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September 13, 2016 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

How to Get Traditionally Published with Low Blog Readership

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You started blogging to build a platform and land a traditional publishing deal. But you’ve got a problem. You’ve been blogging for while—a year or more—and you still don’t have a lot of readers. You’ve been sharing posts on social media sites, blogging often and in a focused manner, but your efforts just haven’t paid […]

Filed Under: Landing an Agent or Traditional Publisher, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: author, blog traffic, blog-to-book deal, blogger, driving traffic, how to bloggers get publishing contracts, landing a traditional publishing deal, traditional publishing

March 1, 2016 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

4 Uncommon Content Marketing Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

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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 […]

Filed Under: Increasing Traffic, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: Blog marketing tactics, blog traffic, content marketing, Increase traffic, meta description, SERP, tweet structure

August 14, 2012 by Nina Amir 41 Comments

Are You Blogging a Book? List it here!

How to gain readers to your blog

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, […]

Filed Under: Increasing Traffic, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: agents, blog traffic, platform, publicizing your blog, publishers, readers, testmarket, traffic, unique visitors

January 26, 2012 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, Increasing Traffic, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: blog subscribers, blog traffic, creating valuable content, Jonathan Fields

January 10, 2012 by Nina Amir 9 Comments

Darren Rowse: On Creating Profitable and Successful Blogs

Not only do I want my book blogging to result in a traditional publishing deal or a successfully self-published book, I also want that effort to create a successful blog that continues to attract readers and income after the book is published. This should be your goal as well. That’s how you create a business […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, Professional Blogging, Selling Books and Information Products Tagged With: blog readers, blog traffic, Darren Rowse, income from blogs

January 3, 2012 by Nina Amir 4 Comments

Chris Garrett on How to Turn Blog Readers Into Book Buyers

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 […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, Increasing Traffic, Publicizing Your Blog, Selling Books and Information Products Tagged With: blog traffic, Chris Garrett, conversion, ebooks, selling books

July 15, 2011 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Increasing Traffic, Promotion, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: blog traffic, driving traffic, Promotion, video, YouTube Videos

December 2, 2010 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Content is King and Key

I’ve heard it said that content is king. I’ve also heard it said that content is key. The two sentences mean the same thing. If you want to produce a blog people will read–one that will generate traffic and get the attention of a publisher sometime down the road (or simply gain you readers when […]

Filed Under: Blogs Turned Into Books, What Subjects to Blog About, Writing Posts/Chapters Tagged With: blog content, blog promotion, blog traffic, blog-to-book deal

May 30, 2010 by Nina Amir 6 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Increasing Traffic, Publicizing Your Blog Tagged With: blog posts, blog traffic, new content, ping, ping servers

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