If you are considering paying a vanity press publisher to publish your book, think very carefully before deciding. So many scam publishers now use high-pressure selling to convince you to hand over a lot of money. If you receive an unsolicited email saying that a publisher is very interested in your book or wants to…
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If you want to become a better writer, one of the most important skills is understanding who you are writing for. Many writing guides focus on grammar, voice, and style, and those matter, but they often miss a key point: clarity comes from knowing your readers. When you can picture your audience, your writing becomes…
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How many book sales do you need to reach number one on Amazon? If you want to hit the bestseller lists for the major popular genres in the Kindle Store, you will need somewhere between 2,000 and 6,000 book sales per day. However, Amazon has more than one bestseller list—there are hundreds if you know…
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If you own a website, you’ll know that outreach campaigns for articles and backlinks are becoming so frequent that they compete with comment spam as a nuisance. Every day, I delete bundles of emails offering me free articles, asking for backlinks, or offering to pay me to publish an article with dofollow links. Back in…
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When it comes to reading ebooks, what devices do people use? A dedicated e-reader, smartphone, tablet, or computer? When the Kindle arrived in 2007, it quickly became the most popular e-reading device. The first iPad, along with iBooks, was released in 2010, and it looked like it might compete with Kindle. However, the low-resolution screen…
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Is it wreaked havoc or wrought havoc? While both are used, wreaked havoc is the correct term for causing destruction or chaos. Wrought actually means “worked” or “shaped” (like wrought iron) and is usually reserved for things that have been created or brought about through effort. But after hitting the dictionaries, I discovered there is…
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Does social media book promotion still work? In short, no, because of three problems. 1. There is a lack of user intent. 2. You have to pay to get attention. 3. Few people use social media to buy books. Why is social media book promotion failing? Ten or even five years ago, social media was…
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Adsense and Core Web Vitals can work happily together despite what you might read. Yes, at first, I struggled with site speed and slow loading for pages with Adsense, especially on mobile. But with a few tweaks and learning how Google calculates Core Web Vitals (CWV), my sites are now getting all green signals on…
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Is it people, persons, or peoples? While people is the standard plural for person, the other two have very specific roles. Use persons for legal or technical contexts involving a countable number of individuals. Use peoples when referring to multiple distinct ethnic, national, or cultural groups. The difference between people and persons From the early…
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You want to publish a PDF article online but don’t have a website or blog. Most of all, you don’t want to pay to publish your article. Well, there is a quick and easy way you can do it. Learning how to publish a PDF on the web is very easy. Then, you can share your…
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