At least, I hope I'm gaining some marketing smarts. Time will tell.
Half-Elven Marketing Stuff
Half-Elven Marketing Stuff
Spent most of the week-end torturing my hip and learning writerly stuff at the Northern Colorado Writers conference. I spent most of my time in the marketing/promotion sessions and talking to people. Learned lots. Now, I have to put it into practice.
First, change ... as you see ... is that I've combined the writer's blog with the Half-Elven blog ... again. [Yeah, I'm something of a worm on the end of a hook, but I'm learning, I think.] Seems I was diluting the blogging audience. The URL link to the Half-Elven Blog is gone. It's now "Half-Elven News", of which there is precious little to say.
Other than that, I'm still dinking with the website after combining the blogs. Translation: I have to get on the phone to bug the GoDaddy customer service people. Tried for a couple hours to change my URL navigation link to a page where I give "Half-Elven" news. Yeah, the klutz struck again.
Other than that, I'm still dinking with the website after combining the blogs. Translation: I have to get on the phone to bug the GoDaddy customer service people. Tried for a couple hours to change my URL navigation link to a page where I give "Half-Elven" news. Yeah, the klutz struck again.
Marketing Example:
I've been watching Nancy R. Williams marketing her new book, The Treasures of Carmelidrium,* which came out recently on Amazon. Her blog, N. R. Williams, Fantasy Author, recently gave some interesting information on meta-tags and marketing.
Insight 1) She asked friends to tag her at Amazon to increase her rankings. I didn't know you could do that. So, if you have a book on Amazon, you might study what she did. I'm giving this info to my harpist daughter. It's well worth studying ... and maybe adding some tags for Nancy as a thank you. I know I did.
Insight 2) The tags look suspiciously like metatags. You know, the do-hickies that help you rise or fall on the search engine pages. So, it might be a good idea to look at your websites and blogs to see how you can improve the pesky things.
The time would be well spent if it gives your writing a marketing boost in the search engines. Of course, if you're already a metatag marketing wizard, you probably skipped this.
Have you written any blogs on how your marketed your books. Why not mention them with the results in the comments?
*Hope I spelled it write. The name's so long the letters keep jumping around, and I never know which syllable I read is correct.
Insight 1) She asked friends to tag her at Amazon to increase her rankings. I didn't know you could do that. So, if you have a book on Amazon, you might study what she did. I'm giving this info to my harpist daughter. It's well worth studying ... and maybe adding some tags for Nancy as a thank you. I know I did.
Insight 2) The tags look suspiciously like metatags. You know, the do-hickies that help you rise or fall on the search engine pages. So, it might be a good idea to look at your websites and blogs to see how you can improve the pesky things.
The time would be well spent if it gives your writing a marketing boost in the search engines. Of course, if you're already a metatag marketing wizard, you probably skipped this.
Have you written any blogs on how your marketed your books. Why not mention them with the results in the comments?
*Hope I spelled it write. The name's so long the letters keep jumping around, and I never know which syllable I read is correct.
