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PODCAST: How Updating Your Archives Can Drive More Traffic to Your Blog

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How Updating Your Archives Can Drive More Traffic to Your Blog

In today’s episode I want to talk about a trend I’ve noticed among many experienced bloggers – tending to their archives.

Many experienced bloggers are slowing down on new content, while increasing traffic to to their blog by revising posts they’ve already written.

Individual blog posts tend to get the most traffic on your site, which means there’s gold in them thar archives.

But like any asset – your car, your home, even your body – your archives depreciate.

read more: https://problogger.com/podcast/get-more-traffic/

 

How to Start a WordPress Blog in 5 Minutes: Step by Step

 

Last updated on March 14th, 2018 — Do you want to learn how to start a WordPress blog the right way? More than 8,500 people have used this tutorial to start theirs! Let’s get yours set up…

Bluehost is where I started my first WordPress blog almost a decade ago. They’ve now put together an exclusive deal for Blog Tyrant readers so I can help you get set up properly as well!

All you need to start a WordPress blog is a domain name and a hosting platform. Once you’ve got that you just install WordPress for free and start blogging!

Let’s dive right in and show you how to start your first self-hosted WordPress blog today. It’s super simple and with this walk-through and video tutorial you’ll be blogging in no time!

11 Ways to Promote Preorder Books that Drive Real Results

For a traditionally published author, a hefty number of preorders can increase a print run and create a sense of excitement around a new release. Early buzz may convince the publisher’s marketing team to take a book more seriously, and invest more time, creative brainpower, and marketing dollars into nurturing a potential bestseller.

For a self-published author, a swell of preorders can trigger algorithms that alert retail sites like Amazon to a book’s presence. This makes it more likely that the book will appear in “hot new release” lists, which can increase not only preorders, but post-publication sales and even name recognition.

Finally, because many retailers count preorders on release day, a large number of preorders can land an author on a bestseller list early in their new book’s sales cycle, whether traditionally or self-published.

However, preorder marketing efforts don’t always guarantee preorder sales. When promoting a book, there are so many factors at play: the uniqueness of a book, whether it’s a series or standalone, the dynamic of the author’s platform, the promotional budget, the author’s marketing prowess, and more.

Regardless, the months before a book releases are a golden opportunity for creating awareness. First, let’s cover how to set up a preorder for success:

read more: https://insights.bookbub.com/promote-preorder-books-drive-real-results/

3 Principles of Building an Engaged Blog Audience

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How to Develop an Engaged Blog Audience

In today’s episode I want to talk about building engagement on your blog, and building a sense of community around it and your online business.

Building engagement is so important for your blog. It helps word-of-mouth growth, gives you energy, builds social proof on your site, and leads to more effective monetization. When people see engagement, they want to stick around and spend money.

Three ways to build engagement with your audience

read more: https://problogger.com/podcast/building-engaged-blog-audience/

New 2018 Edition of the #Smashwords Book Marketing Guide Offers 65 Book Marketing Ideas

The new 2018 edition of the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide is now available.

Click to your favorite retailer to download it now for free:

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You’ll learn 65 book marketing ideas ideas to make your book more discoverable and desirable to readers.  Even if you’ve already implemented some of these ideas, I provide fresh context to make your implementation of these ideas even more effective.

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The Newbie Blogger’s Guide To Creating Blog Images That POP!

While it remains true that quality content is essential, today’s bloggers need to consider other elements of their digital space to gain traction in an overcrowded market. The creation of eye catching images is an effective method to help you get noticed. Keep reading to discover why your blog needs visually appealing graphics.

read more: https://blogelina.com/the-newbie-bloggers-guide-to-creating-blog-images-that-pop/

Seven Ways to Market Your Self-Published Novel

Congratulations! You’ve published your first novel (or maybe your second or your third) and now you’re ready to market it.

This can be a daunting moment. I think all of us secretly hope that our novel will be miraculously discovered and recognised as the masterpiece it truly is … but we know that isn’t going to happen without some sort of marketing.

The good news – especially if the very idea of marketing makes you shudder – is that there’s no single “right” way to let the world know about your book.  There are lots of different techniques you might try, depending on the type of book you’ve written, and the type of author you are.

I’m focusing on self-published novelists in this post. Many of these suggestions will work just fine for traditionally published authors too, but as a self-publisher, you have full control over things like the price of your book – and carte blanche to market in any way you see fit.

I’ve also kept this list short: seven ideas rather than the 50+ you might find on some sites.  I’ve come across some huge lists of marketing ideas for novelists … but often I end up feeling that most of the ideas aren’t necessarily all that workable or impactful.

While there are an almost unlimited number of things you could do to promote your novel, in this post, I’m going to focus on seven very common ones:

read more http://www.aliventures.com/seven-ways-market-novel/

Five Marketing Tools for Authors Who Hate Marketing

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Disclaimer: Hating marketing is not required to use these tools. In fact, if you enjoy marketing, you’ll have a blast using them.

I’m active in several online writing communities, and one of the most frequent things I read about is how much authors hate marketing. It’s usually accompanied by talk about art and creativity, and once in a while someone tosses this suggestion across the virtual meeting room: all you have to do is write a great story and they will come.

Except, thousands of writers have written thousands of great stories and no one, except their parents and their Uncle Bobby in Poughkeepsie, ever came. The hard truth is—whether your path to publishing is via the traditional, indie, or hybrid route—if you want a sustainable writing career that involves receiving income and reaching as much of your target audience as possible, you’ll need to do some marketingIf your target audience is Uncle Bobby in Poughkeepsie, you’re probably thatone writer who won’t need to market.

read more” http://writerunboxed.com/2018/02/09/five-author-marketing-tools-for-authors-who-hate-marketing/

Amazon launches a TTS Plugin for WordPress That Turns Blog Posts Into Podcasts

Amazon launches a TTS Plugin for WordPress That Turns Blog Posts Into Podcasts Amazon Podcast Web Publishing

The phrase Amazon Polly may bring to mind Amazon’s dominance of the book market, but it is actually a text-to-speech platform that Amazon launched in December 2016.

Now Techcrunch reports that Amazon has launched a WP plugin that can automatically convert any newly published or updated blog posts into audio files.

read more : https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/02/08/amazon-launches-tts-plugin-wordpress-turns-blog-posts-podcasts/