Get started on your website regardless of how far along you are on your first book. The idea is to build a following of readers before you release your first book. If you wait until after, it may be quite difficult or even too late for that first book. The good news is, if I can do it, just about anyone can — no joke. In my SEO for Writers Series, I provide guidance on how to get started and optimize your readership. For your convenience, I listed the articles below with a brief summary and link for each.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Writers
Discover:
- What a website provides that social media does not; and
- An incredible tool to get you started: The Author Toolbox — Practical Tools to Build a Book, a Platform, a Business, and Career, by Candee Fick.
Search Engine Optimization for Writers — Unique
Our definition of unique is not necessarily the same as how Google and other search engines define it. When it comes to your website, being unique as Google defines it is what’s important in growing your reader base.
SEO for Writers — Key Words
Readers use key words to find what they are looking for. Identifying these words and terms are critical to increasing the number of people who visit your website, in other words, increasing your hits.
SEO — Make Your Content Stand Out
When you make your content stand out, you will increase your hits. Ensure your content stands by focusing on these critical areas:
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- Be Appealing and Useful
- Purpose
- Value
- Answer a Question
- Relate
- Variety
- Entertain
- Visual
- Inspire
- Scannable
- Compatible
- Shareable
- Regular Publication
SEO — Increase Your Hits
We’ve been looking at ways to increase your hits, from the key words you use to making your content stand out. This article provides the last of the tips to increase your hits and entice the reader to stay a while. After all, a reader who hits and immediately jumps off tells “Google” that they did not like what they saw, but one who stays … .
SEO — Your Website Topic
The last article in the series discusses your website topic. For those who write nonfiction, this won’t be a challenge, however fiction writers are another story. Receive inspiration for your topic in this article.
Don’t be afraid — Go for it!
© 2019 Karen Van Den Heuvel Fischer
