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Self-publishing may be an inexpensive way to publish a book. But you always need to proofread your book. Without thorough proofreading and editing, your book could turn out to be an embarrassing disaster. There’s nothing worse than readers telling you about spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors they found in your book. Or worse, that your…
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Content marketing for authors is about creating and publishing plenty of content not directly related to your books. You can use blog posts, articles, videos, podcasts, emails, newsletters, or social media posts. The aim is to increase visibility and build your author brand. When you regularly publish valuable, relevant, and consistent content, generating leads for…
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Do you promote your book with image links? Social media has trained Internet users to click on images to make their way around the Internet. Think about Facebook and how every image leads to an action. Every click leads either to bigger images or to an external site. Think about Google ads and how images…
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In an earlier post, I wrote about creating landing pages for books. It is an easy and productive tool authors can use to promote their books. However, to know how your landing pages are performing, you need hard data. You need to know how to track landing pages in Google Analytics to get it. Landing…
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A book landing page is a standalone web page designed with the singular purpose of getting visitors to take an action. For authors, of course, the action is to buy your book. The main features of a landing page are, by design, very few. There are no headers, sidebars, footers, widgets, or any other distraction…
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A plain text book description is hardly eye-catching, so to make it stand out, you can add text format improvements. Hidden deep in Amazon’s KDP help section is a page titled “Supported HTML for Amazon Book Descriptions.” It might not sound very exciting, and it may be a bit daunting for those without an understanding of…
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When you prepare images for ebooks or websites, you should always compress them to make the file size as small as possible. But compressing images doesn’t mean reducing their size dimensions. Image compression decreases the file size but maintains the image’s original physical dimensions. This process strips the image of unnecessary embedded data and adjusts…
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Sharing book covers on social media can be problematic. A book cover is usually portrait, but we live in a landscape world of social media images. Have you noticed that your book cover image or Kindle cover gets cropped on popular social media sites and platforms like Facebook and X (Twitter)? It is a big…
Many writers now use a self-hosted WordPress blog to earn extra income from content marketing, books, and advertising. A WordPress sandbox is the best way to protect your income. WordPress is a powerful blogging platform. But the vast number of useful features, themes, and plugins, require good website management skills and basic security knowledge to…
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Every author has book links on their blogs and websites. But can you make much better use of them by using smarter cover image book buy links? Adding images of your book covers is the best way to promote your books on your website or blog. Most authors know how to add image widgets to…
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