How to Blog a Book

February 28, 2013 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Conduct a Competitive Review to Find Ways to Rise Above Top Blogs

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 17 To gain a competitive advantage in your market as a book blogger, or simply as a blogger, take off your blinders and take a look at the practices employed by successful bloggers. Conduct a competitive analysis by evaluating successful blogs in your category or successful blogs in general […]

February 21, 2013 by Nina Amir 7 Comments

Create a Content Plan to Ensure You Blog in an Effective Manner

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 15 As a writer, you may worry that if you begin blogging you will run out of material. Even if you blog about your book, you may think you have little to say to help promote your work. If you blog your book, of course, the manuscript provides the […]

February 19, 2013 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

Engage Your Readers with a Call to Action

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 […]

February 14, 2013 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

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 […]

February 12, 2013 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

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 […]

February 7, 2013 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

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 […]

February 5, 2013 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

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 […]

January 31, 2013 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

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 […]

January 29, 2013 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

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 […]