These are the blogs you identified as complementary or […]
Authors Must Become Savvy Social Networkers
In addition to pinging your posts each time you publish them, you’ll want to use social networks to get the word out about what you’ve written. This means using Twitter, Facebook and even Linkedin to let you “tweeple,” friends and followers know you’ve written something informative. This will help drive traffic to your blog or […]
How to “Ping” Your Blog Posts to Ping Servers
Every time you write a blog post and hit publish, you want to be sure that post is “pinged.” This will help you increase your blog traffice. In other words, it will increase the readers of your blogged book. What is a ping? A ping is a push mechanism by which a blog notifies a […]