Book Marketing
Ideas and How To's for Self Publishers

To Propose a Book Marketing Article I'm setting more stringent controls in this section and will expect posts of the highest quality. I expect that this will soon become the most highly trafficked section of the site, and the posts will be the most linked to. If you have an idea for a page in this section, use this form to query me with your article proposal. (Authors will, as always, receive a link to their site AND to their Amazon page, assuming they have one. There will be no other payment.) Articles should be at least three thousand (and no more than nine thousand) characters in length (with spaces). Your proposal should be well-written, so that I can have confidence in your skills!

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This section of the site is for posts with a laser focus on some single aspect of marketing your book. (The rest of the site is for any self published author who wants to write in a more general way about their experience. See the menu bar on the left and post in your genre.)

Some of the pages in this section are written by me, some by self published authors with a particular expertise in some aspect of book marketing. If you're taken to page that looks a little different, it's an article from a past issue of my book marketing newsletter.

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Attracting Traffic Adding Attractive Content What can you add to your site that will appeal to the search engines? Brainstorming Content Use Amazon and Google to suggest what to write about. Adding a Book List to Your Site Write the list your book belongs on and get a traffic bump. Links Matter Why it's important that other sites link to yours. Scoring Links Some quick ways to score links now. Riding The Long Tail It's a long tail world. If you don't know what that means, you should learn. Why Doesn't Google Love Me? Search engines not sending much traffic? Here's why... Book Marketing: How's Your Site? Learn whether your website is built for traffic. Building a Generous Site Why a site that does more than promote you and your book will attract more traffic. Online Book Marketing Working the Lulu Forums Getting marketing ideas, generating interest. Go on a Virtual Book Tour A book tour no longer means air fare and gas money. Ebook Success Why starting with a website makes sense. Offline Book Marketing Marketing Kids' Books in Schools Because that's where the kids are!     The Online Bookstores Using Amazon to the Max How to get noticed in the world's largest bookstore. Are You an Amazon Associate? You're not? What are you thinking??? Miscellaneous Marketing Overview Great page. Other sites keep linking to it! Finding Investors for Your Book Sound crazy? Maybe not!

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