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Affiliate Marketing SEO: How To Drive Traffic With Search Engine Marketing #OLBlog

August 6, 2017 10:21 am / 1 Comment on Affiliate Marketing SEO: How To Drive Traffic With Search Engine Marketing #OLBlog

Jacqueline Liyana /

When it comes to affiliate marketing, search engines are the most important tool to increase website traffic. You can lead more sales by driving massive organic traffic by practicing SEO. People who come from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, AOL, are more likely to shop things. Personal blog owners, small business to big companies needs to optimize their site to get a great result in digital marketing.

Keeping a good level of traffic on your web page is key to success with affiliate programs and is also one of the hardest parts to run. Here are some tips and ideas you should consider to achieve success in affiliate marketing.

Optimize your website for search engines

If you want to make money with affiliate marketing, you should optimize your blog or website for search engines. SEO is the most cost-effective ways to bring traffic to your website. Most of the search engine use automatic programs, called “crawlers” to create an index that is used to determine which sites are most relevant depending on the search term (a search term is a keyword that searched by a user).
Web crawlers regularly visit websites, read the content of the page, and follow the links to other pages. Search engines keep historical data of search terms including locations for later use.

Marketing a Book on Any Budget, Part I: On the Cheap #h2e

August 6, 2017 10:12 am / Leave a comment

By Alex Daniel /

This is the first installment of a three-part series on how indie authors can market their books whatever their budget. Here we offer tips for those working with a small budget of about $200.

Book marketing can be a challenging—and very expensive—task for most indie authors. After spending months working on a novel or work of nonfiction, for no pay or advance, many authors find they have little money for buying up targeted ads, hiring a publicist, or giving author websites all the bells and whistles. So what are cash-strapped authors’ options for book marketing on the cheap?

How to Find Your First 10,000 Readers via @jfbooks The Book Designer #h2e

August 5, 2017 10:10 am / 1 Comment on How to Find Your First 10,000 Readers via @jfbooks The Book Designer #h2e

Joel Friedlander /

Editor’s note: This post first appeared in a slightly different form here in January, 2016. However, its lessons are still as valid as they were last year, and Nick has recently opened enrollment for his groundbreaking course, so I thought it was worth repeating for authors today.

One of the reasons it’s so exciting to see new people coming into the indie publishing field is that they are constantly re-imagining the processes and strategies we’ve been using in new and useful ways.

Nick Stephenson is one of the most exciting authors to “crack the code” on how to build your readership, often quite quickly. There’s simply nothing that will help you reach your publishing goals better than a robust author platform, and that requires people—lots of them.

Nick’s system is so solid, and has worked wonders for so many authors, I’ve partnered with him to bring his course to my readers. He has opened enrollment for the course and accompanied it with some bonus materials that will be very helpful to you going forward.

I invite you to find out more about this opportunity while it’s available: Find Your First 10,000 Readers.

I asked Nick to tell us a bit about how he put his system together, and here’s his report.

By Nick Stephenson

A few years ago I launched my first book. A novel.

I had been holding onto the book for a while. I had decided it wasn’t good enough. Then I decided it was.

Then I re-wrote it.

I uploaded everything to Amazon’s KDP dashboard and sat back, mouse hovering over the “publish” button.

I waited 48 hours to click it.

During that 48 hours, I decided I didn’t want to find out what it felt like to have a failed book. A book I had spent close to a year writing, re-writing, and obsessing over.

Then I decided I didn’t want to find out what it felt like to have a successful book, either. I wasn’t used to people paying attention.

At the 47th hour, I realized I had found myself at a roadblock. I was scared of failure, but I was also scared of success.

Please Do Not Support My Patreon @WriterUnboxed #h2e

August 4, 2017 9:20 am / Leave a comment

Note: Before I post this, OMG! I was laughing hilariously by the end of the article and I just wish I could’ve mustered up $1000 a month for this guys Patreon.

Seriously.

Please Do Not Support My Patreon

36 Writer Unboxed

Warning: Hacks for Hacks tips may have harmful side effects on your writing career, and should not be used by minors, adults, writers, poets, scribes, scriveners, journalists, or anybody.

