Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 14 Every blog post should have a goal. You should want to accomplish something with that post—to get your readers to think, feel, experience, or consider. If you accomplish that goal, you also should be able to ask you readers to do something. You should be able to provide […]
Move Your Readers Emotionally to Get Them to Take Action
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 13 It doesn’t matter if you are blogging a novel, a memoir or a nonfiction book, if you want to convince your readers to think or act a certain way, you must hit them in the gut. (Not literally, of course.) If you can make them feel something, you […]
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 […]
Use Blog Analytics to Stay Focused on Your Blogged Book’s Performance
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 11 Like any blogger, book bloggers need to pay attention to blog analytics. However, if you are blogging a book, the statistics garnered from your analytics might seem more important than to some other bloggers. Large numbers of unique visitors (readers ) and page views can lead to a […]
Use Photos to Enhance the Visual Appeal and Shares of Your Posts
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 10 You can improve your blogged book quite easily by adding some sort of graphic to each and every post you write and publish. It’s not that difficult to do this, and it not only enhances the look of your posts, it also improves the visual appeal of your […]
Solutions, Answers, Definitions, Advice Makes You the Expert Source
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 9 I want to end January with a roundup of a five additional post structures that can provide core content for your blog. A roundup actually is another type of blog post that would fall into the core content category, and it functions much like a list post; it […]
Increase Value and Make Connections by Writing Link Posts
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 8 Once upon a time, bloggers stressed using links to help provide SEO for their sites. These days, linking is less talked about. Yet, inbound and outbound links still provide great value. Thus, including a link in each of your blog posts, or writing a link post, or a […]
Drive Traffic to Your Blog with Profile and Q & A Posts
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 7 Print and broadcast media feature successful people so frequently because doing so increases readers and viewers. Most of us love to read about people who have reached the pinnacle of their careers or who have become celebrities because they are good at what they do. We hunger to […]
Use Lists to Provide Engaging Posts That are Easy to Write and Read
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 6 List posts provide a staple for almost every blogger. In your efforts to produce core content, or even content on a regular basis, these posts are easy to write and to read, and they tend to get shared and commented on more often than some other types of […]
Create Core Content to Give Your Blog a Strong Internal Fire
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 5 Whether you write a blog or a book you must begin with a core idea. That idea also must be instilled with a sense of purpose that carries both the blog and the book along over time. If the content on your blog and in your book—or in […]
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