Tips for Writers That Want to Blog
Over two years, several hundred thousand page-views and 750 posts, I’ve accumulated some thoughts on what makes a blog successful. 1. Establish a niche, ideally one that appeals to readers that are...
View ArticleHow to grow a small blog
Hi. If you’ve followed some of my articles on blogging, you know that building an audience is a gradual (read: slow) process. It takes time for people to discover your content, to link to it, to...
View ArticleHow to monetize a blog: ads or no ads? What alternatives do I have?
Here are a few tips about whether you should include ads on your blog. First, I wouldn’t recommend considering ads until you have a modest audience. If you have fewer than 1000 readers per day, the ad...
View Article1000 Posts!
It took us three years, but we finally got to 1000 posts. These include about 400 writing articles totaling ~150,000 words.
View ArticleBlogging tip: Link to related sites, particularly small and medium ones
If you find quality content that will interest your readers, link to it. 1. Aggregating links is a service that your readers will appreciate. Anyone that has ever sifted through StumbleUpon or...
View ArticleHow to build an audience for your blog
I’ve written before that blogging is a really useful marketing tool and is one of the only ways for a first-time author to establish an audience before he gets published. When you pitch your book to...
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How to Design Your Blog’s Front Page
1. Make it clear what you offer and why readers should stick around. For example, if you wandered across Superhero Nation, you might stick around because you wanted superhero writing advice or because...
View ArticleHow to Create Intense Fans With Your Blog
Chris Garrett has some intuitive ideas about how to turn readers into intense fans that will spread your message and convince other people to check out your material. I agree that this is a very...
View ArticleWebmasters, don’t pull rank on your readers!
Here are a few tips about how to treat commenters and reviewers respectfully. 1. It’s rarely helpful to highlight the host’s comments in a different color. First, it usually looks annoying,...
View ArticleWebsite Review: Mike Angley
Today I came across Mike Angley’s website– Mike Angley is an OSI veteran (hu-ah!) that writes paranormal military fiction. This review will help you design and write an effective website to market...
View ArticleA few tips for writers looking to network online…
There are three main ways your site can get new viewers: referrals (links), search engines, and ads. I’ll focus on getting referrals here because ads are probably not cost-effective for authors and...
View ArticleUnless I’m missing something, this sounds bogus
According to the New York Times, one author got an extraordinarily fast response from agents after starting a blog. “Within two posts on her blog, which now attracts 30,000 visitors a month, Ms....
View ArticleHow to Build an Audience for Your Writing Website
I’ve already done an article on how to promote fiction with a nonfiction platform (such as a website mainly devoted to writing advice), but here are some tips for novelists that want to build an...
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