Have you heard of Patreon? It’s a company that empowers crowd-sourced patronage of the arts, including but not limited to authors. By pledging monthly support at one of various patronage tiers, each with its own level of perks and rewards, you’re able to support your favorite writers directly. I have recently started my own, and it is my fondest wish that your patronage does not include me.

You may know me as famous author Bill Ferris. But I am also a single dad with a full-time job and not very much time to write. By supporting my Patreon, you’re just one more person for whom I must drop what I’m doing and cobble together your monthly rewards, which are terrible. Worse, this busywork distracts me from my main writing projects, to say nothing of spending time with my family or doing my mentally taxing day job.

However, it has come to my attention that you don’t like me, or are at the very least indifferent to my suffering. You are willing to prey upon my greed and bottomless need for praise and validation in exchange for a few lousy entertainments once per month, to diminishing returns. So be it. Behold, the instruments of my destruction. Do your worst, patrons.

Watch “My Book Isn’t Selling#tagtribes #perigirls #perisistersinchrist#blackbizscope #promotion @sormag” on #h2e

August 3, 2017 10:07 pm / Leave a comment

How to Choose and Set Up a Pen Name via @janefriedman #h2e

August 3, 2017 9:17 am / 1 Comment on How to Choose and Set Up a Pen Name via @janefriedman #h2e

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Helen Sedwick | 6 Comments

choosing a pen name

Photo credit: Thomas Rousing Photography via Visual Hunt / CC BY

Today’s guest post is by attorney Helen Sedwick (@HelenSedwick) and is adapted from her newest edition of Self-Publisher’s Legal Handbook.

Choosing a pseudonym can be as daunting as naming a character, especially since the character is you. The simplest pen name would be a variation of your own name, such as a middle name, nickname, or initials. Many authors change only their last name so they don’t have to remember what first name to use at conferences. Once you decide on a list of possibilities, do the following.

9 Ways to Boost Visitor Engagement on Your Website #OLBlog #h2e

August 2, 2017 9:12 am / 1 Comment on 9 Ways to Boost Visitor Engagement on Your Website #OLBlog #h2e

Jacqueline Liyana

Regardless of your niche or target market, there is absolutely no shortage of competition on the web. No matter how you look at it, you’re locked in a fierce battle for the attention of website visitors. And therein lies the challenge. Not only is there a staggering amount of competition, but people’s attention spans have dwindled to the point where we can measure them in mere seconds.

Here is the problem this creates: Your website was built with a purpose in mind.
That might be attracting new clients, selling a product, promoting a service or maybe it’s a news site that relies on visitors and ad impressions. The point here is that when a new visitor lands on your site, there is something you’d like them to do.

If they leave your site without taking your desired action, you’ve wasted your opportunity. That’s why simply focusing on traffic numbers is such a waste of time.

What really matters is how engaged your visitors are with your website. Are they sticking around long enough to take your desired action? Most of the time, the answer is no, they’re not.

In this post, we’re going to focus on some different ideas that might help you boost visitor engagement on your website. The longer someone is on your site, the more likely they are to take the desired action and convert against your goals.

3 Steps to Crafting Your Public Persona For An Author Speaking Engagement #h2e

August 1, 2017 9:10 am / 4 Comments on 3 Steps to Crafting Your Public Persona For An Author Speaking Engagement #h2e

Planning a speaking engagement or book signing? Before you get behind the podium, review these three important steps. Dana Kaye tells you how to make a great impression for yourself and your book.

Which platform is best for an author who is unsure where to start? @BadRedheadMedia

July 31, 2017 6:46 am / 2 Comments on Which platform is best for an author who is unsure where to start? @BadRedheadMedia

If you are an author, you should be blogging. Plain and simple. Why? Blogging increases visibility, creates connections with readers, builds relationships on of social media, boosts SEO, and helps to promote your book(s) without having to resort to “Buy my book” spam.

During our most recent #BookMarketingChat on Twitter (join us any Wednesday, 6pm pst/9pm est), we invited Barb Drozdowich to join a discussion on blogging basics. Our own BadRedhead Media (Rachel Thompson) jumped in with some tips as well!